Bill > H5101

Introduced Session

An act relating to education; amending s. 1002.31, F.S.; deleting obsolete language; revising the requirements for school district and charter school capacity determinations; providing requirements for the determination of capacity for certain virtual schools; revising requirements for a certain district school board process required for controlled open enrollment; amending s. 1002.33, F.S.; providing for a standard virtual charter contract and standard virtual charter renewal contract; revising charter requirements; requiring virtual charter schools to comply with specified provisions; amending s. 1002.37, F.S.; deleting the requirement for the board of trustees of the Florida Virtual School to establish criteria defining the elements of an approved franchise; deleting requirements for how school districts with an approved franchise report students for funding; amending s. 1002.394, F.S.; revising Department of Education duties under the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program; revising requirements for a specified calculation; revising the scholarship amount for students enrolled in certain public schools or lab schools; revising terminology; amending s. 1002.395, F.S.; revising duties of the department under the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program; authorizing administrative expenses to include certain contracts and strategies relating to the transportation of students; revising the scholarship amount for students enrolled in certain public schools or lab schools; amending s. 1002.40, F.S.; revising Department of Education duties under the Hope Scholarship Program; amending s. 1002.411, F.S.; revising student eligibility requirements for reading scholarship accounts; providing that a school district may not prohibit instructional personnel from providing services during specified time periods; amending s. 1002.45, F.S.; revising and providing definitions; authorizing students who reside in the school district, rather than students enrolled in the school district, to participate in school district virtual instruction programs; deleting the purpose of specified programs; requiring each virtual instruction program, rather than full-time programs, to operate under its own Master School Identification Number; authorizing certain service organizations to execute specified contractual arrangements; revising school district responsibilities; requiring the State Board of Education to approve certain virtual instruction program providers; revising the requirements for approval of a virtual instruction program provider; providing additional requirements for school district contracts with approved virtual instruction program providers; revising the requirements for calculating student funding for students enrolled in certain virtual education programs; requiring approved virtual instruction program providers to receive a district grade; providing requirements for such grade; revising requirements for the automatic termination of an approve virtual instruction provider's contract; requiring the State Board of Education to adopt rules for a specified standard contract; amending s. 1002.455, F.S.; revising the virtual instruction options available to certain students; requiring school districts enrolling certain students in virtual education programs to comply with specified enrollment requirements; amending s. 1003.485, F.S.; requiring the administrator of the New Worlds Reading Initiative to provide specified professional development and resources to teachers; requiring students be provided with specified options upon enrollment; amending s. 1003.498, F.S.; providing requirements for funding for certain virtual courses; amending s. 1003.52, F.S.; revising requirements for the funding of certain students in juvenile justice education programs; amending s. 1006.12, F.S.; conforming cross- references; amending s. 1006.22, F.S.; revising the requirements for the use of motor vehicles other than school buses for the transportation of students; amending s. 1006.27, F.S.; requiring the department to develop a grant program for specified purposes relating to the transportation of students; providing requirements for the program; requiring the department to publish on its website an interim and final report by specified dates; providing requirements for such reports; amending s. 1010.20, F.S.; revising the percentage of certain funds school districts must spend on juvenile justice programs; amending s. 1011.62, F.S.; revising the calculation for the basic amount for current operation for kindergarten through grade 12; authorizing certain funds to be used to purchase certain computers and device hardware; deleting the Florida digital classrooms allocation; deleting the funding compression and hold harmless allocation; amending s. 1011.68, F.S.; revising the requirements for specified student transportation funds to be used to pay for transportation in specified vehicles; amending ss. 1011.71, 1012.22, and 1012.584, F.S.; conforming cross-references; providing an effective date.

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Randy Fine (R)*, 

Other Sponsors (2)

Died in Appropriations (on 03/14/2022)

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