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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                   Bill No. HB 647

    Amendment No. 1 (for drafter's use only)

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11  The Committee on Health Care Services offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14  Remove from the bill:  Everything after the enacting clause

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16  and insert in lieu thereof:

17         Section 1.  Trust fund.--

18         (1)  FLORIDA HEALTH ENDOWMENT TRUST FUND.--There is

19  created within the State Board of Administration the Florida

20  Health Endowment Trust Fund. The fund shall consist of state

21  appropriations, moneys acquired from other governmental or

22  private sources, premiums paid in accordance with insurance

23  contracts from the Florida Health Endowment Association, and

24  voluntary contributions from insurance companies. All funds

25  deposited into the trust fund may be invested pursuant to

26  section 215.47, Florida Statutes. Dividends, interest, and

27  gains accruing to the trust fund shall increase the total

28  funds available for the program. With the exception of

29  administration fees paid to the State Board of Administration

30  pursuant to HB 645, all earnings shall be used for the

31  administration of the plan for the benefit of plan

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 1  participants. Any balance contained within the fund at the end

 2  of a fiscal year shall remain in the fund and shall be

 3  available for carrying out the purposes of the Florida Health

 4  Endowment Association. Moneys contained within the fund are

 5  exempt from the investment requirements of section 18.10,

 6  Florida Statutes.

 7         (2)  ASSETS OF THE FUND; EXPENDITURE PRIORITY.--The

 8  assets of the fund shall be maintained, invested, and expended

 9  solely for the purposes of the Florida Health Endowment

10  Association and may not be loaned, transferred, or otherwise

11  used by the state for any purpose other than the purposes of

12  the association. This subsection does not prohibit the board

13  from investing in, by purchase or otherwise, bonds, notes, or

14  other obligations of the state or of an agency or

15  instrumentality of the state.

16         Section 2.  Paragraph (v) is added to subsection (1) of

17  section 215.33, Florida Statutes, to read:

18         215.22  Certain income and certain trust funds

19  exempt.--

20         (1)  The following income of a revenue nature or the

21  following trust funds shall be exempt from the deduction

22  required by s. 215.20(1):

23         (v)  The Florida Health Endowment Trust Fund.

24         Section 3.  This act shall take effect on the effective

25  date of House Bill 645, relating to the Florida Health

26  Endowment Association, but shall not take effect if such

27  legislation does not become a law.

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31  And the title is amended as follows:

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 1  remove the entire title:

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 4         An act relating to trust funds; creating the

 5         Florida Health Endowment Trust Fund within the

 6         State Board of Administration; providing for

 7         sources of moneys in the trust fund; requiring

 8         all earnings of the trust fund to be used for

 9         administration costs; providing for an annual

10         carryforward of funds; providing for the trust

11         fund to be used solely for the purposes of the

12         Florida Health Endowment Association; amending

13         s. 215.22, F.S.; exempting the trust fund from

14         the deduction required by s. 215.20(1), F.S.;

15         providing a contingent effective date.

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