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    Florida House of Representatives - 2002             CS/HB 1227

        By the Committee on Colleges & Universities and
    Representatives Arza, Allen, Melvin, Rubio, Maygarden, Crow,
    Pickens, Atwater, Benson, Ross, Attkisson, Gannon, Baxley,
    Brown, Flanagan, Gardiner, Evers, Stansel, Wiles, Bennett,
    Garcia, Haridopolos, Wilson and Kallinger


  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to community college funding;

  3         amending s. 240.359, F.S.; revising the method

  4         of determining the annual apportionment to each

  5         community college from state funds; providing

  6         an effective date.

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

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10         Section 1.  Subsection (3) of section 240.359, Florida

11  Statutes, is amended to read:

12         240.359  Procedure for determining state financial

13  support and annual apportionment of state funds to each

14  community college district.--The procedure for determining

15  state financial support and the annual apportionment to each

16  community college district authorized to operate a community

17  college under the provisions of s. 240.313 shall be as

18  follows:

19         (3)  DETERMINING THE APPORTIONMENT FROM STATE FUNDS.--

20         (a)  By December 15 of each year, the Department of

21  Education shall estimate the annual enrollment of each

22  community college for the current fiscal year and for the 6

23  subsequent fiscal years.  These estimates shall be based upon

24  prior years' enrollments, upon the initial fall term

25  enrollments for the current fiscal year for each college, and

26  upon each college's estimated current enrollment and

27  demographic changes in the respective community college

28  districts.

29         (a)(b)  The apportionment to each community college

30  from the Community College Program Fund shall be determined

31  annually in the General Appropriations Act.  In determining

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  1  each college's apportionment, the Legislature shall consider

  2  the following components:

  3         1.  Base budget, which includes the state general

  4  revenue and lottery appropriations appropriation to the

  5  Community College Program Fund in the current year plus the

  6  related student matriculation and tuition fees established

  7  assigned in the current General Appropriations Act.

  8         2.  The cost-to-continue allocation, which consists of

  9  incremental changes to the base budget, including salaries,

10  price levels, and other related costs allocated through a

11  funding model approved by the Legislature which may recognize

12  differing economic factors arising from the individual

13  educational approaches of the various community colleges,

14  including, but not limited to:

15         a.  Direct Instructional Funding, including class size,

16  faculty productivity factors, average faculty salary, ratio of

17  full-time to part-time faculty, costs of programs, and

18  enrollment factors.

19         b.  Academic Support, including small colleges factor,

20  multicampus factor, and enrollment factor.

21         c.  Student Services Support, including headcount of

22  students as well as FTE count and enrollment factors.

23         d.  Library Support, including volume and other

24  materials/audiovisual requirements.

25         e.  Special Projects.

26         f.  Operations and Maintenance of Plant, including

27  square footage and utilization factors.

28         g.  District Cost Differential.

29         3.  Enrollment workload adjustment, which shall be

30  determined as follows:

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  1         a.  The actual full-time equivalent enrollment for the

  2  prior year, as accepted or modified by the Legislature, shall

  3  be the assigned enrollment and the basis for allocating

  4  appropriated funds for enrollment workload.  If the enrollment

  5  workload allocation to a college is determined to be less than

  6  zero, the reduction in allocation shall be implemented over a

  7  2-year period.

  8         b.  The systemwide average direct instructional cost

  9  level of each program of study shall be used to calculate the

10  enrollment workload adjustment.  This amount, multiplied by a

11  factor of 1.3, for support services shall be multiplied by the

12  change in enrollment as determined in sub-subparagraph a.

13  From this amount, student matriculation and tuition fees

14  generated by the change in assigned enrollment shall be

15  deducted and the remaining amount shall be the state

16  allocation to each college for enrollment workload.

17         c.  Students enrolled in a recreation and leisure

18  program and students enrolled in a lifelong learning program

19  may not be counted as full-time equivalent enrollments for

20  purposes of enrollment workload adjustments.

21         3.4.  Operating costs of new facilities adjustments,

22  which shall be provided, from funds available, for each new

23  facility that is owned by the college and is recommended in

24  accordance with s. 235.15.

25         4.5.  New and improved program enhancements, which

26  shall be determined by the Legislature and may be allocated

27  through the funding model specified in subparagraph 2.

28         5.  Performance-based-budget funding.

29         6.  Workforce development funding.

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  1  Student fees in the base budget plus student fee revenues

  2  generated by increases in fee rates shall be deducted from the

  3  sum of the components determined in subparagraphs 1.-5. The

  4  amount remaining shall be the net annual state apportionment

  5  to each college.

  6         (c)  No community college shall commit funds for the

  7  employment of personnel or resources in excess of those

  8  required to continue the same level of support for either the

  9  previously approved enrollment or the revised enrollment,

10  whichever is lower.

11         (b)(d)  The apportionment to each community college

12  district for capital outlay and debt service shall be the

13  amount determined in accordance with subsection (2). This

14  amount, less any amount determined as necessary for

15  administrative expense by the Florida State Board of Education

16  and any amount necessary for debt service on bonds issued by

17  the State Board of Education, shall be transmitted to the

18  community college district board of trustees to be expended in

19  a manner prescribed by rules of the Florida State Board of

20  Education.

21         (e)  Colleges shall seek to maintain an unencumbered

22  fund balance of between 4 percent and 10 percent of the funds

23  available in the current general fund of the operating budget.

24  If the 10-percent upper level is exceeded for 2 consecutive

25  years, the appropriation to the college in a succeeding fiscal

26  year shall be reduced by the average of the excess of the fund

27  balance over the 10 percent for the 2 years.  In exceptional

28  cases, when fund balances greater than 10 percent are

29  necessary for a college, prior approval shall be obtained from

30  the State Board of Community Colleges.

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  1         (c)(f)  Expenditures for apprenticeship programs shall

  2  be reported separately.

  3         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2002.

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