| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to public school funding; providing for |
| 3 | school district flexibility in the 2009-2010 fiscal year |
| 4 | to expend specified funds for operating expenses; |
| 5 | requiring district school board adoption of a resolution |
| 6 | and approval of an amendment to the school district's |
| 7 | operating budget; amending s. 1011.71, F.S.; deleting a |
| 8 | restriction on the expenditure of capital outlay millage |
| 9 | for educational facilities and sites under a lease- |
| 10 | purchase agreement; deleting a restriction on the |
| 11 | expenditure of operating revenues made available through |
| 12 | the payment of property and casualty insurance premiums; |
| 13 | providing an effective date. |
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| 15 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 17 | Section 1. School district flexibility.-- |
| 18 | (1) Each district school board is given flexibility to |
| 19 | expend in its operating budget any funds allocated to the school |
| 20 | district for prekindergarten through grade 12 public schools |
| 21 | through specific appropriations in the 2009-2010 General |
| 22 | Appropriations Act, including, but not limited to: |
| 23 | (a) Funds for instructional materials. |
| 24 | (b) Funds for supplemental academic instruction. |
| 25 | (c) Funds for supplemental reading instruction. |
| 26 | (d) Funds for the Merit Award Program for Instructional |
| 27 | Personnel and School-Based Administrators. |
| 28 | (e) Funds for the Florida School Recognition Program. |
| 29 | (f) Funds for student transportation. |
| 30 | (2) To expend funds for operating expenses under |
| 31 | subsection (1), a district school board shall find and declare |
| 32 | in a resolution adopted at a regular meeting of the school board |
| 33 | that the funds are urgently needed to maintain school board |
| 34 | operating expenses and shall approve an amendment to the school |
| 35 | district's 2009-2010 operating budget transferring the |
| 36 | identified amount of funds to the appropriate account for |
| 37 | expenditure. |
| 38 | Section 2. Paragraph (e) of subsection (2) and paragraph |
| 39 | (b) of subsection (4) of section 1011.71, Florida Statutes, as |
| 40 | amended by Committee Substitute for Committee Substitute for |
| 41 | Senate Bill 6-A, 2009 Special Session A, are amended to read: |
| 42 | 1011.71 District school tax.-- |
| 43 | (2) In addition to the maximum millage levy as provided in |
| 44 | subsection (1), each school board may levy not more than 1.75 |
| 45 | mills against the taxable value for school purposes for district |
| 46 | schools, including charter schools at the discretion of the |
| 47 | school board, to fund: |
| 48 | (e) Payments for educational facilities and sites due |
| 49 | under a lease-purchase agreement entered into by a district |
| 50 | school board pursuant to s. 1003.02(1)(f) or s. 1013.15(2), not |
| 51 | exceeding, in the aggregate, an amount equal to three-fourths of |
| 52 | the proceeds from the millage levied by a district school board |
| 53 | pursuant to this subsection. |
| 54 | (4) Effective July 1, 2008, and through June 30, 2010, a |
| 55 | school district may expend, subject to the provisions of s. |
| 56 | 200.065, up to $100 per unweighted full-time equivalent student |
| 57 | from the revenue generated by the millage levy authorized by |
| 58 | subsection (2) to fund, in addition to expenditures authorized |
| 59 | in paragraphs (2)(a)-(j), expenses for the following: |
| 60 | (b) Payment of the cost of premiums for property and |
| 61 | casualty insurance necessary to insure school district |
| 62 | educational and ancillary plants. Operating revenues that are |
| 63 | made available through the payment of property and casualty |
| 64 | insurance premiums from revenues generated under this subsection |
| 65 | may be expended only for nonrecurring operational expenditures |
| 66 | of the school district. |
| 67 | Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009. |