Senate Bill 0610

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 610

    By the Committee on Fiscal Policy





    301-174A-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act re-creating the Air Pollution Control

  3         Trust Fund of the Department of Environmental

  4         Protection without modification; carrying

  5         forward current balances and continuing current

  6         sources and uses thereof; providing an

  7         effective date.

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  9         WHEREAS, the Legislature wishes to extend the life of

10  the Air Pollution Control Trust Fund, which is otherwise

11  scheduled to be terminated pursuant to constitutional mandate,

12  and

13         WHEREAS, the Legislature has reviewed the Air Pollution

14  Control Trust Fund before its scheduled termination date and

15  has found that it continues to meet an important public

16  purpose, and

17         WHEREAS, the Legislature finds that the existing public

18  policy concerning the Air Pollution Control Trust Fund sets

19  adequate parameters for its use, NOW, THEREFORE,

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

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23         Section 1.  (1)  The Air Pollution Control Trust Fund,

24  within the Department of Environmental Protection, FLAIR

25  number 37-2-035, which is to be terminated pursuant to Section

26  19(f), Article III of the State Constitution on November 4,

27  2000, 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.

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 610
    301-174A-99




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

  2  2000.

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  5                          SENATE SUMMARY

  6    Re-creates the Air Pollution Control Trust Fund within
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