Bill Amendment: FL H7043 | 2016 | Regular Session
NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List
Bill Title: Education
Status: 2016-03-11 - Died in Higher Education, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 719 (Ch. 2016-58), HB 5003 (Ch. 2016-62), CS/CS/HB 7029 (Ch. 2016-237) [H7043 Detail]
Download: Florida-2016-H7043-Senate_Floor_Amendment_588744_to_Amendment_420294_.html
Bill Title: Education
Status: 2016-03-11 - Died in Higher Education, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 719 (Ch. 2016-58), HB 5003 (Ch. 2016-62), CS/CS/HB 7029 (Ch. 2016-237) [H7043 Detail]
Download: Florida-2016-H7043-Senate_Floor_Amendment_588744_to_Amendment_420294_.html
Florida Senate - 2016 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for HB 7043 Ì588744JÎ588744 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Senator Hutson moved the following: 1 Senate Amendment to Amendment (420294) (with title 2 amendment) 3 4 Between lines 1376 and 1377 5 insert: 6 Section 18. Subsection (2) and paragraph (a) of subsection 7 (3) of section 1013.738, Florida Statutes, are amended to read: 8 1013.738 High Growth District Capital Outlay Assistance 9 Grant Program.— 10 (2) In order to qualify for a grant, a school district must 11 meet the following criteria: 12 (a) The district must have levied the full1.5 mills of13 nonvoted discretionary capital outlay millage authorized in s. 14 1011.71(2) for each of the past 4 fiscal years. 15 (b) One-thirdFifty percentof the revenue derived from the 162-millnonvoted discretionary capital outlay millage for the 17 past 4 fiscal years, when divided by the district’s growth in 18 capital outlay FTE students over this period, produces a value 19 that is less than the average weighted cost per student station 20 calculated pursuant to s. 1013.64(6)(b)1., and weighted by21statewide growth in capital outlay FTE students in elementary,22middle, and high schools for the past 4 fiscal years.23 (c) The district must have: 24 1. A combined unweighted FTE enrollment in charter schools, 25 the virtual instruction program, the Florida Virtual School, and 26 educational scholarship programs under Part III of chapter 1002 27 of at least 10 percent of the total student population of the 28 district; or 29 2. An average annual percent increase in the district’s 30 capital outlay full-time equivalent student membership over the 31 previous 5 years of 3 percent or higher. 32 (d)(c)The district must have a cumulativeequaled or33exceeded twice the statewide average ofgrowth in capital outlay 34 FTE students over this same 4-year period. 35(d)The Commissioner of Education must have released all36funds allocated to the district from the Classrooms First37Program authorized in s. 1013.68, and these funds were fully38expended by the district as of February 1 of the current fiscal39year.40(e)The total capital outlay FTE students of the district41is greater than 15,000 students.42 (3) The funds provided in the General Appropriations Act 43 shall be allocated pursuant to the following methodology: 44 (a) For each eligible district, the Department of Education 45 shall calculate the value of one-third50 percentof the revenue 46 derived from the2-millnonvoted discretionary capital outlay 47 millage for the past 4 fiscal years divided by the increase in 48 capital outlay FTE students for the same period. 49 50 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 51 And the title is amended as follows: 52 Between lines 1675 and 1676 53 insert: 54 1013.738, F.S.; revising the eligibility criteria for 55 the High Growth District Capital Outlay Assistance 56 Grant Program; amending s.