Senate Bill 2026

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                  SB 2026

    By Senator Webster





    12-1128-99                                              See HB

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the rental car surcharge;

  3         amending ss. 212.0606 and 341.053, F.S.;

  4         providing that the portion of the proceeds of

  5         the surcharge on the lease or rental of a

  6         for-hire motor vehicle which is presently

  7         designated to be deposited in the State

  8         Transportation Trust Fund shall be reserved for

  9         the Intermodal Development Program of the

10         Department of Transportation and providing for

11         use of such proceeds; providing an effective

12         date.

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

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16         Section 1.  Subsection (2) of section 212.0606, Florida

17  Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:

18         212.0606  Rental car surcharge.--

19         (2)  Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 212.20, and

20  less costs of administration, 75 percent of the proceeds of

21  this surcharge shall be reserved for the Department of

22  Transportation's Intermodal Development Program created by s.

23  341.053 deposited in the State Transportation Trust Fund, 5

24  percent of the proceeds of this surcharge shall be deposited

25  in the General Revenue Fund, 15.75 percent of the proceeds of

26  this surcharge shall be deposited in the Tourism Promotional

27  Trust Fund created in s. 288.122, and 4.25 percent of the

28  proceeds of this surcharge shall be deposited in the Florida

29  International Trade and Promotion Trust Fund. Of the proceeds

30  of this surcharge that are reserved for the Intermodal

31  Development Program, the Department of Transportation shall

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                  SB 2026
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  1  appropriate 10 percent of such proceeds to improve intermodal

  2  transportation statewide, and shall appropriate 90 percent of

  3  such proceeds generated in each county to improve surface

  4  transportation in the county in which the proceeds were

  5  generated.  For the purposes of this subsection, "proceeds" of

  6  the surcharge means all funds collected and received by the

  7  department under this section, including interest and

  8  penalties on delinquent surcharges.

  9         Section 2.  Subsection (4) of section 341.053, Florida

10  Statutes, is amended to read:

11         341.053  Intermodal Development Program;

12  administration; eligible projects; limitations.--

13         (4)  No single transportation authority operating a

14  fixed-guideway transportation system, or single fixed-guideway

15  transportation system not administered by a transportation

16  authority, receiving funds under the Intermodal Development

17  Program shall receive more than 33 1/3  percent of the total

18  intermodal development funds appropriated between July 1,

19  1990, and June 30, 2015.  All revenues collected pursuant to

20  s. 212.0606 and reserved for the department's Intermodal

21  Development Program shall be used to fund surface and

22  intermodal transportation improvements as provided for in this

23  section.  In determining the distribution of funds under the

24  Intermodal Development Program in any fiscal year, the

25  department shall assume that future appropriation levels will

26  be equal to the current appropriation level.

27         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2002.

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                  SB 2026
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  2                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Provides that, effective July 1, 2002, the 75-percent
  4    portion of the proceeds of the rental car surcharge which
      is presently designated to be deposited in the State
  5    Transportation Trust Fund shall be reserved for the
      Intermodal Development Program of the Department of
  6    Transportation and provides for use of such proceeds.

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