Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1654
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/17/2014           .                                
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       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 431 and 432
    4  insert:
    5         Section 7. Subsection (5) of section 213.0535, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         213.0535 Registration Information Sharing and Exchange
    8  Program.—
    9         (5) Any provision of law imposing confidentiality upon data
   10  shared under this section, including, but not limited to, a any
   11  provision imposing penalties for disclosure, applies to
   12  recipients of this data and their employees. Data exchanged
   13  under this section may not be provided to any person or entity
   14  other than a person or entity administering the tax or licensing
   15  provisions of those provisions of law enumerated in paragraph
   16  (4)(a), and such data may not be used for any purpose other than
   17  for enforcing those tax or licensing provisions. This section
   18  does not prevent a level-two participant from publishing
   19  statistics classified so as to prevent the identification of
   20  particular accounts, reports, declarations, or returns. However,
   21  statistics may not be published if the statistics contain data
   22  pertaining to fewer than three taxpayers or if the statistics
   23  are prepared for geographic areas below the county level and
   24  contain data pertaining to fewer than ten taxpayers. Statistics
   25  published under this subsection must relate only to tourist
   26  development taxes imposed under s. 125.0104, the tourist impact
   27  tax imposed under s. 125.0108, convention development taxes
   28  imposed under s. 212.0305, or the municipal resort tax
   29  authorized under chapter 67-930, Laws of Florida.
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   32  And the title is amended as follows:
   33         Delete line 30
   34  and insert:
   35         made by the act; amending s. 213.0535, F.S.;
   36         clarifying that confidential tax data may be published
   37         as statistics under certain circumstances; amending s.
   38         213.13, F.S.; revising