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2023 Florida Statutes (including 2023C)

Title XLVIII EARLY LEARNING-20 EDUCATION CODE
Chapter 1011 PLANNING AND BUDGETING Entire Chapter
SECTION 58
Procedures for legislative budget requests for the Florida School for Competitive Academics.
F.S. 1011.58
1011.58 Procedures for legislative budget requests for the Florida School for Competitive Academics.—
(1)(a) The legislative budget request of the Florida School for Competitive Academics established in s. 1002.351 must be prepared using the same format, procedures, and timelines required for the submission of the legislative budget request of the Department of Education.
(b) The Florida School for Competitive Academics shall submit its legislative budget request to the Department of Education for review and approval. The school must create and submit to the department an implementation plan before the department may approve the budget request.
(c) Subsequent to the Department of Education’s approval, the Commissioner of Education shall include the Florida School for Competitive Academics in the department’s legislative budget request to the State Board of Education, the Governor, and the Legislature. The legislative budget request and the appropriation for the Florida School for Competitive Academics must be a separate identifiable sum in the public schools budget entity of the Department of Education.
(d) The annual appropriation for the school shall be distributed monthly, without using the Florida Education Finance Program, in payments as nearly equal as possible. Appropriations for textbooks, instructional technology, and school buses may be released and distributed as necessary to serve the instructional program for the students. Transportation of students shall be provided by the school consistent with the requirements of subpart E. of part I of chapter 1006 and s. 1012.45.
(2) The school shall submit its fixed capital outlay request to the Department of Education for review and approval in accordance with s. 1002.36(4)(f)1. Subsequent to the department’s approval, the school’s request must be included within the department’s public education capital outlay legislative budget request.
History.—s. 38, ch. 2023-245.