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2000 Florida Statutes

SECTION 337
Procedure for legislative budget requests for the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind.
Section 242.337, Florida Statutes 2000

242.337  Procedure for legislative budget requests for the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind.--

(1)  The legislative budget request of the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind shall be prepared using the same format, procedures, and timelines required for the submission of the legislative budget of the Department of Education. The Commissioner of Education shall include the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind 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 the Deaf and the Blind shall be a separate identifiable sum in the Division of Public Schools and Community Education budget entity of the Department of Education. The annual appropriation for the school shall be distributed monthly 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.

(2)  Fixed capital outlay needs of the school shall continue to be requested in the public education capital outlay legislative budget request of the Department of Education.

History.--s. 22, ch. 94-232; s. 33, ch. 97-307.