The Senate Budget Committee on Thursday submitted a $70.7 billion budget for the 2012-2013 fiscal year.
On top of promoting economic development and job creation, we showed our commitment to education by providing more than $1 billion in funding to our K-12 education system, Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, stated in a release.
The spending next goes before the full Senate.
The House has alreadyapproved its own $69.2 billion fiscal package.
The following budget breakdown was released by the Senate:
PRE-K THROUGH 12 EDUCATION
The total budget for Pre-K-12 education is $20.5 billion from all sources (state, local, and federal). The budget includes $9.8 billion from General Revenue, $358.3 million from the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund, $220.1 million from the State School Trust Fund and $2.5 billion from other trust funds, largely for federal programs. In addition, $7.6 billion of local funds are included for the Florida Education Finance Program.
Highlights
- Priority given to preserving the core delivery systems, which include Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten Education and School Readiness, the FEFP for public schools, and the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind.
- Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten Education: $413.1 million. IncludES workload funding of $28.5 million for an additional 11,520 full-time equivalent employees, and $10.3 million. Also, the base student allocation remains unchanged at $2,383 for the regular school year and $2,026 for the summer program.
- Florida Education Finance Prgram: $1.179 billion
HIGHER EDUCATION
Total: $6.7 billion, a 2.2% decrease from the 2011-12 budget.
Highlights
- Workforce education: $541.3 million, an increase of $1.5 million or .3 percent.
- Florida College System: $2 billion, an increase of $45.1 million or 2.3 percent.
- State University System: $3.3 billion, a decrease of $171.3 million or 4.9 percent.
- Board of Governors: $6 million, an increase of 5 percent.
Education Fixed Capital Outlay
Total: $1.5 billion.
Highlights
- Charter schools: $55.2 million.
- Florida College System: $5.4 million.
- Florida College System: $7 million.
- Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind: $1.7 million.
- University Developmental Research Schools: $4.3 million.
- Other education capital outlay projects: $9.1 million.
- School district and Florida College System-bonded construction projects: $28 million.
- Debt service: $1.1 billion
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Total: $30.5 billion, a 2.1 percent increase.
Highlights
- Medicaid Workload/Price leve: $304.6 million.
- Kidcare enrollment growth: $4.6 million.
- LIP funding for clinics primary care services: $50 million
Agency for Persons with Disabilities
Total: $108.8 million.
Children and Family Services:
- Public Assistance Eligibility System: $33.7 million.
- Adult Mental Health Restoration: $23.1 million.
- Maintenance Adoption Subsidies Restoration: $15.7 million.
- Florida Safe Family Network: o $12.5 million.
- Child Protective Investigators: $9.8 million.
- Childrens Mental Health Restoration: $7 million.
- Adult Substance Abuse Restoration: $5.9 million.
- Healthy Families Restoration: $2 million.
- Marissa Amora Claim: 1.7 million.
- Sexual Predator Program: $1.7 million.
- Adult Community Mental Health Restoration: $23.1 million.
- Adult Substance Abuse Restoration: $6 million.
Elder Affairs:
Shift from Nursing Home Growth to Nursing Home Diversion Waiver Program: $30 million.
Expanding PACE program: $1.8 mllion
Health
- Healthy Start Funding: Restores $5.4 million.
- Early Steps IDEA Part C: $6.9 million.
- Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Medicaid Waiver: $5.7 million.
- AIDS Drug Assistance Program: $5 million.
- Child Protection Teams Funding: Restore $706,250
- James and Esther King Biomedical Research Center: $ 5 million.
- Bankhead-Coley Cancer Center: $ 5 million.
- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center: $5 million.
- Shands Cancer Hospital: $5 million
- Sylvester Cancer Center at the University of Miami: $5 million.
- Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute: $3.5 million.
- Childrens Medical Services Facility in Marion County: $1 million.
- Nitrogen Reduction Strategies: $1.5 million.
- Restore nonrecurring funds: $14.3 million.
- Maintenance and repairs and FCO projects: $18.6 million.
Veterans Affairs
- Nursing home replacement equipment: $800,000
- Veterans Homes Maintenance and Repairs: $1.4 million
Criminal and Civil Justice
Total: $4,641.7 billion.
Highlights
- Resolving the State Courts and Clerks of Court current year deficit: $121.7 million and $57.6 million.
- Expanding Department of Juvenile Justices Redirection Program by 375 slots: $10 million.
- Expanding probation prevention and intervention program in Department of Juvenile Justice: $7.8 million.
- Department of Legal Affairs for civil legal assistance and other legal aid for elderly or economically disadvantaged Floridians: $2 million.
- Supreme Court roof repair and address other major maintenance issues: $4.1 million.
- Foreclosure backlog: $2 million.
- State courts trust funds deficit: $87.2 million.
- Clerks of court to projected shortfall: $56.2 million.
General Government
Total: $4,774.1 million.
Highlights
- Beach restoration: $20 million
- Wastewater and stormwater projects: $9.5 million
- Drinking and wastewater construction loan programs: $190.3 million.
- Underground storage tanks cleanup: $128 million.
- Numeric nutrient criteria monitoring: $5 million.
- Florida Agriculture promotion campaign: $1.8 million.
- Citrus Health Response program: $5.6 million.
- Farm Share and Food Banks: $800,000.
- Personal Injury Protection (PIP) fraud investigators: $700,000
Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
Total: $10.96 billion.
Highlights
- Florida Armory Revitalization program: $7.1 million
- National Guard Community Service programs: 2 million.
- Space Florida: $10 milliion.
- Small Cities Community Developmental Block Grants: $30 million.
- Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program grants: $78.1 million.
- State Small Business Credit Initiative Program: $33.2 million.
- Grants and aids for the Transportation Disadvantaged: $43.4 million
- Transportation Work program: $8 billion
- Florida Highway Patrol to replace motor vehicles: $11.3 million.
- State Aid to Libraries Grants: $21.3 million.
- Cultural and Museum Grants: $5 million.
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