HB 0071 2003
1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to funding for school districts;
3	authorizing district school boards to expend in their
4	operating budgets nonvoted capital improvement millage;
5	specifying certain conditions and restrictions; providing
6	for transfer of proceeds by budget amendment approved by
7	the district school board; providing an effective date.
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9	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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11	Section 1.(1) Nothwithstanding any other provision of
12	law, if a district school board or the governing authority in a
13	county is levying, or in the past 10 years has levied, at least
14	a 0.5-percent sales surtax for public school capital outlay
15	authorized by s. 212.055, Florida Statutes, the district school
16	board is authorized to expend in its operating budget as
17	nonrecurring funds up to 2 mills of its nonvoted capital
18	improvement millage levied pursuant to s. 1011.71(2), Florida
19	Statutes. This authorized use of proceeds from the millage levy
20	is in addition to the authorized uses set forth in s. 1011.71,
21	Florida Statutes. Any proceeds from this millage levy shall be
22	transferred by budget amendment approved by the district school
23	board at a regular meeting of the district school board.
24	(2) A district school board shall be authorized to expend
25	in its operating budget the nonvoted capital improvement millage
26	specified in subsection (1) for 10 years after the date the
27	sales surtax specified in subsection (1) expired. The district
28	school board shall submit to the Department of Education
29	certified notice that it will not request additional capital
30	outlay funds for 5 years following each year it expends in its
31	operating budget the nonvoted capital improvement millage
32	specified in subsection (1).
33	Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.
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