Bill Text: FL H0809 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Energy Affordability Trust Fund/DCA

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-07 - Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration [H0809 Detail]

Download: Florida-2011-H0809-Introduced.html

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HB 809

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to trust funds; creating the Energy
3	Affordability Trust Fund within the Department of
4	Community Affairs; providing the purpose of the trust fund
5	and the source of funds; providing for future review and
6	termination or re-creation of the trust fund; providing an
7	effective date.
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9	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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11	Section 1.  Energy Affordability Trust Fund.-
12	(1)  The Energy Affordability Trust Fund is created within
13	the Department of Community Affairs.
14	(2)  The trust fund is established for use as a depository
15	for funds to be used to supplement the Low Income Home Energy
16	Assistance Program. Moneys to be credited to the trust fund
17	shall consist of unclaimed deposits held by utilities pursuant
18	to s. 717.108, Florida Statutes.
19	(3)  In accordance with s. 19(f)(2), Article III of the
20	State Constitution, the Energy Affordability Trust Fund shall,
21	unless terminated sooner, be terminated on July 1, 2015. Before
22	its scheduled termination, the trust fund shall be reviewed as
23	provided in s. 215.3206(1) and (2), Florida Statutes.
24	Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2011, but
25	this act shall not take effect unless it is enacted by a three-
26	fifths vote of the membership of each house of the Legislature.

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