Senate Bill 0652

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 652

    By the Committee on Fiscal Policy





    301-178A-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act re-creating the Conservation and

  3         Recreation Lands Trust Fund of the Department

  4         of Environmental Protection without

  5         modification; carrying forward current balances

  6         and continuing current sources and uses

  7         thereof; providing an effective date.

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  9         WHEREAS, the Legislature wishes to extend the life of

10  the Conservation and Recreation Lands Trust Fund, which is

11  otherwise scheduled to be terminated pursuant to

12  constitutional mandate, and

13         WHEREAS, the Legislature has reviewed the Conservation

14  and Recreation Lands Trust Fund before its scheduled

15  termination date and has 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 Conservation and Recreation Lands 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 Conservation and Recreation Lands

24  Trust Fund within the Department of Environmental Protection,

25  FLAIR number 37-2-131, 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 all current sources and uses of the trust fund

30  are continued.

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 652
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  1         Section 2.  This act shall take effect November 4,

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  6    Re-creates the Conservation and Recreation Lands Trust
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