The Florida Senate

373.459  Funds for surface water improvement and management.--

(1)  Legislative appropriations provided to the water management districts for surface water improvement and management activities shall be available for detailed planning and plan and program implementation.

(2)  An entity that receives state funding for the implementation of programs specified in ss. 373.451-373.459, including a water management district, federal, local, or regional agency, university, or nonprofit or private organization, shall provide a 50-percent match of cash or in-kind services towards the implementation of the specific project for which it is contracting.

(3)  The Ecosystem Management and Restoration Trust Fund shall be used for the deposit of funds appropriated by the Legislature for the purposes of ss. 373.451-373.4595. The department shall administer all funds appropriated to or received for surface water improvement and management activities. Expenditure of the moneys shall be limited to the costs of detailed planning and plan and program implementation for priority surface water bodies. Moneys from the fund shall not be expended for planning for, or construction or expansion of, treatment facilities for domestic or industrial waste disposal.

(4)  The department shall authorize the release of money from the fund in accordance with the provisions of s. 373.501(2) and procedures in s. 373.59(4) and (5).

(5)  Moneys in the fund which are not needed to meet current obligations incurred under this section shall be transferred to the State Board of Administration, to the credit of the trust fund, to be invested in the manner provided by law. Interest received on such investments shall be credited to the trust fund.

¹(6)(a)  The match requirement of subsection (2) shall not apply to the Suwannee River Water Management District, the Northwest Florida Water Management District, or a financially disadvantaged small local government as defined in s. 403.885(5).

(b)  Notwithstanding the requirements of subsection (3), the Ecosystem Management and Restoration Trust Fund and the Water Protection and Sustainability Trust Fund shall be used for the deposit of funds appropriated by the Legislature for the purposes of ss. 373.451-373.4595. The department shall administer all funds appropriated to or received for surface water improvement and management activities. Expenditure of the moneys shall be limited to the costs of details planning and plan and program implementation for priority surface water bodies. Moneys from the funds shall not be expended for planning for, ²or construction or expansion of, treatment facilities for domestic or industrial waste disposal.

(c)  Notwithstanding the requirements of subsection (4), the department shall authorize the release of money from the funds in accordance with the provisions of s. 373.501(2) and procedures in s. 373.59(4) and (5).

(d)  Notwithstanding the requirements of subsection (5), moneys in the Ecosystem Restoration and Management Trust Fund that are not needed to meet current obligations incurred under this section shall be transferred to the State Board of Administration, to the credit of the trust fund, to be invested in the manner provided by law. Interest received on such investments shall be credited to the trust fund.

(e)  This subsection expires July 1, 2007.

History.--s. 5, ch. 87-97; s. 29, ch. 89-279; s. 9, ch. 91-79; s. 11, ch. 91-305; s. 11, ch. 94-115; s. 504, ch. 94-356; s. 44, ch. 96-321; s. 6, ch. 2003-265; s. 8, ch. 2005-291; s. 33, ch. 2006-26.

¹Note.--

A.  Section 33, ch. 2006-26, added subsection (6) "[i]n order to implement Specific Appropriations 1820 and 1821 and section 32 of the 2006-2007 General Appropriations Act." Some referenced specific appropriations or proviso language was vetoed. See ch. 2006-25, the 2006-2007 General Appropriations Act.

B.  Section 52, ch. 2006-26, provides that "[a] section of this act that implements more than one specific appropriation or more than one portion of specifically identified proviso language in the 2006-2007 General Appropriations Act is void if all the specific appropriations or portions of specifically identified proviso language are vetoed." Not all portions of specifically identified appropriations or proviso language relating to the addition of s. 373.459(6) were vetoed.

²Note.--The word "or" was inserted by the editors.