Senate Bill sb0944

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    Florida Senate - 2001                                   SB 944

    By Senator Diaz de la Portilla





    34-648-01                                               See HB

  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, is amended to read:

15         236.081  Funds for operation of schools.--If the annual

16  allocation from the Florida Education Finance Program to each

17  district for operation of schools is not determined in the

18  annual appropriations act or the substantive bill implementing

19  the annual appropriations act, it shall be determined as

20  follows:

21         (4)  COMPUTATION OF DISTRICT REQUIRED LOCAL

22  EFFORT.--The Legislature shall prescribe the aggregate

23  required local effort for all school districts collectively as

24  an item in the General Appropriations Act for each fiscal

25  year. The amount that each district shall provide annually

26  toward the cost of the Florida Education Finance Program for

27  kindergarten through grade 12 programs shall be calculated as

28  follows:

29         (a)  Estimated taxable value calculations.--

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

31  the Department of Revenue shall certify to the Commissioner of

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    Florida Senate - 2001                                   SB 944
    34-648-01                                               See HB




  1  Education its most recent estimate of the taxable value for

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

  3  school districts in the state for the current calendar year

  4  based on the latest available data obtained from the local

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

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

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

  8  the estimated state total taxable value for school purposes,

  9  would generate the prescribed aggregate required local effort

10  for that year for all districts. The commissioner shall

11  certify to each district school board the millage rate,

12  computed as prescribed in this subparagraph, as the minimum

13  millage rate necessary to provide the district required local

14  effort for that year.

15         b.  The General Appropriations Act shall direct the

16  computation of the statewide adjusted aggregate amount for

17  required local effort for all school districts collectively

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

19  revenue from required local effort millage will produce more

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

21  Finance Program calculation, and the adjustment of the

22  required local effort millage rate of each district that

23  produces more than 90 percent of its total Florida Education

24  Finance Program entitlement to a level that will produce only

25  90 percent of its total Florida Education Finance Program

26  entitlement. The General Appropriations Act shall also direct

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

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

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

30  entities or public land trusts, the required local effort

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

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    Florida Senate - 2001                                   SB 944
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  1  produce only 80 percent of its total Florida Education Finance

  2  Program entitlement.

  3         2.  As revised data are received from property

  4  appraisers, the Department of Revenue shall amend the

  5  certification of the estimate of the taxable value for school

  6  purposes.  The Commissioner of Education, in administering the

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

  8  taxable value for the appropriate year.

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

10  law.

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13                          HOUSE SUMMARY

14    Revises the limitation on the percentage of a school
      district's total K-12 Florida Education Finance Program
15    calculation that may be produced by the district's
      revenue from required local effort millage for certain
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