HB 1727 2003
   
1 A bill to be entitled
2          An act relating to educational facilities; amending s.
3    1013.64, F.S.; providing that funds from the Public
4    Education Capital Outlay and Debt Services Trust Fund may
5    be used for the purposes of constructing educational
6    facilities, including new construction; providing for
7    retroactive application; providing an effective date.
8         
9          Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
10         
11          Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section
12    1013.64, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
13          1013.64 Funds for comprehensive educational plant needs;
14    construction cost maximums for school district capital
15    projects.--Allocations from the Public Education Capital Outlay
16    and Debt Service Trust Fund to the various boards for capital
17    outlay projects shall be determined as follows:
18          (1)
19          (b) Each board is prohibited from using the funds received
20    pursuant to this section to supplant funds in the current fiscal
21    year approved operating budget, except that funds received under
22    this section may be used for ancillary plants, auxiliary
23    facilities, core facilities, educational facilities, educational
24    plants, low-energy usage features, new construction, passive
25    design elements, and projects, sites, and satellite facilities
26    funded from public education capital outlay moneys.andAll
27    budgeted funds shall be expended at a rate not less than would
28    have been expended had the funds under this section not been
29    received.
30          Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law
31    and shall apply retroactively to the beginning of the current
32    fiscal year.