Senate Bill 0536

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 536

    By the Committee on Fiscal Policy





    301-249A-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the re-creation of the State

  3         Student Financial Assistance Trust Fund without

  4         modification; re-creating the trust fund;

  5         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 State Student Financial Assistance 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 State Student Financial Assistance

23  Trust Fund, FLAIR number 48-2-240, which was created within

24  the Department of Education by section 240.40, Florida

25  Statutes, and which is to be terminated pursuant to Section

26  19(f), Article III of the State Constitution on July 1, 1999,

27  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, 1999.

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 536
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  2                          SENATE SUMMARY

  3    Re-creates the State Student Financial Assistance Trust
      Fund within the Department of Education.
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