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SF 3782 Senate Long Description

Relating to education; increasing the school district general education basic revenue formula; requiring school districts to reserve a certain amount of revenue per adjusted marginal cost pupil unit for telecommunications access costs, authorizing excess revenue to be used for computer hardware or equipment; requiring districts to submit outstanding telecommunications access operation costs associated with data lines and video links not covered by the reserved revenue to the department of children, families and learning for guaranteed minimum access purposes, specifying certain limits and prohibiting the inclusion of hardware or equipment costs; requiring filing of e-rate applications for revenue eligibility, requiring offset of discounts received on telecommunications expenditures; requiring the commissioner to annually calculate telecommunications access cost per pupil submitted by the districts, requiring submission of certain additional costs minus the reserve; specifying the revenue formulas for public and nonpublic schools; sunset provision; modifying a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner for regional public library systems telecommunications aid; requiring commissioner by a certain date to recommend to legislature a permanent method for funding telecommunications access as part of the general education revenue formula, specifying certain consideration requirements; appropriating money to the commissioner for telecommunications access revenue (je)