HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                  Bill No. HB 2121

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Wasserman Schultz offered the following:

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13         Amendment 

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16  remove from the bill:  all of said lines

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18  and insert in lieu thereof:

19         Section 4.  Subsection (2) of section 236.25, Florida

20  Statutes, is amended and subsection (5) is added to said

21  section to read:

22         236.25  District school tax.--

23         (2)(a)  In addition to the maximum millage levy as

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

25  more than 2.5 2 mills against the taxable value for school

26  purposes to fund:

27         1.(a)  New construction and remodeling projects, as set

28  forth in s. 235.435(3)(b), without regard to the

29  prioritization in that section, sites and site improvement or

30  expansion to new sites, existing sites, auxiliary facilities,

31  athletic facilities, or ancillary facilities.

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  1         2.(b)  Maintenance, renovation, and repair of existing

  2  school plants or of leased facilities to correct deficiencies

  3  pursuant to s. 235.056(2).

  4         3.(c)  The purchase, lease-purchase, or lease of school

  5  buses; drivers' education vehicles; motor vehicles used for

  6  the maintenance or operation of plants and equipment; security

  7  vehicles; or vehicles used in storing or distributing

  8  materials and equipment.

  9         4.(d)  The purchase, lease-purchase, or lease of new

10  and replacement equipment.

11         5.(e)  Payments for educational facilities and sites

12  due under a lease-purchase agreement entered into by a school

13  board pursuant to s. 230.23(9)(b)5. or s. 235.056(2), not

14  exceeding, in the aggregate, an amount equal to 75 percent

15  one-half of the proceeds from the millage levied by a school

16  board pursuant to this subsection.

17         6.(f)  Payment of loans approved pursuant to ss.

18  237.161 and 237.162.

19         7.(g)  Payment of costs directly related to complying

20  with state and federal environmental statutes and regulations

21  governing school facilities.

22         8.(h)  Payment of costs of leasing relocatable

23  educational facilities and of renting or leasing educational

24  facilities and sites pursuant to s. 235.056(2).

25         (b)1.  Effective July 1, 1997, the millage rate levied

26  pursuant to this subsection may exceed the rate levied in

27  1996-1997 only for the purpose of providing new classrooms for

28  students. For purposes of this subsection, "new classrooms"

29  are defined as instructional space for students in

30  prekindergarten through grade 12 that is new construction of a

31  building or a unit of a building in which the work is new or

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  1  an entirely new addition connected to an existing building. If

  2  a complete new school is being constructed, "new classrooms"

  3  includes all of the standard space required at the school

  4  site. The classrooms may be acquired by lease, lease-purchase,

  5  contract, or purchase and may include new relocatable

  6  classrooms. The limitation to "new classrooms" does not apply

  7  to the proceeds from the first 2.0 of the 2.5 mills.

  8         2.  Each district school board that levied millage

  9  pursuant to paragraph (a) prior to July 1, 1997, and

10  transferred funds from the capital improvement budget to the

11  operating budget shall review the expenditures of the

12  transferred funds and shall develop a plan for reducing the

13  amount of the proceeds from the capital improvement millage

14  that is transferred to the operating budget. The amount of the

15  reduction shall be not less than 10 percent per year.

16  Reductions made prior to July 1, 1997, may be credited toward

17  this requirement. If, in any year, a school board finds that a

18  reduction of 10 percent will cause an unreasonable adverse

19  impact on the district's operations, the school board may

20  request the Commissioner of Education to review its financial

21  status and, if the commissioner concurs, the commissioner may

22  waive all or part of the reduction for that year.

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24  Violations of these expenditure provisions of this subsection

25  shall result in an equal dollar reduction in the Florida

26  Education Finance Program (FEFP) funds for the violating

27  district in the fiscal year following the audit citation.

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