Senate Bill 0514c1

    Florida Senate - 2000                            CS for SB 514

    By the Committee on Fiscal Policy and Senator Rossin





    309-651-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to trust funds; re-creating the

  3         Administrative Trust Fund within the Department

  4         of Health without modification; carrying

  5         forward current balances and continuing current

  6         sources and uses thereof; amending s. 20.435,

  7         F.S.; abrogating the future termination of the

  8         trust fund; providing an effective date.

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10         WHEREAS, the Legislature wishes to extend the life of

11  the Administrative Trust Fund within the Department of Health,

12  which is otherwise scheduled to be terminated pursuant to

13  constitutional mandate, and

14         WHEREAS, the Legislature has reviewed the trust fund

15  before its scheduled termination date and has found that it

16  continues to meet an important public purpose, and

17         WHEREAS, the Legislature has found that existing public

18  policy concerning the trust fund sets adequate parameters for

19  its use, NOW, THEREFORE,

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

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23         Section 1.  (1)  The Administrative Trust Fund within

24  the Department of Health, FLAIR number 64-2-021, which is to

25  be terminated pursuant to Section 19(f), Article III of the

26  State Constitution on July 1, 2001, is re-created.

27         (2)  All current balances of the trust fund are carried

28  forward, and all current sources and uses of the trust fund

29  are continued.

30         Section 2.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section

31  20.435, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

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CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2000                            CS for SB 514
    309-651-00




  1         20.435  Department of Health; trust funds.--

  2         (1)  The following trust funds are hereby created, to

  3  be administered by the Department of Health:

  4         (a)  Administrative Trust Fund.

  5         1.  Funds to be credited to the trust fund shall

  6  consist of regulatory fees such as those pertaining to the

  7  licensing, permitting, and inspection of septic tanks, food

  8  hygiene, onsite sewage, Super Act compliance, solid waste

  9  management, tanning facilities, mobile home and recreational

10  vehicle park inspection, other departmental regulatory and

11  health care programs, and indirect earnings from grants.

12  Funds shall be used for the purpose of supporting the

13  regulatory activities of the department and for other such

14  purposes as may be appropriate and shall be expended only

15  pursuant to legislative appropriation or an approved amendment

16  to the department's operating budget pursuant to the

17  provisions of chapter 216.

18         2.  Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 216.301 and

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

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

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

22  purposes of the trust fund.

23         3.  The trust fund shall, unless terminated sooner, be

24  terminated on July 1, 2001.

25         Section 3.  This act shall take effect November 4,

26  2000.

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28          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
29                         Senate Bill  514

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31  The bill repeals the future termination date of July 1, 2001.

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