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| 6 | The Committee on Public Safety & Crime Prevention recommends the | ||
| 7 | following: | ||
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| 9 | Committee Substitute | ||
| 10 | Remove the entire bill and insert: | ||
| 11 | A bill to be entitled | ||
| 12 | An act relating to trust funds; creating the Rape Crisis | ||
| 13 | Program Trust Fund within the Department of Health; | ||
| 14 | providing for the use of funds and the source of funds; | ||
| 15 | requiring the Department of Health to adopt rules for | ||
| 16 | distributing moneys in the trust fund; providing for | ||
| 17 | review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund; | ||
| 18 | providing a contingent effective date. | ||
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| 20 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: | ||
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| 22 | Section 1. Rape Crisis Program Trust Fund.-- | ||
| 23 | (1) The Rape Crisis Program Trust Fund is created within | ||
| 24 | the Department of Health for the purpose of providing funds for | ||
| 25 | rape crisis centers in this state. Trust fund moneys shall be | ||
| 26 | used exclusively for the purpose of providing services for | ||
| 27 | victims of sexual assault. Funds credited to the trust fund | ||
| 28 | consist of those funds collected as an additional court | ||
| 29 | assessment in each case in which a defendant pleads guilty or | ||
| 30 | nolo contendere to, or is found guilty of, regardless of | ||
| 31 | adjudication, a violation of s. 784.011, s. 784.021, s. 784.03, | ||
| 32 | s. 784.041, s. 784.045, s. 784.048, s. 784.07, s. 784.08, s. | ||
| 33 | 784.081, s. 784.082, s. 784.083, s. 784.085, or s. 794.011, | ||
| 34 | Florida Statutes. | ||
| 35 | (2) The Department of Health shall establish by rule | ||
| 36 | criteria for distributing moneys from the trust fund to rape | ||
| 37 | crisis centers. | ||
| 38 | (3) In accordance with s. 19(f)(2), Art. III of the State | ||
| 39 | Constitution, the Rape Crisis Program Trust Fund shall be | ||
| 40 | terminated on July 1, 2007, unless terminated sooner. Before its | ||
| 41 | scheduled termination, the trust fund shall be reviewed as | ||
| 42 | provided in s. 215.3206(1) and (2), Florida Statutes. | ||
| 43 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2003, if HB | ||
| 44 | ____ or similar legislation creating the Sexual Assault Victims' | ||
| 45 | Access to Services Act is adopted in the same legislative | ||
| 46 | session, or an extension thereof, and becomes law. | ||