House Bill hb0099Ce1

                                          HB 99-C, First Engrossed



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to public school funding;

  3         authorizing equalized nonvoted capital

  4         improvement millage to be expended for

  5         operations in fiscal year 2001-2002; providing

  6         for the use of other funds; providing an

  7         appropriation; providing for repeal; providing

  8         an effective date.

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

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12         Section 1.  (1)(a)  To help mitigate the impact of the

13  midyear reduction in the 2001-2002 fiscal year appropriation

14  for the Florida Education Finance Program, each district

15  school board is authorized to expend in its operating budget

16  as nonrecurring funds up to 0.5 mills of its nonvoted capital

17  improvement millage levied pursuant to s. 236.25(2), Florida

18  Statutes, for the 2001-2002 fiscal year, that will produce an

19  amount not to exceed $125 per full-time equivalent student.

20  This authorized use of proceeds from this millage levy is in

21  addition to the authorized uses set forth in s. 236.25,

22  Florida Statutes, and is for the 2001-2002 fiscal year only.

23  Any proceeds from this millage levy used to replace the

24  midyear budget reduction in the Florida Education Finance

25  Program shall be transferred by budget amendment approved by

26  the district school board at a regular meeting of the school

27  board.

28         (b)  If the proceeds from 0.5 mills produce less than

29  $125 per full-time equivalent student in any school district,

30  the additional amount required to equal $125 per full-time

31  equivalent student shall be provided from state funds.


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                                          HB 99-C, First Engrossed



  1         (c)  If a district school board has not levied

  2  sufficient millage pursuant to s. 236.25(2), Florida Statutes,

  3  for the 2001-2002 fiscal year to produce $125 per full-time

  4  equivalent student and the school board has other similar

  5  funds available, the school board may use such funds in lieu

  6  of proceeds from millage.

  7         (d)  There is hereby appropriated the sum of

  8  $15,114,077 from unbudgeted educational enhancement trust

  9  funds to provide equalized $125 per full-time equivalent

10  student as provided in (1)(b).

11         (2)  This section is repealed effective June 30, 2002.

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

13  law.

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