Senate Bill sb1404

    Florida Senate - 2005        (NP)                      SB 1404

    By Senator Saunders





    37-1282-05

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to trust funds; creating s.

  3         20.1971, F.S.; creating the Administrative

  4         Trust Fund within the Agency for Persons with

  5         Disabilities; providing sources of funds and

  6         purposes; providing for annual carryforward of

  7         funds; providing for future review and

  8         termination or re-creation of the trust fund;

  9         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.  Section 20.1971, Florida Statutes, is

14  created to read:

15         20.1971  Agency for Persons with Disabilities; trust

16  funds.--The following trust funds are created and shall be

17  administered by the Agency for Persons with Disabilities:

18         (1)  The Administrative Trust Fund.

19         (a)  Funds to be credited to the trust fund shall

20  consist of federal matching funds provided for the

21  administration of Medicaid services. Funds shall be used for

22  the purpose of supporting the agency's administration of

23  Medicaid programs and for other such purposes as may be

24  appropriate and shall be expended only pursuant to legislative

25  appropriation or an approved amendment to the agency's

26  operating budget pursuant to the provisions of chapter 216.

27         (b)  Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 216.301 and

28  pursuant to s. 216.351, any balance in the trust fund at the

29  end of any fiscal year shall remain in the trust fund at the

30  end of the year and shall be available for carrying out the

31  purposes of the trust fund.

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    Florida Senate - 2005        (NP)                      SB 1404
    37-1282-05




 1         (c)  In accordance with s. 19(f)(2), Art. III of the

 2  State Constitution, the Administrative Trust Fund shall,

 3  unless terminated earlier, be terminated on July 1, 2009.

 4  Before its scheduled termination, the trust fund shall be

 5  reviewed as provided in s. 215.3206(1) and (2).

 6         Section 2.  This act shall take effect on July 1, 2005.

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10    Creates the Administrative Trust Fund within the Agency
      for Persons with Disabilities. Provides for sources of
11    funds and purposes. Provides for the annual carryforward
      of funds. Provides for future review and termination or
12    re-creation of the trust fund.

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