Florida Senate - 2015 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 874
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: RCS .
04/16/2015 .
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The Committee on Appropriations (Hays) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete lines 115 - 221
4 and insert:
5 2. Be responsible for his or her own instructional
6 materials and transportation unless provided for in the
7 articulation agreement otherwise.
8 3. Sign a home education articulation agreement pursuant to
9 paragraph (b).
10 (b) Each postsecondary institution that is eligible to
11 participate in the dual enrollment program pursuant to s.
12 1011.62(1)(i) must shall enter into a home education
13 articulation agreement with each home education student seeking
14 enrollment in a dual enrollment course and the student’s parent.
15 By August 1 of each year, the applicable postsecondary
16 institution shall complete and submit the home education
17 articulation agreement to the Department of Education. The home
18 education articulation agreement must shall include, at a
19 minimum:
20 1. A delineation of courses and programs available to a
21 dually enrolled home education student who participates in a
22 dual enrollment program students. The postsecondary institution
23 may add, revise, or delete courses and programs may be added,
24 revised, or deleted at any time by the postsecondary
25 institution.
26 2. The initial and continued eligibility requirements for
27 home education student participation, not to exceed those
28 required of other dual enrollment dually enrolled students.
29 3. A provision expressing whether the postsecondary
30 institution or the student is responsible The student’s
31 responsibilities for providing his or her own instructional
32 materials and transportation.
33 4. A copy of the statement on transfer guarantees developed
34 by the Department of Education under subsection (15).
35 (16) A student Students who meets meet the eligibility
36 requirements of this section and who chooses choose to
37 participate in dual enrollment programs is are exempt from the
38 payment of registration, tuition, technology, and laboratory
39 fees.
40 (17) Instructional materials assigned for use in within
41 dual enrollment courses shall be made available to dual
42 enrollment students from Florida public high schools free of
43 charge. This subsection does not prohibit a postsecondary
44 Florida College System institution from providing instructional
45 materials at no cost to a home education student or student from
46 a private school, if provided for in the articulation agreement.
47 Instructional materials purchased by a district school board or
48 Florida College System institution board of trustees on behalf
49 of dual enrollment students are shall be the property of the
50 board against which the purchase is charged.
51 (22) The Department of Education shall develop an
52 electronic submission system for dual enrollment articulation
53 agreements and shall review, for compliance, each dual
54 enrollment articulation agreement submitted pursuant to
55 subsections (13), subsection (21), and (24). The Commissioner of
56 Education shall notify the district school superintendent and
57 the president of the postsecondary institution that is eligible
58 to participate in the dual enrollment program pursuant to s.
59 1011.62(1)(i) Florida College System institution president if
60 the dual enrollment articulation agreement does not comply with
61 statutory requirements and shall submit any dual enrollment
62 articulation agreement with unresolved issues of noncompliance
63 to the State Board of Education.
64 (23) A district school board boards and a Florida College
65 System institution institutions may enter into an additional
66 dual enrollment articulation agreement agreements with a state
67 university universities for the purposes of this section. A
68 school district districts may also enter into a dual enrollment
69 articulation agreement agreements with an eligible independent
70 college or university colleges and universities pursuant to s.
71 1011.62(1)(i). By August 1 of each year, the district school
72 board and the Florida College System institution shall complete
73 and submit the dual enrollment articulation agreement with the
74 state university and an eligible independent college or
75 university, as applicable, to the Department of Education.
76 (24)(a) The dual enrollment program for a private school
77 student consists of the enrollment of an eligible private school
78 student in a postsecondary course creditable toward an associate
79 degree, a career certificate, or a baccalaureate degree. In
80 addition, the private school in which the student is enrolled
81 must award credit toward high school completion for the
82 postsecondary course under the dual enrollment program. To
83 participate in the dual enrollment program, an eligible private
84 school student shall:
85 1. Provide proof of enrollment in a private school pursuant
86 to subsection (2).
87 2. Be responsible for his or her own instructional
88 materials and transportation unless provided for in the
89 articulation agreement.
90 3. Sign a private school articulation agreement pursuant to
91 paragraph (b).
92 (b) Each postsecondary institution that is eligible to
93 participate in the dual enrollment program pursuant to s.
94 1011.62(1)(i) must enter into a private school articulation
95 agreement with each private school student seeking enrollment in
96 a dual enrollment course and the student’s parent. By August 1
97 of each year, the applicable postsecondary institution shall
98 complete and submit the private school articulation agreement to
99 the Department of Education. The articulation agreement must
100 include, at a minimum:
101 1. A delineation of courses and programs available to a
102 private school student who participates in a dual enrollment
103 program. The postsecondary institution may add, revise, or
104 delete courses and programs at any time.
105 2. The initial and continued eligibility requirements for
106 private school student participation, not to exceed those
107 required of other dual enrollment students.
108 3. A provision expressing whether the postsecondary
109 institution or the student is responsible for providing
110 instructional materials and transportation.
111 4. A copy of the statement on transfer guarantees developed
112 by the Department of Education under subsection (15)
113 Postsecondary institutions may enter into dual enrollment
114 articulation agreements with private secondary schools pursuant
115 to subsection (2).
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118 And the title is amended as follows:
119 Delete lines 5 - 18
120 and insert:
121 technology fees; requiring a home education secondary
122 student to be responsible for his or her own
123 instructional materials and transportation in order to
124 participate in the dual enrollment program unless the
125 articulation agreement provides otherwise; requiring a
126 postsecondary institution that is eligible to
127 participate in the dual enrollment program to enter
128 into a home education articulation agreement;
129 requiring the postsecondary institution to annually
130 complete and submit the agreement to the Department of
131 Education by a specified date; conforming provisions
132 to changes made by the act; authorizing certain
133 instructional materials to be made available free of
134 charge to dual enrollment students in home education
135 programs and private schools if provided for in the
136 articulation agreement;