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ENROLLED HB 5001, ENGROSSED 1 2024 LEGISLATURE ______________________________________________________________________________ SECTION 2 - EDUCATION (ALL OTHER FUNDS) SPECIFIC APPROPRIATION The moneys contained herein are appropriated from the named funds to the Department of Education as the amounts to be used to pay salaries, other operational expenditures, and fixed capital outlay. EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF PROGRAM: EDUCATION - FIXED CAPITAL OUTLAY The Legislature hereby finds and determines that the items and sums designated in Specific Appropriations 15 through 19 and 22 through 24B from the Public Education Capital Outlay and Debt Service Trust Fund constitute authorized capital outlay projects within the meaning and as required by Article XII, section 9(a)(2) of the Florida Constitution, as amended, and any other law. In accordance therewith, the moneys in the following items are authorized to be expended for the enumerated authorized capital outlay projects. The sum designated for each project is the maximum sum to be expended for each specified phase of the project from funds accruing under Article XII, section 9(a)(2) of the Florida Constitution. The scope of each project shall be planned so that the amounts specified shall not be exceeded, or any excess in costs shall be funded by sources other than this appropriation. Such excess costs may be funded from the Public Education Capital Outlay and Debt Service Trust Fund only as a result of fund transfers pursuant to section 216.292(4)(c), Florida Statutes. Each project shall be constructed on the site specified. If existing facilities and acquisition of new sites are a part of these projects, each such building and site must be certified to be free of contamination, asbestos, and other hazardous materials before the facility or site may be acquired. The provisions of section 216.301(2), Florida Statutes, shall apply to all capital outlay funds appropriated from the Public Education Capital Outlay and Debt Service Trust Fund for Fiscal Year 2024-2025 in Specific Appropriations 15 through 19 and 22 through 24B. The Executive Office of the Governor’s Office of Policy and Budget shall establish Fixed Capital Outlay budget authority within appropriate accounts to enable expenditure of funds appropriated for the state universities, the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, the Division of Blind Services, public school districts, public broadcasting stations, and Florida colleges. 14 FIXED CAPITAL OUTLAY STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FEE PROJECTS FROM CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS FEE TRUST FUND . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,546,000 Nonrecurring funds in Specific Appropriation 14 shall be allocated by the Board of Governors to the state universities on a pro rata distribution basis in accordance with the Board of Governors Legislative Budget Request for funding from the Capital Improvements Fee Trust Fund, as approved on September 8, 2023. Each board of trustees shall report to the Board of Governors the funding allocated to each specific project. 15 FIXED CAPITAL OUTLAY MAINTENANCE, REPAIR, RENOVATION, AND REMODELING FROM PUBLIC EDUCATION CAPITAL OUTLAY AND DEBT SERVICE TRUST FUND 230,810,199 Nonrecurring funds in Specific Appropriation 15 are provided to charter schools and shall be distributed in accordance with section 1013.62, Florida Statutes. 16 FIXED CAPITAL OUTLAY SURVEY RECOMMENDED NEEDS - PUBLIC SCHOOLS FROM PUBLIC EDUCATION CAPITAL OUTLAY AND DEBT SERVICE TRUST FUND 9,223,318 Nonrecurring funds in Specific Appropriation 16 shall be distributed to developmental research (laboratory) schools pursuant to section 1002.32(9), Florida Statutes, and to charter schools sponsored by a 5