Florida Senate - 2019                                    SB 1028
       
       
        
       By Senator Hutson
       
       
       
       
       
       7-00621-19                                            20191028__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to school funding; amending s.
    3         1002.33, F.S.; requiring that district school boards
    4         receive certain funds approved by voter referendum;
    5         creating s. 1011.6203, F.S.; conforming provisions to
    6         changes made by the act; reenacting s. 1002.333(9)(a),
    7         F.S., relating to persistently low-performing schools,
    8         to incorporate the amendment made to s. 1002.33, F.S.,
    9         in a reference thereto; 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. Present paragraphs (c) through (h) of subsection
   14  (17) of section 1002.33, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as
   15  paragraphs (d) through (i), and a new paragraph (c) is added to
   16  that subsection, to read:
   17         1002.33 Charter schools.—
   18         (17) FUNDING.—Students enrolled in a charter school,
   19  regardless of the sponsorship, shall be funded as if they are in
   20  a basic program or a special program, the same as students
   21  enrolled in other public schools in the school district. Funding
   22  for a charter lab school shall be as provided in s. 1002.32.
   23         (c) District school boards shall receive a proportional
   24  share, based on student enrollment, of local funding approved by
   25  voter referendum, including referenda authorized by s. 1011.71,
   26  for all funds that are not otherwise provided in the Florida
   27  Education Finance Program under s. 1011.62 or the General
   28  Appropriations Act.
   29         Section 2. Section 1011.6203, Florida Statutes, is created
   30  to read:
   31         1011.6203 Local funding approved by voter referendum.
   32  District school boards shall receive a proportional share, based
   33  on student enrollment, of local funding approved by voter
   34  referendum, including referenda authorized by s. 1011.71, for
   35  all funds that are not otherwise provided in the Florida
   36  Education Finance Program under s. 1011.62 or the General
   37  Appropriations Act.
   38         Section 3. For the purpose of incorporating the amendment
   39  made by this act to section 1002.33, Florida Statutes, in a
   40  reference thereto, paragraph (a) of subsection (9) of section
   41  1002.333, Florida Statutes, is reenacted to read:
   42         1002.333 Persistently low-performing schools.—
   43         (9) FUNDING.—
   44         (a) Schools of hope shall be funded in accordance with s.
   45  1002.33(17).
   46         Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.