Florida 2022 Regular Session

Florida House Bill H7025 Compare Versions

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14	14		A bill to be entitled 1
15	15		An act relating to the Emergency Preparedness and 2
16	16		Response Fund; amending s. 11.90, F.S.; authorizing 3
17	17		the Legislative Budget Commission to convene to 4
18	18		transfer or appropriate certain funds to the Emergency 5
19	19		Preparedness and Response Fund; amending s. 252.37, 6
20	20		F.S.; revising legislative intent; authorizing the 7
21	21		Governor to transfer and expend moneys from the 8
22	22		Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund; authoriz ing 9
23	23		the Governor to request that additional funds be 10
24	24		transferred or appropriated to the Emergency 11
25	25		Preparedness and Response Fund, subject to approval by 12
26	26		the Legislative Budget Commission, under specified 13
27	27		conditions; providing a transfer of funds; providing a 14
28	28		contingent effective date. 15
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30	30		Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 17
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32	32		Section 1. Subsection (8) is added to section 11.90, 19
33	33		Florida Statutes, to read: 20
34	34		11.90 Legislative Budget Commission. — 21
35	35		(8) The commission may convene to tr ansfer or appropriate 22
36	36		unappropriated surplus funds to the Emergency Preparedness and 23
37	37		Response Fund created under s. 252.3711. 24
38	38		Section 2. Subsection (2) of section 252.37, Florida 25
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51	51		Statutes, is amended to read: 26
52	52		252.37 Financing.— 27
53	53		(2)(a) It is the legislative intent that the first 28
54	54		recourse be made to funds specifically regularly appropriated to 29
55	55		state and local agencies for disaster relief or response . 30
56	56		(b) If the Governor finds that the demands placed upon 31
57	57		these funds in coping with a particular disas ter declared by the 32
58	58		Governor as a state of emergency are unreasonably great, she or 33
59	59		he may make funds available by transferring and expending moneys 34
60	60		appropriated for other purposes, by transferring and expending 35
61	61		moneys out of any unappropriated surplus fun ds, or from the 36
62	62		Emergency Preparedness and Response Budget Stabilization Fund 37
63	63		created under s. 252.3711. The Governor may request that 38
64	64		additional funds be transferred or appropriated to the Emergency 39
65	65		Preparedness and Response Fund by a budget amendment, su bject to 40
66	66		approval of the Legislative Budget Commission . 41
67	67		(c) Following the expiration or termination of the state 42
68	68		of emergency, the Governor may transfer moneys with a budget 43
69	69		amendment, subject to approval by the Legislative Budget 44
70	70		Commission, to satisfy the budget authority granted for such 45
71	71		emergency. The transfers and expenditures supporting the 46
72	72		amendment must be directly related to the declared disaster or 47
73	73		emergency. 48
74	74		Section 3. The Chief Financial Officer shall immediately 49
75		-	transfer the nonrecurring sum of $~~500 million~~ from the General 50
	75	+	transfer the nonrecurring sum of $1 billion from the General 50
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88	88		Revenue Fund to the Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund in 51
89	89		the Executive Office of the Governor to be used for preparing 52
90	90		for or responding to a disaster declared by the Governor as a 53
91	91		state of emergency. 54
92	92		Section 4. This act shall take effect on the same date 55
93	93		that HB 7023 or similar legislation takes effect , if such 56
94	94		legislation is adopted in the same legislative session or an 57
95	95		extension thereof and becomes a law. 58