Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 874
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  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;