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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. SB 354

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11  Senator Sullivan moved the following substitute for amendment

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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

15         On page 1, between lines 11 and 12 ,

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18         Section 1.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section

19  216.136, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

20         216.136  Consensus estimating conferences; duties and

21  principals.--

22         (4)  EDUCATION ESTIMATING CONFERENCE.--

23         (a)  Duties.--The Education Estimating Conference shall

24  develop such official information relating to the state public

25  and private educational system, including forecasts of student

26  enrollments, the number of students qualified for state

27  financial aid programs and for the William L. Boyd, IV,

28  Florida Resident Access Grant Program and the appropriation

29  required to fund the full award amounts for each program,

30  fixed capital outlay needs, and Florida Education Finance

31  Program formula needs, as the conference determines is needed

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 1  for the state planning and budgeting system.  The conference's

 2  initial projections of enrollments in public schools shall be

 3  forwarded by the conference to each school district no later

 4  than 2 months prior to the start of the regular session of the

 5  Legislature. Each school district may, in writing, request

 6  adjustments to the initial projections.  Any adjustment

 7  request shall be submitted to the conference no later than 1

 8  month prior to the start of the regular session of the

 9  Legislature and shall be considered by the principals of the

10  conference.  A school district may amend its adjustment

11  request, in writing, during the first 3 weeks of the

12  legislative session, and such amended adjustment request shall

13  be considered by the principals of the conference.  For any

14  adjustment so requested, the district shall indicate and

15  explain, using definitions adopted by the conference, the

16  components of anticipated enrollment changes that correspond

17  to continuation of current programs with workload changes;

18  program improvement; program reduction or elimination;

19  initiation of new programs; and any other information that may

20  be needed by the Legislature.  For public schools, the

21  conference shall submit its full-time equivalent student

22  consensus estimate to the Legislature no later than 1 month

23  after the start of the regular session of the Legislature. No

24  conference estimate may be changed without the agreement of

25  the full conference.

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29  And the title is amended as follows:

30         On page 1, lines 2 and 3, delete those lines

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 2         An act relating to education; amending s.

 3         216.136, F.S.; adding to the duties of the

 4         Education Estimating Conference; amending s.

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