Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 628
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/25/2014           .                                
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    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 243.52, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         243.52 Definitions.—As used in ss. 243.50-243.77, the term:
    8         (3) “Project” means a structure suitable for use as a
    9  dormitory or other housing facility, dining hall, student union,
   10  administration building, academic building, library, laboratory,
   11  research facility, classroom, athletic facility, health care
   12  facility, and maintenance, storage, or utility facility, and
   13  other structures or facilities related thereto, or required
   14  thereto, or required or useful for the instruction of students,
   15  or the conducting of research, or the operation of an
   16  institution of higher education, including parking and other
   17  facilities or structures, essential or convenient for the
   18  orderly conduct of such institution of higher education and
   19  shall also include equipment and machinery and other similar
   20  items necessary or convenient for the operation of a particular
   21  facility or structure in the manner for which its use is
   22  intended but shall not include such items as books, fuel,
   23  supplies or other items which are customarily deemed to result
   24  in a current operating charge. The term also dormitory, student
   25  service facility, parking facility, administration building,
   26  academic building, or library and includes a loan in
   27  anticipation of tuition revenues by an institution of higher
   28  education, as defined in subsection (6).
   29         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.
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   31  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   32  And the title is amended as follows:
   33         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   34  and insert:
   35                        A bill to be entitled                      
   36         An act relating to independent nonprofit higher
   37         education facilities financing; amending s. 243.52,
   38         F.S.; expanding the definition of the term “project”
   39         as it relates to the Higher Educational Facilities
   40         Financing Act; providing an effective date.