CRC - 2017                                   COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Proposal No. P 71
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  02/12/2018           .                                
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       The Committee on Education (Donalds) recommended the following:
       
    1         CRC Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5                             ARTICLE IX                            
    6                                EDUCATION
    7         SECTION 4. School districts; school boards.—
    8         (a) Each county shall constitute a school district;
    9  provided, two or more contiguous counties, upon vote of the
   10  electors of each county pursuant to law, may be combined into
   11  one school district. In each school district there shall be a
   12  school board composed of five or more members chosen by vote of
   13  the electors in a nonpartisan election for appropriately
   14  staggered terms of four years, as provided by law.
   15         (b) The school board shall operate, control, and supervise
   16  all free public schools within the school district except for
   17  free public schools authorized by the state charter school
   18  authorizing board, municipalities, charter counties, Florida
   19  college system institutions, and state universities as provided
   20  by law. The school board shall and determine the rate of school
   21  district taxes within the limits prescribed herein. Two or more
   22  school districts may operate and finance joint educational
   23  programs.
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   25  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   26  And the title is amended as follows:
   27         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   28  and insert:
   29                         A proposal to amend                       
   30         Section 4 of Article IX of the State Constitution to allow
   31  free public schools to be authorized by the state charter school
   32  authorizing board, municipalities, charter counties, Florida
   33  college system institutions, and state universities as provided
   34  by law.