Florida Senate - 2018                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 740
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  01/11/2018           .                                
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       The Committee on Agriculture (Stargel) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 183 and 184
    4  insert:
    5         Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subsection (6) of section
    6  193.461, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         193.461 Agricultural lands; classification and assessment;
    8  mandated eradication or quarantine program.—
    9         (6)
   10         (c)1. For purposes of the income methodology approach to
   11  assessment of property used for agricultural purposes,
   12  irrigation systems, including pumps and motors, which are
   13  physically attached to the land are shall be considered a part
   14  of the average yields per acre and do not shall have any no
   15  separately assessable contributory value.
   16         2. Litter containment structures located on producing
   17  poultry farms and animal waste nutrient containment structures
   18  located on producing dairy farms must shall be assessed by the
   19  methodology described in subparagraph 1.
   20         3. Structures or improvements used in horticultural
   21  production for frost or freeze protection and screen enclosed
   22  structures used in citrus production for pest exclusion, which
   23  are consistent with the interim measures or best management
   24  practices adopted by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer
   25  Services pursuant to s. 570.93 or s. 403.067(7)(c), must shall
   26  be assessed by the methodology described in subparagraph 1.
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   29  And the title is amended as follows:
   30         Delete line 3
   31  and insert:
   32         Consumer Services; amending s. 193.461, F.S.;
   33         specifying a methodology for the assessment of certain
   34         structures in citrus production; amending s. 379.361,
   35         F.S.;