House Bill 1085

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                HB 1085

        By Representative Sorensen






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to student attendance; amending

  3         s. 236.081, F.S.; revising provisions relating

  4         to the determination of full-time equivalent

  5         membership; removing obsolete language;

  6         removing the requirement that a district's

  7         full-time equivalent membership be adjusted

  8         using the average daily attendance factor;

  9         requiring the average daily attendance factor

10         to be used in an incentive program to maximize

11         improvement in attendance; requiring the amount

12         of the incentive and eligibility criteria to be

13         annually determined by the Legislature in the

14         General Appropriations Act; providing an

15         effective date.

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

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19         Section 1.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section

20  236.081, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

21         236.081  Funds for operation of schools.--If the annual

22  allocation from the Florida Education Finance Program to each

23  district for operation of schools is not determined in the

24  annual appropriations act or the substantive bill implementing

25  the annual appropriations act, it shall be determined as

26  follows:

27         (1)  COMPUTATION OF THE BASIC AMOUNT TO BE INCLUDED FOR

28  OPERATION.--The following procedure shall be followed in

29  determining the annual allocation to each district for

30  operation:

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  1         (a)  Determination of full-time equivalent

  2  membership.--During each of several school weeks, including

  3  scheduled intersessions of a year-round school program during

  4  the fiscal year, a program membership survey of each school

  5  shall be made by each district by aggregating the full-time

  6  equivalent student membership of each program by school and by

  7  district. The department shall establish the number and

  8  interval of membership calculations, except that for basic and

  9  special programs such calculations shall not exceed nine for

10  any fiscal year. The district's full-time equivalent

11  membership shall be computed and currently maintained in

12  accordance with regulations of the commissioner. Beginning

13  with the 1999-2000 school year, Each school district shall

14  also document the daily attendance of each student in

15  membership by school and by district. An average daily

16  attendance factor shall be computed by dividing the total

17  daily attendance of all students by the total number of

18  students in membership and then by the number of days in the

19  regular school year. Beginning with the 2001-2002 school year,

20  the average daily attendance factor shall be used in an

21  incentive program to maximize improvement in attendance. The

22  amount of the incentive and eligibility criteria are to be

23  annually determined by the Legislature in the General

24  Appropriations Act the district's full-time equivalent

25  membership shall be adjusted by multiplying by the average

26  daily attendance factor.

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

28  law.

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      Removes the requirement that a district's full-time
  4    equivalent membership be adjusted using the average daily
      attendance factor. Requires the average daily attendance
  5    factor to be used in an incentive program to maximize
      improvement in attendance. Requires the amount of the
  6    incentive and eligibility criteria to be annually
      determined by the Legislature in the General
  7    Appropriations Act.

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