House Bill 3459

    Florida House of Representatives - 1998                HB 3459

        By the Committee on Transportation & Economic Development
    Appropriations and Representative Merchant





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to trust funds; re-creating the

  3         Law Enforcement Trust Fund within the

  4         Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles

  5         without modification; carrying forward current

  6         balances and continuing current sources and

  7         uses thereof; providing an effective date.

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  9         WHEREAS, the Legislature wishes to extend the life of

10  the Law Enforcement Trust Fund within the Department of

11  Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, which is otherwise

12  scheduled to be terminated pursuant to constitutional mandate,

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14         WHEREAS, the Legislature has reviewed the Law

15  Enforcement Trust Fund within the Department of Highway Safety

16  and Motor Vehicles before its scheduled termination date and

17  has found that it continues to meet an important public

18  purpose, and

19         WHEREAS, the Legislature has found that existing public

20  policy concerning the Law Enforcement Trust Fund within the

21  Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles sets adequate

22  parameters for its use, NOW, THEREFORE,

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24  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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26         Section 1.  The Law Enforcement Trust Fund within the

27  Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, SAMAS number

28  762434, which was created by section 932.705, Florida

29  Statutes, and which is to be terminated pursuant to Section

30  19(f), Article III of the State Constitution on November 4,

31  2000, is re-created.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1998                HB 3459

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  1         Section 2.  All current balances of the Law Enforcement

  2  Trust Fund within the Department of Highway Safety and Motor

  3  Vehicles are carried forward, and all current sources and uses

  4  of the trust fund are continued.

  5         Section 3.  This act shall take effect November 4,

  6  2000.

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      Re-creates the Law Enforcement Trust Fund within the
11    Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, without
      modification, and carries forward its current balances
12    and continues its current sources and uses.

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