Florida Senate - 2010                             CS for SB 1624
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations;
       and Senator Crist
       
       
       
       604-02436-10                                          20101624c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to trust funds; creating s. 16.558,
    3         F.S.; creating the Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund
    4         within the Department of Legal Affairs; providing
    5         sources of funds; exempting the trust fund from a
    6         service charge; providing for future review and
    7         termination or re-creation of the trust fund;
    8         providing a contingent effective date.
    9  
   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Section 16.558, Florida Statutes, is created to
   13  read:
   14         16.558 Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund.—
   15         (1) The Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund is created
   16  within the Department of Legal Affairs. The department may
   17  deposit into the trust fund receipts and revenues received as a
   18  result of federal criminal, administrative, or civil forfeiture
   19  proceedings and receipts and revenues received from federal
   20  asset-sharing programs. The trust fund is exempt from the
   21  service charge imposed by s. 215.20.
   22         (2) In accordance with s. 19(f)(2), Art. III of the State
   23  Constitution, the Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund shall,
   24  unless terminated sooner, be terminated on July 1, 2014. Before
   25  its scheduled termination, the trust fund shall be reviewed as
   26  provided in s. 215.3206(1) and (2).
   27         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010, but
   28  this act shall not take effect unless it is enacted by a three
   29  fifths vote of the membership of each house of the Legislature.