Bill > S2502

This bill, titled "Implementing the General Appropriations Act," enacts various provisions to align with the 2014-2015 fiscal year's General Appropriations Act, incorporating by reference specific calculations for the Florida Education Finance Program (FEFP), which is the primary state funding mechanism for public schools. It modifies how funds for instructional materials are released and spent, ensuring compliance with specific proviso language, and expands eligibility for categorical funding for supplemental academic instruction and research-based reading instruction to a larger number of schools, specifically increasing the number of lowest-performing elementary schools eligible for these resources from 100 to 300. The bill also addresses funding for laboratory schools, modifies parameters for Medicaid hospital reimbursement programs, and outlines specific requirements for the Department of Health's onsite sewage nitrogen reduction strategies study, all while generally setting expiration dates for these provisions on July 1, 2015, unless otherwise specified.