Florida Senate - 2013 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. CS/CS/HB 867, 1st Eng. Barcode 507186 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . Floor: WD/2R . 04/29/2013 04:00 PM . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Senator Detert moved the following: 1 Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments) 2 3 Between lines 144 and 145 4 insert: 5 (18) FACILITIES.— 6 (e) If a district school board facility or property is 7 available because it is surplus, marked for disposal, or 8 otherwise unused, it shall be provided for a charter school’s 9 use on the same basis as it is made available to other public 10 schools in the district. A charter school that occupies the 11 property of a public school must pay the per-square-foot rate 12 and utilities rate in accordance with the school district’s 13 facility lease agreement. The charter school shall pay such 14 amount as monthly rent to the district school board to reduce 15 the bonds that are owed by the school district. A charter school 16 receiving property from the school district may not sell or 17 dispose of such property without written permission of the 18 school district. Similarly, for an existing public school 19 converting to charter status, no rental or leasing fee for the 20 existing facility or for the property normally inventoried to 21 the conversion school may be charged by the district school 22 board to the parents and teachers organizing the charter school. 23 The charter school shall agree to reasonable maintenance 24 provisions in order to maintain the facility in a manner similar 25 to district school board standards. The Public Education Capital 26 Outlay maintenance funds or any other maintenance funds 27 generated by the facility operated as a conversion school shall 28 remain with the conversion school. 29 30 ====== D I R E C T O R Y C L A U S E A M E N D M E N T ====== 31 And the directory clause is amended as follows: 32 Delete lines 123 - 124 33 and insert: 34 Section 4. Paragraph (b) of subsection (16) and paragraph 35 (e) of subsection (18) of section 1002.33, Florida Statutes, are 36 amended to read: 37 38 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 39 And the title is amended as follows: 40 Delete line 15 41 and insert: 42 the assignment of teachers; requiring a charter school 43 that occupies the property of a public school to pay 44 rent to the district school board; creating s. 45 1003.07, F.S.;