Florida Senate - 2015 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. PCS (123970) for SB 1214
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: WD .
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The Committee on Appropriations (Lee) recommended the following:
1 Senate Amendment to Amendment (160810) (with title
2 amendment)
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4 Delete lines 79 - 104.
5 Delete lines 237 - 243.
6 Delete lines 1503 - 3239.
7 Delete lines 3269 - 3282.
8 Delete lines 4033 - 4043.
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11 And the title is amended as follows:
12 Delete lines 4116 - 4540
13 and insert:
14 and 212.20, F.S.; conforming cross-references;
15 amending s. 220.191, F.S.; redefining the term
16 “cumulative capital investment”; amending s. 288.0001,
17 F.S.; conforming a cross-reference; requiring the
18 Office of Economic and Demographic Research and the
19 Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government
20 Accountability to provide a detailed analysis of the
21 retention of Major League Baseball spring training
22 baseball franchises; amending s. 288.005, F.S.;
23 redefining the term “economic benefits”; amending s.
24 288.061, F.S.; requiring the Department of Economic
25 Opportunity to prescribe a specified application form;
26 requiring the incentive application to include
27 specified information; requiring the Office of
28 Economic and Demographic Research to include
29 guidelines for the appropriate application of the
30 department’s internal model in the establishment of
31 the methodology and model it will use to calculate
32 economic benefits; requiring that if the Office of
33 Economic and Demographic Research develops an amended
34 definition of the term “economic benefits,” it must
35 reflect a specified requirement; prohibiting the
36 department from attributing to the business any
37 capital investment made by a business using state
38 funds; requiring that the evaluation account for all
39 capital investment relating to the project; requiring
40 the department’s evaluation of the application to
41 include specified information; requiring the
42 department to recommend to the Governor approval or
43 disapproval of a project that will receive funds from
44 specified programs; requiring the department, in
45 recommending a project, to include justification for
46 the project and proposed performance conditions that
47 the project must meet to obtain incentive funds;
48 authorizing the Governor to approve a project without
49 consulting the Legislature if the requested funding is
50 less than a specified amount; requiring the Governor
51 to provide a written description and evaluation of the
52 project to specified persons during a specified
53 timeframe; requiring the recommendation to include
54 proposed payment and performance conditions that the
55 project must meet in order to obtain incentive funds
56 and to avoid sanctions; requiring the Governor to
57 instruct the department to immediately suspend an
58 action or proposed action until the Legislative Budget
59 Commission or the Legislature makes a determination on
60 the project in certain circumstances; requiring a
61 project that exceeds a specified amount of funding to
62 be approved by the Legislative Budget Commission
63 before final approval by the Governor; requiring a
64 project that exceeds a specified amount of funding and
65 that provides a waiver of program requirements to be
66 approved by the Legislative Budget Commission before
67 final approval by the Governor; providing that a
68 project is deemed approved by the Legislative Budget
69 Commission in certain circumstances; requiring the
70 department to issue a letter certifying the applicant
71 as qualified for an award upon approval; specifying
72 the authorized funding sources related to the term
73 “project”; requiring the department and the applicant
74 to enter into an agreement or contract upon
75 certification; requiring the agreement or contract to
76 require that the applicant use the workforce
77 information systems in certain circumstances;
78 requiring any agreement or contract that requires
79 capital investment to be made by the business to also
80 require that such investment remain in the state for
81 the duration of the agreement or contract; prohibiting
82 an agreement or contract from having a term of longer
83 than 10 years; authorizing the department to enter
84 into a successive agreement or contract for a
85 specified project under certain circumstances;
86 providing applicability; requiring the department to
87 provide notice, with a written description and
88 evaluation, to the Legislature of any proposed
89 amendments to an agreement or contract; requiring the
90 department to provide notice of the proposed change to
91 specified persons in order to provide an opportunity
92 for review; providing that a proposed amendment to an
93 agreement or contract which reduces projected economic
94 benefits calculated at the time the agreement or
95 contract was executed by a specified amount or more or
96 that results in an economic benefit ratio below a
97 specified level, or if already below the specified
98 level, by a specified amount, is subject to specified
99 notice and objection procedures; requiring the
100 Governor to instruct the department to immediately
101 suspend an action or proposed action until the
102 Legislative Budget Commission or Legislature makes a
103 determination on the project in certain circumstances;
104 authorizing the department to execute specified
105 contracts and agreements from current or future fiscal
106 year appropriations for specified incentive programs;
107 prohibiting the total amount of actual or projected
108 funds approved for a specified payment by the
109 department from exceeding a specified amount in any
110 fiscal year for certain programs; providing that the
111 specified funding limitation may only be waived by the
112 Legislature in the General Appropriations Act or other
113 legislation; requiring the department to provide
114 specified notice to the Legislature upon the final
115 execution of each contract or agreement; requiring the
116 department to provide to the Legislature a list of
117 projected payments for the following fiscal year and a
118 list of claims actually filed for payment in the
