HOUSE AMENDMENT

    hbd-09                                  Bill No. CS/CS/HB 1751

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Andrews offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 1, line 9, of the bill

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17         Section 1.  Paragraph (b) of subsection (13) of section

18  228.056, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

19         228.056  Charter schools.--

20         (13)  REVENUE.--Students enrolled in a charter school,

21  regardless of the sponsorship, shall be funded as if they are

22  in a basic program or a special program, the same as students

23  enrolled in other public schools in the school district.

24  Funding for a chartered developmental research school shall be

25  as provided in s. 228.053(9).

26         (b)  The basis for the agreement for funding students

27  enrolled in a charter school shall be the sum of the school

28  district's operating funds from the Florida Education Finance

29  Program as provided in s. 236.081 and the General

30  Appropriations Act, including gross state and local funds,

31  discretionary lottery funds, and funds from the school

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

    hbd-09                                  Bill No. CS/CS/HB 1751

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)





 1  district's current operating discretionary millage levy;

 2  divided by total funded weighted full-time equivalent students

 3  in the school district; multiplied by the weighted full-time

 4  equivalent students for the charter school.  Charter schools

 5  whose students or programs meet the eligibility criteria in

 6  law shall be entitled to their proportionate share of

 7  categorical program funds included in the total funds

 8  available in the Florida Education Finance Program by the

 9  Legislature, including transportation.  Total funding for each

10  charter school will be recalculated during the year to reflect

11  the revised calculations under the Florida Education Finance

12  Program by the state and the actual weighted full-time

13  equivalent students reported by the charter school during the

14  full-time equivalent student survey periods designated by the

15  Commissioner of Education. The taxation authority of any

16  county, municipality, or special district shall not be used to

17  provide additional operational revenues to any charter school.

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21  And the title is amended as follows:

22         On page 1, line 2,

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24  after the semicolon insert:

25         amending s. 228.056, F.S., relating to charter

26         schools; prohibiting the use of certain tax

27         revenues for operational expenses of charter

28         schools;

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