HB 0687 2003
   
1 A bill to be entitled
2          An act relating to trust funds; creating s. 550.2632,
3    F.S.; creating the Video Lottery Thoroughbred Trust Fund
4    within the Department of Business and Professional
5    Regulation; providing for source of moneys and purposes;
6    providing for annual carryforward of funds; providing for
7    future review and termination or re-creation of the trust
8    fund; providing a contingent effective date.
9         
10          Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
11         
12          Section 1. Section 550.2632, Florida Statutes, is created
13    to read:
14          550.2632 Video Lottery Thoroughbred Trust Fund.--
15          (1) The Video Lottery Thoroughbred Trust Fund is created,
16    to be administered by the Department of Business and
17    Professional Regulation. Funds shall be credited to the trust
18    fund as provided in s. 24.132, and shall be distributed as
19    provided in s. 24.133, to be used for the purposes specified in
20    that section.
21          (2) Notwithstanding s. 216.301 and pursuant to s. 216.351,
22    any balance in the trust fund at the end of any fiscal year
23    shall remain in the trust fund at the end of the year and shall
24    be available for carrying out the purposes of the trust fund.
25          (3) Pursuant to s. 19(f)(2), Art. III of the State
26    Constitution, the trust fund shall, unless terminated sooner, be
27    terminated on July 1, 2007. However, prior to its scheduled
28    termination, the trust fund shall be reviewed as provided in s.
29    215.3206(1) and (2).
30          Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2003, if
31    House Bill 663 or similar legislation is adopted in the same
32    legislative session or an extension thereof and becomes law.