Senate Bill 1562

    Florida Senate - 2000                                  SB 1562

    By Senator Laurent





    17-1138-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to education; amending s.

  3         236.081, F.S.; providing for the average daily

  4         attendance factor to be used in an incentive

  5         program to encourage maximum improvement in

  6         attendance; providing limitations; providing an

  7         effective date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section

12  236.081, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

13         236.081  Funds for operation of schools.--If the annual

14  allocation from the Florida Education Finance Program to each

15  district for operation of schools is not determined in the

16  annual appropriations act or the substantive bill implementing

17  the annual appropriations act, it shall be determined as

18  follows:

19         (1)  COMPUTATION OF THE BASIC AMOUNT TO BE INCLUDED FOR

20  OPERATION.--The following procedure shall be followed in

21  determining the annual allocation to each district for

22  operation:

23         (a)  Determination of full-time equivalent

24  membership.--During each of several school weeks, including

25  scheduled intersessions of a year-round school program during

26  the fiscal year, a program membership survey of each school

27  shall be made by each district by aggregating the full-time

28  equivalent student membership of each program by school and by

29  district. The department shall establish the number and

30  interval of membership calculations, except that for basic and

31  special programs such calculations shall not exceed nine for

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  1  any fiscal year. The district's full-time equivalent

  2  membership shall be computed and currently maintained in

  3  accordance with regulations of the commissioner. Beginning

  4  with the 1999-2000 school year, each school district shall

  5  also document the daily attendance of each student in

  6  membership by school and by district. An average daily

  7  attendance factor shall be computed by dividing the total

  8  daily attendance of all students by the total number of

  9  students in membership and then by the number of days in the

10  regular school year. Beginning with the 2001-2002 school year,

11  the average daily attendance factor shall be used in an

12  incentive program to encourage maximum improvement in

13  attendance. The amount for the incentive and the ranking

14  criteria are to be annually determined by the Legislature in

15  the General Appropriations Act. The attendance incentive may

16  not be included in the Quality Assurance Guarantee or in

17  disparity compression adjustments to FEFP allocations

18  district's full-time equivalent membership shall be adjusted

19  by multiplying by the average daily attendance factor.

20         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2000.

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23                          SENATE SUMMARY

24    Provides for school districts to use the average daily
      attendance factor in an incentive program to encourage
25    attendance.

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