Senate Bill sb1812

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    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 1812

    By Senator Lawson





    6-1479-06                                           See HB 557

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to uses of the district school

  3         tax; amending s. 1011.71, F.S.; including

  4         health, property, and casualty insurance costs

  5         as authorized uses of school district millage;

  6         authorizing school districts meeting certain

  7         class size requirements to use revenues

  8         generated by the district school tax for

  9         specified purposes; providing an effective

10         date.

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12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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14         Section 1.  Paragraph (j) is added to subsection (2)

15  and paragraph (e) is added to subsection (5) of section

16  1011.71, Florida Statutes, to read:

17         1011.71  District school tax.--

18         (2)  In addition to the maximum millage levy as

19  provided in subsection (1), each school board may levy not

20  more than 2 mills against the taxable value for school

21  purposes to fund:

22         (j)  Health, property, and casualty insurance costs of

23  the school district.

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25  Violations of these expenditure provisions shall result in an

26  equal dollar reduction in the Florida Education Finance

27  Program (FEFP) funds for the violating district in the fiscal

28  year following the audit citation.

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30         (e)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this

31  subsection, school districts that have met the class size

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    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 1812
    6-1479-06                                           See HB 557




 1  requirements of s. 1003.03 may use the revenue generated by

 2  the millage levy authorized by subsection (2) for the purposes

 3  delineated in subsection (2).

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 5  A district that violates these expenditure restrictions shall

 6  have an equal dollar reduction in funds appropriated to the

 7  district under s. 1011.62 in the fiscal year following the

 8  audit citation. The expenditure restrictions do not apply to

 9  any school district that certifies to the Commissioner of

10  Education that all of the district's instructional space needs

11  for the next 5 years can be met from capital outlay sources

12  that the district reasonably expects to receive during the

13  next 5 years or from alternative scheduling or construction,

14  leasing, rezoning, or technological methodologies that exhibit

15  sound management.

16         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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