HB 961

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A bill to be entitled
2An act relating to service charges on state trust funds;
3amending s. 215.20, F.S.; reducing the service charge
4applicable to the Clerks of the Court Trust Fund; deleting
5obsolete provisions; providing an effective date.
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7Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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9     Section 1.  Section 215.20, Florida Statutes, is amended to
10read:
11     215.20  Certain income and certain trust funds to
12contribute to the General Revenue Fund.-
13     (1)  A service charge of 8 percent, representing the
14estimated pro rata share of the cost of general government paid
15from the General Revenue Fund, is hereby appropriated from all
16income of a revenue nature deposited in all trust funds except
17those enumerated in s. 215.22. Income of a revenue nature shall
18include all earnings received or credited by such trust funds,
19including the interest or benefit received from the investment
20of the principal of such trust funds as may be permitted by law.
21This provision shall be construed in favor of the General
22Revenue Fund in each instance. All such appropriations shall be
23deposited in the General Revenue Fund.
24     (2)  Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), the
25following funds or trust funds are subject to a 4 percent
26service charge:
27     (a)  Trust funds of the Department of Citrus and the
28Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, including funds
29collected in the General Inspection Trust Fund for marketing
30orders and in the Florida Citrus Advertising Trust Fund.
31     (b)  The Clerks of the Court Trust Fund, shall be subject
32to a 4 percent service charge, which is hereby appropriated to
33the General Revenue Fund. This paragraph does not apply to the
34Conservation and Recreation Lands Program Trust Fund, the Citrus
35Inspection Trust Fund, the Florida Forever Program Trust Fund,
36the Market Improvements Working Capital Trust Fund, the Pest
37Control Trust Fund, the Plant Industry Trust Fund, or other
38funds collected in the General Inspection Trust Fund in the
39Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
40     (3)  Subsection (1) does not prohibit the applicability of
41s. 215.24 should the Governor determine that for the reasons
42mentioned in s. 215.24 the money or trust funds should be exempt
43herefrom, as it is the purpose of this law to exempt income from
44its force and effect when, by the operation of this law, federal
45matching funds or contributions or private grants to any trust
46fund would be lost to the state.
47     (4)  There is appropriated from the proper respective trust
48funds from time to time such sums as may be necessary to pay to
49the General Revenue Fund the service charges imposed by this
50section.
51     Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.


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