Senate Bill 0628

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 628

    By the Committee on Fiscal Policy





    301-176A-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act re-creating the Environmental Laboratory

  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 Environmental Laboratory Trust Fund, which is otherwise

11  scheduled to be terminated pursuant to constitutional mandate,

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13         WHEREAS, the Legislature has reviewed the Environmental

14  Laboratory Trust Fund before its scheduled termination date

15  and has found that it continues to meet an important public

16  purpose, and

17         WHEREAS, the Legislature has found that the existing

18  public policy concerning the Environmental Laboratory Trust

19  Fund sets 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 Environmental Laboratory Trust

24  Fund within the Department of Environmental Protection, FLAIR

25  number 37-2-50, 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 628
    301-176A-99




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

  2  2000.

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  5                          SENATE SUMMARY

  6    Re-creates the Environmental Laboratory Trust Fund within
      the Department of Environmental Protection.
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