Bill > H5101

Introduced Session

An act relating to education funding; amending s. 1002.37, F.S.; revising provisions relating to the calculation for determining the amount of state funds received by the Florida Virtual School for operating purposes; repealing s. 1002.411, F.S., relating to reading scholarship accounts; amending s. 1002.45, F.S.; revising the requirements for school districts providing virtual instruction programs; requiring each school district to annually report certain information to the Department of Education by a specified date; requiring a school district to limit the enrollment of certain students in the virtual instruction program; providing applicability; requiring a school district to report full-time equivalent students for a virtual instruction program or virtual charter school to the department; amending s. 1011.62, F.S.; removing a requirement that certain school districts use a low- performing school's portion of the supplemental academic instruction allocation to provide an additional hour of intensive reading per day; removing provisions relating to the allocation of funding to school districts with a decline in full-time equivalent students; removing provisions relating to the virtual education contribution; removing hb5101-00 HB 5101 provisions relating to the annual funding compression and hold harmless allocation; removing provisions relating to the turnaround school supplemental services allocation; amending s. 1012.22, F.S.; removing an obsolete date; revising provisions relating to the annual increase made to the minimum base salary of certain public school employees; requiring school districts to use a portion of their nonenrollment allocation from the federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund for a specified purpose; defining the term "unaccounted student"; requiring each school district to establish a multiagency workgroup for a specified purpose; requiring a school district to initiate a truancy petition under certain circumstances; requiring each school district to annually submit a report to the department by a specified date; providing for future expiration; requiring that school districts use a portion of their academic acceleration allocation from the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Emergency Relief Fund for a specified purpose; providing certain requirements for school districts; requiring the department to submit a status report to the Governor and Legislature by a specified date; providing for future expiration; requiring certain hb5101-00 HB 5101 nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations to continue participating in the reading scholarship accounts program until a specified period; requiring that a parent of a student with a reading scholarship account continue to submit eligible expenses to the organization for reimbursement of certain qualifying expenditures under certain circumstances; prohibiting certain service providers from sharing any moneys from reading scholarship accounts with, or providing a refund or rebate of such moneys to, parents or participating students; providing that a parent is responsible for payment of certain expenses; requiring that the nonprofit scholarship-organization make a payment of any unexpended funds remaining in a student's reading scholarship account as of a specified date, at least quarterly; providing that any moneys received under the program do not constitute taxable income; requiring that a student's reading scholarship account is considered closed under certain circumstances; requiring that an account that has been inactive for a specified number of consecutive years be closed and any remaining funds in the account revert to the state; amending ss. 1001.215, 1003.52, 1003.621, 1006.12, 1008.345, 1011.71, and 1012.584, F.S.; conforming cross-references; providing an hb5101-00 HB 5101 effective date.

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Randy Fine (R)*, 

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Chapter No. 2021-44; companion bill(s) passed, see SB 2500 (Ch. 2021-36) (on 06/03/2021)

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