Florida Senate - 2016                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 524
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Stargel moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 1688 and 1689
    4  insert:
    5         Section 21. Subsection (2) and paragraph (a) of subsection
    6  (3) of section 1013.738, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
    7         1013.738 High Growth District Capital Outlay Assistance
    8  Grant Program.—
    9         (2) In order to qualify for a grant, a school district must
   10  meet the following criteria:
   11         (a) The district must have levied the full 1.5 mills of
   12  nonvoted discretionary capital outlay millage authorized in s.
   13  1011.71(2) for each of the past 4 fiscal years.
   14         (b) One-third Fifty percent of the revenue derived from the
   15  2-mill nonvoted discretionary capital outlay millage for the
   16  past 4 fiscal years, when divided by the district’s growth in
   17  capital outlay FTE students over this period, produces a value
   18  that is less than the average weighted cost per student station
   19  calculated pursuant to s. 1013.64(6)(b)1., and weighted by
   20  statewide growth in capital outlay FTE students in elementary,
   21  middle, and high schools for the past 4 fiscal years.
   22         (c) The district must have a combined unweighted FTE
   23  enrollment in charter schools, the virtual instruction program,
   24  the Florida Virtual School, and educational scholarship programs
   25  under Part III of chapter 1002 of at least 10 percent of the
   26  total student population of the district.
   27         (d)(c) The district must have a cumulative equaled or
   28  exceeded twice the statewide average of growth in capital outlay
   29  FTE students over this same 4-year period.
   30         (d) The Commissioner of Education must have released all
   31  funds allocated to the district from the Classrooms First
   32  Program authorized in s. 1013.68, and these funds were fully
   33  expended by the district as of February 1 of the current fiscal
   34  year.
   35         (e) The total capital outlay FTE students of the district
   36  is greater than 15,000 students.
   37         (3) The funds provided in the General Appropriations Act
   38  shall be allocated pursuant to the following methodology:
   39         (a) For each eligible district, the Department of Education
   40  shall calculate the value of one-third 50 percent of the revenue
   41  derived from the 2-mill nonvoted discretionary capital outlay
   42  millage for the past 4 fiscal years divided by the increase in
   43  capital outlay FTE students for the same period.
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   45  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   46  And the title is amended as follows:
   47         Delete line 163
   48  and insert:
   49         F.S.; conforming cross-references; amending s.
   50         1013.738, F.S.; revising the eligibility criteria for
   51         the High Growth District Capital Outlay Assistance
   52         Grant Program; providing an