Senate Bill 0890

    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 890

    By Senators Mitchell, Geller, Childers, Cowin, Thomas,
    Kirkpatrick and Jones




    4-521A-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to rural hospital capital

  3         improvement; creating s. 395.6061, F.S.;

  4         creating the Rural Hospital Capital Improvement

  5         Trust Fund; prescribing uses of the fund;

  6         providing duties of the Department of Health;

  7         providing a recurring appropriation; providing

  8         a contingent effective date and an expiration

  9         date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Section 395.6061, Florida Statutes, is

14  created to read:

15         395.6061  Rural hospital capital improvement.--

16         (1)  There is created the Rural Hospital Capital

17  Improvement Trust Fund in the State Treasury, which shall be

18  used exclusively for the support and assistance of rural

19  hospitals and rural area health education centers as defined

20  in s. 395.602. Trust fund revenue shall be used for the

21  purpose of acquiring, repairing, improving, and upgrading

22  systems, facilities, and equipment. The Department of Health

23  shall ensure that the funds are used solely for the purposes

24  specified in this section.

25         (2)  The sum of $13.5 million is appropriated annually

26  from the Department of Health Grants and Donations Trust Fund

27  to the Rural Hospital Capital Improvement Trust Fund. These

28  moneys shall be distributed quarterly, in equal amounts, to

29  all rural hospitals and rural area health education centers

30  regulated under this part.

31         (3)  This section expires July 1, 2009.

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 890
    4-521A-99




  1         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1999,

  2  but it shall not take effect unless it is enacted by a

  3  three-fifths vote of the membership of each house of the

  4  Legislature.

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  7                          SENATE SUMMARY

  8    Creates the Rural Hospital Capital Improvement Trust Fund
      to provide funds for acquiring, repairing, improving, and
  9    upgrading systems, facilities, and equipment of rural
      hospitals and rural area health education centers. The
10    sum of $13.5 million annually deposited into the fund
      will be distributed in equal amounts to rural hospitals
11    and rural area health education centers quarterly for 10
      years.
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