| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to emergency management funding; amending |
| 3 | s. 252.37, F.S.; providing matching-fund requirements for |
| 4 | the state with respect to counties and municipalities when |
| 5 | receiving specified financial assistance from the federal |
| 6 | Public Assistance Program; providing an effective date. |
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| 8 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 10 | Section 1. Subsection (5) is added to section 252.37, |
| 11 | Florida Statutes, to read: |
| 12 | 252.37 Financing.-- |
| 13 | (5) Unless otherwise specified in the General |
| 14 | Appropriations Act, whenever the state accepts financial |
| 15 | assistance from the Federal Government or its agencies under the |
| 16 | federal Public Assistance Program and such financial assistance |
| 17 | is conditioned upon a matching requirement, the state shall |
| 18 | provide the entire match requirement for counties and |
| 19 | municipalities. |
| 20 | Section 2. This act shall take upon becoming a law and |
| 21 | shall apply retroactively to July 1, 2004. |