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House Bill 0351




    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                HJR 351

        By Representative Bullard






  1                      House Joint Resolution

  2         A joint resolution proposing an amendment to

  3         Section 1 of Article IX of the State

  4         Constitution relating to the system of public

  5         education.

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  7  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  9         That the amendment to Section 1 of Article IX of the

10  State Constitution set forth below is agreed to and shall be

11  submitted to the electors of Florida for approval or rejection

12  at the general election to be held in November 1998:

13         SECTION 1.  System of public education.--The children

14  of this state are its most important asset and they have a

15  fundamental right to legislative funding necessary to provide

16  an adequate and appropriate education.  Therefore, the

17  legislature shall make Adequate provision shall be made by law

18  for a uniform system of free public schools and for the

19  establishment, maintenance and operation of institutions of

20  higher learning and other public education programs that the

21  needs of the people may require.  The legislature shall

22  appropriate sufficient funds so as to provide minimum

23  educational funding per child that is equal to at least the

24  average amount of funding received per child in the states of

25  this nation which rank within the upper quartile in per-pupil

26  educational expenditures.

27         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that in accordance the

28  requirements of section 101.161, Florida Statutes, the title

29  and substance of the amendment proposed herein shall appear on

30  the ballot as follows:

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                HJR 351

    546-136A-97






  1                   REQUIRING APPROPRIATION FOR

  2                       EDUCATIONAL FUNDING

  3         Requires the Legislature to appropriate funds for

  4  education to provide minimum funding per child in an amount

  5  equal to at least the average amount of funding received per

  6  child in states which rank within the upper quartile in

  7  per-pupil educational expenditures.

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