Senate Bill 0530c1

    Florida Senate - 2000                            CS for SB 530

    By the Committee on Fiscal Policy and Senator Rossin





    309-653-00

  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 Health without modification;

  5         carrying forward current balances and

  6         continuing current sources and uses thereof;

  7         amending s. 20.435, F.S.; abrogating the future

  8         termination of the trust fund; providing an

  9         effective date.

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11         WHEREAS, the Legislature wishes to extend the life of

12  the Grants and Donations Trust Fund within the Department of

13  Health, which is otherwise scheduled to be terminated pursuant

14  to constitutional mandate, and

15         WHEREAS, the Legislature has reviewed the trust fund

16  before its scheduled termination date and has found that it

17  continues to meet an important public purpose, and

18         WHEREAS, the Legislature has found that existing public

19  policy concerning the trust fund sets adequate parameters for

20  its use, NOW, THEREFORE,

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

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24         Section 1.  (1)  The Grants and Donations Trust Fund

25  within the Department of Health, FLAIR number 64-2-339, which

26  is to be terminated pursuant to Section 19(f), Article III of

27  the State Constitution on July 1, 2001, 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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CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2000                            CS for SB 530
    309-653-00




  1         Section 2.  Paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section

  2  20.435, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

  3         20.435  Department of Health; trust funds.--

  4         (1)  The following trust funds are hereby created, to

  5  be administered by the Department of Health:

  6         (c)  Grants and Donations Trust Fund.

  7         1.  Funds to be credited to the trust fund shall

  8  consist of restricted contractual revenue from public or

  9  private sources such as receipts from Medicaid, funds from

10  federal environmental laws such as the Safe Drinking Water Act

11  and the Super Act, funds from other health and environmental

12  programs, and funds from private sources such as foundations.

13  Funds shall be used for the purpose of supporting the

14  activities of the department and shall be expended only

15  pursuant to legislative appropriation or an approved amendment

16  to the department's operating budget pursuant to the

17  provisions of chapter 216.

18         2.  Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 216.301 and

19  pursuant to s. 216.351, any balance in the trust fund at the

20  end of any fiscal year shall remain in the trust fund at the

21  end of the year and shall be available for carrying out the

22  purposes of the trust fund.

23         3.  The trust fund shall, unless terminated sooner, be

24  terminated on July 1, 2001.

25         Section 3.  This act shall take effect November 4,

26  2000.

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28          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
29                         Senate Bill 530

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31  The bill repeals the future termination date of July 1, 2001.

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