HB 0175 2003
1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to trust funds; creating the Rape Crisis
3	Program Trust Fund within the Department of Health;
4	providing for the use of funds and the source of funds;
5	requiring the Department of Health to adopt rules for
6	distributing moneys in the trust fund; providing for
7	review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund;
8	providing a contingent effective date.
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10	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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12	Section 1.Rape Crisis Program Trust Fund.--
13	(1) The Rape Crisis Program Trust Fund is created within
14	the Department of Health for the purpose of providing funds for
15	rape crisis centers in this state. Trust fund moneys shall be
16	used exclusively for the purpose of providing services for
17	victims of sexual assault. Funds credited to the trust fund
18	consist of those funds collected as an additional court
19	assessment in each case in which a defendant pleads guilty or
20	nolo contendere to, or is found guilty of, regardless of
21	adjudication, an act of sexual battery as defined in section
22	794.011, Florida Statutes.
23	(2) The Department of Health shall establish by rule
24	criteria for distributing moneys from the trust fund to rape
25	crisis centers.
26	(3) In accordance with Section 19(f)(2) of Article III of
27	the State Constitution, the Rape Crisis Program Trust Fund shall
28	be terminated on July 1, 2007, unless terminated sooner. Before
29	its scheduled termination, the trust fund shall be reviewed as
30	provided in section 215.3206(1) and (2), Florida Statutes.
31	Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2003, if HB
32	____ or similar legislation creating the Sexual Assault Victims'
33	Access to Services Act is adopted in the same legislative
34	session, or an extension thereof, and becomes law.
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