Florida Senate - 2020                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS/HB 7097, 1st Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                 Floor: NC/2R          .                                
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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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   48  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   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;