Senate Bill 1160

    Florida Senate - 1998                                  SB 1160

    By Senator Dyer





    14-1265-98                                              See HB

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to school district

  3         expenditures; amending s. 237.081, F.S.;

  4         requiring the inclusion of specified

  5         information in the advertisement of a school

  6         board's tentative budget; providing an

  7         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.  Section 237.081, Florida Statutes, is

12  amended to read:

13         237.081  Public hearings; budgets to be submitted to

14  Department of Education.--The school board of each district

15  shall cause a summary of its tentative budget, including the

16  proposed millage levies as provided for by law, to be

17  advertised one time in a newspaper of general circulation

18  published in the district or to be posted at the courthouse

19  door if there be no such newspaper. The format of the

20  advertisement shall be prescribed by the Commissioner of

21  Education. The advertisement shall include a 5-year and

22  10-year historical comparison of General Fund expenditures,

23  number of employees, and number of students, if available. The

24  advertisement shall appear adjacent to the advertisement

25  required pursuant to s. 200.065. The board shall hold public

26  hearings to adopt tentative and final budgets pursuant to s.

27  200.065.  The hearings shall be primarily for the purpose of

28  hearing requests and complaints from the public regarding the

29  budgets and the proposed tax levies and for explaining the

30  budget and proposed or adopted amendments thereto, if any.

31  The school board shall then require the superintendent to

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CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 1998                                  SB 1160
    14-1265-98                                              See HB




  1  transmit forthwith two copies of the adopted budget to the

  2  Department of Education for approval as prescribed by law and

  3  regulations of the state board.

  4         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1998.

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  7                       LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY

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      Specifies format of advertisements that school districts
  9    are required to publish regarding their tentative
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