| 1 | Representative Simmons offered the following: |
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| 3 | Substitute Amendment for Amendment (723207) (with directory |
| 4 | and title amendments) |
| 5 | Between line(s) 319 and 320, insert: |
| 6 | (4) COMPUTATION OF DISTRICT REQUIRED LOCAL EFFORT.--The |
| 7 | Legislature shall prescribe the aggregate required local effort |
| 8 | for all school districts collectively as an item in the General |
| 9 | Appropriations Act for each fiscal year. The amount that each |
| 10 | district shall provide annually toward the cost of the Florida |
| 11 | Education Finance Program for kindergarten through grade 12 |
| 12 | programs shall be calculated as follows: |
| 13 | (a) Estimated taxable value calculations.-- |
| 14 | 1.a. Not later than 2 working days prior to July 19, the |
| 15 | Department of Revenue shall certify to the Commissioner of |
| 16 | Education its most recent estimate of the taxable value for |
| 17 | school purposes in each school district and the total for all |
| 18 | school districts in the state for the current calendar year |
| 19 | based on the latest available data obtained from the local |
| 20 | property appraisers. Not later than July 19, the Commissioner of |
| 21 | Education shall compute a millage rate, adjusted pursuant to |
| 22 | sub-subparagraph b. and paragraph (c), rounded to the next |
| 23 | highest one one-thousandth of a mill, which, when applied to 95 |
| 24 | percent of the estimated state total taxable value for school |
| 25 | purposes, would generate the prescribed aggregate required local |
| 26 | effort for that year for all districts. The greater of such |
| 27 | millage rate or the prior year's millage rate shall be certified |
| 28 | by the Commissioner of Education shall certify to each district |
| 29 | school board the millage rate, computed as prescribed in this |
| 30 | subparagraph, as the minimum millage rate necessary to provide |
| 31 | the district required local effort for that year. |
| 32 | b. The General Appropriations Act shall direct the |
| 33 | computation of the statewide adjusted aggregate amount for |
| 34 | required local effort for all school districts collectively from |
| 35 | ad valorem taxes to ensure that no school district's revenue |
| 36 | from required local effort millage will produce more than 90 |
| 37 | percent of the district's total Florida Education Finance |
| 38 | Program calculation, and the adjustment of the required local |
| 39 | effort millage rate of each district that produces more than 90 |
| 40 | percent of its total Florida Education Finance Program |
| 41 | entitlement to a level that will produce only 90 percent of its |
| 42 | total Florida Education Finance Program entitlement in the July |
| 43 | calculation. |
| 44 | 2. As revised data are received from property appraisers, |
| 45 | the Department of Revenue shall amend the certification of the |
| 46 | estimate of the taxable value for school purposes. The |
| 47 | Commissioner of Education, in administering the provisions of |
| 48 | subparagraph (9)(a)2., shall use the most recent taxable value |
| 49 | for the appropriate year. |
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| 52 | =========== D I R E C T O R Y A M E N D M E N T ========== |
| 53 | Remove line(s) 290-291 and insert: |
| 54 | Section 7. Paragraph (h) of subsection (1) and paragraph |
| 55 | (a) of subsection (4) of section 1011.62, Florida Statutes, are |
| 56 | amended to read: |
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| 58 | ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ============= |
| 59 | Remove line(s) 18 and insert: |
| 60 | multiplier; revising provisions relating to computation of |
| 61 | district required local effort; creating s. 1011.63, F.S.; |
| 62 | prohibiting |