Florida Senate - 2019 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS/HB 7123, 1st Eng.
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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Floor: WD/3R .
05/03/2019 04:33 PM .
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Senator Pizzo moved the following:
1 Senate Amendment to Amendment (749698) (with title
2 amendment)
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4 Between lines 611 and 612
5 insert:
6 Section 20. Paragraph (b) of subsection (17) of section
7 1002.33, Florida Statutes, is republished to read:
8 1002.33 Charter schools.—
9 (17) FUNDING.—Students enrolled in a charter school,
10 regardless of the sponsorship, shall be funded as if they are in
11 a basic program or a special program, the same as students
12 enrolled in other public schools in the school district. Funding
13 for a charter lab school shall be as provided in s. 1002.32.
14 (b) The basis for the agreement for funding students
15 enrolled in a charter school shall be the sum of the school
16 district’s operating funds from the Florida Education Finance
17 Program as provided in s. 1011.62 and the General Appropriations
18 Act, including gross state and local funds, discretionary
19 lottery funds, and funds from the school district’s current
20 operating discretionary millage levy; divided by total funded
21 weighted full-time equivalent students in the school district;
22 multiplied by the weighted full-time equivalent students for the
23 charter school. Charter schools whose students or programs meet
24 the eligibility criteria in law are entitled to their
25 proportionate share of categorical program funds included in the
26 total funds available in the Florida Education Finance Program
27 by the Legislature, including transportation, the research-based
28 reading allocation, and the Florida digital classrooms
29 allocation. Total funding for each charter school shall be
30 recalculated during the year to reflect the revised calculations
31 under the Florida Education Finance Program by the state and the
32 actual weighted full-time equivalent students reported by the
33 charter school during the full-time equivalent student survey
34 periods designated by the Commissioner of Education. For charter
35 schools operated by a not-for-profit or municipal entity, any
36 unrestricted current and capital assets identified in the
37 charter school’s annual financial audit may be used for other
38 charter schools operated by the not-for-profit or municipal
39 entity within the school district. Unrestricted current assets
40 shall be used in accordance with s. 1011.62, and any
41 unrestricted capital assets shall be used in accordance with s.
42 1013.62(2).
43 Section 21. Subsection (9) of section 1011.71, Florida
44 Statutes, is republished to read:
45 1011.71 District school tax.—
46 (9) In addition to the maximum millage levied under this
47 section and the General Appropriations Act, a school district
48 may levy, by local referendum or in a general election,
49 additional millage for school operational purposes up to an
50 amount that, when combined with nonvoted millage levied under
51 this section, does not exceed the 10-mill limit established in
52 s. 9(b), Art. VII of the State Constitution. Any such levy shall
53 be for a maximum of 4 years and shall be counted as part of the
54 10-mill limit established in s. 9(b), Art. VII of the State
55 Constitution. Millage elections conducted under the authority
56 granted pursuant to this section are subject to s. 1011.73.
57 Funds generated by such additional millage do not become a part
58 of the calculation of the Florida Education Finance Program
59 total potential funds in 2001-2002 or any subsequent year and
60 must not be incorporated in the calculation of any hold-harmless
61 or other component of the Florida Education Finance Program
62 formula in any year. If an increase in required local effort,
63 when added to existing millage levied under the 10-mill limit,
64 would result in a combined millage in excess of the 10-mill
65 limit, any millage levied pursuant to this subsection shall be
66 considered to be required local effort to the extent that the
67 district millage would otherwise exceed the 10-mill limit.
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70 And the title is amended as follows:
71 Between lines 720 and 721
72 insert:
73 republishing ss. 1002.33(17)(b) and 1011.71(9), F.S.,
74 relating to charter schools and district school tax,
75 respectively;