Ga. House Rep. plans to re-introduce bill to restrict redirecting trust fund fees
by Georgia Public Broadcasting
Sep 28, 2012 | 714 views | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend | print
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ATLANTA - State House Representative Jay Powell plans to re-introduce a bill next year in the General Assembly that would require state fees for five different trust funds go only to those funds.

Currently about sixty to seventy million dollars each year is being diverted to Georgia’s general fund.

One of the trust funds is used to clean up hazardous waste. Joe Cook, executive director of the Coosa River Basin Initiative, says in the last eight years the fund collected 143 million dollars. But 86 million of that went back to the state for other purposes.

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