House Bill 1351

    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                HB 1351

        By the Committee on General Government Appropriations and
    Representative Sembler





  1                      A bill to be entitled

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

  3         Drinking Water Revolving Loan Trust Fund within

  4         the Department of Environmental Protection

  5         without modification and placing it on the

  6         standard review cycle; carrying forward current

  7         balances and continuing current sources and

  8         uses thereof; repealing s. 403.8533(3), F.S.;

  9         abrogating provisions relating to the

10         termination of the trust fund, to conform;

11         providing an effective date.

12

13         WHEREAS, the Legislature wishes to extend the life of

14  the Drinking Water Revolving Loan Trust Fund within the

15  Department of Environmental Protection, which is otherwise

16  scheduled to be terminated pursuant to constitutional mandate,

17  and

18         WHEREAS, the Legislature has reviewed the trust fund

19  before its scheduled termination date and has found that it

20  continues to meet an important public purpose, and

21         WHEREAS, the Legislature has found that existing public

22  policy concerning the trust fund sets adequate parameters for

23  its use, NOW, THEREFORE,

24

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

26

27         Section 1.  (1)  The Drinking Water Revolving Loan

28  Trust Fund, FLAIR number 37-2-044, which was created within

29  the Department of Environmental Protection by section

30  403.8533, Florida Statutes, and which is to be terminated

31  pursuant to Section 19(f), Article III of the State

                                  1

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






    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                HB 1351

    610-196-99






  1  Constitution on July 1, 2001, unless terminated sooner by law,

  2  is hereby terminated on November 4, 2000, and re-created.

  3         (2)  All current balances of the trust fund are carried

  4  forward, and all current sources and uses of the trust fund

  5  are continued.

  6         Section 2.  Subsection (3) of section 403.8533, Florida

  7  Statutes, is repealed.

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

  9  2000.

10

11            *****************************************

12                          HOUSE SUMMARY

13
      Re-creates the Drinking Water Revolving Loan Trust Fund
14    within the Department of Environmental Protection and
      places it on the standard review cycle.
15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

                                  2