HOUSE AMENDMENT
                                                  Bill No. HB 13-C
    Amendment No. 1 (for drafter's use only)
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11  Representative(s) Lynn offered the following:
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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 
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17         Section 3. Subsection (2) is amended and new subsection
18  (6) is added to section 235.187, Florida Statutes,to read:
19         235.187 Classrooms First Program; uses.--
20         (2)  A district school board shall expend the funds
21  received pursuant to this section only to:
22         (a) Construct, renovate, remodel, repair, or maintain
23  educational facilities;or
24         (b)  Pay debt service on bonds issued pursuant to this
25  section, the proceeds of which must be expended for new
26  construction, remodeling, renovation, and major repairs. Bond
27  proceeds shall be expended first for providing permanent
28  classrooms facilities. Bond proceeds shall not be expended for
29  any other facilities until all unmet needs for permanent
30  classrooms and auxiliary facilities as defined in s. 235.011
31  have been satisfied; or.
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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT
                                                  Bill No. HB 13-C
    Amendment No. 1 (for drafter's use only)
 1         (c)  Provide loans to other school districts for new
 2  school construction pursuant to subsection (6).
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 4  However, if more than 9 percent of a district's total square
 5  feet is more than 50 years old, the district must spend at
 6  least 25 percent of its allocation on the renovation, major
 7  repair, or remodeling of existing schools, except that
 8  districts with fewer than 10,000 full-time equivalent students
 9  are exempt from this requirement.
10         (6)  School districts may enter into inter-local
11  agreements to loan their Classrooms First Program funds as
12  provided in subsection (2).  A school district or multiple
13  school districts that receive cash proceeds may, after
14  considering their own new construction needs outlined in their
15  5-year district facilities work program, loan their Classrooms
16  First Program funds to another school district that has need
17  for new facilities.  The inter-local agreement must be
18  approved by the Secretary of Education and must outline the
19  following:  the amount of the funds to be loaned, the term of
20  the loan, the repayment schedule, any interest amount to be
21  repaid in addition to the principal amount of the loan.
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26  And the title is amended as follows:
27         On page 1,line 15, after the semi-colon
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30          amending s.235.187, F.S.; to provide for district
31  loans of Classrooms First Program funds;
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