Bill Text: FL H0961 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Service Charges on State Trust Funds

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-07 - Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration [H0961 Detail]

Download: Florida-2011-H0961-Introduced.html

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HB 961

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.

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.