Senate Bill 0622

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 622

    By the Committee on Fiscal Policy





    301-189A-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act re-creating the Water Quality Assurance

  3         Trust Fund of the Department of Environmental

  4         Protection without modification; carrying

  5         forward current balances and continuing uses

  6         thereof; providing an effective date.

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  8         WHEREAS, the Legislature wishes to extend the life of

  9  the Water Quality Assurance Trust Fund, which is otherwise

10  scheduled to be terminated pursuant to constitutional mandate,

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12         WHEREAS, the Legislature has reviewed the Water Quality

13  Assurance Trust Fund before its scheduled termination date and

14  has found that it continues to meet an important public

15  purpose, and

16         WHEREAS, the Legislature finds that existing public

17  policy concerning the Water Quality Assurance Trust Fund sets

18  adequate parameters for 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 Water Quality Assurance Trust Fund

23  within the Department of Environmental Protection, FLAIR

24  number 37-2-780, which is to be terminated pursuant to Section

25  19(f), Article III of the State Constitution on November 4,

26  2000, is re-created.

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

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

29  are continued.

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

31  2000.

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 622
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  2                          SENATE SUMMARY

  3    Re-creates the Water Quality Assurance Trust Fund within
      the Department of Environmental Protection.
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