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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

    534-160BXA-09                        Bill No. HB 887, 1st Eng.

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11  Representative(s) Sublette offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14  Remove from the bill:  Everything after the enacting clause

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16  and insert in lieu thereof:

17         Section 1.  Section 237.081, Florida Statutes, is

18  amended to read:

19         237.081  Public hearings; budgets to be submitted to

20  Department of Education.--

21         (1)  The school board of each district must shall cause

22  a summary of its tentative budget, including the proposed

23  millage levies as provided for by law, and graphs illustrating

24  a historical summary of financial and demographic data, to be

25  advertised at least one time as a full-page advertisement in

26  the a newspaper with the largest of general circulation

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

28  door if there be no such newspaper.

29         (2)(a)  The advertisement must include a graph

30  illustrating the historical summary of financial and

31  demographic data for each of the following data values which

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 1  shall be plotted along the vertical axis of each graph:

 2         1.  Total revenue provided to the school district from

 3  all sources for the corresponding fiscal year, including all

 4  federal, state, and local revenue.

 5         2.  Total revenue provided to the school district for

 6  the corresponding fiscal year for current operations.

 7         3.  Total revenue provided to the school district for

 8  the corresponding fiscal year for fixed capital outlay

 9  projects.

10         4.  Total revenue provided to the school district for

11  the corresponding fiscal year for debt service.

12         5.  Total number of unweighted full-time equivalent

13  students, inclusive of all programs listed in s. 236.081.

14         6.  Total revenue provided to the school district for

15  current operations divided by the number of unweighted

16  full-time equivalent students for the corresponding fiscal

17  year.

18         7.  Total number of employees of the school district

19  for the corresponding fiscal year.

20         8.  Total number of employees of the school district

21  classified as instructional personnel under s. 228.041 for the

22  corresponding fiscal year.

23         (b)  Each graph must include a separate histogram

24  corresponding to the financial and demographic data for each

25  of the following fiscal years, which shall be plotted along

26  the horizontal axis of each graph:

27         1.  Current fiscal year.

28         2.  Fiscal year that is 5 years before the current

29  fiscal year.

30         3.  Fiscal year that is 10 years before the current

31  fiscal year.

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 1         (c)  The numeric value of the financial and demographic

 2  data corresponding to each histogram must be included in each

 3  graph.

 4         (3)  The advertisement shall appear adjacent to the

 5  advertisement required pursuant to s. 200.065. The

 6  Commissioner of Education may adopt rules necessary to provide

 7  specific requirements for the format of the advertisement.

 8         (4)  The board shall hold public hearings to adopt

 9  tentative and final budgets pursuant to s. 200.065.  The

10  hearings shall be primarily for the purpose of hearing

11  requests and complaints from the public regarding the budgets

12  and the proposed tax levies and for explaining the budget and

13  proposed or adopted amendments thereto, if any.  The school

14  board shall then require the superintendent to transmit

15  forthwith two copies of the adopted budget to the Department

16  of Education for approval as prescribed by law and regulations

17  of the state board.

18         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1 of the

19  year in which enacted.

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23  And the title is amended as follows:

24  remove from the title of the bill:  the entire title

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26  and insert in lieu thereof:

27                  A bill to be entitled

28         An act relating to school district

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

30         revising provisions relating to the

31         advertisement of a school board's tentative

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