| 1 | Representative(s) Joyner offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Remove lines 82-219 and insert: |
| 5 | Section 2. (1) The Children and Adolescents Substance |
| 6 | Abuse Trust Fund within the Department of Children and Family |
| 7 | Services is terminated. The current balance remaining in the |
| 8 | trust fund shall be transferred to the Operations and |
| 9 | Maintenance Trust Fund in the department. |
| 10 | (2) The Department of Children and Family Services shall |
| 11 | pay any outstanding debts and obligations of the terminated fund |
| 12 | as soon as practicable, and the Chief Financial Officer shall |
| 13 | close out and remove the terminated fund from the various state |
| 14 | accounting systems using generally accepted accounting |
| 15 | principles concerning warrants outstanding, assets, and |
| 16 | liabilities. |
| 17 | Section 3. Paragraph (e) of subsection (4) of section |
| 18 | 215.20, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: |
| 19 | 215.20 Certain income and certain trust funds to |
| 20 | contribute to the General Revenue Fund.-- |
| 21 | (4) The income of a revenue nature deposited in the |
| 22 | following described trust funds, by whatever name designated, is |
| 23 | that from which the appropriations authorized by subsection (3) |
| 24 | shall be made: |
| 25 | (e) Within the Department of Children and Family Services: |
| 26 | 1. The Administrative Trust Fund. |
| 27 | 2. The Child Welfare Training Trust Fund. |
| 28 | 3. The Children and Adolescents Substance Abuse Trust |
| 29 | Fund. |
| 30 | 3.4. The Domestic Violence Trust Fund. |
| 31 | 4.5. The Grants and Donations Trust Fund. |
| 32 | 5.6. The Operations and Maintenance Trust Fund. |
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| 34 | The enumeration of the foregoing moneys or trust funds shall not |
| 35 | prohibit the applicability thereto of s. 215.24 should the |
| 36 | Governor determine that for the reasons mentioned in s. 215.24 |
| 37 | the money or trust funds should be exempt herefrom, as it is the |
| 38 | purpose of this law to exempt income from its force and effect |
| 39 | when, by the operation of this law, federal matching funds or |
| 40 | contributions or private grants to any trust fund would be lost |
| 41 | to the state. |
| 42 | Section 4. The revenues generated by the taxation on |
| 43 | alcoholic beverages levied under s. 561.501, Florida Statutes, |
| 44 | that are paid into the General Revenue Fund, shall be used to |
| 45 | expand services provided pursuant to s. 409.906, Florida |
| 46 | Statutes, to provide hearing and related services including |
| 47 | hearing evaluations, hearing aid devices, dispensing of hearing |
| 48 | aids, and related hearing aid repairs, if provided to a |
| 49 | recipient older than 20 years of age by a licensed hearing aid |
| 50 | specialist, otolaryngologist, otologist, audiologist, or |
| 51 | physician, for the 2005-2006 fiscal year and each fiscal year |
| 52 | thereafter, notwithstanding any amount in the General |
| 53 | Appropriations Act for such fiscal years. |
| 54 | Section 5. This act shall take effect July 1, 2005. |
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| 56 | ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ============= |
| 57 | Remove lines 11-24 and insert: |
| 58 | programs for children and adolescents; terminating the Children |
| 59 | and Adolescents Substance Abuse Trust Fund within the Department |
| 60 | of Children and Family Services; providing for disposition of |
| 61 | balances in and revenues of such trust fund; amending s. 215.20, |
| 62 | F.S.; conforming provisions to the repeal of the trust fund; |
| 63 | requiring revenues generated by the taxation of certain |
| 64 | alcoholic beverages be used to expand certain optional Medicaid |
| 65 | services; providing an effective date. |