995228
GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS BILL                          Committee       Amendment
SB2500                                                  EDU             S220


Senator(s): Geller, Klein, Forman, Dawson-White, Jones, Mitchell, Campbell, 
and Meek
moved the following amendment:





Section: 02EXPLANATION:



On Page: 033             Maintains FEFP required local effort tax rate at the



current year level of 6.509 mills, which adds



Spec App:  109           approximately $220 million to the total potential



funding for school districts for 1999-2000.











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
        Public Schools, Division Of

        In Section 02  On Page 033
109     Aid To Local Governments
        Grants And Aids - Florida Educational 
        Finance Program

        In Section 02  On Page 034

        In the second line of the sixth paragraph of proviso 
        following Specific Appropriation 109 on page 34, 
        strike:

        $3,919,568,188

        and insert the following new proviso:

        $4,139,618,583

        In the third line of the first paragraph of proviso 
        following Specific Appropriation 109 on page 34, 
        strike:

        $3,146.91

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        Recalculate the base student allocation to reflect 
        the change in the amount of required local effort 
        taxes

        In Section 02  On Page 035

        Insert the following new paragraph of proviso 
        following the first full paragraph of proviso 
        following Specific Appropriation 109 on page 35

        From the total amount of each district's required
        local effort tax amount, an amount that is the
        amount generated by a 0.346 mill levy shall be used
        by each district only for one or more of the
        following purposes: (1) implementation of an
        extended school year, (2) assistance to low
        performing schools, (3) school construction
        projects, and (4) authorized safe schools
        activities.


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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