Florida Senate - 2012                                    SB 2028
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Budget Subcommittee on Transportation,
       Tourism, and Economic Development Appropriations
       
       
       
       606-01881-12                                          20122028__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to trust funds; terminating specified
    3         trust funds within the Department of Transportation;
    4         specifying that the trust funds contain no balances
    5         and will not generate future revenues; requiring that
    6         the department pay outstanding debts or obligations of
    7         the trust funds; requiring that the Chief Financial
    8         Officer close out and remove the terminated funds from
    9         the state accounting systems; terminating the Federal
   10         Law Enforcement Trust Fund within the Department of
   11         Transportation; providing for the transfer of the
   12         remaining funds to the Federal Law Enforcement Trust
   13         Fund in the Department of Highway Safety and Motor
   14         Vehicles; providing for the payment of outstanding
   15         debts and obligations of the terminated fund;
   16         requiring that the Chief Financial Officer close out
   17         and remove the terminated fund from the various state
   18         accounting systems; repealing s. 339.082, F.S.,
   19         relating to the Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund;
   20         repealing s. 932.7055(6)(k), F.S., relating to a
   21         reference to trust funds within the Department of
   22         Transportation as depositories for certain proceeds;
   23         repealing s. 2(2)(b) and (f), chapter 2004-235, Laws
   24         of Florida, relating to the exemption from termination
   25         provided for the Everglades Parkway Construction Trust
   26         Fund and the Jacksonville Transportation Authority
   27         Project Construction Trust Fund within the Department
   28         of Transportation; providing an effective date.
   29  
   30  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   31  
   32         Section 1. (1) The following trust funds within the
   33  Department of Transportation are terminated:
   34         (a) The Everglades Parkway Construction Trust Fund, FLAIR
   35  number 55-2-199; and
   36         (b) The Jacksonville Transportation Authority Project
   37  Construction Trust Fund, FLAIR number 55-2-413.
   38         (2) All balances of these trust funds were spent in
   39  accordance with bond covenants and no balances remain. No future
   40  revenues will be generated.
   41         (3) For each trust fund terminated in this section, the
   42  Department of Transportation shall pay any outstanding debts and
   43  obligations of the terminated trust fund as soon as practicable,
   44  and the Chief Financial Officer shall close out and remove the
   45  terminated trust fund from the various state accounting systems
   46  using generally accepted accounting principles concerning
   47  warrants outstanding, assets, and liabilities.
   48         Section 2. (1) The Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund
   49  within the Department of Transportation, FLAIR number 55-2-719,
   50  is terminated.
   51         (2)All current balances remaining in, and all revenues of,
   52  the trust fund shall be transferred to the Federal Law
   53  Enforcement Trust Fund in the Department of Highway Safety and
   54  Motor Vehicles.
   55         (3)The Department of Transportation shall pay any
   56  outstanding debts and obligations of the terminated trust fund
   57  identified in this section as soon as practicable, and the Chief
   58  Financial Officer shall close out and remove the terminated
   59  trust fund from the various state accounting systems using
   60  generally accepted accounting principles concerning warrants
   61  outstanding, assets, and liabilities.
   62         Section 3. Section 339.082, Florida Statutes, is repealed.
   63         Section 4. Paragraph (k) of subsection (6) of section
   64  932.7055, Florida Statutes, is repealed.
   65         Section 5. Paragraphs (b) and (f) of subsection (2) of
   66  section 2 of chapter 2004-235, Laws of Florida, are repealed.
   67         Section 6. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.