995013
Florida Senate - 2010
SB7090
The Committee on Ways and Means (Wise) recommended the following
amendment:
Section: 02
On Page: 036
Spec App:
| EXPLANATION:
Proviso to require the Department of Education to
coordinate, organize, and publish online all
currently available reports relating to school
district finances on an existing department website,
including information generated from the
department's school district finance database.
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NET IMPACT ON: Total Funds General Revenue Trust Funds
Recurring - 0 0 0
Non-Recurring - 0 0 0
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EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF
State Board Of Education 48800000
In Section 02 On Page 036
At the end of existing proviso language, preceding Specific
Appropriation 116, INSERT:
From the funds in Specific Appropriation 116 through 130, the Department
of Education shall coordinate, organize, and publish online all
currently available reports relating to school district finances on an
existing department website, including information generated from the
department's school district finance database. These reports shall also
be readily accessible to the public through a link on the Transparency
Florida website established by section 215.985, Florida Statutes,
pursuant to recommendations in the February 2010 report "Recommendations
for Transparency Florida" by the Joint Legislative Auditing Committee.
The school district reports to be available on the Transparency Florida
website include, but are not limited to, those currently published on
the department's website, school district websites, and the Auditor
General's website. The department shall coordinate with the Executive
Office of the Governor to create links on the Transparency Florida
website to school district reports by August 1, 2010. By December 31,
2010, the department shall publish additional finance data relating to
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school districts that is not currently available online, including
school-level expenditure data. The department shall work with school
districts to ensure that each district website provides a link to the
Transparency Florida website. The department shall also establish a
working group to study issues related to the future expansion of school
finance data available to the public through the Transparency Florida
website. The working group shall include department finance staff,
district finance officers, and other appropriate district staff. The
working group shall develop recommendations regarding the establishment
of a framework to provide school-level data in greater detail and
frequency. The recommendations should address the need to report
accounting transactions in a common, uniform format and include an
analysis of potential barriers such as cost, technology, account coding
structure, data security, and other issues that could impact completion
of an expanded system of transparency in school finances. The working
group shall also examine means for district coordination in the
completion of the system. The working group shall publish a report of
its findings by December 1, 2010.
| Line item amendments are accepted as part of the amendatory process. However, due to the necessity of using computerized systems this may entail a different placement within a budget entity or the renumbering of the specific appropriation items. Items printed in italics are computer codes and are not a part of the official text of this amendment. |
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