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Florida Senate - 2001 SB 2252
By Senator Garcia
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to community colleges; amending
3 s. 240.359, F.S.; revising the procedure for
4 determining state financial support and annual
5 apportionment of state funds to each community
6 college district; prescribing how funds are to
7 be disbursed; providing an effective date.
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9 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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11 Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 240.359, Florida
12 Statutes, is amended to read:
13 240.359 Procedure for determining state financial
14 support and annual apportionment of state funds to each
15 community college district.--The procedure for determining
16 state financial support and the annual apportionment to each
17 community college district authorized to operate a community
18 college under the provisions of s. 240.313 shall be as
19 follows:
20 (3) DETERMINING THE APPORTIONMENT FROM STATE FUNDS.--
21 (a) By December 15 of each year, the Department of
22 Education shall estimate the annual enrollment of each
23 community college for the current fiscal year and for the 6
24 subsequent fiscal years. These estimates shall be based upon
25 prior years' enrollments, upon the initial fall term
26 enrollments for the current fiscal year for each college, and
27 upon each college's estimated current enrollment and
28 demographic changes in the respective community college
29 districts.
30 (a)(b) The apportionment to each community college
31 from the Community College Program Fund may shall be
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1 determined annually in the General Appropriations Act. In
2 determining each college's apportionment, the Legislature
3 shall consider the following components:
4 1. Base budget, which includes the state general
5 revenue and lottery appropriations appropriation to the
6 Community College Program Fund in the current year plus the
7 related student matriculation and tuition fees established
8 assigned in the current General Appropriations Act.
9 2. The cost-to-continue allocation, which consists of
10 incremental changes to the base budget, including salaries,
11 price levels, and other related costs allocated through the
12 Operational Resources Funding Model approved annually by the
13 State Board of Community Colleges.
14 3. Enrollment workload adjustment, which shall be
15 determined as follows:
16 a. The actual full-time equivalent enrollment for the
17 prior year, as accepted or modified by the Legislature, shall
18 be the assigned enrollment and the basis for allocating
19 appropriated funds for enrollment workload. If the enrollment
20 workload allocation to a college is determined to be less than
21 zero, the reduction in allocation shall be implemented over a
22 2-year period.
23 b. The systemwide average direct instructional cost
24 level of each program of study shall be used to calculate the
25 enrollment workload adjustment. This amount, multiplied by a
26 factor of 1.3, for support services shall be multiplied by the
27 change in enrollment as determined in sub-subparagraph a.
28 From this amount, student matriculation and tuition fees
29 generated by the change in assigned enrollment shall be
30 deducted and the remaining amount shall be the state
31 allocation to each college for enrollment workload.
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1 c. Students enrolled in a recreation and leisure
2 program and students enrolled in a lifelong learning program
3 may not be counted as full-time equivalent enrollments for
4 purposes of enrollment workload adjustments.
5 3.4. Operating costs of new facilities adjustments,
6 which shall be provided, from funds available, for each new
7 facility that is owned by the college and is recommended in
8 accordance with s. 235.15 and the guidelines of the State
9 Board of Community Colleges.
10 4.5. New and improved program enhancements, which
11 shall be determined by the Legislature and may be allocated
12 through the Operational Resources Funding Model.
13 5. Performance-based budget funding.
14 6. Workforce development funding.
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16 Student fees in the base budget plus student fee revenues
17 generated by increases in fee rates shall be deducted from the
18 sum of the components determined in subparagraphs 1.-5. The
19 amount remaining shall be the net annual state apportionment
20 to each college.
21 (b) The sum of general revenue and lottery
22 appropriations must be disbursed monthly in 12 equal payments.
23 If lottery funds are insufficient to make equal monthly
24 disbursements, the shortfall must be eliminated through an
25 increase in monthly general revenue disbursements, but the
26 amount of such disbursements is limited to the total of the
27 general revenue appropriation.
28 (c) No community college shall commit funds for the
29 employment of personnel or resources in excess of those
30 required to continue the same level of support for either the
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1 previously approved enrollment or the revised enrollment,
2 whichever is lower.
3 (c)(d) The apportionment to each community college
4 district for capital outlay and debt service shall be the
5 amount determined in accordance with subsection (2). This
6 amount, less any amount determined as necessary for
7 administrative expense by the State Board of Education and any
8 amount necessary for debt service on bonds issued by the State
9 Board of Education, shall be transmitted to the community
10 college district board of trustees to be expended in a manner
11 prescribed by rules of the State Board of Education.
12 (d)(e) Colleges shall seek to maintain an unencumbered
13 fund balance of between 4 percent and 10 percent of the funds
14 available in the current general fund of the operating budget.
15 If the 10-percent upper level is exceeded for 2 consecutive
16 years, the appropriation to the college in a succeeding fiscal
17 year shall be reduced by the average of the excess of the fund
18 balance over the 10 percent for the 2 years. In exceptional
19 cases, when fund balances greater than 10 percent are
20 necessary for a college, prior approval shall be obtained from
21 the State Board of Community Colleges.
22 (e)(f) Expenditures for apprenticeship programs shall
23 be reported separately.
24 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.
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27 SENATE SUMMARY
28 Revises the procedure for determining state financial
support and annual apportionment of state funds to
29 community college districts. Prescribes that general
revenue and lottery appropriations are to be disbursed
30 monthly in 12 equal payments.
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