Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (618218) for SB 6-A
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  01/07/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Education Pre-K - 12 Appropriations (Richter)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 424 - 427
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 11. Paragraph (d) of subsection (2) and subsection
    6  (4) of section 1011.71, Florida Statutes, as amended by chapters
    7  2007-328, 2008-2, 2008-142, and 2008-213, Laws of Florida, are
    8  amended to read:
    9         1011.71 District school tax.—
   10         (2) In addition to the maximum millage levy as provided in
   11  subsection (1), each school board may levy not more than 1.75
   12  mills against the taxable value for school purposes for district
   13  schools, including charter schools at the discretion of the
   14  school board, to fund:
   15         (d) The purchase, lease-purchase, or lease of new and
   16  replacement equipment, and enterprise resource software
   17  applications that are classified as capital assets in accordance
   18  with definitions of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board,
   19  have a useful life of at least 5 years, and are used to support
   20  district-wide administration or state mandated reporting
   21  requirements.
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   24         And the title is amended as follows:
   25         Delete line 48
   26  and insert:
   27  1011.71, F.S.; authorizing the purchase of certain enterprise
   28  resource software applications with proceeds of the district
   29  school tax; eliminating certain restrictions on the