HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. HB 13-C
Amendment No. 1 (for drafter's use only)
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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11 Representative(s) Lynn offered the following:
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13 Amendment (with title amendment)
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17 Section 3. Subsection (2) is amended and new subsection
18 (6) is added to section 235.187, Florida Statutes,to read:
19 235.187 Classrooms First Program; uses.--
20 (2) A district school board shall expend the funds
21 received pursuant to this section only to:
22 (a) Construct, renovate, remodel, repair, or maintain
23 educational facilities;or
24 (b) Pay debt service on bonds issued pursuant to this
25 section, the proceeds of which must be expended for new
26 construction, remodeling, renovation, and major repairs. Bond
27 proceeds shall be expended first for providing permanent
28 classrooms facilities. Bond proceeds shall not be expended for
29 any other facilities until all unmet needs for permanent
30 classrooms and auxiliary facilities as defined in s. 235.011
31 have been satisfied; or.
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HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. HB 13-C
Amendment No. 1 (for drafter's use only)
1 (c) Provide loans to other school districts for new
2 school construction pursuant to subsection (6).
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4 However, if more than 9 percent of a district's total square
5 feet is more than 50 years old, the district must spend at
6 least 25 percent of its allocation on the renovation, major
7 repair, or remodeling of existing schools, except that
8 districts with fewer than 10,000 full-time equivalent students
9 are exempt from this requirement.
10 (6) School districts may enter into inter-local
11 agreements to loan their Classrooms First Program funds as
12 provided in subsection (2). A school district or multiple
13 school districts that receive cash proceeds may, after
14 considering their own new construction needs outlined in their
15 5-year district facilities work program, loan their Classrooms
16 First Program funds to another school district that has need
17 for new facilities. The inter-local agreement must be
18 approved by the Secretary of Education and must outline the
19 following: the amount of the funds to be loaned, the term of
20 the loan, the repayment schedule, any interest amount to be
21 repaid in addition to the principal amount of the loan.
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26 And the title is amended as follows:
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30 amending s.235.187, F.S.; to provide for district
31 loans of Classrooms First Program funds;
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