Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1184
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/16/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Criminal Justice (Hays) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
    2  
    3         Between lines 164 and 165
    4  insert:
    5         (f) The portion of the tax imposed by paragraph (1)(g)
    6  which results from the collection of fuel sales tax paid by a
    7  county sheriff’s office for fuel used in motor vehicles operated
    8  by the sheriff’s office shall be returned to the sheriff’s
    9  office. The sheriff’s office shall use the proceeds to offset
   10  ongoing fuel costs. A sheriff’s office, if licensed as a local
   11  government user, may take a credit on the monthly diesel fuel
   12  tax return not to exceed the tax imposed under paragraphs (1)(b)
   13  and (g) on those gallons which would otherwise be eligible for
   14  refund.
   15         Section 3. Subsection (3) is added to section 206.625,
   16  Florida Statutes, to read:
   17         206.625 Return of tax to municipalities, counties, and
   18  school districts.—
   19         (3) Those portions of the county fuel tax imposed by s.
   20  206.41(1)(b) which result from the collection of the taxes paid
   21  by a county sheriff’s office for fuel used in motor vehicles
   22  operated by the sheriff’s office shall be returned to the
   23  sheriff’s office. The sheriff’s office shall use the proceeds to
   24  offset ongoing fuel costs.
   25  
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   27         And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   28         Delete line 132
   29  and insert:
   30  206.41, Florida Statutes, is amended, and paragraph (f) is added
   31  to that subsection, to read:
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   34         And the title is amended as follows:
   35         Delete line 12
   36  and insert:
   37         such purposes; requiring that the portion of fuel
   38         sales tax collected from a county sheriff’s office be
   39         returned to the sheriff’s office to offset the ongoing
   40         fuel costs; authorizing a sheriff’s office that is
   41         licensed as a local government user to take a credit
   42         on the monthly diesel fuel tax return under prescribed
   43         conditions; amending s. 206.625, F.S.; requiring that
   44         the portion of the county fuel tax paid by a county
   45         sheriff’s office be returned to offset ongoing fuel
   46         costs; amending s. 316.515, F.S.; revising the