Senate Bill sb2134

    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 2134

    By Senator Pruitt





    28-893-03                                           See HB 131

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to funding for school

  3         districts; amending s. 1011.62, F.S.; deleting

  4         the restriction to fiscal year 2002-2003 on the

  5         transfer of categorical funds to school board

  6         specified academic classroom instruction;

  7         providing an 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.  Paragraph (b) of subsection (5) of section

12  1011.62, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

13         1011.62  Funds for operation of schools.--If the annual

14  allocation from the Florida Education Finance Program to each

15  district for operation of schools is not determined in the

16  annual appropriations act or the substantive bill implementing

17  the annual appropriations act, it shall be determined as

18  follows:

19         (5)  CATEGORICAL FUNDS.--

20         (b)  For fiscal year 2002-2003, If a district school

21  board finds and declares in a resolution adopted at a regular

22  meeting of the school board that the funds received for any of

23  the following categorical appropriations are urgently needed

24  to maintain school board specified academic classroom

25  instruction, the school board may consider and approve an

26  amendment to the school district operating budget transferring

27  the identified amount of the categorical funds to the

28  appropriate account for expenditure:

29         1.  Funds for student transportation.

30         2.  Funds for in-service educational personnel

31  training.

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    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 2134
    28-893-03                                           See HB 131




 1         3.  Funds for safe schools.

 2         4.  Funds for public school technology.

 3         5.  Funds for teacher recruitment and retention.

 4         6.  Funds for supplemental academic instruction.

 5         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.

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