Senate Bill sb2380
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Florida Senate - 2006 SB 2380
By Senator Carlton
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to school district funding;
3 amending s. 1013.64, F.S.; increasing the
4 amount that a district school board may spend
5 for new construction of educational plant
6 space; amending s. 1003.03, F.S.; revising the
7 requirements for calculating the number of
8 students per classroom for the 2006-2007 fiscal
9 year; 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. Paragraph (b) of subsection (6) of section
14 1013.64, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
15 1013.64 Funds for comprehensive educational plant
16 needs; construction cost maximums for school district capital
17 projects.--Allocations from the Public Education Capital
18 Outlay and Debt Service Trust Fund to the various boards for
19 capital outlay projects shall be determined as follows:
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21 (b)1. A district school board, including a district
22 school board of an academic performance-based charter school
23 district, must not use funds from the following sources:
24 Public Education Capital Outlay and Debt Service Trust Fund;
25 School District and Community College District Capital Outlay
26 and Debt Service Trust Fund; Classrooms First Program funds
27 provided in s. 1013.68; effort index grant funds provided in
28 s. 1013.73; nonvoted 2-mill levy of ad valorem property taxes
29 provided in s. 1011.71(2); Classrooms for Kids Infrastructure
30 Program funds provided in s. 1013.735; or District Effort
31 Recognition Program funds provided in s. 1013.736 for any new
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1 construction of educational plant space with a total cost per
2 student station, including change orders, that equals more
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4 a. $17,952 $12,755 for an elementary school,
5 b. $19,386 $14,624 for a middle school, or
6 c. $25,181 $19,352 for a high school,
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8 (January 2006 2002) as adjusted annually to reflect increases
9 or decreases in the Consumer Price Index.
10 2. A district school board must not use funds from the
11 Public Education Capital Outlay and Debt Service Trust Fund or
12 the School District and Community College District Capital
13 Outlay and Debt Service Trust Fund for any new construction of
14 an ancillary plant that exceeds 70 percent of the average cost
15 per square foot of new construction for all schools.
16 Section 2. Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section
17 1003.03, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
18 1003.03 Maximum class size.--
19 (2) IMPLEMENTATION.--
20 (b) Determination of the number of students per
21 classroom in paragraph (a) shall be calculated as follows:
22 1. For fiscal years 2003-2004 through 2006-2007
23 2005-2006, the calculation for compliance for each of the 3
24 grade groupings shall be the average at the district level.
25 2. For fiscal year years 2006-2007 through 2007-2008,
26 the calculation for compliance for each of the 3 grade
27 groupings shall be the average at the school level.
28 3. For fiscal years 2008-2009, 2009-2010, and
29 thereafter, the calculation for compliance shall be at the
30 individual classroom level.
31 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.
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2 SENATE SUMMARY
3 Increases the amount that a district school board may
spend per student station for new construction of
4 educational plant space. Revises the method of
calculating the number of students per classroom for the
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