Amendment
Bill No. 7099
Amendment No. 378099
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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1Representative(s) Bucher offered the following:
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3     Substitute Amendment for Amendment (678557) (with title
4amendment)
5     Remove line(s) 57-111 and insert:
6     3.  The Public Education Capital Outlay and Debt Service
7Trust Fund in the Department of Education in the amount of $105
8million in each fiscal year, to be paid in monthly installments
9with $75 million used to fund the Classrooms for Kids Program
10created in s. 1013.735, and $30 million to be used to fund
11teacher salaries the High Growth County District Capital Outlay
12Assistance Grant Program created in s. 1013.738. If required,
13new facilities constructed under the Classrooms for Kids Program
14must meet the requirements of s. 1013.372.
15     4.  The Grants and Donations Trust Fund in the Department
16of Community Affairs in the amount of $3.25 million in each
17fiscal year to be paid in monthly installments, with $3 million
18to be used to fund technical assistance to local governments and
19school boards on the requirements and implementation of this act
20and $250,000 to be used to fund the Century Commission
21established in s. 163.3247.
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23Moneys distributed pursuant to this paragraph may not be pledged
24for debt service unless such pledge is approved by referendum of
25the voters.
26     Section 2.  Subsection (7) of section 1013.64, Florida
27Statutes, is amended to read:
28     1013.64  Funds for comprehensive educational plant needs;
29construction cost maximums for school district capital
30projects.--Allocations from the Public Education Capital Outlay
31and Debt Service Trust Fund to the various boards for capital
32outlay projects shall be determined as follows:
33     (7)  Moneys distributed to the Public Education Capital
34Outlay and Debt Service Trust Fund pursuant to s. 201.15(1)(d)
35to fund the Classrooms for Kids Program created in s. 1013.735
36and the High Growth County District Capital Outlay Assistance
37Grant Program created in s. 1013.738 shall be distributed as
38provided by that section those sections.
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41     Remove line(s) 3-11 and insert:
42taxes; amending s. 201.15, F.S.; reallocating to fund teacher
43salaries the portion of proceeds distributed from the excise tax
44on documents to the Public Education Capital Outlay and Debt
45Service Trust Fund to fund the High Growth County District
46Capital Outlay Assistance Grant Program; amending s. 1013.64,
47F.S.; revising provisions relating to distributions from such
48trust fund for specified programs, to conform; amending s.
491013.738, F.S.; deleting a


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