995128
GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS BILL                          Committee       Amendment
SB2500                                                  EDU              171


Senator(s): Meek
moved the following amendment:





Section: 02EXPLANATION:



On Page: 056             Provides $1 million for development of Haitian-Creole



multimedia language instruction to prepare Haitians for



Spec App:  149           employment









NET IMPACT ON:            Total Funds       General Revenue          Trust Funds
    Recurring -                    0                     0                    0 
Non-Recurring -                    0                     0                    0 
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                                                  Positions & Amounts   Positions & Amounts
                                                      DELETE         INSERT

        EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF, AND 
        COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION
        Education Administered Funds

        In Section 02  On Page 056
149     Special Categories
        Grants And Aids - Incentive Grants For 
        Expanding Programs

        Insert the following new paragraph of proviso 
        following Specific Appropriation 149 on page 56:

        From the funds appropriated in Specific
        Appropriation 149, $1,000,000 is provided for a
        project with Broward Community College, which may
        act as the lead school, and a multimedia company
        proficient and able to demonstrate an ability to
        offer native language support for speakers of the
        following languages: Spanish, Portuguese,
        Vietnamese, French, German, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew,
        Russian, Hungarian and Turkish. The project is to
        develop and distribute a minimum of fifteen hundred
        sets of a multimedia, interactive system for Haitian
        speakers to learn English. The program shall prepare
        Haitian speakers to speak English in order to enter
        the job market.

Line item amendments are accepted as part of the amendatory process.  However, due to the necessity of using computerized systems this may entail a different placement
within a budget entity or the renumbering of the specific appropriation items.




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