Bill Text: FL S0662 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Cigarette Tax Collection Trust Fund

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Failed) 2017-05-05 - Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services [S0662 Detail]

Download: Florida-2017-S0662-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2017                                     SB 662
       
       
        
       By Senator Young
       
       18-00792-17                                            2017662__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the Cigarette Tax Collection Trust
    3         Fund; amending s. 210.20, F.S.; revising, for a
    4         specified timeframe, the amount of the net collections
    5         of the cigarette tax collected by the Division of
    6         Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco of the Department of
    7         Business and Professional Regulation which is to be
    8         paid to the Board of Directors of the H. Lee Moffitt
    9         Cancer Center and Research Institute for certain
   10         purposes; making technical changes; providing an
   11         effective date.
   12          
   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   14  
   15         Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section
   16  210.20, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   17         210.20 Employees and assistants; distribution of funds.—
   18         (2) As collections are received by the division from such
   19  cigarette taxes, it shall pay the same into a trust fund in the
   20  State Treasury designated “Cigarette Tax Collection Trust Fund”
   21  which shall be paid and distributed as follows:
   22         (b)1. Beginning July 1, 2004, and continuing through June
   23  30, 2013, the division shall from month to month certify to the
   24  Chief Financial Officer the amount derived from the cigarette
   25  tax imposed by s. 210.02, less the service charges provided for
   26  in s. 215.20 and less 0.9 percent of the amount derived from the
   27  cigarette tax imposed by s. 210.02, which shall be deposited
   28  into the Alcoholic Beverage and Tobacco Trust Fund, specifying
   29  an amount equal to 1.47 percent of the net collections, and that
   30  amount shall be paid to the Board of Directors of the H. Lee
   31  Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, established under
   32  s. 1004.43, by warrant drawn by the Chief Financial Officer.
   33         2. Beginning July 1, 2014, and continuing through June 30,
   34  2017 2033, the division shall from month to month certify to the
   35  Chief Financial Officer the amount derived from the cigarette
   36  tax imposed by s. 210.02, less the service charges provided for
   37  in s. 215.20 and less 0.9 percent of the amount derived from the
   38  cigarette tax imposed by s. 210.02, which shall be deposited
   39  into the Alcoholic Beverage and Tobacco Trust Fund, specifying
   40  an amount equal to 4.04 percent of the net collections, and that
   41  amount shall be paid to the Board of Directors of the H. Lee
   42  Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, established under
   43  s. 1004.43, by warrant drawn by the Chief Financial Officer.
   44         3. Beginning July 1, 2017, and continuing through June 30,
   45  2053, the division shall from month to month certify to the
   46  Chief Financial Officer the amount derived from the cigarette
   47  tax imposed by s. 210.02, less the service charges provided for
   48  in s. 215.20 and less 0.9 percent of the amount derived from the
   49  cigarette tax imposed by s. 210.02, which shall be deposited
   50  into the Alcoholic Beverage and Tobacco Trust Fund, specifying
   51  an amount equal to 6.13 percent of the net collections, and that
   52  amount shall be paid to the Board of Directors of the H. Lee
   53  Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, established under
   54  s. 1004.43, by warrant drawn by the Chief Financial Officer.
   55  
   56  These funds are appropriated monthly out of the Cigarette Tax
   57  Collection Trust Fund, to be used for lawful purposes, including
   58  constructing, furnishing, equipping, financing, operating, and
   59  maintaining cancer research and clinical and related facilities;
   60  furnishing, equipping, operating, and maintaining other
   61  properties owned or leased by the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
   62  and Research Institute; and paying costs incurred in connection
   63  with purchasing, financing, operating, and maintaining such
   64  equipment, facilities, and properties. In fiscal years 2004-2005
   65  and thereafter, the appropriation to the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer
   66  Center and Research Institute authorized by this paragraph may
   67  subparagraph shall not be less than the amount that would have
   68  been paid to the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research
   69  Institute in fiscal year 2001-2002, had this paragraph
   70  subparagraph been in effect.
   71         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2017.