Senate Bill 0450

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 450

    By the Committee on Fiscal Policy





    301-217A-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the re-creation of the

  3         Comptroller's Federal Equitable Sharing Trust

  4         Fund without modification; re-creating the

  5         trust fund; carrying forward current balances

  6         and continuing current sources and uses

  7         thereof; providing an effective date.

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  9         WHEREAS, the Legislature wishes to extend the life of

10  the Comptroller's Federal Equitable Sharing Trust Fund, which

11  is 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 Comptroller's Federal Equitable

23  Sharing Trust Fund within the Department of Banking and

24  Finance, FLAIR number 44-2-719, which was created by section

25  17.43, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, and which is to be

26  terminated pursuant to Section 19(f), Article III of the State

27  Constitution on July 1, 2002, is re-created.

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

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

30  are continued.

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

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 450
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  3    Recreates the Comptroller's Federal Equitable Sharing
      Trust Fund within the Department of Banking and Finance.
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