HB 0315 2004
1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to educational facilities; creating s.
3	1013.352, F.S.; authorizing a school district to exempt
4	itself from Department of Education educational facilities
5	construction and funding standards and adopt alternative
6	standards; requiring approval by referendum; requiring an
7	educational facilities task force to propose alternative
8	standards; providing for public notice; providing an
9	effective date.
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11	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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13	Section 1. Section 1013.352, Florida Statutes, is created
14	to read:
15	1013.352 School district exemption from educational
16	facilities construction and funding standards.--Notwithstanding
17	any other provision of law, a school district may exempt itself
18	from Department of Education educational facilities construction
19	and funding standards and adopt alternative standards upon
20	approval by a majority of the electors of the school district
21	voting in a referendum. The proposed alternative construction
22	and funding standards for the school district shall be based on
23	a 20-year projection plan recommended by an educational
24	facilities task force that is convened by the school district
25	and consists of local elected municipal officials and the county
26	commissioners. The proposed alternative construction and funding
27	standards shall be published in one newspaper of general
28	circulation in the school district at least 30 days prior to the
29	referendum. Exemption from educational facilities construction
30	and funding standards shall not include exemption from any
31	educational facilities environmental or safety standards.
32	Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2004.