CRC - 2017 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Proposal No. P 71 Ì748000cÎ748000 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House Comm: WD . 02/12/2018 . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Committee on Education (Donalds) recommended the following: 1 CRC Amendment (with title amendment) 2 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 shallanddetermine 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. 24 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.