Florida Senate - 2017                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 2500-A
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Farmer moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (713918) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Delete lines 5 - 18
    5  and insert:
    6         Section 1. (1) For the 2017-2018 fiscal year, the recurring
    7  sum of $440,008,009 from the General Revenue Fund and the
    8  nonrecurring sum of $149,074,378 from the General Revenue Fund
    9  are appropriated to the Department of Education in the Aid to
   10  Local Governments Grants and Aids – Florida Educational Finance
   11  Program category as a supplement to funds provided for the
   12  Florida Education Finance Program in Specific Appropriation 91
   13  of chapter 2017-70, Laws of Florida.
   14         (2) From the funds provided in subsection (1), the base
   15  student allocation shall increase by $193.71 and the Federally
   16  Connected Student Supplement shall increase by $232,839.
   17         (3) The Total Required Local Effort designated in Specific
   18  Appropriation 91 of chapter 2017-70, Laws of Florida, shall
   19  decrease by $120,706.
   20         Section 2. Section 71 of Committee Substitute for House
   21  Bill 7069, First Engrossed, enacted in the 2017 Regular Session,
   22  is amended to read:
   23         Section 71. For the 2017-2018 fiscal year, $40 million
   24  $413,950,000 in recurring funds from the General Revenue Fund
   25  and $5 million in nonrecurring funds from the General Revenue
   26  Fund are appropriated to the Department of Education to
   27  implement this act. Of these funds, $233,950,000 shall be used
   28  to implement the Best and Brightest Teacher Scholarship Program
   29  pursuant to s. 1012.731, Florida Statutes, and the Best and
   30  Brightest Principal Scholarship Program pursuant to s. 1012.732,
   31  Florida Statutes, $30 million shall be used to implement the
   32  Gardiner Scholarship Program pursuant to s. 1002.385, Florida
   33  Statutes, and $10 million in recurring funds and $5 million in
   34  nonrecurring funds shall be used to implement the provisions of
   35  this act relating to statewide student assessments. The
   36  remaining funds shall be used to implement the remaining
   37  provisions of this act, except for the implementation of the
   38  Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Pilot Program, as
   39  created by s. 1003.481, Florida Statutes, the Committee on Early
   40  Grade Success, as created by section 65 of this act, and the
   41  Shared Use Task Force, as created by section 67 of this act.
   42  
   43  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   44  And the title is amended as follows:
   45         Delete line 32
   46  and insert:
   47         Education Finance Program; amending s. 71, CS for SB
   48         7069, 1st Eng., enacted in the 2017 Regular Session;
   49         revising appropriations to the Department of Education
   50         for implementation of CS for HB 7069; providing
   51         effective dates.