995246
GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS BILL                          Committee       Amendment
SB2500                                                  EDU            171SA


Senator(s): Meek
moved the following SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT for 171 (995128):





Section: 02EXPLANATION:



On Page: 056             Allows PEPC to consider an application submitted by



Broward Community College requesting $1 million for



Spec App:  149           development of Haitian-Creole multimedia language



instruction to prepare Haitians for 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
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        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, the Postsecondary Education
        Planning Commission (PEPC) may consider an
        application submitted by Broward Community College
        in the amount of $1,000,000 for a collaborative
        project with 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

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        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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