Bill Text: FL S1904 | 2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

Florida Senate Bill 1904 (Prior Session Legislation)

FL State Legislature page for S1904

Bill Title: Saltwater Products Licenses/Residents 65 or Older [EPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Policy & Steering Committee on Ways and Means [S1904 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S1904-Comm_Sub.html

 
Florida Senate - 2010                             CS for SB 1904 
 
By the Committee on Environmental Preservation and Conservation; 
and Senator Lawson 
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1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to saltwater products licenses; 
3         amending s. 379.361, F.S.; providing that specified 
4         residents are exempt from the annual fee for a 
5         saltwater products license; providing an effective 
6         date. 
7 
8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
9 
10         Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subsection (2) of section 
11  379.361, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 
12         379.361 Licenses.— 
13         (2) SALTWATER PRODUCTS LICENSE.— 
14         (e) The annual fee for a saltwater products license is: 
15         1. For a license issued in the name of an individual which 
16  authorizes only that individual to engage in commercial fishing 
17  activities from the shore or a vessel: a resident must pay $50; 
18  a nonresident must pay $200; or an alien must pay $300. However, 
19  a resident 65 years of age or older who has held a valid license 
20  for the previous 3 years is not required to pay the annual fee. 
21         2. For a license issued in the name of an individual which 
22  authorizes that named individual to engage in commercial fishing 
23  activities from the shore or a vessel and also authorizes each 
24  person who is fishing with the named individual aboard a vessel 
25  to engage in such activities: a resident must pay $150; a 
26  nonresident must pay $600; or an alien must pay $900. 
27         3. For a license issued to a valid commercial vessel 
28  registration number which authorizes each person aboard such 
29  registered vessel to engage in commercial fishing activities: a 
30  resident, or a resident firm or corporation, must pay $100; a 
31  nonresident, or a nonresident firm or corporation, must pay 
32  $400; or an alien, or an alien firm or corporation, must pay 
33  $600. For purposes of this subparagraph, a resident firm or 
34  corporation means a firm or corporation formed under the laws of 
35  this state; a nonresident firm or corporation means a firm or 
36  corporation formed under the laws of any state other than 
37  Florida; and an alien firm or corporation means a firm or 
38  corporation organized under any laws other than laws of the 
39  United States, any United States territory or possession, or any 
40  state of the United States. 
41         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.