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. |