(LATE FILED)Amendment
Bill No. 1803
Amendment No. 067895
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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1Representative Gottlieb offered the following:
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3     Amendment (with title amendment)
4     Remove lines 82-219 and insert:
5     Section 2.  (1)  The Children and Adolescents Substance
6Abuse Trust Fund within the Department of Children and Family
7Services is terminated. The current balance remaining in the
8trust fund shall be transferred to the Operations and
9Maintenance Trust Fund in the department.
10     (2)  The Department of Children and Family Services shall
11pay any outstanding debts and obligations of the terminated fund
12as soon as practicable, and the Chief Financial Officer shall
13close out and remove the terminated fund from the various state
14accounting systems using generally accepted accounting
15principles concerning warrants outstanding, assets, and
16liabilities.
17     Section 3.  Paragraph (e) of subsection (4) of section
18215.20, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
19     215.20  Certain income and certain trust funds to
20contribute to the General Revenue Fund.--
21     (4)  The income of a revenue nature deposited in the
22following described trust funds, by whatever name designated, is
23that from which the appropriations authorized by subsection (3)
24shall be made:
25     (e)  Within the Department of Children and Family Services:
26     1.  The Administrative Trust Fund.
27     2.  The Child Welfare Training Trust Fund.
28     3.  The Children and Adolescents Substance Abuse Trust
29Fund.
30     3.4.  The Domestic Violence Trust Fund.
31     4.5.  The Grants and Donations Trust Fund.
32     5.6.  The Operations and Maintenance Trust Fund.
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34The enumeration of the foregoing moneys or trust funds shall not
35prohibit the applicability thereto of s. 215.24 should the
36Governor determine that for the reasons mentioned in s. 215.24
37the money or trust funds should be exempt herefrom, as it is the
38purpose of this law to exempt income from its force and effect
39when, by the operation of this law, federal matching funds or
40contributions or private grants to any trust fund would be lost
41to the state.
42     Section 4.  The revenues generated by the taxation on
43alcoholic beverages levied under s. 561.501, Florida Statutes,
44that are paid into the General Revenue Fund, shall be used to
45reduce the required local effort on school property taxes for
46the 2005-2006 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter,
47notwithstanding any amount in the General Appropriations Act for
48such fiscal years.
49     Section 5.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.
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52     Remove lines 11-24 and insert:
53programs for children and adolescents; terminating the Children
54and Adolescents Substance Abuse Trust Fund within the Department
55of Children and Family Services; providing for disposition of
56balances in and revenues of such trust fund; amending s. 215.20,
57F.S.; conforming provisions to the repeal of the trust fund;
58requiring revenues generated by the taxation of certain
59alcoholic beverages be used to reduce the required local effort
60on school property taxes; providing an effective date.


CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.