Senate Bill 0498

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 498

    By the Committee on Fiscal Policy





    301-280B-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the re-creation of the

  3         Professional Sports Development 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 Professional Sports Development 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 Professional Sports Development

23  Trust Fund, FLAIR number 79-2-551, which was created within

24  the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development and

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

26  III of the State Constitution on November 4, 2000, is

27  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 are

30  continued.

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 498
    301-280B-99




  1         Section 2.  This act shall take effect November 4,

  2  2000.

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  5                          SENATE SUMMARY

  6    Recreates the Professional Sports Development Trust Fund
      within the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic
  7    Development.

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