Senate Bill sb1716

    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1716

    By Senator Carlton





    23-1402-04

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Classrooms for Kids

  3         Program; amending s. 1013.735, F.S.; modifying

  4         the formula to be used in allocating funds from

  5         the Classrooms for Kids appropriation;

  6         providing an effective date.

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

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10         Section 1.  Subsection (1) of section 1013.735, Florida

11  Statutes, is amended to read:

12         1013.735  Classrooms for Kids Program.--

13         (1)  ALLOCATION.--The department shall allocate funds

14  appropriated for the Classrooms for Kids Program. It is the

15  intent of the Legislature that this program be administered as

16  nearly as practicable in the same manner as the capital outlay

17  program authorized under s. 9(a), Art. XII of the State

18  Constitution. Each district school board's share of the annual

19  appropriation for the Classrooms for Kids Program must be

20  calculated according to the following formula:

21         (a)  Twenty-five percent of the appropriation shall be

22  prorated to the districts based on each district's percentage

23  of K-12 base capital outlay full-time equivalent membership,

24  and 65 percent shall be based on each district's percentage of

25  K-12 growth capital outlay full-time equivalent membership as

26  specified for the allocation of funds from the Public

27  Education Capital Outlay and Debt Service Trust Fund by s.

28  1013.64(3).

29         (b)  Ten percent of the appropriation must be allocated

30  among district school boards according to the allocation

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    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1716
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 1  formula in s. 1013.64(1)(a), excluding adult vocational

 2  technical facilities.

 3         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

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 8    Revises the formula for calculating each district school
      board's share of the annual appropriation for the
 9    Classrooms for Kids Program.

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