HB 0481CS

CHAMBER ACTION




1The PreK-12 Committee recommends the following:
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3     Council/Committee Substitute
4     Remove the entire bill and insert:
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A bill to be entitled
6An act relating to use of school district millage;
7amending ss. 200.065 and 1011.71, F.S.; expanding
8authorized school board millage levy funding to include
9payment of premiums for property and casualty insurance
10necessary to insure school district educational plants;
11limiting expenditures of operating revenues; providing a
12contingent effective date.
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14Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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16     Section 1.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (9) of section
17200.065, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
18     200.065  Method of fixing millage.--
19     (9)(a)  In addition to the notice required in subsection
20(3), a district school board shall publish a second notice of
21intent to levy additional taxes under s. 1011.71(2). Such notice
22shall specify the projects or number of school buses anticipated
23to be funded by such additional taxes and shall be published in
24the size, within the time periods, adjacent to, and in
25substantial conformity with the advertisement required under
26subsection (3). The projects shall be listed in priority within
27each category as follows: construction and remodeling;
28maintenance, renovation, and repair; motor vehicle purchases;
29new and replacement equipment; payments for educational
30facilities and sites due under a lease-purchase agreement;
31payments for renting and leasing educational facilities and
32sites; payments of loans approved pursuant to ss. 1011.14 and
331011.15; payment of costs of compliance with environmental
34statutes and regulations; payment of premiums for property and
35casualty insurance necessary to insure the educational plants of
36the school district; payment of costs of leasing relocatable
37educational facilities; and payments to private entities to
38offset the cost of school buses pursuant to s. 1011.71(2)(i).
39The additional notice shall be in the following form, except
40that if the district school board is proposing to levy the same
41millage under s. 1011.71(2) which it levied in the prior year,
42the words "continue to" shall be inserted before the word
43"impose" in the first sentence, and except that the second
44sentence of the second paragraph shall be deleted if the
45district is advertising pursuant to paragraph (3)(e):
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NOTICE OF TAX FOR SCHOOL
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CAPITAL OUTLAY
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50     The   (name of school district)   will soon consider a
51measure to impose a   (number)   mill property tax for the
52capital outlay projects listed herein.
53     This tax is in addition to the school board's proposed tax
54of   (number)   mills for operating expenses and is proposed
55solely at the discretion of the school board. THE PROPOSED
56COMBINED SCHOOL BOARD TAX INCREASE FOR BOTH OPERATING EXPENSES
57AND CAPITAL OUTLAY IS SHOWN IN THE ADJACENT NOTICE.
58     The capital outlay tax will generate approximately $  
59(amount)  , to be used for the following projects:
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(list of capital outlay projects)
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63     All concerned citizens are invited to a public hearing to
64be held on   (date and time)   at   (meeting place)  .
65     A DECISION on the proposed CAPITAL OUTLAY TAXES will be
66made at this hearing.
67     Section 2.  Paragraph (j) is added to subsection (2) of
68section 1011.71, Florida Statutes, and paragraph (a) of
69subsection (5) of that section is amended, to read:
70     1011.71  District school tax.--
71     (2)  In addition to the maximum millage levy as provided in
72subsection (1), each school board may levy not more than 2 mills
73against the taxable value for school purposes to fund:
74     (j)  Payment of premiums for property and casualty
75insurance necessary to insure the educational plants of the
76school district.
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78Violations of these expenditure provisions shall result in an
79equal dollar reduction in the Florida Education Finance Program
80(FEFP) funds for the violating district in the fiscal year
81following the audit citation.
82     (5)(a)  It is the intent of the Legislature that, by July
831, 2003, revenue generated by the millage levy authorized by
84subsection (2) should be used only for the costs of
85construction, renovation, remodeling, maintenance, and repair of
86the educational plant; for the purchase, lease, or lease-
87purchase of equipment, educational plants, and construction
88materials directly related to the delivery of student
89instruction; for the rental or lease of existing buildings, or
90space within existing buildings, originally constructed or used
91for purposes other than education, for conversion to use as
92educational facilities; for payment of premiums for property and
93casualty insurance necessary to insure the educational plants of
94the school district; for the opening day collection for the
95library media center of a new school; for the purchase, lease-
96purchase, or lease of school buses or the payment to a private
97entity to offset the cost of school buses pursuant to paragraph
98(2)(i); and for servicing of payments related to certificates of
99participation issued for any purpose prior to the effective date
100of this act. Costs associated with the lease-purchase of
101equipment, educational plants, and school buses may include the
102issuance of certificates of participation on or after the
103effective date of this act and the servicing of payments related
104to certificates so issued. For purposes of this section,
105"maintenance and repair" is defined in s. 1013.01. Each year
106operating revenues are made available through the payment of
107property and casualty insurance premiums from revenues generated
108under this subsection or subsection (2), such operating revenues
109may be expended only for nonrecurring operational expenditures
110of the school district.
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112A district that violates these expenditure restrictions shall
113have an equal dollar reduction in funds appropriated to the
114district under s. 1011.62 in the fiscal year following the audit
115citation. The expenditure restrictions do not apply to any
116school district that certifies to the Commissioner of Education
117that all of the district's instructional space needs for the
118next 5 years can be met from capital outlay sources that the
119district reasonably expects to receive during the next 5 years
120or from alternative scheduling or construction, leasing,
121rezoning, or technological methodologies that exhibit sound
122management.
123     Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006, only
124if House Joint Resolution 447 is adopted in the same legislative
125session or an extension thereof.


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