Senate Bill 0550

    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 550

    By the Committee on Fiscal Policy





    301-232A-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the re-creation of the

  3         Educational Certification and Service Trust

  4         Fund without modification; re-creating the

  5         Educational Certification and Service Trust

  6         Fund; carrying forward current balances and

  7         continuing current sources and uses thereof;

  8         providing an effective date.

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10         WHEREAS, the Legislature wishes to extend the life of

11  the Educational Certification and Service Trust Fund, which is

12  otherwise scheduled to be terminated pursuant to

13  constitutional mandate, and

14         WHEREAS, the Legislature has reviewed the Educational

15  Certification and Service Trust Fund before its scheduled

16  termination date and has found that it continues to meet an

17  important public purpose, and

18         WHEREAS, the Legislature has found that existing public

19  policy concerning the Educational Certification and Service

20  Trust Fund sets adequate parameters for its use, NOW,

21  THEREFORE,

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

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25         Section 1.  (1)  The Educational Certification and

26  Service Trust Fund within the Department of Education, FLAIR

27  number 48-2-176, which was created by section 231.30, Florida

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

29  19(f), Article III of the State Constitution on November 4,

30  2000, is re-created.

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 550
    301-232A-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 Educational Certification and Service
      Trust Fund within the Department of Education.
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