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11  Representative(s) Wise offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14  Remove from the bill:  Everything after the enacting clause

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16  and insert in lieu thereof:

17         Section 1.  Section 240.4595, Florida Statutes, is

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19         240.4595  Student Loan Operating Trust Fund.--

20         (1)  The Student Loan Operating Trust Fund is hereby

21  created, to be administered by the Department of Education.

22  Funds shall be credited to the trust fund pursuant to the

23  Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, from loan processing

24  and issuance fees, administrative cost allowances, account

25  maintenance fees, default aversion fees, amounts remaining

26  from collection of defaulted loans, amounts borrowed from the

27  Student Loan Guaranty Reserve Fund, and other amounts

28  specified in federal regulation. The purpose of the trust fund

29  is to segregate funds used for administration of the

30  guaranteed student loan program from the reserve funds used to

31  guarantee student loans contained in the Student Loan Guaranty

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 1  Reserve Fund. The fund is exempt from the service charges

 2  imposed by s. 215.20.

 3         (2)  Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 216.301 and

 4  pursuant to s. 216.351, any balance in the trust fund at the

 5  end of any fiscal year shall remain in the trust fund at the

 6  end of the year and shall be available for carrying out the

 7  purposes of the trust fund.

 8         (3)  Pursuant to the provisions of s. 19(f)(2), Art.

 9  III of the State Constitution, the trust fund shall, unless

10  terminated sooner, be terminated on July 1, 2003. However,

11  prior to its scheduled termination, the trust fund shall be

12  reviewed as provided in s. 215.3206(1) and (2).

13         Section 2.  Funds for administration of the guaranteed

14  student loan program pursuant to the Higher Education Act of

15  1965, as amended, shall be transferred from the Student Loan

16  Guaranty Reserve Fund to the Student Loan Operating Trust Fund

17  on July 1, 1999.

18         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1999.

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22  And the title is amended as follows:

23  remove from the title of the bill:  everything before the

24  enacting clause

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26  and insert in lieu thereof:

27                      A bill to be entitled

28         An act relating to trust funds; creating s.

29         240.4595, F.S.; creating the Student Loan

30         Operating Trust Fund within the Department of

31         Education; providing for sources of funds and

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 1         purposes; exempting the trust fund from various

 2         service charges; providing for annual

 3         carryforward of funds; providing for future

 4         review and termination or re-creation of the

 5         trust fund; providing for transfer of certain

 6         funds to the trust fund; providing an effective

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