Senate Bill sb1542c1

    Florida Senate - 2005                           CS for SB 1542

    By the Committee on Environmental Preservation; and Senator
    Dockery




    592-1779-05

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the reuse and recycling of

  3         campaign signs; requiring the Department of

  4         Environmental Protection to design a pilot

  5         project to encourage the reuse or recycling of

  6         campaign signs; requiring the department to

  7         submit details of the program and a budget

  8         request for use of funds from the Solid Waste

  9         Management Trust Fund; providing an effective

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12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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14         Section 1.  The Department of Environmental Protection

15  shall design a pilot project, for implementation in 2006, to

16  encourage the reuse or recycling of campaign signs. At a

17  minimum, the department shall identify two large counties and

18  two small counties to establish a central depository for used

19  campaign signs and to make such signs available, at no cost to

20  the receiving entity, to schools and other entities that may

21  have a use for them and to companies that can recycle the

22  materials from which the signs are made into new materials or

23  products. As part of this pilot project, the department shall

24  submit details for the program along with a budget request,

25  for use of funds from the Solid Waste Management Trust Fund

26  prior to the start of the 2006 Regular Session.

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

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    Florida Senate - 2005                           CS for SB 1542
    592-1779-05




 1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
 2                         Senate Bill 1542

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 4  The committee substitute requires the Department of
    Environmental Preservation to design a pilot project, for
 5  implementation in 2006, to encourage the reuse or recycling of
    campaign signs. The department is required to submit details
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    from the Solid Waste Management Trust Fund prior to the start
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