Senate Bill 0618

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 618

    By the Committee on Fiscal Policy





    301-183A-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act re-creating the Marine Resources

  3         Conservation Trust Fund of the Department of

  4         Environmental Protection without modification;

  5         carrying forward current balances and

  6         continuing uses thereof; providing an effective

  7         date.

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  9         WHEREAS, the Legislature wishes to extend the life of

10  the Marine Resources Conservation Trust Fund, which is

11  otherwise scheduled to be terminated pursuant to

12  constitutional mandate, and

13         WHEREAS, the Legislature has reviewed the Marine

14  Resources Conservation Trust Fund before its scheduled

15  termination date and found that it continues to meet an

16  important public purpose, and

17         WHEREAS, the Legislature finds that the existing public

18  policy concerning the Marine Resources 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 Marine Resources Conservation

24  Trust Fund within the Department of Environmental Protection,

25  FLAIR number 37-2-467, which is to be terminated pursuant to

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

27  November 4, 2000, is re-created.

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

29  forward and uses of the trust fund are continued.

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

31  2000.

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 618
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  2                          SENATE SUMMARY

  3    Re-creates the Marine Resources Conservation Trust Fund
      within the Department of Environmental Protection.
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