House Bill 0413c1

    Florida House of Representatives - 1999              CS/HB 413

        By the Committee on Education/K-12 and Representative
    Sorensen





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to educational finance;

  3         amending s. 236.081, F.S.; revising the

  4         limitation on the percentage of a school

  5         district's total K-12 Florida Education Finance

  6         Program calculation that may be produced by the

  7         district's revenue from required local effort

  8         millage for certain counties; providing an

  9         effective date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section

14  236.081, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to

15  read:

16         236.081  Funds for operation of schools.--If the annual

17  allocation from the Florida Education Finance Program to each

18  district for operation of schools is not determined in the

19  annual appropriations act or the substantive bill implementing

20  the annual appropriations act, it shall be determined as

21  follows:

22         (4)  COMPUTATION OF DISTRICT REQUIRED LOCAL

23  EFFORT.--The Legislature shall prescribe the aggregate

24  required local effort for all school districts collectively as

25  an item in the General Appropriations Act for each fiscal

26  year. The amount that each district shall provide annually

27  toward the cost of the Florida Education Finance Program for

28  kindergarten through grade 12 programs shall be calculated as

29  follows:

30         (a)  Estimated taxable value calculations.--

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  1         1.a.  Not later than 2 working days prior to July 19,

  2  the Department of Revenue shall certify to the Commissioner of

  3  Education its most recent estimate of the taxable value for

  4  school purposes in each school district and the total for all

  5  school districts in the state for the current calendar year

  6  based on the latest available data obtained from the local

  7  property appraisers. Not later than July 19, the commissioner

  8  shall compute a millage rate, rounded to the next highest one

  9  one-thousandth of a mill, which, when applied to 95 percent of

10  the estimated state total taxable value for school purposes,

11  would generate the prescribed aggregate required local effort

12  for that year for all districts. The commissioner shall

13  certify to each district school board the millage rate,

14  computed as prescribed in this subparagraph, as the minimum

15  millage rate necessary to provide the district required local

16  effort for that year.

17         b.  The General Appropriations Act shall direct the

18  computation of the statewide adjusted aggregate amount for

19  required local effort for all school districts collectively

20  from ad valorem taxes to ensure that no school district's

21  revenue from required local effort millage will produce more

22  than 90 percent of the district's total K-12 Florida Education

23  Finance Program calculation, and the adjustment of the

24  required local effort millage rate of each district that

25  produces more than 90 percent of its total Florida Education

26  Finance Program entitlement to a level that will produce only

27  90 percent of its total Florida Education Finance Program

28  entitlement. The General Appropriations Act shall also direct

29  that, for any county whose millage has been adjusted as

30  provided in this sub-subparagraph and where more than 90

31  percent of the area of the county is owned by governmental

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  1  entities or public land trusts, the required local effort

  2  millage rate shall be further adjusted to a level that will

  3  produce only 80 percent of its total Florida Education Finance

  4  Program entitlement.

  5         2.  As revised data are received from property

  6  appraisers, the Department of Revenue shall amend the

  7  certification of the estimate of the taxable value for school

  8  purposes.  The Commissioner of Education, in administering the

  9  provisions of subparagraph (9)(a)2., shall use the most recent

10  taxable value for the appropriate year.

11         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

12  law.

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