Florida SB 512: Homestead Waivers

Bill Text

512 
Funding for the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program 
2025-11-17T05:42:05Z 
Revising the calculation of the base student allocation for the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program; requiring the Division of Early Learning to annually publish and provide to early learning coalitions specified information, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
GB 
General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 512 

 By Senator Osgood 

 32-00292B-26 2026512__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to funding for the Voluntary 
 3 Prekindergarten Education Program; amending s. 
 4 1002.71, F.S.; revising the calculation of the base 
 5 student allocation for the Voluntary Prekindergarten 
 6 Education Program; requiring the Division of Early 
 7 Learning to annually publish and provide to early 
 8 learning coalitions specified information; authorizing 
 9 the Legislature to provide additional funding for the 
 10 program; providing an effective date. 
 11 
 12 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 13 
 14 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section 
 15 1002.71, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 
 16 1002.71 Funding; financial and attendance reporting.— 
 17 (3)(a) Each private prekindergarten provider and public 
 18 school delivering the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education 
 19 Program shall be paid a separate base student allocation per 
 20 full-time equivalent student as in the Voluntary Prekindergarten 
 21 Education Program shall be provided in the General 
 22 Appropriations Act. 
 23 1. Beginning with the 2026-2027 program year, the base 
 24 student allocation for a school-year prekindergarten program and 
 25 for a summer prekindergarten program may not be less than the 
 26 amount appropriated for the previous program year, adjusted 
 27 annually on July 1 by the percentage change in the Consumer 
 28 Price Index for All Urban Consumers for the most recent calendar 
 29 year, published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United 
 30 States Department of Labor, not to exceed 5 percent each year. 
 31 The base student allocation for a school-year program shall be 
 32 equal for each student, regardless of whether the student is 
 33 enrolled in a school-year prekindergarten program delivered by a 
 34 public school or a private prekindergarten provider. The base 
 35 student allocation for a summer prekindergarten program shall be 
 36 equal for each student, regardless of whether the student is 
 37 enrolled in a summer prekindergarten program delivered by a 
 38 public school or private prekindergarten provider. 
 39 2. The Division of Early Learning shall annually publish on 
 40 its website the adjusted base student allocation and provide the 
 41 amount of the allocation to each early learning coalition no 
 42 later than May 1 for use in the following program year. 
 43 3. The Legislature may provide a greater base student 
 44 allocation than calculated under subparagraph 1. or additional 
 45 supplements for the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program 
 46 in the General Appropriations Act. 
 47 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.