119 following fiscal year by specified dates; prohibiting
120 the department from making a scheduled payment under a
121 contract or agreement for a given fiscal year until
122 the department has validated that the applicant has
123 met the performance requirements of the contract or
124 agreement; providing for reversion of specified funds
125 that are unexpended by a specified date in a fiscal
126 year; prohibiting the transfer of such reverted funds
127 to an escrow account; requiring the Legislature to
128 annually appropriate in the General Appropriations Act
129 an amount estimated to sufficiently satisfy scheduled
130 payments in a fiscal year; requiring the department to
131 pay unfunded claims if the amount appropriated by the
132 Legislature proves insufficient to satisfy the
133 scheduled payments in a fiscal year; requiring the
134 department to notify the legislative appropriations
135 committees of any anticipated shortfall for the
136 current fiscal year and of the amount it estimates
137 will be needed to pay claims during the next fiscal
138 year; amending s. 288.095, F.S.; providing that moneys
139 credited to the Economic Development Trust Fund
140 consist of specified funds; restricting the use of
141 moneys in the Economic Development Incentives Account;
142 providing that any balance in the account at the end
143 of the fiscal year remains in the account and is
144 available for carrying out the purposes of the
145 account; amending s. 288.1045, F.S.; revising the term
146 “average wage in the area” to “average private sector
147 wage in the area”; conforming provisions to changes
148 made by the act; prohibiting the department from
149 certifying any applicant as a qualified applicant in
150 certain circumstances; increasing the number of days
151 the department may extend the filing date; extending
152 the future expiration of an applicant for a tax
153 refund; requiring the department to verify taxes paid;
154 amending s. 288.106, F.S.; conforming provisions to
155 changes made by the act; revising terms; increasing
156 the number of days the department may extend the
157 filing date; revising the limitations on the average
158 private sector wage paid by the business; amending s.
159 288.107, F.S.; revising the term “eligible business”;
160 defining the term “fixed capital investment”;
161 conforming provisions to changes made by the act;
162 amending s. 288.108, F.S.; conforming provisions to
163 changes made by the act; amending s. 288.1088, F.S.;
164 revising the requirements for projects eligible for
165 receipt of funds from the Quick Action Closing Fund;
166 conforming provisions to changes made by the act;
167 defining the term “average private sector wage in the
168 area”; requiring a specified request to be transmitted
169 in writing to the department with an explanation of
170 the specific justification for the request; requiring
171 a decision to be stated in writing with an explanation
172 of the reason for approving the request if the
173 department approves the request; prohibiting the
174 department from waiving more than a specified amount
175 of criteria; revising the information that the
176 department must include in an evaluation of an
177 individual proposal for high-impact business
178 facilities; prohibiting the payment of moneys from the
179 fund to a business until the scheduled goals have been
180 achieved; revising the information that must be
181 included in a contract that sets forth the conditions
182 for payments of moneys from the fund; creating s.
183 288.10881, F.S.; creating the Quick Action Closing
184 Fund Escrow Account within the State Board of
185 Administration; providing the composition of the
186 escrow account; restricting the usage of moneys in the
187 escrow account to specified payments; requiring the
188 State Board of Administration to transfer specified
189 funds to the department for deposit in the State
190 Economic Enhancement and Development Trust Fund in
191 certain circumstances; requiring the establishment of
192 a continuing appropriation category; requiring
193 specified funds to be returned to the department for
194 deposit in the State Economic Enhancement and
195 Development Trust Funds within a specified period;
196 requiring funds in the escrow account to be managed
197 under specified investment practices; requiring that
198 the funds be made available to make specified
199 payments; requiring the State Board of Administration
200 to transfer interest earnings on a quarterly basis to
201 the department for deposit in the State Economic
202 Enhancement and Development Trust Fund; authorizing
203 specified funds to be used to fund specified marketing
204 activities of Enterprise Florida, Inc.; amending s.
205 288.1089, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made
206 by the act; amending s. 288.1097, F.S.; authorizing a
207 qualified job training organization to participate in
208 a self-insurance fund; providing that a qualified job
209 training organization is not subject to specified
210 requirements; amending s. 288.1168, F.S.; requiring
211 the Department of Economic Opportunity to recertify
212 the professional golf hall of fame facility annually;
213 requiring the PGA Tour, Inc., to increase funding if
214 the facility does not meet minimum projections;
215 requiring advertising to be done in consultation with
216 the Florida Tourism Industry Marketing Corporation;
217 providing for decertification of the facility under
218 certain circumstances; repealing s. 288.1169, F.S.,
219 relating to state agency funding of the International
220 Game Fish Association World Center facility; amending
221 s. 288.1201, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes
222 made by the act; amending s. 288.901, F.S.; revising
223 expertise requirements of members of the board of
224 directors of Enterprise Florida, Inc.; amending s.
225 288.905, F.S.; prohibiting a former president of
226 Enterprise Florida, Inc., from receiving compensation
227 for personally representing a specified entity before
228 the legislative or executive branch of state
229 government; providing applicability; amending s.
230 288.9622, F.S.; revising legislative intent; amending
231 s. 288.9624, F.S.; specifying additional investment
232 sectors for the Florida Opportunity Fund; amending s.
