Senate Bill 2480

    Florida Senate - 1998                                  SB 2480

    By Senator Lee





    23-1209-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to alternative education

  3         programs; amending s. 230.23162, F.S.;

  4         providing for a specified public education

  5         facility to be jointly operated by the

  6         Department of Juvenile Justice and the

  7         Hillsborough County school district; specifying

  8         the qualifications of students who may be

  9         served in the facility; providing for funding

10         of the facility; providing an effective date.

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12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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14         Section 1.  Section 230.23162, Florida Statutes, as

15  transferred, amended, and renumbered by section 1 of chapter

16  97-382, Laws of Florida, is amended to read:

17         (Substantial rewording of section. See

18         s. 230.23162, F.S., for present text.)

19         230.23162  Residential public education facility;

20  establishment; operation; students; funding.--

21         (1)  The education facility constructed under this

22  section is designated as a residential public education

23  facility that shall be jointly operated by the Department of

24  Juvenile Justice and the Hillsborough County School Board

25  through a cooperative agreement. Students to be served in the

26  facility must reside in the counties of Hillsborough,

27  Pinellas, Manatee, Polk, or any other county that has entered

28  into an agreement with the department and the Hillsborough

29  County school district. Students must be at-risk, as defined

30  in the cooperative agreement, and may be in transition from a

31  residential program for juvenile delinquents.

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  1         (2)  Funding for the residential component of the

  2  program must be provided through appropriations to the

  3  Department of Juvenile Justice. Funding for the educational

  4  component of the program must be provided through the Florida

  5  Education Finance Program.

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

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  9                          SENATE SUMMARY

10    Provides for the public education facility constructed
      under s. 230.23162, F.S., to be jointly operated by the
11    Department of Juvenile Justice and the Hillsborough
      County school district. Provides qualifications of
12    students who may be served in the facility. Provides for
      the residential component of the facility to be funded
13    through the Department of Juvenile Justice and for the
      educational component to be funded through the Florida
14    Education Finance Program.

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