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    Florida Senate - 2000                            CS for SB 662

    By the Committee on Fiscal Policy and Senator Casas





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  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to trust funds; exempting from

  3         termination or modifying specified trust funds

  4         administered by state general-government

  5         agencies; 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.  The Legislature finds that the following

10  trust funds administered by the State Board of Administration

11  are exempt from termination pursuant to Section 19(f), Article

12  III of the State Constitution:

13         (1)  The Florida Retirement Systems Trust Fund.

14         (2)  The Local Government Surplus Funds Trust Fund.

15         (3)  The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Trust Fund.

16         (4)  The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences

17  Supplemental Trust Fund.

18         (5)  The Retiree Health Insurance Subsidy Trust Fund.

19         (6)  The Bond Proceeds Trust Fund.

20         (7)  The Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education

21  Expense Trust Fund.

22         (8)  The Department of the Lottery Fund pursuant to

23  section 24.120, Florida Statutes.

24         (9)  The Debt Service Trust Fund.

25         (10)  The Gas Tax Fund.

26         (11)  The Police and Firefighters' Premium Tax Trust

27  Fund.

28         (12)  The Lawton Chiles Endowment Fund.

29         (13)  Funds of the Inland Protection Financing

30  Corporation created under section 376.3075, Florida Statutes.

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  1         (14)  Funds of the Investment Fraud Restoration

  2  Financing Corporation created under section 517.1204, Florida

  3  Statutes.

  4         Section 2.  Paragraph (c) of subsection (4) of section

  5  413.615, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

  6         413.615  Florida Endowment for Vocational

  7  Rehabilitation.--

  8         (4)  REVENUE FOR THE ENDOWMENT FUND.--

  9         (c)  The State Board of Administration shall invest and

10  reinvest moneys of the endowment fund in accordance with the

11  provisions of ss. 215.44-215.53.  Moneys in the endowment fund

12  in excess of the endowment fund principal, or such lesser

13  amount as may be requested in writing by the foundation, shall

14  be annually transmitted to the foundation, based upon a fiscal

15  year which shall run from July 1 through June 30, and shall be

16  deposited in the foundation's operating account, for

17  distribution as provided in subsection (10).  The endowment

18  fund principal shall be $5 million for the 1995-1996 fiscal

19  year and shall be increased by 5 percent in each subsequent

20  fiscal year. The endowment fund principal shall be $1 million

21  for the 2000-2001 fiscal year, and it shall be increased by 5

22  percent each year thereafter.

23         Section 3.  Paragraph (v) is added to subsection (1) of

24  section 215.22, Florida Statutes, to read:

25         215.22  Certain income and certain trust funds

26  exempt.--

27         (1)  The following income of a revenue nature or the

28  following trust funds shall be exempt from the deduction

29  required by s. 215.20(1):

30         (v)  The Department of Banking and Finance Tobacco

31  Settlement Clearing Trust Fund.

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  1         Section 4.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2000.

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  3          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  4                         Senate Bill 662

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  6  The committee substitute removes the Student Loan Escrow Fund
    from the bill having previously been transferred to and under
  7  the jurisdiction of the Department of Education.

  8  The committee substitute also properly characterizes and
    renames the Trust Fund for United States Zero Coupon Treasury
  9  Bonds to the Department of Lottery Fund.

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