CS/HB 645

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to growth management; amending s.
3	1013.738, F.S.; revising the eligibility criteria for the
4	High Growth District Capital Outlay Assistance Grant
5	Program; revising provisions for allocating funds provided
6	by the General Appropriations Act to the Public Education
7	Capital Outlay and Debt Service Trust Fund; providing an
8	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.  Subsections (2) and (3) of section 1013.738,
13	Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
14	1013.738  High Growth District Capital Outlay Assistance
15	Grant Program.--
16	(2)  In order to qualify for a grant, a school district
17	must meet the following criteria:
18	(a)  The district must have levied the full 2 mills of
19	nonvoted discretionary capital outlay millage authorized in s.
20	1011.71(2) for each of the past 3 4 fiscal years or receive an
21	amount from the school capital outlay surtax authorized in s.
22	212.055(6) which, when added to the nonvoted discretionary
23	capital outlay millage collected, equals the amount that would
24	be generated if the full 2 mills of nonvoted discretionary
25	capital outlay millage had been collected over the past 3 fiscal
26	years.
27	(b)  The district must have received in the prior fiscal
28	year revenue from the collection of an impact fee specifically
29	for schools and meet one of the following criteria:
30	1.  Have received in the prior fiscal year revenue from a
31	local government infrastructure sales surtax authorized in s.
32	212.055(2) a portion of which was dedicated to the construction
33	of schools in such prior fiscal year or to the satisfaction of
34	debt service pledged for the construction of schools.
35	2.  Have received in the prior fiscal year revenue from a
36	school capital outlay surtax authorized in s. 212.055(6). If the
37	school capital outlay surtax is used to meet the conditions of
38	paragraph (a), the amount of the school capital outlay surtax
39	collected must be in excess of the amount in paragraph (a).
40	3.  Have received in the prior fiscal year revenue from a
41	local bond referendum as authorized in ss. 1010.40-1010.55.
42	4.  Have paid in the prior fiscal year debt service for a
43	local bond referendum as authorized in ss. 1010.40-1010.55.
44	Fifty percent of the revenue derived from the 2-mill nonvoted
45	discretionary capital outlay millage for the past 4 fiscal
46	years, when divided by the district's growth in capital outlay
47	FTE students over this period, produces a value that is less
48	than the average cost per student station calculated pursuant to
49	s. 1013.72(2), and weighted by statewide growth in capital
50	outlay FTE students in elementary, middle, and high schools for
51	the past 4 fiscal years.
52	(c)  The district average growth in capital outlay FTE
53	students over the prior 3 fiscal years must have equaled or
54	exceeded 4 percent. Growth in any single year must be determined
55	by calculating the increase in students over the prior year
56	twice the statewide average of growth in capital outlay FTE
57	students over this same 4-year period.
58	(d)  The district must not have received an appropriation
59	from the special facilities construction program in the current
60	fiscal year or any of the 2 fiscal years prior to the current
61	fiscal year. The Commissioner of Education must have released
62	all funds allocated to the district from the Classrooms First
63	Program authorized in s. 1013.68, and these funds were fully
64	expended by the district as of February 1 of the current fiscal
65	year.
66	(e)  The total capital outlay FTE students of the district
67	is greater than 15,000 students.
68	(3)  The funds provided in the General Appropriations Act
69	shall be allocated pursuant to the following methodology:
70	(a)  Each eligible district school board shall receive an
71	amount from the Public Education Capital Outlay and Debt Service
72	Trust Fund to be calculated by computing the capital outlay
73	full-time equivalent membership as determined by the Department
74	of Education. Such membership must include, but is not limited
75	to, kindergarten through 12th grade students, except hospital
76	and homebound part-time students, students who are career
77	education students, and adult disabled students who are enrolled
78	in school district career centers. For each eligible district,
79	the Department of Education shall calculate the value of 50
80	percent of the revenue derived from the 2-mill nonvoted
81	discretionary capital outlay millage for the past 4 fiscal years
82	divided by the increase in capital outlay FTE students for the
83	same period.
84	(b)  The capital outlay full-time equivalent membership
85	shall be determined for kindergarten through the 12th grade and
86	for career centers by averaging the unweighted full-time
87	equivalent student membership for the second and third surveys
88	and comparing the results on a school-by-school basis with the
89	Florida Inventory for School Houses. The capital outlay full-
90	time equivalent membership by grade level organization shall be
91	used in making the following calculation: the capital outlay
92	full-time equivalent membership by grade-level organization for
93	the prior year must be used to compute the growth over the
94	highest of the 3 years preceding the prior year. The Department
95	of Education shall determine, for each eligible district, the
96	amount that must be added to the value calculated pursuant to
97	paragraph (a) to produce the weighted average value per student
98	station calculated pursuant to paragraph (2)(b).
99	(c)  The total amount appropriated by the Legislature
100	pursuant to this subsection shall be allocated among the growth
101	capital outlay full-time equivalent membership. The allocation
102	shall be prorated to the districts based upon each district's
103	percentage of growth capital outlay full-time membership. The
104	most recent 4-year capital outlay full-time equivalent
105	membership data shall be used in each subsequent year's
106	calculation for the allocation of funds pursuant to this
107	subsection. The value calculated for each eligible district
108	pursuant to paragraph (b) shall be multiplied by the average
109	increase in capital outlay FTE students for the past 4 fiscal
110	years to determine the maximum amount of a grant that may be
111	awarded to a district pursuant to this section.
112	(d)  If a change, correction, or recomputation of data
113	during any year results in a reduction or increase of the
114	calculated amount previously allocated to a district, the
115	allocation to that district shall be adjusted correspondingly.
116	If such recomputation results in an increase or decrease of the
117	calculated amount, such additional or reduced amounts shall be
118	added to or reduced from the district's future appropriations.
119	However, no change, correction, or recomputation of data shall
120	be made subsequent to 2 years following the initial annual
121	allocation. In the event the funds provided in the General
122	Appropriations Act are insufficient to fully fund the maximum
123	grants calculated pursuant to paragraph (c), the Department of
124	Education shall allocate the funds based on each district's
125	prorated share of the total maximum award amount calculated for
126	all eligible districts.
127	Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.

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