Florida Senate - 2011 SB 1702
By Senator Norman
12-01624-11 20111702__
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to school district minimum classroom
3 expenditure requirements; repealing s. 1011.64, F.S.,
4 which provides for minimum academic performance
5 standards and increased classroom expenditure
6 requirements for school districts not meeting the
7 standards; amending ss. 1011.01, 1011.03, and 1011.60,
8 F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the
9 act; 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. Section 1011.64, Florida Statutes, is repealed.
14 Section 2. Paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section
15 1011.01, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
16 1011.01 Budget system established.—
17 (3)(a) Each district school board and each community
18 college board of trustees shall prepare, adopt, and submit to
19 the Commissioner of Education for review an annual operating
20 budget. Operating budgets shall be prepared and submitted in
21 accordance with the provisions of law, rules of the State Board
22 of Education, the General Appropriations Act, and for district
23 school boards in accordance with s. the provisions of ss.
24 200.065 and 1011.64.
25 Section 3. Section 1011.03, Florida Statutes, is amended to
26 read:
27 1011.03 Public hearings; budget to be submitted to
28 Department of Education.—
29 (1) Each district school board must cause a summary of its
30 tentative budget, including the proposed millage levies as
31 provided for by law, to be posted online and advertised one time
32 in a newspaper of general circulation published in the district
33 or to be posted at the courthouse if there be no such newspaper.
34 (2) The advertisement of a district that has been required
35 by the Legislature to increase classroom expenditures pursuant
36 to s. 1011.64 must include the following statement:
37 “This proposed budget reflects an increase in classroom
38 expenditures as a percent of total current operating
39 expenditures of XX percent over the (previous fiscal year)
40 fiscal year. This increase in classroom expenditures is required
41 by the Legislature because the district has performed below the
42 required performance standard on XX of XX student performance
43 standards for the (previous school year) school year. In order
44 to achieve the legislatively required level of classroom
45 expenditures as a percentage of total operating expenditures,
46 the proposed budget includes an increase in overall classroom
47 expenditures of $XX,XXX,XXX above the amount spent for this same
48 purpose during the (previous fiscal year) fiscal year. In order
49 to achieve improved student academic performance, this proposed
50 increase is being budgeted for the following activities:
51 ...(list activities and amount budgeted)....”
52 (3) The advertisement shall appear adjacent to the
53 advertisement required pursuant to s. 200.065. The State Board
54 of Education may adopt rules necessary to provide specific
55 requirements for the format of the advertisement.
56 Section 4. Subsection (8) of section 1011.60, Florida
57 Statutes, is amended to read:
58 1011.60 Minimum requirements of the Florida Education
59 Finance Program.—Each district which participates in the state
60 appropriations for the Florida Education Finance Program shall
61 provide evidence of its effort to maintain an adequate school
62 program throughout the district and shall meet at least the
63 following requirements:
64 (8) MINIMUM CLASSROOM EXPENDITURE REQUIREMENTS.—Comply with
65 the minimum classroom expenditure requirements and associated
66 reporting pursuant to s. 1011.64.
67 Section 5. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.