Senate Bill 0296c1

    Florida Senate - 1999                            CS for SB 296

    By the Committee on Comprehensive Planning, Local and Military
    Affairs; and Senators Forman, Campbell, Klein, Geller and
    Dawson-White



    316-1628-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the local option fuel tax

  3         for county transportation systems; amending s.

  4         336.025, F.S.; authorizing certain charter

  5         counties to use a portion of certain proceeds

  6         of said tax for homeless assistance programs;

  7         providing for an interlocal agreement;

  8         requiring adoption of a resolution specifying

  9         that the county is meeting certain

10         transportation needs; requiring the county to

11         continue funding such programs from other

12         sources at a specified level; defining

13         "homeless assistance program"; providing for

14         expiration of the use of such proceeds for

15         homeless assistance programs; providing an

16         effective date.

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

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20         Section 1.  Present subsection (9) of section 336.025,

21  Florida Statutes, is renumbered as subsection (10), and a new

22  subsection (9) is added to that section to read:

23         336.025  County transportation system; levy of local

24  option fuel tax on motor fuel and diesel fuel.--

25         (9)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this

26  section, the governing board of a charter county that has a

27  population of 1,250,000 or more persons and which levied a tax

28  under paragraph (1)(b) prior to January 1, 1999, may use the

29  proceeds of 1 cent of that tax in any fiscal year to fund any

30  homeless assistance program within the county. The charter

31  county may establish an interlocal agreement with one or more

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  1  municipalities located within the county, representing a

  2  majority of the population of the incorporated area in such

  3  county, which excludes the distribution of any proceeds

  4  derived from the 1-cent tax that is used for homeless

  5  assistance programs countywide. In authorizing the use of

  6  these proceeds for countywide homeless assistance programs,

  7  the governing board of the charter county must adopt a

  8  resolution certifying that the charter county is meeting its

  9  transportation needs as identified in the 5-year

10  transportation capital improvements program included within

11  the capital improvements element of the charter county's

12  comprehensive plan. The charter county shall file a certified

13  copy of the resolution with the executive director of the

14  Department of Revenue and the Secretary of Community Affairs.

15  A county that elects to use tax proceeds for homeless

16  assistance programs pursuant to this subsection must continue

17  to expend county funds from other sources each year for

18  homeless assistance programs in an amount that is at least

19  equal to the amount it expended for such programs in the

20  current fiscal year in which the county makes such election.

21  The county must also have a segregated account established for

22  these gas tax funds prior to implementation under this act.

23  For purposes of this subsection, the term "homeless assistance

24  program" includes, but is not limited to, the construction,

25  renovation, rehabilitation, and operation of emergency

26  shelters, homeless assistance centers, or other directly

27  related facilities which provide assistance within an

28  established continuum of care to homeless persons within the

29  county. Unless otherwise extended, the authority to use these

30  proceeds for countywide homeless assistance programs as

31  authorized by this subsection expires on September 30, 2005.

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  1         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 1999.

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  3          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  4                         Senate Bill 296

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  6  The CS requires the county maintain funding of homeless
    programs to the same level as in the current fiscal year,
  7  rather than the preceding year, that the county elects to use
    the gas tax proceeds for homeless programs; requires the
  8  county have a segregated account for the gas tax funds prior
    to implementation of the gas surtax for the homeless;
  9  clarifies the definition of homeless assistance program; and
    changes the effective date to October 1, 1999.
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