Bill Amendment: FL S0584 | 2015 | Regular Session

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: Implementation of the Water and Land Conservation Constitutional Amendment

Status: 2015-05-01 - Died in returning Messages [S0584 Detail]

Download: Florida-2015-S0584-Senate_Committee_Amendment_693702.html

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       Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 584
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government (Dean)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 217 - 286
    4  and insert:
    5         (2)(a) All current balances remaining in the Florida
    6  Communities Trust Fund and the Florida Preservation 2000 Trust
    7  Fund shall be transferred to the Florida Forever Trust Fund,
    8  FLAIR number 37-2-348.
    9         (b) All current balances remaining in the Ecosystem
   10  Management and Restoration Trust Fund, the Water Management
   11  Lands Trust Fund, and the Conservation and Recreation Lands
   12  Trust Fund shall be transferred to the Water Quality Assurance
   13  Trust Fund, FLAIR number 37-2-780.
   14         (3) The Department of Environmental Protection shall pay
   15  all outstanding debts or obligations of the terminated trust
   16  funds as required, and the Chief Financial Officer shall close
   17  out and remove the terminated trust funds from the various state
   18  accounting systems using generally accepted accounting
   19  principles concerning warrants outstanding, assets, and
   20  liabilities.
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   23  And the title is amended as follows:
   24         Delete lines 8 - 14
   25  and insert:
   26         disposition of balances in the trust funds; requiring
   27         the Department of Environmental Protection to pay all
   28         outstanding debts or obligations of the terminated
   29         trust funds; requiring the Chief Financial Officer to
   30         close out and remove the terminated trust funds from
   31         the various state counting systems; amending s. 17.61,
   32         F.S.;