| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to uses of the district school tax; |
| 3 | amending s. 1011.71, F.S.; including health, property, and |
| 4 | casualty insurance costs as authorized uses of school |
| 5 | district millage; authorizing school districts meeting |
| 6 | certain class size requirements to use revenues generated |
| 7 | by the district school tax for specified purposes; |
| 8 | providing an effective date. |
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| 10 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 12 | Section 1. Paragraph (j) is added to subsection (2) and |
| 13 | paragraph (e) is added to subsection (5) of section 1011.71, |
| 14 | Florida Statutes, to read: |
| 15 | 1011.71 District school tax.-- |
| 16 | (2) In addition to the maximum millage levy as provided in |
| 17 | subsection (1), each school board may levy not more than 2 mills |
| 18 | against the taxable value for school purposes to fund: |
| 19 | (j) Health, property, and casualty insurance costs of the |
| 20 | school district. |
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| 22 | Violations of these expenditure provisions shall result in an |
| 23 | equal dollar reduction in the Florida Education Finance Program |
| 24 | (FEFP) funds for the violating district in the fiscal year |
| 25 | following the audit citation. |
| 26 | (5) |
| 27 | (e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this |
| 28 | subsection, school districts that have met the class size |
| 29 | requirements of s. 1003.03 may use the revenue generated by the |
| 30 | millage levy authorized by subsection (2) for the purposes |
| 31 | delineated in subsection (2). |
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| 33 | A district that violates these expenditure restrictions shall |
| 34 | have an equal dollar reduction in funds appropriated to the |
| 35 | district under s. 1011.62 in the fiscal year following the audit |
| 36 | citation. The expenditure restrictions do not apply to any |
| 37 | school district that certifies to the Commissioner of Education |
| 38 | that all of the district's instructional space needs for the |
| 39 | next 5 years can be met from capital outlay sources that the |
| 40 | district reasonably expects to receive during the next 5 years |
| 41 | or from alternative scheduling or construction, leasing, |
| 42 | rezoning, or technological methodologies that exhibit sound |
| 43 | management. |
| 44 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2006. |