| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to the reuse and recycling of campaign |
| 3 | signs; requiring the Department of Environmental |
| 4 | Protection to design a pilot project to encourage the |
| 5 | reuse or recycling of campaign signs; requiring the |
| 6 | department to submit details of the program and a budget |
| 7 | request for use of funds from the Solid Waste Management |
| 8 | Trust Fund to the Governor and Legislature; providing an |
| 9 | 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. The Department of Environmental Protection |
| 14 | shall design a pilot project, for implementation in 2006, to |
| 15 | encourage the reuse or recycling of campaign signs. At a |
| 16 | minimum, the department shall identify two large counties and |
| 17 | two small counties, based on population, to establish central |
| 18 | depositories for used campaign signs and to make such signs |
| 19 | available, at no cost to the receiving entity, to schools and |
| 20 | other entities that may have a use for them and to companies |
| 21 | that can recycle the materials from which the signs are made |
| 22 | into new materials or products. As part of this pilot project, |
| 23 | the department shall submit details of the program along with a |
| 24 | budget request for use of funds from the Solid Waste Management |
| 25 | Trust Fund to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the |
| 26 | Speaker of the House of Representatives, prior to the start of |
| 27 | the 2006 Regular Session of the Legislature. |
| 28 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2005. |