Senate Bill 0714c1

    Florida Senate - 2000                            CS for SB 714

    By the Committee on Natural Resources and Senator Forman





    312-1096-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to solid and hazardous waste

  3         management; directing the Department of

  4         Environmental Protection to include in its

  5         annual legislative budget request funding for

  6         the Southern Waste Information Exchange, Inc.,

  7         to operate and maintain a waste exchange;

  8         providing an effective date.

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

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12         Section 1.  The Legislature recognizes the need for

13  statewide solid and hazardous waste management assistance to

14  Florida's private businesses, industries, and the public

15  sector, including local units of government. In order to

16  assist the department in providing solid and hazardous waste

17  management assistance to Florida's public and private sectors

18  on a continuing basis, the Legislature recognizes the need for

19  a waste exchange as part of the state's comprehensive solid

20  waste and hazardous waste management programs and designates

21  Southern Waste Information Exchange, Inc., a nonprofit Florida

22  501(c)(3) organization, to provide this service to Florida's

23  private and public sectors. The Department of Environmental

24  Protection shall include in its annual legislative budget

25  request pursuant to section 216.023, Florida Statutes, funding

26  for the Southern Waste Information Exchange, Inc. The amount

27  of the funding to be included in the legislative budget

28  request shall be based on the department's evaluation of the

29  total funding demands of the Solid Waste Management Trust Fund

30  and of the funding needs requested by the Southern Waste

31  Information Exchange, Inc., to operate, maintain, and expand a

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    Florida Senate - 2000                            CS for SB 714
    312-1096-00




  1  waste exchange service and similar related services as

  2  requested by the private sector and local governments.

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

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  5          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  6                         Senate Bill 714

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  8  Requires the Department of Environmental Protection to include
    in its annual legislative budget request funding for the
  9  Southern Waste Information Exchange, based on the department's
    evaluation of the total funding demands from the Solid Waste
10  Management Trust and of the funding needs requested by the
    Southern Waste Information Exchange, Inc.
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