Senate Bill sb0074c1

    Florida Senate - 2005                             CS for SB 74

    By the Committee on Transportation and Economic Development
    Appropriations; and Senators Geller and Klein




    606-2369-05

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to trust funds; creating the

  3         Citizen Soldier Matching Grant Trust Fund

  4         within the Agency for Workforce Innovation;

  5         requiring that moneys in the trust fund be used

  6         to award matching grants to private sector

  7         employers who provide wages to employees

  8         serving in the United States Armed Forces

  9         Reserves or the Florida National Guard while

10         such employees are on federal active duty;

11         providing for future review and termination or

12         re-creation of the trust fund; providing a

13         contingent effective date.

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

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17         Section 1.  The Citizen Soldier Matching Grant Trust

18  Fund.--

19         (1)  The Citizen Soldier Matching Grant Trust Fund is

20  created within the Agency for Workforce Innovation. Funds

21  credited to the trust fund shall consist of moneys

22  appropriated by the Legislature for the purpose of awarding

23  matching grants to private sector employers that provide wages

24  to employees serving in the United States Armed Forces

25  Reserves or the Florida National Guard while those employees

26  are on federal active duty.

27         (2)  Pursuant to the provisions of Section 19(f)(2),

28  Article III of the State Constitution, the trust fund is

29  terminated July 1, 2009, unless terminated earlier. Prior to

30  its scheduled termination, the trust fund shall be reviewed as

31  provided in section 215.3206, Florida Statutes.

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    Florida Senate - 2005                             CS for SB 74
    606-2369-05




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

 2  CS for SB 72, or similar legislation creating the Citizen

 3  Soldier Matching Grant Program, is adopted in the same

 4  legislative session or an extension thereof and becomes law.

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 6          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
 7                          Senate Bill 74

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 9  The original bill stated that the act shall take effect July
    1, 2005, if "SB___" or similar legislation becomes law.  This
10  committee substitute changes "SB___"  to  "CS for SB 72."

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    language specifying the termination and review dates for the
12  trust fund.

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