| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to uses of the district school tax; |
| 3 | amending s. 1011.71, F.S.; authorizing school districts |
| 4 | meeting certain class size requirements to use revenues |
| 5 | generated by the district school tax for specified |
| 6 | purposes; 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. Paragraph (e) is added to subsection (5) of |
| 11 | section 1011.71, Florida Statutes, to read: |
| 12 | 1011.71 District school tax.-- |
| 13 | (5) |
| 14 | (e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this |
| 15 | subsection, school districts that have met the class size |
| 16 | requirements of s. 1003.03 may use the revenue generated by the |
| 17 | millage levy authorized by subsection (2) for the purposes |
| 18 | delineated in subsection (2). |
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| 20 | A district that violates these expenditure restrictions shall |
| 21 | have an equal dollar reduction in funds appropriated to the |
| 22 | district under s. 1011.62 in the fiscal year following the audit |
| 23 | citation. The expenditure restrictions do not apply to any |
| 24 | school district that certifies to the Commissioner of Education |
| 25 | that all of the district's instructional space needs for the |
| 26 | next 5 years can be met from capital outlay sources that the |
| 27 | district reasonably expects to receive during the next 5 years |
| 28 | or from alternative scheduling or construction, leasing, |
| 29 | rezoning, or technological methodologies that exhibit sound |
| 30 | management. |
| 31 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2005. |