Florida Senate - 2020 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS/HB 7097, 1st Eng.
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
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Floor: NC/2R .
03/12/2020 07:01 PM .
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Senator Lee moved the following:
1 Senate Amendment to Amendment (882296) (with title
2 amendment)
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4 Between lines 3370 and 3371
5 insert:
6 Section 72. Subsection (9) of section 1011.71, Florida
7 Statutes, is amended to read:
8 1011.71 District school tax.—
9 (9)(a) In addition to the maximum millage levied under this
10 section and the General Appropriations Act, a school district
11 may levy, by local referendum or in a general election,
12 additional millage for school operational purposes up to an
13 amount that, when combined with nonvoted millage levied under
14 this section, does not exceed the 10-mill limit established in
15 s. 9(b), Art. VII of the State Constitution. Any such levy shall
16 be for a maximum of 4 years and shall be counted as part of the
17 10-mill limit established in s. 9(b), Art. VII of the State
18 Constitution. For the purpose of distributing taxes collected
19 pursuant to this paragraph subsection, the term “school
20 operational purposes” includes charter schools pursuant to
21 paragraph (b) sponsored by a school district. Millage elections
22 conducted under the authority granted pursuant to this section
23 are subject to s. 1011.73. Funds generated by such additional
24 millage do not become a part of the calculation of the Florida
25 Education Finance Program total potential funds in 2001-2002 or
26 any subsequent year and must not be incorporated in the
27 calculation of any hold-harmless or other component of the
28 Florida Education Finance Program formula in any year. If an
29 increase in required local effort, when added to existing
30 millage levied under the 10-mill limit, would result in a
31 combined millage in excess of the 10-mill limit, any millage
32 levied pursuant to this paragraph subsection shall be considered
33 to be required local effort to the extent that the district
34 millage would otherwise exceed the 10-mill limit. Funds
35 generated by the additional millage levied under this paragraph
36 subsection shall be shared with charter schools pursuant to
37 paragraph (b) based on a each charter school’s proportionate
38 share of the district’s total unweighted full-time equivalent
39 student enrollment and used in a manner consistent with the
40 purposes of the levy. The referendum must contain an explanation
41 of the distribution methodology consistent with the requirements
42 of this paragraph subsection.
43 (b) Beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, funds
44 generated under paragraph (a) must be shared with a charter
45 school if the charter school has been in operation within the
46 applicable school district for at least 2 years.
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49 And the title is amended as follows:
50 Between lines 3720 and 3721
51 insert:
52 amending s. 1011.71, F.S.; requiring that funds
53 generated from additional millage for school
54 operational purposes be shared with a charter school
55 if the charter school has been in operation within the
56 applicable school district for at least a certain
57 period of time;