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Florida House of Representatives - 2002 HB 1651
By Representative Sorensen
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to the excise tax on documents;
3 amending s. 201.15, F.S.; revising a provision
4 relating to the distribution of a portion of
5 the excise tax on documents to provide funding
6 for wastewater and stormwater construction
7 projects in the Florida Keys and Key West Areas
8 of Critical State Concern; providing a
9 contingent effective date.
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11 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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13 Section 1. Subsection (8) of section 201.15, Florida
14 Statutes, is amended to read:
15 201.15 Distribution of taxes collected.--All taxes
16 collected under this chapter shall be distributed as follows
17 and shall be subject to the service charge imposed in s.
18 215.20(1), except that such service charge shall not be levied
19 against any portion of taxes pledged to debt service on bonds
20 to the extent that the amount of the service charge is
21 required to pay any amounts relating to the bonds:
22 (8) One-half of one percent of the remaining taxes
23 collected under this chapter shall be paid into the State
24 Treasury and divided equally to the credit of the Florida Keys
25 and Key West Areas of Critical State Concern Wastewater and
26 Stormwater Department of Environmental Protection Water
27 Quality Assurance Trust Fund to address water quality in the
28 Florida Keys and Key West Areas of Critical State Concern
29 impacts associated with nonagricultural nonpoint sources and
30 to the credit of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer
31 Services General Inspection Trust Fund to address water
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1 quality impacts associated with agricultural nonpoint sources,
2 respectively. These funds shall be used for purposes of
3 funding wastewater and stormwater management construction
4 projects in the Florida Keys and Key West Areas of Critical
5 State Concern research, development, demonstration, and
6 implementation of suitable best management practices or other
7 measures used to achieve water quality standards in surface
8 waters and water segments identified pursuant to ss. 303(d) of
9 the Clean Water Act, Pub. L. No. 92-500, 33 U.S.C. ss. 1251 et
10 seq. Implementation of best management practices and other
11 measures may include cost-share grants, technical assistance,
12 implementation tracking, and conservation leases or other
13 agreements for water quality improvement. The Department of
14 Environmental Protection and the Department of Agriculture and
15 Consumer Services may adopt rules governing the distribution
16 of funds for implementation of best management practices. The
17 unobligated balance of funds received from the distribution of
18 taxes collected under this chapter to address water quality
19 impacts associated with nonagricultural nonpoint sources will
20 be excluded when calculating the unobligated balance of the
21 Water Quality Assurance Trust Fund as it relates to the
22 determination of the applicable excise tax rate.
23 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2002, if
24 House Bill ____ or similar legislation is adopted in the same
25 legislative session or an extension thereof and becomes a law.
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28 HOUSE SUMMARY
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Revises a provision relating to the distribution of a
30 portion of the excise tax on documents to provide funding
for wastewater and stormwater construction projects in
31 the Florida Keys and Key West Areas of Critical State
Concern. See bill for details.
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