233 288.980, F.S.; removing the requirement that an
234 applicant to the Defense Infrastructure Grant Program
235 provide matching funds of a certain amount; requiring
236 the department to administer the program; expanding
237 eligibility for the program; defining the term
238 “technological competitiveness activities”; amending
239 s. 288.9937, F.S.; requiring the Office of Program
240 Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to
241 analyze and evaluate certain programs for a specified
242 period; requiring the Office of Economic and
243 Demographic Research to determine the economic
244 benefits of certain programs; requiring the Office of
245 Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability
246 to identify inefficiencies in certain programs and to
247 recommend changes to such programs; revising the date
248 by which each office must submit a report to certain
249 persons; amending s. 420.5087, F.S.; revising the
250 reservation of funds within each notice of fund
251 availability to specified tenant groups; creating s.
252 420.57, F.S.; providing legislative intent; defining
253 terms; authorizing the Florida Housing Finance
254 Corporation to provide low-interest loans for
255 construction or rehabilitation of workforce housing in
256 the Florida Keys Area of Critical State Concern,
257 subject to certain requirements; requiring the
258 corporation to select projects for funding by
259 competitive solicitation, including consideration of
260 certain factors; specifying factors all eligible
261 applications must demonstrate; specifying factors for
262 priority consideration for funding for projects;
263 authorizing the corporation to adopt rules for certain
264 purposes; authorizing the corporation to use a maximum
265 of 2 percent of any funds appropriated for the program
266 for costs of administration; amending s. 420.622,
267 F.S.; requiring that the State Office on Homelessness
268 coordinate among certain agencies and providers to
269 produce a statewide consolidated inventory for the
270 state’s entire system of homeless programs which
271 incorporates regionally developed plans; directing the
272 State Office on Homelessness to create a task force to
273 make recommendations regarding the implementation of a
274 statewide Homeless Management Information System
275 (HMIS) subject to certain requirements; requiring the
276 task force to include in its recommendations the
277 development of a statewide, centralized coordinated
278 assessment system; requiring the task force to submit
279 a report to the Council on Homelessness by a specified
280 date; deleting the requirement that the Council on
281 Homelessness explore the potential of creating a
282 statewide Management Information System and encourage
283 future participation of certain award or grant
284 recipients; requiring the State Office on Homelessness
285 to accept and administer moneys appropriated to it to
286 provide annual Challenge Grants to certain lead
287 agencies of homeless assistance continuums of care;
288 removing the requirement that levels of grant awards
289 be based upon the total population within the
290 continuum of care catchment area and reflect the
291 differing degrees of homelessness in the respective
292 areas; allowing expenditures of leveraged funds or
293 resources only for eligible activities subject to
294 certain requirements; providing that preference for a
295 grant award must be given to those lead agencies that
296 have demonstrated the ability to leverage specified
297 federal homeless-assistance funding, as well as
298 private funding, for the provision of services to
299 homeless persons; revising preference conditions
300 relating to grant applicants; requiring the State
301 Office on Homelessness, in conjunction with the
302 Council on Homelessness, to establish specific
303 objectives by which it may evaluate the outcomes of
304 certain lead agencies; requiring that any funding
305 through the State Office on Homelessness be
306 distributed to lead agencies based on their
307 performance and achievement of specified objectives;
308 revising the factors that may be included as criteria
309 for evaluating the performance of lead agencies;
310 amending s. 420.624, F.S.; revising requirements for
311 the local homeless assistance continuum of care plan;
312 providing that the components of a continuum of care
313 plan should include Rapid ReHousing; requiring that
314 specified components of a continuum of care plan be
315 coordinated and integrated with other specified
316 services and programs; creating s. 420.6265, F.S.;
317 providing legislative findings and intent relating to
318 Rapid ReHousing; providing a Rapid ReHousing
319 methodology; amending s. 420.9071, F.S.; conforming a
320 cross-reference; redefining the term “rent subsidies”;
321 amending s. 420.9072, F.S.; prohibiting a county or an
322 eligible municipality from expending its portion of
323 the local housing distribution to provide ongoing rent
324 subsidies; specifying exceptions; amending s.
325 420.9073, F.S.; requiring the Florida Housing Finance
326 Corporation to first distribute a certain percentage
327 of the total amount to be distributed each fiscal year
328 from the Local Government Housing Trust Fund to the
329 Department of Children and Families and to the
330 Department of Economic Opportunity, respectively,
331 subject to certain requirements; amending s. 420.9075,
332 F.S.; providing that a certain partnership process of
333 the State Housing Initiatives Partnership Program
334 should involve lead agencies of local homeless
335 assistance continuums of care; encouraging counties
336 and eligible municipalities to develop a strategy
337 within their local housing assistance plans which
338 provides program funds for reducing homelessness;
339 revising the criteria that apply to awards made to
340 sponsors or persons for the purpose of providing
341 housing; requiring that a specified report submitted
342 by counties and municipalities include a description
343 of efforts to reduce homelessness; creating s.
344 420.9089, F.S.; providing legislative findings and
345 intent relating to the National Housing Trust Fund;
346 approving specified sports