Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (532862) for CS for SB 1512
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/23/2014           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Galvano) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 94 and 95
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    6         ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================And the title is amended as follows:Delete line 2and insert:An act relating to education; amending s. 1002.395, F.S.; revising purpose; revising definitions; revising eligibility requirements for the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program; requiring the Department of Education and Department of Revenue to publish the tax credit cap on their websites when it is increased; requiring the Department of Revenue to provide a copy of a letter approving a taxpayer for a specified tax credit to the eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organization; authorizing certain entities to convey, transfer, or assign certain tax credits; providing for the calculation of underpayment of estimated corporate income taxes and tax installation payments for taxes on insurance premiums and assessments and the determination of whether penalties or interest shall be imposed on the underpayment; revising the disqualifying offenses for nonprofit scholarship-funding organization owners and operators; revising priority for new applicants; allowing a student in foster care or out-of-home care to apply for a scholarship at any time; prohibiting use of eligible contributions from being used for lobbying or political activity or related expenses; requiring application fees to be expended for student scholarships in any year a nonprofit scholarship-funding organization uses eligible contributions for administrative expenses; requiring amounts carried forward to be specifically reserved for particular students and schools for audit purposes; revising audit and report requirements for nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations and Auditor General review of all reports; requiring nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations to maintain a surety bond or letter of credit and to adjust the bond or letter of credit quarterly based upon a statement from a certified public accountant; providing exceptions; requiring the nonprofit scholarship-funding organization to provide the Auditor General any information or documentation requested in connection with an operational audit; requiring a private school to provide agreed upon transportation and make arrangements for taking statewide assessments at the school district testing site and in accordance with the district’s testing schedule if the student chooses to take the statewide assessment; requiring parental authorization for access to income eligibility information; specifying that the independent research organization is the Learning System Institute at the Florida State University; identifying grant terms and payments; revising statewide and individual school report requirements; revising limitations on annual scholarship amounts; providing initial and renewal application requirements and an approval process for a charitable organization that seeks to be a nonprofit scholarship-funding organization; requiring the State Board of Education to adopt rules; providing a registration notice requirement for public and private universities to be nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations; requiring the State Board of Education to adopt rules; allowing existing nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations to provide the required bond at a specified date; amending s. 11.45, F.S.; authorizing the Auditor General to conduct audits of the accounts and records of nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations; creating s. 1002.385,