Florida Senate - 2019                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS/HB 7123, 1st Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Pizzo moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (749698) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    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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   69  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   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;