Bill > S7038

Introduced Session

An act relating to education; amending s. 1002.321, F.S.; providing legislative findings; authorizing a school district to receive grant funds for specified purposes; requiring grant recipients to select an artificial intelligence platform that meets certain requirements; amending s. 1002.411, F.S.; revising eligibility requirements for a New Worlds Scholarship account; requiring a parent to use the administrator’s system to make direct purchases of qualifying expenditures; specifying additional qualifying expenditures; requiring that the administrator of a New Worlds Scholarship account be an eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organization; requiring each school district and prekindergarten provider to notify the parent of each eligible student of the process to request and receive a scholarship when providing certain screening and progress monitoring results; requiring eligible nonprofit scholarship funding organizations to develop a system that allows eligible students to make direct purchases of qualifying expenditures; deleting a requirement for payments to be made on a quarterly basis; amending s. 1003.485, F.S.; revising definitions of the terms “administrator” and “micro-credential”; deleting responsibilities for the Department of Education relating to the New Worlds Reading Initiative; requiring the department to provide the administrator with progress monitoring data for certain students; revising the information that the administrator must include in an annual financial report; making technical changes; creating s. 1004.561, F.S.; creating the Lastinger Center for Learning at the University of Florida; providing the duties of the center; amending s. 1008.25, F.S.; making technical changes; requiring that the progress monitoring system provide prekindergarten instructors with certain results within a specified timeframe; creating s. 1008.366, F.S.; creating the New Worlds Tutoring Program; providing the purpose of the program; providing requirements for the program; requiring the administrator of the program to provide a report to specified entities by a specified date annually; amending ss. 1003.01 and 1003.499, F.S.; conforming cross-references; providing an effective date.

AI Summary

Clay Yarborough (R), 

Other Sponsors (2)

Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 1361 (on 02/07/2024)

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