Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 248
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/11/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Budget (Gaetz) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 304 - 363
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 8. (1) For purposes of this section, the term
    6  “Disproportionally Affected County” means Bay County, Escambia
    7  County, Franklin County, Gulf County, Okaloosa County, Santa
    8  Rosa County, or Walton County.
    9         (2) There is appropriated for the 2011-2012 fiscal year the
   10  sum of $10 million in recurring funds from the General Revenue
   11  Fund to the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development.
   12  The Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development shall use
   13  these funds to execute a $10 million contract with Florida’s
   14  Great Northwest, Inc., or with an affiliated entity established
   15  to support oil spill recovery efforts in the seven
   16  Disproportionally Affected Counties, for the charitable purpose
   17  of developing and implementing an innovative economic
   18  development program for promoting research and development,
   19  commercialization of research, economic diversification, and job
   20  creation in a Disproportionally Affected County.
   21         (3) The contract between the Office of Tourism, Trade, and
   22  Economic Development and Florida’s Great Northwest, Inc., or
   23  such affiliated entity shall, at a minimum, require Florida’s
   24  Great Northwest Inc., or such affiliated entity to report
   25  quarterly to the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic
   26  Development and to collaborate with educational entities,
   27  economic development organizations, local governments, and
   28  relevant state agencies to create a program framework and
   29  strategy, including specific criteria governing the expenditure
   30  of funds. The criteria for the expenditure of funds shall, at a
   31  minimum, require a funding preference for any Disproportionally
   32  Affected County and any municipality within a Disproportionally
   33  Affected County which provides for expedited permitting in order
   34  to promote research and development, commercialization of
   35  research, economic diversification, and job creation within
   36  their respective jurisdictions. The criteria for the expenditure
   37  of funds shall, at a minimum, also require a funding preference
   38  for any Disproportionally Affected County and any municipality
   39  within a Disproportionally Affected County which combines its
   40  permitting processes and expedites permitting in order to
   41  promote research and development, commercialization of research,
   42  economic diversification, and job creation within their
   43  respective jurisdictions.
   44         (4) None of the funds appropriated in this section may be
   45  used for administrative costs of Florida’s Great Northwest,
   46  Inc., or such affiliated entity.
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   50         And the title is amended as follows:
   51         Delete lines 41 - 47
   52  and insert:
   53         for future expiration;