Senate Bill 0124

    Florida Senate - 2000                                   SB 124

    By Senator Klein





    28-168-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to trust funds; creating the

  3         Public School Technology Infrastructure Trust

  4         Fund within the Department of Education;

  5         providing for moneys in the trust fund to be

  6         used to connect each classroom in the state's

  7         public schools to the Internet; providing for

  8         moneys in the trust fund to be available only

  9         after a school district has exhausted all other

10         funds for technology provided by the

11         Legislature; requiring that the Department of

12         Education adopt rules; providing a contingent

13         effective date.

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

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17         Section 1.  Public School Technology Infrastructure

18  Trust Fund.--

19         (1)  The Public School Technology Infrastructure Trust

20  Fund is created within the Department of Education for the

21  purpose of providing funds so that every classroom in each

22  public school in the state may be connected to the Internet.

23  Moneys from the trust fund shall be available to a school

24  district only after the district has exhausted all other

25  technology funds provided by the Legislature.

26         (2)  The Department of Education shall establish by

27  rule an application process and criteria for distributing

28  moneys from the trust fund to school districts.

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

30  law, but it shall not take effect unless it is enacted by at

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    Florida Senate - 2000                                   SB 124
    28-168-00




  1  least a three-fifths vote of the membership of each house of

  2  the Legislature.

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  5                          SENATE SUMMARY

  6    Creates the Public School Technology Infrastructure Trust
      Fund within the Department of Education. Requires that
  7    moneys in the trust fund be used to connect classrooms in
      the state's public schools to the Internet. Limits the
  8    distribution of moneys from the trust fund until a school
      district has first used all other funds for technology
  9    provided by the Legislature. Requires that the Department
      of Education adopt rules by which school districts may
10    qualify and apply for a distribution of moneys from the
      trust fund.
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