Florida Senate - 2016                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 524
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Brandes moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 510 and 511
    4  insert:
    5         Section 6. Subsection (25) is added to section 1002.20,
    6  Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         (25) FISCAL TRANSPARENCY.—A parent has the right to know
    8  the average amount of money estimated to be expended from all
    9  local, state, and federal sources for the education of his or
   10  her child, including operating and capital outlay expenses. By
   11  December 31 of each year, the department shall publish on its
   12  website from each school district’s annual financial report,
   13  expenditures on a per FTE basis for general, special revenue,
   14  debt service, and capital project funds and a total of such
   15  expenditures. Fiduciary, enterprise, and internal service funds
   16  may not be included. By December 31 of each year, each school
   17  district shall publish the school district’s funding information
   18  in the same format on its website. With the exception of
   19  expenditures from debt service and capital project funds, the
   20  same information regarding the specific school shall be made
   21  available to students on each school’s website, provided to
   22  parents in the school financial report, and published in the
   23  student handbook or a similar publication.
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   25  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   26  And the title is amended as follows:
   27         Between lines 43 and 44
   28  insert:
   29         amending s. 1002.20, F.S.; providing the right of a
   30         parent to know an estimated amount of money expended
   31         for the education of his or her child; requiring the
   32         Department of Education to annually publish certain
   33         financial information on its website by a specified
   34         date; requiring each school district to publish
   35         certain financial information on its website by a
   36         specified date; requiring certain financial
   37         information to be published on each school’s website,
   38         provided in the school financial report, and
   39         authorizing the information to be published in the
   40         student handbook or a similar publication;