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Florida Senate - 2016                                Committee       Amendment
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The Committee on Appropriations (Ring) recommended the following 
amendment:

Section: 02              EXPLANATION:

On Page: 036             Designates $50,000 from general revenue funds 
                         provided for Contracted Services in the State Board 
Spec App:  134           of Education budget for outsourcing of the Florida 
                         Automated System for Transferring Electronic Records 
                         (FASTER) for student transcripts into a cloud-based 
                         solution.

NET IMPACT ON:            Total Funds       General Revenue          Trust Funds
    Recurring -                    0                     0                    0 
Non-Recurring -                    0                     0                    0 
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                                               Positions & Amount   Positions & Amount
                                                     DELETE         INSERT

        EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF
        State Board Of Education  48800000

        In Section 02  On Page 036
134     Special Categories  100777
        Contracted Services  IOEA

Following Specific Appropriation 134, INSERT:

From the funds provided in Specific Appropriations 134, $50,000 from the 
General Revenue Fund is provided for the complete outsourcing of FASTER 
(Florida Automated System for Transferring Electronic Records) into a 
cloud-based solution. The new solution must be a vendor hosted, 
web-based electronic transcript delivery solution that will enable 
transcript delivery for all public Florida High Schools to all public 
Florida higher education institutions as PDF and data, electronic 
student records exchange as PDF and data for all public schools in 
Florida and also have the ability to send transcripts  to out-of-state 
or private in-state institutions.






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