Bill Text: FL S2796 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Operating Trust Fund/Executive Office of Governor [WPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Messages [S2796 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S2796-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2010                                    SB 2796 
        
       By Senator Ring 
       32-02341-10                                           20102796__ 
    1                        A bill to be entitled                       
    2         An act relating to trust funds; creating the Operating 
    3         Trust Fund within the Executive Office of the 
    4         Governor; providing for the purpose of the trust fund 
    5         and sources of funds; providing for future review and 
    6         termination or re-creation of the trust fund; 
    7         providing a contingent effective date. 
    8   
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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   11         Section 1. Operating Trust Fund.— 
   12         (1) The Operating Trust Fund is created within the 
   13  Executive Office of the Governor. 
   14         (2) The trust fund is established for use as a depository 
   15  of fees and related revenue for the purpose of supporting 
   16  program operations and for such other purposes as may be 
   17  appropriate, and shall be expended only pursuant to legislative 
   18  appropriation or an approved amendment to the agency’s operating 
   19  budget pursuant to the provisions of chapter 216, Florida 
   20  Statutes. 
   21         (3) In accordance with s. 19(f)(2), Article III of the 
   22  State Constitution, the Operating Trust Fund shall, unless 
   23  terminated sooner, be terminated on July 1, 2014. Before its 
   24  scheduled termination, the trust fund shall be reviewed as 
   25  provided in s. 215.3206(1) and (2), Florida Statutes. 
   26         Section 2. This act shall take effect on the same date that 
   27  SB 1238 or similar legislation takes effect, if such legislation 
   28  is enacted in the same legislative session, or an extension 
   29  thereof, and becomes law, but this act shall not take effect 
   30  unless it is enacted by a three-fifths vote of the membership of 
   31  each house of the Legislature.