House Bill 0915

    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                 HB 915

        By Representative Sembler






  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 provide trust fund

  5         moneys to the Southern Waste Information

  6         Exchange, Inc., to operate a waste exchange;

  7         providing an effective date.

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

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11         Section 1.  The Legislature recognizes the need for

12  statewide solid and hazardous waste management assistance to

13  Florida's private businesses and industries and the public

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

15  assist the Department of Environmental Protection in providing

16  solid and hazardous waste management assistance to Florida's

17  public and private sectors on a continuing basis, the

18  Legislature recognizes the need for a waste exchange as part

19  of the state's comprehensive solid and hazardous waste

20  management programs, and hereby designates the Southern Waste

21  Information Exchange, Inc., a nonprofit Florida organization

22  that is tax exempt under s. 501(c)(3) of the United States

23  Internal Revenue Code, to provide this service to Florida's

24  private and public sectors. The Department of Environmental

25  Protection shall make available to the Southern Waste

26  Information Exchange, Inc., an annual appropriation from the

27  Solid Waste Management Trust Fund.  These funds shall be used

28  by Southern Waste Information Exchange, Inc., to maintain and

29  expand a waste exchange service and other solid and hazardous

30  waste management assistance as requested by the private

31  sector, the department, and local governments.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                 HB 915

    285-174-00






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

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  4                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Requires the Department of Environmental Protection to
  6    make available an annual appropriation from the Solid
      Waste Management Trust Fund to Southern Waste Information
  7    Exchange, Inc., to maintain and expand a waste exchange
      service and other solid and hazardous waste management
  8    assistance for private businesses and industries and the
      public sector, including local government, in the state.
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