Senate Bill 0600c1

    Florida Senate - 2000                            CS for SB 600

    By the Committee on Fiscal Policy and Senator Brown-Waite





    309-688-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

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

  3         Legislative Lobbyist Registration Trust Fund

  4         within the legislative branch; amending s.

  5         11.045, F.S.; modifying purposes for which

  6         moneys in the fund may be used; carrying

  7         forward current balances and continuing current

  8         sources and uses thereof; providing an

  9         effective date.

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11         WHEREAS, the Legislature wishes to extend the life of

12  the Legislative Lobbyist Registration Trust Fund within the

13  legislative branch, which is otherwise scheduled to be

14  terminated pursuant to constitutional mandate, and

15         WHEREAS, the Legislature has reviewed the trust fund

16  before its scheduled termination date and has found that it

17  continues to meet an important public purpose, and

18         WHEREAS, the Legislature has found that existing public

19  policy concerning the trust fund sets adequate parameters for

20  its use, NOW, THEREFORE,

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

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24         Section 1.  (1)  The Legislative Lobbyist Registration

25  Trust Fund within the legislative branch, FLAIR number

26  11-2-442, which is to be terminated pursuant to Section 19(f),

27  Article III of the State Constitution on November 4, 2000, is

28  re-created.

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

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

31  are continued.

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






    Florida Senate - 2000                            CS for SB 600
    309-688-00




  1         Section 2.  Subsection (8) of section 11.045, Florida

  2  Statutes, is amended to read:

  3         11.045  Lobbyists; registration and reporting;

  4  exemptions; penalties.--

  5         (8)  There is hereby created the Legislative Lobbyist

  6  Registration Trust Fund, to be used both for the purpose of

  7  funding any office established for the administration of the

  8  registration of lobbyist lobbying the Legislature, including

  9  the payment of salaries and other expenses, and for the

10  purpose of paying the expenses incurred by the Legislature in

11  providing services to lobbyists.  The trust fund is not

12  subject to the service charge to general revenue provisions of

13  chapter 215. Fees collected pursuant to rules established in

14  accordance with subsection (2) shall be deposited into the

15  Legislative Lobbyist Registration Trust Fund.

16         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2000,

17  except that section 1 shall take effect November 4, 2000.

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19          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
20                              SB 600

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22  Modifies the purposes for which moneys in the fund may be used
    to include all expenses incurred in providing services to
23  registered lobbyists lobbying the Legislature.

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