Senate Bill sb1964

    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1964

    By Senator Wasserman Schultz





    34-1511-04                                          See HB 753

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to educational facilities;

  3         amending s. 1013.735, F.S., relating to the

  4         Classrooms for Kids Program; revising the

  5         formula for determining each school district's

  6         share of the annual appropriation for the

  7         Classrooms for Kids Program; providing that a

  8         percentage of the appropriation shall be used

  9         to reduce class size; providing an effective

10         date.

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

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

15  Statutes, is amended to read:

16         1013.735  Classrooms for Kids Program.--

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

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

19  intent of the Legislature that this program be administered as

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

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

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

23  appropriation for the Classrooms for Kids Program must be

24  calculated according to the following formula:

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

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

27  of base capital outlay full-time equivalent membership, and 65

28  percent shall be based on each district's percentage of growth

29  capital outlay full-time equivalent membership averaged over

30  the previous 3 years as specified for the allocation of funds

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    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1964
    34-1511-04                                          See HB 753




 1  from the Public Education Capital Outlay and Debt Service

 2  Trust Fund by s. 1013.64(3).

 3         (b)  Sixty-five percent of the appropriation shall be

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

 5  of the state's classroom needs to reduce class size pursuant

 6  to s. 1003.03(2).

 7         (c)(b)  Ten percent of the appropriation shall be

 8  prorated to the districts that currently meet the requirements

 9  of s. 1003.03(1)(a), (b), or (c) must be allocated among

10  district school boards according to the allocation formula in

11  s. 1013.64(1)(a).

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

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