Florida Senate - 2023                                    SB 7030
       
       
        
       By the Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
       
       
       
       
       
       603-02815-23                                          20237030__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to trust funds; amending s. 20.195,
    3         F.S.; creating the State Opioid Settlement Trust Fund
    4         within the Department of Children and Families;
    5         providing the purpose of the trust fund; specifying
    6         the funding source for the trust fund; providing for
    7         the reversion of certain funds to the Department of
    8         Financial Services Opioid Settlement Clearing Trust
    9         Fund; providing for future review and termination or
   10         re-creation of the trust fund; providing an effective
   11         date.
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   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   15         Section 1. Subsection (11) is added to section 20.195,
   16  Florida Statutes, to read:
   17         20.195 Department of Children and Families; trust funds.
   18  The following trust funds shall be administered by the
   19  Department of Children and Families:
   20         (11) State Opioid Settlement Trust Fund.—
   21         (a) The State Opioid Settlement Trust Fund is created
   22  within the Department of Children and Families. The purpose of
   23  the trust fund is to abate the opioid epidemic in accordance
   24  with the settlement agreements reached by the state in opioid
   25  related litigation or bankruptcy proceedings.
   26         (b) The Department of Financial Services shall annually
   27  transfer, by nonoperating transfer, the amount specified in the
   28  General Appropriations Act from its Opioid Settlement Clearing
   29  Trust Fund to the department’s State Opioid Settlement Trust
   30  Fund.
   31         (c) Notwithstanding s. 216.301 and pursuant to s. 216.351,
   32  any unencumbered balance in the trust fund at the end of any
   33  fiscal year and any encumbered balance remaining undisbursed on
   34  September 30 of the same calendar year shall revert to the
   35  Department of Financial Services Opioid Settlement Clearing
   36  Trust Fund.
   37         (d) In accordance with s. 19(f)(2), Art. III of the State
   38  Constitution, the State Opioid Settlement Trust Fund, unless
   39  terminated sooner, shall be terminated on July 1, 2027. Before
   40  its scheduled termination, the trust fund shall be reviewed as
   41  provided in s. 215.3206(1) and (2).
   42         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.