Florida Senate - 2019                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 7070
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Diaz moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 1074 - 1110
    4  and insert:
    5         2. For students initially eligible in the 2019-2020 school
    6  year or thereafter, the calculated amount for a student to
    7  attend an eligible private school shall be 95 percent of the
    8  funds per FTE for a district in the Florida Education Finance
    9  Program for a student in the basic program, plus a per FTE share
   10  of funds for all categorical programs, except for the
   11  Exceptional Student Education Guaranteed Allocation.
   12         3.b. The scholarship amount awarded to a student enrolled
   13  in a Florida public school in which a student is enrolled and
   14  that is different from the school to which the student was
   15  assigned that is located outside the district in which the
   16  student resides or in a lab school as defined in s. 1002.32, is
   17  limited to $750.
   18         2. The annual limit for a scholarship under sub
   19  subparagraph 1.a. shall be reduced by:
   20         a. Twelve percent if the student’s household income level
   21  is greater than or equal to 200 percent, but less than 215
   22  percent, of the federal poverty level.
   23         b. Twenty-six percent if the student’s household income
   24  level is greater than or equal to 215 percent, but less than 230
   25  percent, of the federal poverty level.
   26         c. Forty percent if the student’s household income level is
   27  greater than or equal to 230 percent, but less than 245 percent,
   28  of the federal poverty level.
   29         d. Fifty percent if the student’s household income level is
   30  greater than or equal to 245 percent, but less than or equal to
   31  260 percent, of the federal poverty level.
   32         Section 9. Effective upon becoming a law, paragraph (i) is
   33  added to subsection (11) of section 1002.40, Florida Statutes,
   34  and paragraphs (a) and (g) of subsection (11) and paragraph (a)
   35  of subsection (13) of that section are amended, to read:
   36         1002.40 The Hope Scholarship Program.—
   37         (11) FUNDING AND PAYMENT.—
   38         (a) The calculated amount for a student to attend an
   39  eligible private school shall be 95 percent of the funds per FTE
   40  for a district in the Florida Education Finance Program for a
   41  student in the basic program, plus a per FTE share of funds for
   42  all categorical programs, except for the Exceptional Student
   43  Education Guaranteed Allocation. The maximum amount