Senate Bill sb1654

    Florida Senate - 2007                                  SB 1654

    By Senator Gaetz





    4-1877-07                                           See HB 201

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Health Care Clinic

  3         Indigent Care Trust Fund; creating s. 220.1876,

  4         F.S.; creating the Health Care Clinic Indigent

  5         Care Trust Fund within the Department of

  6         Revenue; providing for administration of the

  7         fund; providing for the use of moneys in the

  8         fund; requiring balances in the fund to remain

  9         in the fund for certain purposes; providing for

10         future review and termination or re-creation of

11         the fund; providing an effective date.

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

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15         Section 1.  Section 220.1876, Florida Statutes, is

16  created to read:

17         220.1876  Health Care Clinic Indigent Care Trust

18  Fund.--

19         (1)  The Health Care Clinic Indigent Care Trust Fund is

20  created within the Department of Revenue. The moneys credited

21  to the fund consist of contributions from corporate taxpayers.

22  The fund shall be administered by a board of directors, with

23  the assistance of the department, as provided by s. 220.1875.

24  The fund shall be a separate account held in trust and

25  maintained by the department. The fund shall be used by the

26  department to receive contributions from corporate taxpayers

27  for the credit established by s. 220.1875 and by the board to

28  make disbursements to qualifying health care clinics that

29  provide medical care to indigent persons as provided by s.

30  220.1875.

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    Florida Senate - 2007                                  SB 1654
    4-1877-07                                           See HB 201




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

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

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

 4  end of that year and shall be available for carrying out the

 5  purposes of the trust fund.

 6         (3)  Pursuant to the provisions of s. 19(f)(2), Art.

 7  III of the State Constitution, the fund shall, unless

 8  terminated sooner, be terminated July 1, 2011. Prior to its

 9  scheduled termination, the fund shall be reviewed as provided

10  in s. 215.3206(1) and (2).

11         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.

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