Senate Bill 0630

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 630

    By the Committee on Fiscal Policy





    301-269A-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the re-creation of the

  3         Ecosystem Management and Restoration Trust Fund

  4         without modification; re-creating the trust

  5         fund; carrying forward current balances and

  6         continuing current sources and uses thereof;

  7         providing an effective date.

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  9         WHEREAS, the Legislature wishes to extend the life of

10  the Ecosystem Management and Restoration Trust Fund, which is

11  otherwise scheduled to be terminated pursuant to

12  constitutional mandate, and

13         WHEREAS, the Legislature has reviewed the trust fund

14  before its scheduled termination date and has found that it

15  continues to meet an important public purpose, and

16         WHEREAS, the Legislature has found that existing public

17  policy concerning the trust fund sets adequate parameters for

18  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 Ecosystem Management and

23  Restoration Trust Fund, FLAIR number 37-2-193, which was

24  created within the Department of Environmental Protection and

25  which is to be terminated pursuant to Section 19(f), Article

26  III of the State Constitution on July 1, 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 July 1, 2000.

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 630
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  3    Re-creates the Ecosystem Management and Restoration Trust
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