Senate Bill sb1408

    Florida Senate - 2005        (NP)                      SB 1408

    By Senator Saunders





    37-1280-05

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to trust funds; creating s.

  3         20.1971, F.S.; creating the Operations and

  4         Maintenance Trust Fund within the Agency for

  5         Persons with Disabilities; providing sources of

  6         funds and purposes; providing for annual

  7         carryforward of funds; providing for future

  8         review and termination or re-creation of the

  9         trust fund; providing an effective date.

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

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13         Section 1.  Section 20.1971, Florida Statutes, is

14  created to read:

15         20.1971  Agency for Persons with Disabilities; trust

16  funds.--The following trust funds are created and shall be

17  administered by the Agency for Persons with Disabilities:

18         (2)  The Operations and Maintenance Trust Fund.

19         (a)  Funds to be credited to the trust fund shall

20  consist of receipts from third-party payers of health care

21  services such as Medicaid. Funds shall be used for the purpose

22  of providing health care services to agency clients and for

23  other such purposes as may be appropriate and shall be

24  expended only pursuant to legislative appropriation or an

25  approved amendment to the agency's operating budget pursuant

26  to the provisions of chapter 216.

27         (b)  Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 216.301 and

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

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

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

31  purposes of the trust fund.

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    Florida Senate - 2005        (NP)                      SB 1408
    37-1280-05




 1         (c)  In accordance with s. 19(f)(2), Art. III of the

 2  State Constitution, the Administrative Trust Fund shall,

 3  unless terminated earlier, be terminated on July 1, 2009.

 4  Before its scheduled termination, the trust fund shall be

 5  reviewed as provided in s. 215.3206(1) and (2).

 6         Section 2.  This act shall take effect on July 1, 2005.

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      the Agency for Persons with Disabilities. Provides for
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      carryforward of funds. Provides for future review and
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