Senate Bill sb1776

    Florida Senate - 2005                                  SB 1776

    By Senator Clary





    4-1349-05                                           See HB 827

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the State Homeland Security

  3         Trust Fund; creating s. 288.833, F.S.; creating

  4         the State Homeland Security Trust Fund, to be

  5         administered by the Division of Emergency

  6         Management within the Department of Community

  7         Affairs; providing for sources of funds and

  8         purposes; providing for review of requests for

  9         funding; providing for annual carryforward of

10         unused funds; providing for review and

11         termination or re-creation of the trust fund;

12         providing a contingent effective date.

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

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16         Section 1.  Section 288.833, Florida Statutes, is

17  created to read:

18         288.833  State Homeland Security Trust Fund.--

19         (1)  There is created the State Homeland Security Trust

20  Fund, to be administered by the Division of Emergency

21  Management within the Department of Community Affairs. Funds

22  shall be credited to the trust fund as provided in s.

23  288.857(4)(c), to be used to fund state homeland security with

24  priorities for funding to focus on costs not funded by the

25  Federal Government, such as operational costs of security at

26  seaports and other venues. Requests for funding shall be

27  reviewed by the Domestic Security Oversight Board which shall

28  provide recommended funding priorities.

29         (2)  Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 216.301 and

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

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

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    Florida Senate - 2005                                  SB 1776
    4-1349-05                                           See HB 827




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

 2  purposes of the trust fund.

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

 4  State Constitution, the State Homeland Security Trust Fund

 5  shall be terminated on July 1, 2009, unless terminated sooner.

 6  Before its scheduled termination, the trust fund shall be

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

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

 9  Senate Bill ____ or similar legislation creating the Travel To

10  and Commerce With Terrorist Nations Act is adopted in the same

11  legislative session or an extension thereof and becomes law.

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