House Bill 1257

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                HB 1257

        By the Committee on Health & Human Services Appropriations
    and Representative Sanderson





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to trust funds; re-creating the

  3         Grants and Donations Trust Fund within the

  4         Department of Children and Family Services

  5         without modification; carrying forward current

  6         balances and continuing current sources and

  7         uses thereof; providing an effective date.

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  9         WHEREAS, the Legislature wishes to extend the life of

10  the Grants and Donations Trust Fund within the Department of

11  Children and Family Services, which is otherwise scheduled to

12  be terminated pursuant to 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 Grants and Donations Trust Fund

23  within the Department of Children and Family Services, FLAIR

24  number 60-2-339, which is to be terminated pursuant to Section

25  19(f), Article III of the State Constitution on November 4,

26  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 November 4,

31  2000.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                HB 1257

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  3    Re-creates the Grants and Donations Trust Fund within the
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