Senate Bill 0546c1

    Florida Senate - 2000                            CS for SB 546

    By the Committee on Fiscal Policy and Senator Rossin





    309-655-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

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

  3         Social Services Block Grant Trust Fund within

  4         the 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 Social Services Block Grant Trust Fund within the

13  Department of Health, which is otherwise scheduled to be

14  terminated pursuant 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 Social Services Block Grant Trust

25  Fund within the Department of Health, FLAIR number 64-2-639,

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

27  III of 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 546
    309-655-00




  1         Section 2.  Paragraph (f) 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         (f)  Social Services Block Grant Trust Fund.

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

  8  consist of federal social services block grant funds.  Funds

  9  shall be used for the purpose of providing health care and

10  support services to department clients and for other such

11  purposes as may be appropriate and shall be expended only

12  pursuant to legislative appropriation or an approved amendment

13  to the department's operating budget pursuant to the

14  provisions of chapter 216.

15         2.  Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 216.301 and

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

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

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

19  purposes of the trust fund.

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

21  terminated on July 1, 2001.

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

23  2000.

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25          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
26                         Senate Bill 546

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

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