Senate Bill sb0790

    Florida Senate - 2005                                   SB 790

    By Senator Garcia





    40-658-05

  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; requiring that a

  8         percentage of the appropriation be used to

  9         reduce class size; providing an 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.  Subsection (1) of section 1013.735, Florida

14  Statutes, is amended to read:

15         1013.735  Classrooms for Kids Program.--

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

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

18  intent of the Legislature that this program be administered as

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

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

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

22  appropriation for the Classrooms for Kids Program must be

23  calculated according to the following formula:

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

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

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

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

28  K-12 growth capital outlay full-time equivalent membership

29  averaged over the previous 3 years as specified for the

30  allocation of funds from the Public Education Capital Outlay

31  and Debt Service Trust Fund by s. 1013.64(3).

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    Florida Senate - 2005                                   SB 790
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 1         (b)  Sixty-five percent of the appropriation shall be

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

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

 4  to s. 1003.03(2).

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

 6  prorated to the districts that currently meet the requirements

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

 8  district school boards according to the allocation formula in

 9  s. 1013.64(1)(a), excluding adult vocational technical

10  facilities.

11         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.

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14                          SENATE SUMMARY

15    Revises the formula for determining each school
      district's share of the annual appropriation for the
16    Classrooms for Kids Program. Requires that a percentage
      of the appropriation be used to reduce class size.
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