Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 426
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/12/2015           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Gaetz) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. (1)The following trust funds within the
    6  Department of Education or Board of Governors of the State
    7  University System are terminated:
    8         (a)The Building Fee Trust Fund, FLAIR numbers 48-2-064 and
    9  4890-2-064. All current balances remaining in, and all revenues
   10  of, the Building Fee Trust Fund terminated by this act shall be
   11  transferred to the Capital Improvement Fee Trust Fund.
   12         (b)The Replacement Trust Fund, FLAIR numbers 48-2-580 and
   13  4890-2-580. All current balances remaining in, and all revenues
   14  of, the Replacement Trust fund terminated by this act shall be
   15  transferred to each university’s local account.
   16         (c)The State University System Concurrency Trust Fund,
   17  FLAIR numbers 48-2-682 and 4890-2-682.
   18         (d)The State University Law Enforcement Trust Fund, FLAIR
   19  numbers 48-2-434 and 4890-2-434.
   20         (e)The Uniform Payroll Trust Fund, FLAIR numbers 48-2-766
   21  and 4890-2-766.
   22         (2)Unless otherwise provided, all current balances
   23  remaining in, and all revenues of, the trust funds terminated by
   24  this act shall be transferred to the General Revenue Fund.
   25         (3) For each trust fund terminated by this section, the
   26  Department of Education or Board of Governors of the State
   27  University System shall pay any outstanding debts and
   28  obligations of the terminated funds as soon as practicable, and
   29  the Chief Financial Officer shall close out and remove the
   30  terminated funds from various state accounting systems using
   31  generally accepted accounting principles concerning warrants
   32  outstanding, assets, and liabilities.
   33         Section 2. Paragraph (g) of subsection (6) of section
   34  932.7055, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   35         932.7055 Disposition of liens and forfeited property.—
   36         (6) If the seizing agency is a state agency, all remaining
   37  proceeds shall be deposited into the General Revenue Fund.
   38  However, if the seizing agency is:
   39         (g) One of the State University System police departments
   40  acting within the jurisdiction of its employing state
   41  university, the proceeds accrued pursuant to the provisions of
   42  the Florida Contraband Forfeiture Act shall be deposited into
   43  that state university’s appropriate local account special law
   44  enforcement trust fund.
   45         Section 3. Section 1010.86, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   46  read:
   47         1010.86 Administration of the capital improvement fee and
   48  building fees trust fund funds.—The Board of Governors of the
   49  State University System State Board of Education shall
   50  administer the Capital Improvement Fee Trust Fund, and the
   51  Building Fee Trust Fund which includes include receipts from
   52  capital improvement and building student fee assessments,
   53  interest earnings, and subsidy grants. All funds, except those
   54  to be used for debt service payments, reserve requirements, and
   55  educational research centers for child development, pursuant to
   56  s. 1011.48, shall be used to fund projects appropriated by the
   57  Legislature. Projects funded pursuant to this section may be
   58  expanded by the use of supplemental funds such as grants,
   59  auxiliary enterprises, private donations, and other nonstate
   60  sources.
   61         Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.
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   63  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   64  And the title is amended as follows:
   65         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   66  and insert:
   67                        A bill to be entitled                      
   68         An act relating to trust funds of the Department of
   69         Education and the Board of Governors of the State
   70         University System; terminating the Building Fee Trust
   71         Fund, the Replacement Trust Fund, the State University
   72         System Concurrency Trust Fund, the State University
   73         System Law Enforcement Trust Fund, and the Uniform
   74         Payroll Trust Fund within the Department of Education
   75         and the Board of Governors of the State University
   76         System; providing for the disposition of balances in
   77         and revenues of such trust funds; amending s.
   78         932.7055, F.S.; requiring certain proceeds to be
   79         deposited into a state university’s appropriate local
   80         account instead of the special law enforcement trust
   81         fund; amending s 1010.86, F.S; conforming provisions
   82         to changes made by this act; providing an effective
   83         date.