FORTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE

FIRST SESSION, 2007

February 20, 2007

Mr. Speaker:

    Your HEALTH AND GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred

HOUSE BILL 890

has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:

     1. On page 3, between lines 9 and 10, insert the following new section:

     "Section 3. A new section of the Tourism Department Act is enacted to read:

     "[NEW MATERIAL] SPORTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE.--

          A. The "sports advisory committee" is created to advise and support the sports authority division of the department.

          B. The sports advisory committee consists of twenty-five members of the public appointed by the governor and six ex-officio voting members as follows:

                (1) the superintendent of regulation and licensing;

                (2) the secretary of economic development;

                (3) the secretary of tourism;

                (4) the secretary of taxation and revenue;

                (5) the chief counsel to the governor; and

                (6) the governor's deputy chief of staff for legislative affairs.

          C. An ex-officio member may designate in writing another person to attend meetings of the committee and to the same extent and with the same effect act in the ex-officio member's stead.

          D. Public members shall be appointed for four-year terms expiring on January 1 and shall serve at the pleasure of the governor. Members serve until their successors have been appointed and qualified. The governor may fill any vacancies on the committee for the remainder of an unexpired term.

          E. The committee shall have two co-chairs appointed by the governor, one of whom shall be an ex-officio member and one of whom shall be a public member. The committee may elect such other officers as it deems necessary to carry out its duties.

          F. Public members of the committee shall receive per diem and mileage as provided for nonsalaried public officers in the Per Diem and Mileage Act and shall receive no other compensation, perquisite or allowance."".

     2. Renumber the succeeding sections accordingly.,

and thence referred to the APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE.                            

                             Respectfully submitted,

Mimi Stewart, Chair

Adopted     Not Adopted

           (Chief Clerk)                            (Chief Clerk)

Date

The roll call vote was 5 For 0 Against

Yes:      5

No:       0

Excused:  Steinborn, Varela, Wallace

Absent:   None

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