House Bill 1861

    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                HB 1861

        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         Ecosystem Management and Restoration Trust Fund

  4         within the Department of Environmental

  5         Protection without modification and placing it

  6         on the standard review cycle; carrying forward

  7         current balances and continuing current sources

  8         and uses thereof; providing an effective date.

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10         WHEREAS, the Legislature wishes to extend the life of

11  the Ecosystem Management and Restoration Trust Fund within the

12  Department of Environmental Protection, which is otherwise

13  scheduled to be terminated pursuant to constitutional mandate,

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15         WHEREAS, the Legislature has reviewed the trust fund

16  before its scheduled termination date and has found that it

17  continues to meet an important public purpose, and

18         WHEREAS, the Legislature has found that existing public

19  policy concerning the trust fund sets adequate parameters for

20  its use, NOW, THEREFORE,

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

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24         Section 1.  (1)  The Ecosystem Management and

25  Restoration Trust Fund, FLAIR number 37-2-193, which was

26  created within the Department of Environmental Protection and

27  which is to be terminated pursuant to Section 19(f), Article

28  III of the State Constitution on July 1, 2004, is re-created

29  for the period of July 1, 2004, to November 4, 2004.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                HB 1861

    610-227-99






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

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

  3  are continued.

  4         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2004.

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  7                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Re-creates the Ecosystem Management and Restoration Trust
  9    Fund within the Department of Environmental Protection
      and places it on the standard review cycle.
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