Senate Bill 0526

    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 526

    By the Committee on Fiscal Policy





    301-256A-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to trust funds; re-creating the

  3         Florida Casualty Insurance Risk Management

  4         Trust Fund within the Department of Insurance

  5         without modification; carrying forward current

  6         balances and continuing current sources and

  7         uses thereof; providing an effective date.

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  9         WHEREAS, the Legislature wishes to extend the life of

10  the Florida Casualty Insurance Risk Management Trust Fund

11  within the Department of Insurance, which is otherwise

12  scheduled to be terminated pursuant to constitutional mandate,

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14         WHEREAS, the Legislature has reviewed the Florida

15  Casualty Insurance Risk Management Trust Fund within the

16  Department of Insurance before its scheduled termination date

17  and has found that it continues to meet an important public

18  purpose, and

19         WHEREAS, the Legislature has found that existing public

20  policy concerning the Florida Casualty Insurance Risk

21  Management Trust Fund within the Department of Insurance sets

22  adequate parameters for its use, NOW, THEREFORE,

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

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26         Section 1.  (1)  The Florida Casualty Insurance Risk

27  Management Trust Fund within the Department of Insurance,

28  FLAIR number 46-2-078, which was created by section 284.30,

29  Florida Statutes, and which is to be terminated pursuant to

30  Section 19(f), Article III of the State Constitution on

31  November 4, 2000, is re-created.

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 526
    301-256A-99




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

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

  3  are continued.

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

  5  2000.

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  8                          SENATE SUMMARY

  9    Re-creates the Florida Casualty Insurance Risk Management
      Trust Fund within the Department of Insurance.
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