House Bill 1155

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                HB 1155

        By Representative Goode






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to trust funds; creating s.

  3         261.11, F.S.; creating the Off-Highway-Vehicle

  4         Revolving Trust Fund; providing for future

  5         review and repeal; providing an effective date.

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

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  9         Section 1.  Section 261.11, Florida Statutes, is

10  created to read:

11         261.11  The Off-Highway-Vehicle Revolving Trust

12  Fund.--There is created the Off-Highway-Vehicle Revolving

13  Trust Fund to be administered by the Division of Forestry

14  within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

15         (1)  The trust fund shall consist of deposits from the

16  following sources:

17         (a)  Fees paid to the Department of Highway Safety and

18  Motor Vehicles for the titling and registration of off-highway

19  vehicles.

20         (b)  Revenues and income from any other source required

21  by law or as appropriated by the Legislature to be deposited

22  into the fund.

23         (c)  Donations from private sources.

24         (d)  Interest earned on moneys on deposit in the fund.

25         (2)  Moneys in the fund shall be available for

26  recommended allocation by the Off-Highway-Vehicle Recreation

27  Advisory Committee and the Department of Agriculture and

28  Consumer Services and upon annual appropriation by the

29  Legislature, exclusively for the following:

30         (a)  Implementation of the Off-Highway-Vehicle

31  Recreation Program by the Department of Agriculture and

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  1  Consumer Services, which includes personnel and other related

  2  expenses, administrative and operating expenses, expenses

  3  related to safety, training, and rider-education programs,

  4  and, if funds are available, acquisition of lands to be

  5  included in the Off-Highway-Vehicle Recreation Program's

  6  system of lands and trails and the management and maintenance

  7  of such lands.

  8         (b)  Approved grants to governmental agencies and

  9  entities that wish to provide off-highway-vehicle recreation

10  areas or trails for public use.

11         (c)  Matching funds to be used to match

12  off-highway-vehicle recreation grant funds available from

13  other sources, including grant funds available pursuant to the

14  federal Recreational Trails Program.

15         (3)  Notwithstanding s. 216.301 and pursuant to s.

16  216.351, any balance in the trust fund at the end of any

17  fiscal year shall remain therein and shall be available for

18  the purposes set out in this section and as otherwise provided

19  by law.

20         (4)  Pursuant to s. 19(f)(2), Art. III of the State

21  Constitution, the Off-Highway-Vehicle Revolving Trust Fund,

22  unless terminated sooner, shall be terminated on July 1, 2004.

23  However, before its scheduled termination, the

24  Off-Highway-Vehicle Revolving Trust Fund shall be reviewed as

25  provided in s. 215.3206(1) and (2).

26         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2000,

27  but it shall not take effect unless it is enacted by at least

28  a three-fifths vote of the membership of each house of the

29  Legislature.

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  2                       LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY

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      Creates the Off-Highway-Vehicle Revolving Trust Fund.
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