Senate Bill sb2370

    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 2370

    By Senator Bullard





    39-1755-03

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to educational facilities;

  3         amending s. 1013.64, F.S.; providing that funds

  4         from the Public Education Capital Outlay and

  5         Debt Services Trust Fund may be used for the

  6         purposes of constructing educational

  7         facilities, including new construction;

  8         providing for retroactive application;

  9         providing an effective date.

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

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13         Section 1.  Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section

14  1013.64, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

15         1013.64  Funds for comprehensive educational plant

16  needs; construction cost maximums for school district capital

17  projects.--Allocations from the Public Education Capital

18  Outlay and Debt Service Trust Fund to the various boards for

19  capital outlay projects shall be determined as follows:

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21         (b)  Each board is prohibited from using the funds

22  received pursuant to this section to supplant funds in the

23  current fiscal year approved operating budget, except that

24  funds received under this section may be used for ancillary

25  plants, auxiliary facilities, core facilities, educational

26  facilities, educational plants, low-energy usage features, new

27  construction, passive design elements, and projects, sites,

28  and satellite facilities funded from public education capital

29  outlay moneys. and All budgeted funds shall be expended at a

30  rate not less than would have been expended had the funds

31  under this section not been received.

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    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 2370
    39-1755-03




 1         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

 2  law and shall apply retroactively to the beginning of the

 3  current fiscal year.

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      Capital Outlay and Debt Services Trust Fund for
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