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Florida House of Representatives - 2001 HB 1959
By the Committee on Information Technology and
Representatives Hart, Mack, Mealor, Jennings, Harrell, Green,
Wallace and Fiorentino
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to trust funds; creating the
3 Technology Enterprise Operating Trust Fund
4 within the State Technology Office; providing
5 for sources of moneys and purposes; providing
6 for future review and termination or
7 re-creation of the trust fund; amending s.
8 215.22, F.S.; changing the name of the
9 Communications Working Capital Trust Fund to
10 the Technology Enterprise Operating Trust Fund;
11 providing for termination of Technology
12 Enterprise Operating Trust Fund; providing an
13 effective date.
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15 WHEREAS, the State Technology Office is charged with
16 the authority and responsibility of designing, engineering,
17 implementing, managing, and operating facilities and equipment
18 necessary to establish and maintain a state communications
19 system to provide local and long distance communications
20 services to state agencies, political subdivisions of the
21 state, municipalities, and nonprofit corporations, and
22 WHEREAS, the State Technology Office is charged with
23 the authority and responsibility of charging and collecting
24 equitable fees from the agencies and other entities that use
25 the state communications system, and
26 WHEREAS, the fees that the State Technology Office
27 collects from agencies and other entities for use of the state
28 communications system are deposited into the Communications
29 Working Capital Trust Fund, and
30 WHEREAS, a Working Capital Trust Fund has been created
31 for each state agency that operates a data processing center
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1 and each such trust fund is funded by the moneys each state
2 agency served by the center pays to the agency that operates
3 the center for deposit into the trust fund from the moneys
4 budgeted and appropriated to each such agency for data
5 processing services and equipment to pay each such agency's
6 proportionate share of the cost of operating the center, and
7 WHEREAS, the communications elements of information
8 technology projects administered by the State Technology
9 Office are funded by revenues deposited in the Communications
10 Working Capital Trust Fund, and the data processing elements
11 of such projects are funded by revenues deposited in Working
12 Capital Trust Funds, and
13 WHEREAS, because most information technology projects
14 administered by the State Technology Office include elements
15 of communications and data processing and require expenditure
16 of moneys deposited in both the Communications Working Capital
17 Trust Fund and in Working Capital Trust Funds created to fund
18 operation of data processing centers in state agencies for
19 which the State Technology Office is responsible, principles
20 of efficiency and economy would be better served if all such
21 trust funds are consolidated into a single trust fund, NOW,
22 THEREFORE,
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24 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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26 Section 1. The Technology Enterprise Operating Trust
27 Fund is created in the State Technology Office for the purpose
28 of providing a single trust fund to replace the several trust
29 funds that presently exist to facilitate funding the
30 information technology activities that the State Technology
31 Office is charged with authority and responsibility to perform
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1 or administer and for the purpose of simplifying the means by
2 which funding of those activities is accounted for in
3 planning, budgeting, and appropriating the funds necessary to
4 support performance and administration of such activities.
5 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, effective July 1,
6 2001, the Communications Working Capital Trust Fund in the
7 Department of Management Services, FLAIR #72-2-105, shall be
8 terminated, all funds in said trust fund that were not
9 expended or obligated in fiscal year 2000-2001 shall be
10 transferred to the Technology Enterprise Operating Trust Fund
11 in the State Technology Office, and all revenues thereafter
12 payable or collectible for the purposes for which the
13 Communications Working Capital Trust Fund of the Department of
14 Management Services, FLAIR #72-2-105, was created shall be
15 paid or collected for deposit into the Technology Enterprise
16 Operating Trust Fund in the State Technology Office.
17 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the date positions
18 and appropriations for performance of information technology
19 activities are transferred from a state agency to the State
20 Technology Office, any Working Capital Trust Fund created by
21 s. 216.272, Florida Statutes, that is then in such agency
22 shall terminate, and all funds in such trust fund that were
23 not expended or obligated before the date such positions and
24 appropriations are transferred shall then be transferred to
25 the Technology Enterprise Operating Trust Fund in the State
26 Technology Office and all revenues thereafter payable or
27 collectible for the purposes for which the Working Capital
28 Trust Fund was created shall be paid or collected for deposit
29 in the Technology Enterprise Operating Trust Fund in the State
30 Technology Office; provided that, effective July 1, 2001, the
31 Working Capital Trust Fund in the Department of Management
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1 Services, FLAIR number 72-2-792, shall terminate and all funds
2 in such trust fund that were not expended or obligated during
3 fiscal year 2000-2001 shall be transferred to the Technology
4 Enterprise Operating Trust Fund in the State Technology
5 Office. Pursuant to the provisions of s. 19(f)(2), Art. III
6 of the State Constitution, the Technology Enterprise Operating
7 Trust Fund in the State Technology Office shall terminate on
8 July 1, 2005, unless sooner terminated or extended by
9 subsequent legislative action taken and effective before that
10 date. Prior to the date of its scheduled termination, the
11 Technology Enterprise Operating Trust Fund in the State
12 Technology Office shall be reviewed as provided in s.
13 215.3206(1) and (2), Florida Statutes.
14 Section 2. Paragraph (q) of subsection (1) of section
15 215.22, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
16 215.22 Certain income and certain trust funds
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18 (1) The following income of a revenue nature or the
19 following trust funds shall be exempt from the deduction
20 required by s. 215.20(1):
21 (q) The Technology Enterprise Operating Communications
22 Working Capital Trust Fund in the State Technology Office of
23 the Department of Management Services.
24 Section 3. This act shall take effect on July 1, 2001,
25 or upon becoming a law, whichever first occurs.
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Creates the Technology Enterprise Operating Trust Fund as
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presently exist to facilitate funding information
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Provides for the trust fund's sources of moneys and
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