Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 822
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/22/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Rules (Rodriguez) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Before line 27
    4  insert:
    5         Section 1. Paragraph (f) is added to subsection (9) of
    6  section 1002.32, Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         1002.32 Developmental research (laboratory) schools.—
    8         (9) FUNDING.—Funding for a lab school, including a charter
    9  lab school, shall be provided as follows:
   10         (f) A lab school’s governing body may use the lab school’s
   11  discretionary capital improvement funds for the following
   12  purposes:
   13         1. Purchase of real property.
   14         2. Construction of school facilities.
   15         3. Purchase, lease-purchase, or lease of permanent or
   16  relocatable school facilities.
   17         4. Purchase of vehicles to transport students to and from
   18  the charter lab school.
   19         5. Renovation, repair, and maintenance of school facilities
   20  that the charter lab school owns or is purchasing through a
   21  lease-purchase or long-term lease of 5 years or longer.
   22         6. Payment of the cost of premiums for property and
   23  casualty insurance necessary to insure the school facilities.
   24         7. Purchase, lease-purchase, or lease of driver’s education
   25  vehicles; motor vehicles used for the maintenance or operation
   26  of plants and equipment; security vehicles; or vehicles used in
   27  storing or distributing materials and equipment.
   28         8. Purchase, lease-purchase, or lease of computer and
   29  device hardware and operating system software necessary for
   30  gaining access to or enhancing the use of electronic and digital
   31  instructional content and resources; and enterprise resource
   32  software applications that are classified as capital assets in
   33  accordance with definitions of the Governmental Accounting
   34  Standards Board, have a useful life of at least 5 years, and are
   35  used to support schoolwide administration or state-mandated
   36  reporting requirements. Enterprise resource software may be
   37  acquired by annual license fees, maintenance fees, or a lease
   38  agreement.
   39         9. Payment of the cost of the opening day collection for
   40  the library media center of a new school.
   41  
   42  Any purchase, lease-purchase, or lease made pursuant to this
   43  subsection must be at or below the appraised value. For purposes
   44  of this subsection, the term “appraised value” means the fair
   45  market value as determined by an independent, state-licensed,
   46  qualified appraiser selected by the governing board.
   47  Documentation of the appraised value must be provided to the
   48  department upon request.
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   50  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   51  And the title is amended as follows:
   52         Delete line 2
   53  and insert:
   54         An act relating to education; amending s. 1002.32,
   55         F.S.; providing that a lab school may use the lab
   56         school’s discretionary capital improvement funds for
   57         specified purposes; requiring that an expenditure be
   58         at or below appraised value; defining the term
   59         “appraised value”; requiring that certain
   60         documentation be provided to the Department of
   61         Education upon request; amending s. 1002.33,