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By Senators Dockery, Baker, Haridopolos, Argenziano, Bennett,
Webster and Fasano
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to growth management; amending
3 s. 1013.65, F.S.; revising the sum appropriated
4 for the Classrooms for Kids Program; amending
5 s. 1013.738, F.S.; revising the eligibility
6 criteria for the High Growth District Capital
7 Outlay Assistance Grant Program; revising
8 provisions for allocating funds provided by the
9 General Appropriations Act to the Public
10 Education Capital Outlay and Debt Service Trust
11 Fund; providing an effective date.
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13 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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15 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section
16 1013.65, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
17 1013.65 Educational and ancillary plant construction
18 funds; Public Education Capital Outlay and Debt Service Trust
19 Fund; allocation of funds.--
20 (2)(a) The Public Education Capital Outlay and Debt
21 Service Trust Fund shall be comprised of the following
22 sources, which are hereby appropriated to the trust fund:
23 1. Proceeds, premiums, and accrued interest from the
24 sale of public education bonds and that portion of the
25 revenues accruing from the gross receipts tax as provided by
26 s. 9(a)(2), Art. XII of the State Constitution, as amended,
27 interest on investments, and federal interest subsidies.
28 2. General revenue funds appropriated to the fund for
29 educational capital outlay purposes.
30 3. All capital outlay funds previously appropriated
31 and certified forward pursuant to s. 216.301.
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1 4.a. Funds paid pursuant to s. 201.15(1)(d).
2 b. The sum of $75 $41.75 million of such funds shall
3 be appropriated annually for expenditure to fund the
4 Classrooms for Kids Program created in s. 1013.735 and shall
5 be distributed as provided by that section.
6 Section 2. Subsections (2) and (3) of section
7 1013.738, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
8 1013.738 High Growth District Capital Outlay
9 Assistance Grant Program.--
10 (2) In order to qualify for a grant, a school district
11 must meet the following criteria:
12 (a) The district must have levied the full 2 mills of
13 nonvoted discretionary capital outlay millage authorized in s.
14 1011.71(2) for each of the past 3 4 fiscal years or receive an
15 amount from the school capital outlay surtax authorized in s.
16 212.055(6) which, when added to the nonvoted discretionary
17 capital outlay millage collected, equals the amount that would
18 be generated if the full 2 mills of nonvoted discretionary
19 capital outlay millage had been collected over the past 3
20 fiscal years.
21 (b) The district must have received in the prior
22 fiscal year revenue from the collection of an impact fee
23 specifically for schools and revenue from the collection of
24 one of the following:
25 1. A local government infrastructure sales surtax
26 authorized in s. 212.055(2) in which a portion is dedicated
27 for the construction of schools in such prior fiscal year, or
28 for satisfaction of debt service pledged for the construction
29 of schools.
30 2. A school capital outlay surtax authorized in s.
31 212.055(6). If the school capital outlay surtax is used to
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1 meet the conditions of paragraph (a), the amount of the school
2 capital outlay surtax collected must be in excess of the
3 amount in paragraph (a).
4 3. A local bond referendum as authorized in ss.
5 1010.40-1010.55.
6 (b) Fifty percent of the revenue derived from the
7 2-mill nonvoted discretionary capital outlay millage for the
8 past 4 fiscal years, when divided by the district's growth in
9 capital outlay FTE students over this period, produces a value
10 that is less than the average cost per student station
11 calculated pursuant to s. 1013.72(2), and weighted by
12 statewide growth in capital outlay FTE students in elementary,
13 middle, and high schools for the past 4 fiscal years.
14 (c) The district must have equaled or exceeded three
15 times twice the statewide average of growth in capital outlay
16 FTE students over the prior 3 fiscal years. Growth in any one
17 year must be determined by calculating the increase in
18 students over the prior year this same 4-year period.
19 (d) The district must not have received an
20 appropriation from the special facilities construction program
21 in the current fiscal year or any of the 2 fiscal years prior
22 to the current fiscal year. The Commissioner of Education must
23 have released all funds allocated to the district from the
24 Classrooms First Program authorized in s. 1013.68, and these
25 funds were fully expended by the district as of February 1 of
26 the current fiscal year.
27 (e) The total capital outlay FTE students of the
28 district is greater than 15,000 students.
29 (3) The funds provided in the General Appropriations
30 Act shall be allocated pursuant to the following methodology:
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1 (a) Each eligible district school board shall receive
2 an amount from the Public Education Capital Outlay and Debt
3 Service Trust Fund to be calculated by computing the capital
4 outlay full-time equivalent membership as determined by the
5 Department of Education. Such membership must include, but is
6 not limited to, kindergarten through 12th grade students,
7 except hospital and homebound part-time students, students who
8 are career education students, and adult disabled students who
9 are enrolled in school district career centers.
10 (b) The capital outlay full-time equivalent membership
11 shall be determined for kindergarten through the 12th grade
12 and for career centers by averaging the unweighted full-time
13 equivalent student membership for the second and third surveys
14 and comparing the results on a school-by-school basis with the
15 Florida Inventory for School Houses. The capital outlay
16 full-time equivalent membership by grade level organization
17 shall be used in making the following calculation: the capital
18 outlay full-time equivalent membership by grade-level
19 organization for the prior year must be used to compute the
20 growth over the highest of the 3 years preceding the prior
21 year.
22 (c) The total amount appropriated by the Legislature
23 pursuant to this subsection shall be allocated among the
24 growth capital outlay full-time equivalent membership. The
25 allocation shall be prorated to the districts based upon each
26 district's percentage of growth capital outlay full-time
27 membership. The most recent 4-year capital outlay full-time
28 equivalent membership data shall be used in each subsequent
29 year's calculation for the allocation of funds pursuant to
30 this subsection.
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1 (d) If a change, correction, or recomputation of data
2 during any year results in a reduction or increase of the
3 calculated amount previously allocated to a district, the
4 allocation to that district shall be adjusted correspondingly.
5 If such recomputation results in an increase or decrease of
6 the calculated amount, such additional or reduced amounts
7 shall be added to or reduced from the district's future
8 appropriations. However, no change, correction, or
9 recomputation of data shall be made subsequent to 2 years
10 following the initial annual allocation.
11 (a) For each eligible district, the Department of
12 Education shall calculate the value of 50 percent of the
13 revenue derived from the 2-mill nonvoted discretionary capital
14 outlay millage for the past 4 fiscal years divided by the
15 increase in capital outlay FTE students for the same period.
16 (b) The Department of Education shall determine, for
17 each eligible district, the amount that must be added to the
18 value calculated pursuant to paragraph (a) to produce the
19 weighted average value per student station calculated pursuant
20 to paragraph (2)(b).
21 (c) The value calculated for each eligible district
22 pursuant to paragraph (b) shall be multiplied by the average
23 increase in capital outlay FTE students for the past 4 fiscal
24 years to determine the maximum amount of a grant that may be
25 awarded to a district pursuant to this section.
26 (d) In the event the funds provided in the General
27 Appropriations Act are insufficient to fully fund the maximum
28 grants calculated pursuant to paragraph (c), the Department of
29 Education shall allocate the funds based on each district's
30 prorated share of the total maximum award amount calculated
31 for all eligible districts.
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1 Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a
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5 SENATE SUMMARY
6 Revises the sum appropriated for the Classrooms for Kids
Program. Revises the eligibility criteria for the High
7 Growth District Capital Outlay Assistance Grant Program.
Revises provisions for allocation of funds provided by
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Capital Outlay and Debt Service Trust Fund.
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