Loading chat...

FL H7201

Bill

Status

Failed

4/30/2010

Primary Sponsor

Sandra Adams

Click for details

Origin

House of Representatives

2010 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Creates a partial tax exemption for real property rented to telecommunications, data systems, and Internet service providers at convention halls, civic centers, and public lodging establishments, applying only to revenue-sharing or percentage-of-sales payments (effective retroactively to July 1, 2010).

  • Amends the definition of "productive output" to allow expanding businesses to select any 12-month period (within 2 years of equipment installation) to measure production increases for machinery and equipment tax exemptions, rather than the immediately following period.

  • Excludes condominium parcels and condominium property from the definition of "real property" for building materials rehabilitation tax exemptions in enterprise zones.

  • Establishes the Local Government Distressed Area Matching Grant Program within the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development to provide grants matching local government business assistance (up to 50% of assistance or $50,000, whichever is less) for attracting or retaining businesses that create at least 15 full-time jobs.

  • Appropriates $5 million nonrecurring and $5 million recurring general revenue to Space Florida for aerospace industry development, $3.2 million nonrecurring for Space Shuttle worker retraining, and $2 million nonrecurring for local government distressed area matching grants.

Legislative Description

Economic Development

Last Action

Died in Messages, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 1752 (Ch. 2010-147)

4/30/2010

Full Bill Text

No bill text available