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