CopyPublished | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1995 Fla. App. LEXIS 9962, 1995 WL 449558
...Chapter 93-409 complies with the requirements of Article III, Section 19(f) and Article III, Section 6 of the Florida Constitution. [1] Article III, section 19(f)(1) of the constitution dealing with the creation of trust funds became effective on November 4, 1992. The Legislature enacted section 215.3207 relating to creation of trust funds in 1992, and has subsequently amended the statute in 1993 and 1994....
...ted in the trust fund. A relatively contemporaneous construction of the constitution by the Legislature is strongly presumed to be correct. Brown v. Firestone,
382 So.2d 654 (Fla. 1980); Smith v. Brantley,
400 So.2d 443 (Fla. 1981). *738 In enacting section
215.3207, the Legislature reasonably interpreted the constitutional provision to mean that items related to the purpose, administration, and funding should be included within a bill creating a trust fund....
...1983) ("[a] contemporaneous construction of a constitutional provision by the legislature is presumptively correct unless manifestly erroneous"). In fact, the legislature has spoken on this matter in section 3 of chapter 93-159, Laws of Florida (amending section 215.3207, Florida Statutes, which had been created by chapter 92-142, section 17, Laws of Florida): Trust funds; establishment; criteria....
...However, the concept of creation necessarily includes more than the mere language that "such-and-such a trust fund is hereby created." It includes, as well, all matters logically indispensable to the creation of such a fund matters such as those identified by the legislature in what is now section 215.3207, Florida Statutes....
