Senate Bill sb1396c1

    Florida Senate - 2005                           CS for SB 1396

    By the Committee on General Government Appropriations; and
    Senator Clary




    601-1659-05

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to trust funds; terminating the

  3         Florida Preservation 2000 Trust Fund and the

  4         Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund within the

  5         Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission;

  6         providing for the disposition of balances in

  7         and revenues of the trust funds; prescribing

  8         procedures for the termination of the trust

  9         funds; providing an 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.  (1)  The Florida Preservation 2000 Trust

14  Fund within the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission,

15  FLAIR number 77-2-332, is terminated.

16         (2)  All current balances remaining in, and all

17  revenues of, the trust fund shall be transferred to the

18  Florida Forever Program Trust Fund within the Fish and

19  Wildlife Conservation Commission, FLAIR number 77-2-349.

20         (3)  The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

21  shall pay any outstanding debts and obligations of the

22  terminated fund as soon as practicable, and the Chief

23  Financial Officer shall close out and remove the terminated

24  fund from the various state accounting systems using generally

25  accepted accounting principles concerning warrants

26  outstanding, assets, and liabilities.

27         Section 2.  (1)  The Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund

28  within the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, FLAIR

29  number 77-2-719, is terminated.

30         (2)  All current balances remaining in, and all

31  revenues of, the trust fund shall be transferred to the

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    Florida Senate - 2005                           CS for SB 1396
    601-1659-05




 1  Federal Grants Trust Fund within the Fish and Wildlife

 2  Conservation Commission.

 3         (3)  The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

 4  shall pay any outstanding debts and obligations of the

 5  terminated fund as soon as practicable, and the Chief

 6  Financial Officer shall close out and remove the terminated

 7  fund from the various state accounting systems using generally

 8  accepted accounting principles concerning warrants

 9  outstanding, assets, and liabilities.

10         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.

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12          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
13                             SB 1396

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