Senate Bill sb1812

    Florida Senate - 2001                                  SB 1812

    By Senator Mitchell





    4-899-01

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act creating the Technology Enterprise

  3         Operating Trust Fund; carrying forward current

  4         balances and continuing current sources and

  5         uses thereof; providing a contingent effective

  6         date.

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  8         WHEREAS, the Legislature recognizes the need for

  9  strategic investment in information technology to deliver

10  services to the public, and

11         WHEREAS, the Legislature recognizes information and

12  information technology as a strategic asset of the state which

13  should be managed as a valuable state resource, and

14         WHEREAS, the Legislature wishes to deploy information

15  technology in a cost-effective and efficient manner, and

16         WHEREAS, the Legislature has found a public policy for

17  establishing one operating trust fund for information

18  technology operations, NOW, THEREFORE,

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

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22         Section 1.  The Technology Enterprise Operating Trust

23  Fund is created in the State Technology Office in the

24  Department of Management Services pursuant to section 19(f),

25  Article III of the State Constitution.

26         Section 2.  All current balances of the Communications

27  Working Capital Trust Fund and the Working Capital Trust Fund

28  in the Department of Management Services, and all current

29  sources and uses of the trust fund, are transferred to the

30  Technology Enterprise Operating Trust Fund (72 2621).

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    Florida Senate - 2001                                  SB 1812
    4-899-01




  1         Section 3.  Notwithstanding the provisions of section

  2  216.301, Florida Statutes, and under the provisions of section

  3  216.351, Florida Statutes, any balance in the trust fund at

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

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

  6  the purposes of the trust fund.

  7         Section 4.  In accordance with section 19(f)(2),

  8  Article III of the State Constitution, the Technology

  9  Enterprise Operating Trust Fund of the Department of

10  Management Services shall, unless terminated sooner, be

11  terminated on July 1, 2005. Before its scheduled termination,

12  the trust fund shall be reviewed as provided in section

13  215.3206(1) and (2), Florida Statutes.

14         Section 5.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2001,

15  but it shall take effect only if it is enacted by a

16  three-fifths vote of the membership of each house of the

17  Legislature.

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20                          SENATE SUMMARY

21    Creates the Technology Enterprise Operating Trust Fund in
      the State Technology Office of the Department of
22    Management Services and provides sources of funding.
      Provides for carryover of unexpended funds. Terminates
23    the fund after 4 years.

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