HOUSE AMENDMENT Bill No. HB 23A
1	CHAMBER ACTION
2	Senate House
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12	Representative Bean offered the following:
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14	Amendment (with title amendment)
15	Between line(s) 843 and 844, insert:
16	Section 35. In order to implement Specific Appropriation
17	62 of the 2003-2004 General Appropriations Act, paragraph (c) of
18	subsection (2) of section 1011.71, Florida Statutes, is amended
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20	1011.71 District school tax.--
21	(2) In addition to the maximum millage levy as provided in
22	subsection (1), each school board may levy not more than 2 mills
23	against the taxable value for school purposes to fund:
24	(c) The purchase, lease-purchase, or lease of school
25	buses; drivers' education vehicles; motor vehicles used for the
26	maintenance or operation of plants and equipment; security
27	vehicles; orvehicles used in storing or distributing materials
28	and equipment; or payment of the cost of school buses when a
29	school district contracts with a private entity to provide
30	student transportation services and the contract provides that:
31	1. The private entity shall purchase, own, operate, and
32	maintain one or more school buses of a specific type and size
33	that meets the requirements of s. 1006.25;
34	2. Each school bus shall be used for the daily
35	transportation of public school students in the manner required
36	by the school district;
37	3. Payment by the school district for each school bus
38	shall not exceed 10 percent of the purchase price of the state
39	pool bid for each such required school bus; and
40	4. The proposed expenditure of funds for this purpose must
41	have been included in the district school board's notice of
42	proposed tax for school capital outlay as provided in s.
43	200.065(9).
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45	Violations of these expenditure provisions shall result in an
46	equal dollar reduction in the Florida Education Finance Program
47	(FEFP) funds for the violating district in the fiscal year
48	following the audit citation.
49	Section 36. The amendment of paragraph (c) of subsection
50	(2) of s. 1011.71, Florida Statutes, by this act shall expire on
51	July 1, 2004, and the text of that paragraph shall revert to
52	that in existence on June 30, 2003, except that any amendments
53	to such text enacted other than by this act shall be preserved
54	and continue to operate to the extent that such amendments are
55	not dependent upon the portions of such text which expire
56	pursuant to the provisions of this act.
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59	Remove line(s) 91, and insert:
60	readiness program; amending s. 1011.71, F.S.; providing that
61	school districts may use revenues raised through the imposition
62	of an optional school millage tax to enter into contracts with
63	private vendors for the provision of school bus services;
64	amending s. 1013.62, F.S.; providing