Bill Text: FL S2406 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Sustainable and Renewable Energy Policy TF/DEP [EPSC]

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities [S2406 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S2406-Introduced.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                                    SB 2406 
 
By Senator Bennett 
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1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to trust funds; creating the 
3         Sustainable and Renewable Energy Policy Trust Fund 
4         within the Florida Energy Office; specifying the 
5         purpose of the trust fund; providing a funding source 
6         for the trust fund; providing for the balance in the 
7         trust fund to be carried forward each year; providing 
8         for the future review and termination or re-creation 
9         of the trust fund; providing a contingent effective 
10         date. 
11 
12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
13 
14         Section 1. (1) The Sustainable and Renewable Energy Policy 
15  Trust Fund is created within the Florida Energy Office. The 
16  trust fund shall be administered by the head of the office or 
17  his or her designee. Funds allocated to the trust fund include 
18  funds received from state appropriations, federal and state 
19  grants, and deposits consisting of the monthly service charge 
20  collected by the electric utilities in the state from every 
21  residential, commercial, and industrial consumer of electric 
22  service. The funds in the trust fund shall be used to support 
23  the activities of the direct-support organization of the office 
24  relating to sustainable and renewable energy projects in this 
25  state. 
26         (2) Notwithstanding s. 216.301, Florida Statutes, and 
27  pursuant to s. 216.351, Florida Statutes, any balance in the 
28  trust fund at the end of any fiscal year shall remain in the 
29  trust fund and be available for carrying out the purposes of the 
30  trust fund. 
31         (3) In accordance with s. 19(f)(2), Article III of the 
32  State Constitution, the Sustainable and Renewable Energy Policy 
33  Trust Fund shall, unless terminated sooner, be terminated on 
34  July 1, 2014. Before its scheduled termination, the trust fund 
35  shall be reviewed as provided in s. 215.3206(1) and (2), Florida 
36  Statutes. 
37         Section 2. This act shall take effect on the same date that 
38  Senate Bill ___ or similar legislation takes effect, if such 
39  legislation is adopted in the same legislative session, or an 
40  extension thereof, and becomes law, but this act shall not take 
41  effect unless it is enacted by a three-fifths vote of the 
42  membership of each house of the Legislature.