Senate Bill 0422

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 422

    By the Committee on Fiscal Policy





    301-275A-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the re-creation of the

  3         Agricultural Emergency Eradication Trust Fund

  4         without modification; re-creating the trust

  5         fund; carrying forward current balances and

  6         continuing current sources and uses thereof;

  7         providing an effective date.

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  9         WHEREAS, the Legislature wishes to extend the life of

10  the Agricultural Emergency Eradication Trust Fund, which is

11  otherwise scheduled to be terminated pursuant to

12  constitutional mandate, and

13         WHEREAS, the Legislature has reviewed the trust fund

14  before its scheduled termination date and has found that it

15  continues to meet an important public purpose, and

16         WHEREAS, the Legislature has found that existing public

17  policy concerning the trust fund sets adequate parameters for

18  its use, NOW, THEREFORE,

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

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22         Section 1.  (1)  The Agricultural Emergency Eradication

23  Trust Fund, FLAIR number 42-2-360, which was created within

24  the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and which

25  is to be terminated pursuant to Section 19(f), Article III of

26  the State Constitution on July 1, 2002, is re-created.

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

28  forward and all current sources and uses of the trust fund are

29  continued.

30         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2002.

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 422
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  3    Recreates the Agricultural Emergency Eradication Trust
      Fund within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer
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