Senate Bill sb1418

    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 1418

    By Senator Clary





    4-429-03                                             See HB 71

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to funding for school

  3         districts; authorizing district school boards

  4         to expend in their operating budgets nonvoted

  5         capital improvement millage; specifying certain

  6         conditions and restrictions; providing for

  7         transfer of proceeds by budget amendment

  8         approved by the district school board;

  9         providing an 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.  (1)  Notwithstanding any other provision of

14  law, if a district school board or the governing authority in

15  a county is levying, or in the past 10 years has levied, at

16  least a 0.5-percent sales surtax for public school capital

17  outlay authorized by section 212.055, Florida Statutes, the

18  district school board is authorized to expend in its operating

19  budget as nonrecurring funds up to 2 mills of its nonvoted

20  capital improvement millage levied pursuant to section

21  1011.71(2), Florida Statutes. This authorized use of proceeds

22  from the millage levy is in addition to the authorized uses

23  set forth in section 1011.71, Florida Statutes. Any proceeds

24  from this millage levy shall be transferred by budget

25  amendment approved by the district school board at a regular

26  meeting of the district school board.

27         (2)  A district school board shall be authorized to

28  expend in its operating budget the nonvoted capital

29  improvement millage specified in subsection (1) for 10 years

30  after the date the sales surtax specified in subsection (1)

31  expired. The district school board shall submit to the

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    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 1418
    4-429-03                                             See HB 71




  1  Department of Education certified notice that it will not

  2  request additional capital outlay funds for 5 years following

  3  each year it expends in its operating budget the nonvoted

  4  capital improvement millage specified in subsection (1).

  5         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.

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