Senate Bill 1142c1

    Florida Senate - 1999                           CS for SB 1142

    By the Committee on Natural Resources and Senator Bronson





    312-1793-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to solid and hazardous waste

  3         management; directing the Department of

  4         Environmental Protection to provide trust fund

  5         moneys to the Southern Waste Information

  6         Exchange, Inc., to operate a waste exchange;

  7         providing an effective date.

  8

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

10

11         Section 1.  The Legislature recognizes the need for

12  statewide solid and hazardous waste management assistance to

13  Florida's private businesses, industries, and the public

14  sector, including local units of government. In order to

15  assist the department in providing solid and hazardous waste

16  management assistance to Florida's public and private sectors

17  on a continuing basis, the Legislature recognizes the need for

18  a waste exchange as part of the state's comprehensive solid

19  waste and hazardous waste management programs, and designates

20  Southern Waste Information Exchange, Inc., a nonprofit Florida

21  501(c)(3) organization, to provide this service to Florida's

22  private and public sectors. The Department of Environmental

23  Protection shall make available to the Southern Waste

24  Information Exchange, Inc., an annual appropriation from the

25  Solid Waste Management Trust Fund. These funds shall be used

26  by Southern Waste Information Exchange, Inc., to maintain and

27  expand a waste exchange service and other solid and hazardous

28  waste management assistance as requested by the private

29  sector, the department, and local governments.

30         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1999.

31

                                  1

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






    Florida Senate - 1999                           CS for SB 1142
    312-1793-99




  1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  2                             SB 1142

  3

  4  The committee substitute deletes the requirement that the
    Department of Environmental Protection make available to the
  5  Southern Waste Information Exchange $300,000 annually from the
    Solid Waste Management Trust Fund and instead requires the
  6  department to make an unspecified annual appropriation to the
    SWIX from the Solid Waste Management Trust Fund. Deletes the
  7  provision that states that these funds are to be used by SWIX
    to ensure that Florida' waste reduction and recycling goals
  8  are reached.

  9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

                                  2