House Bill hb1311

    Florida House of Representatives - 2001                HB 1311

        By the Committee on General Government Appropriations and
    Representatives Dockery, Greenstein, Kendrick, Mayfield,
    Holloway, Lee, Bennett, Harrell and Brown




  1                      A bill to be entitled

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

  3         Wireless Emergency Telephone System Fund within

  4         the Department of Management Services without

  5         modification and placing it on the standard

  6         review cycle; carrying forward current balances

  7         and continuing current sources and uses

  8         thereof; providing an effective date.

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10         WHEREAS, the Legislature wishes to extend the life of

11  the Wireless Emergency Telephone System Fund within the

12  Department of Management Services, which is otherwise

13  scheduled to be terminated pursuant to constitutional mandate,

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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 Wireless Emergency Telephone

25  System Fund within the Department of Management Services,

26  FLAIR number 72-2-344, which is to be terminated pursuant to

27  Section 19(f), Article III of the State Constitution on July

28  1, 2007, unless terminated sooner by law, is terminated on

29  November 4, 2004, and re-created.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2001                HB 1311

    610-271A-01






  1         (2)  All current balances of the trust fund are carried

  2  forward, and all current sources and uses of the trust fund

  3  are continued.

  4         Section 2.  This act shall take effect November 4,

  5  2004.

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      Re-creates the Wireless Emergency Telephone System Fund
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      it on the standard review cycle.
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