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 already approved 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.
• Children’s 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: