HOUSE AMENDMENT

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11  Representative(s) Richardson offered the following:

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13         Amendment to Amendment (483913) (with title amendment) 

14         On page 3, line 26, of the amendment

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17         Section 10.  Subsection (1) of section 235.061, Florida

18  Statutes, is amended to read:

19         235.061  Standards for relocatables used as classroom

20  space; inspections.--

21         (1)  The Commissioner of Education shall adopt rules

22  establishing standards for relocatables intended for long-term

23  use as classroom space at a public elementary school, middle

24  school, or high school. "Long-term use" means the use of

25  relocatables at the same educational plant for a period of 4

26  years or more. These rules must be implemented by July 1,

27  1998, and each relocatable acquired by a district school board

28  after the effective date of the rules and intended for

29  long-term use must comply with the standards. The rules shall

30  require that, by July 1, 2003 2002, relocatables that fail to

31  meet the standards may not be used as classrooms. The

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  1  standards shall protect the health, safety, and welfare of

  2  occupants by requiring compliance with the Uniform Building

  3  Code for Public Educational Facilities or other locally

  4  adopted state minimum building codes to ensure the safety and

  5  stability of construction and onsite installation; fire and

  6  moisture protection; air quality and ventilation; appropriate

  7  wind resistance; and compliance with the requirements of the

  8  Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. If appropriate, the

  9  standards must also require relocatables to provide access to

10  the same technologies available to similar classrooms within

11  the main school facility and, if appropriate, to be accessible

12  by adequate covered walkways. By July 1, 2000, the

13  commissioner shall adopt standards for all relocatables

14  intended for long-term use as classrooms. A relocatable that

15  is subject to this section and does not meet the standards

16  shall not be reported as providing satisfactory student

17  stations in the Florida Inventory of School Houses.

18         Section 11.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section

19  235.062, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

20         235.062  Reduction of relocatable facilities in use.--

21         (1)(a)  It is a goal of the Legislature that all school

22  districts shall provide a quality educational environment for

23  their students such that, by July 1, 2004 2003, student

24  stations in relocatable facilities exceeding 20 years of age

25  and in use by a district during the 1998-1999 fiscal year

26  shall be removed and the number of all other relocatable

27  student stations at over-capacity schools during that fiscal

28  year shall be decreased by half. The Legislature finds,

29  however, that necessary maintenance of existing facilities and

30  public school enrollment growth impair the ability of some

31  districts to achieve the goal of this section within 5 years.

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  1  Therefore, the Legislature is increasing its commitment to

  2  school funding in this act, in part to help districts reduce

  3  the number of temporary, relocatable student stations at

  4  over-capacity schools. The Legislature intends that local

  5  school districts also increase their investment toward meeting

  6  this goal. Each district's progress toward meeting this goal

  7  shall be measured annually by comparing district facilities

  8  work programs for replacing relocatables with the state

  9  capital outlay projections for education prepared by the SMART

10  Schools Clearinghouse pursuant to s. 235.217(3)(e). District

11  facilities work programs shall be monitored by the SMART

12  Schools Clearinghouse to measure the commitment of local

13  school districts toward this goal.

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17  And the title is amended as follows:

18         On page 4, line 8, of the amendment

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21         amending s. 235.061, F.S.; deferring a

22         prohibition on the long-term use of certain

23         relocatables as classrooms; amending s.

24         235.062, F.S.; deferring a requirement to

25         remove certain student stations in relocatable

26         facilities;

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