Senate Bill sb1656

    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1656

    By Senator Bennett





    21-1072-04                                          See HB 315

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to educational facilities;

  3         creating s. 1013.352, F.S.; authorizing a

  4         school district to exempt itself from

  5         Department of Education educational facilities

  6         construction and funding standards and adopt

  7         alternative standards; requiring approval by

  8         referendum; requiring an educational facilities

  9         task force to propose alternative standards;

10         providing for public notice; providing an

11         effective date.

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13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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15         Section 1.  Section 1013.352, Florida Statutes, is

16  created to read:

17         1013.352  School district exemption from educational

18  facilities construction and funding

19  standards.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a

20  school district may exempt itself from Department of Education

21  educational facilities construction and funding standards and

22  adopt alternative standards upon approval by a majority of the

23  electors of the school district voting in a referendum. The

24  proposed alternative construction and funding standards for

25  the school district shall be based on a 20-year projection

26  plan recommended by an educational facilities task force that

27  is convened by the school district and consists of local

28  elected municipal officials and the county commissioners. The

29  proposed alternative construction and funding standards shall

30  be published in one newspaper of general circulation in the

31  school district at least 30 days prior to the referendum.

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    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1656
    21-1072-04                                          See HB 315




 1  Exemption from educational facilities construction and funding

 2  standards shall not include exemption from any educational

 3  facilities environmental or safety standards.

 4         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2004.

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