Florida Senate - 2017 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SB 1468
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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The Committee on Appropriations (Galvano) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Between lines 61 and 62
4 insert:
5 Section 3. Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section
6 1002.31, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
7 1002.31 Controlled open enrollment; Public school parental
8 choice.—
9 (2)(a) Beginning by the 2017-2018 school year, as part of a
10 school district’s or charter school’s controlled open enrollment
11 process, and in addition to the existing public school choice
12 programs provided in s. 1002.20(6)(a), each district school
13 board or charter school shall allow a parent from any school
14 district in the state whose child is not subject to a current
15 expulsion or suspension to enroll his or her child in and
16 transport his or her child to any public school, including
17 charter schools, virtual charter schools, and district virtual
18 programs, that have has not reached capacity in the district,
19 subject to the maximum class size pursuant to s. 1003.03 and s.
20 1, Art. IX of the State Constitution, if applicable. The school
21 district or charter school shall accept the student, pursuant to
22 that school district’s or charter school’s controlled open
23 enrollment process, and report the student for purposes of the
24 school district’s or charter school’s funding pursuant to the
25 Florida Education Finance Program. A school district or charter
26 school may provide transportation to students described under
27 this section.
28 Section 4. Subsection (8) of section 1002.37, Florida
29 Statutes, is amended to read:
30 1002.37 The Florida Virtual School.—
31 (8)(a) The Florida Virtual School may provide full-time and
32 part-time instruction for students in kindergarten through grade
33 12. To receive part-time instruction in kindergarten through
34 grade 5, a student must meet at least one of the eligibility
35 criteria in s. 1002.455(2).
36 (b) For students receiving part-time instruction in
37 kindergarten through grade 5 and students receiving full-time
38 instruction in kindergarten through grade 12 from the Florida
39 Virtual School, the full-time equivalent student enrollment
40 calculated under this subsection is subject to the requirements
41 in s. 1011.61(4).
42 Section 5. Subsection (5) and paragraph (b) of subsection
43 (6) of section 1002.45, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
44 1002.45 Virtual instruction programs.—
45 (5) STUDENT ELIGIBILITY.—A student may enroll in a full
46 time or part-time virtual instruction program in kindergarten
47 through grade 12 which is provided by a the school district or
48 by a virtual charter school operated in the district in which he
49 or she resides if the student meets eligibility requirements for
50 virtual instruction pursuant to s. 1002.455.
51 (6) STUDENT PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS.—Each student
52 enrolled in a virtual instruction program or virtual charter
53 school must:
54 (b) Take state assessment tests within the school district
55 in which such student resides or enrolls, as contractually
56 specified. If requested by the provider, the district of
57 residence which must provide the student with access to the
58 district’s testing facilities.
59 Section 6. Section 1002.455, Florida Statutes, is repealed.
60 Section 7. Subsection (1) of section 1002.33, Florida
61 Statutes, is amended to read:
62 1002.33 Charter schools.—
63 (1) AUTHORIZATION.—Charter schools shall be part of the
64 state’s program of public education. All charter schools in
65 Florida are public schools. A charter school may be formed by
66 creating a new school or converting an existing public school to
67 charter status. A charter school may operate a virtual charter
68 school pursuant to s. 1002.45(1)(d) to provide full-time online
69 instruction to eligible students, pursuant to s. 1002.455, in
70 kindergarten through grade 12. An existing charter school that
71 is seeking to become a virtual charter school must amend its
72 charter or submit a new application pursuant to subsection (6)
73 to become a virtual charter school. A virtual charter school is
74 subject to the requirements of this section; however, a virtual
75 charter school is exempt from subsections (18) and (19),
76 subparagraphs (20)(a)2., 4., 5., and 7., paragraph (20)(c), and
77 s. 1003.03. A public school may not use the term charter in its
78 name unless it has been approved under this section.
79 Section 8. Subsection (2) of section 1003.498, Florida
80 Statutes, is amended to read:
81 1003.498 School district virtual course offerings.—
82 (2) School districts may offer virtual courses for students
83 enrolled in the school district. These courses must be
84 identified in the course code directory. Students who meet the
85 eligibility requirements of s. 1002.455 may participate in these
86 virtual course offerings.
87 (a) Any eligible student who is enrolled in a school
88 district may register and enroll in an online course offered by
89 his or her school district.
90 (b)1. Any eligible student who is enrolled in a school
91 district may register and enroll in an online course offered by
92 any other school district in the state. The school district in
93 which the student completes the course shall report the
94 student’s completion of that course for funding pursuant to s.
95 1011.61(1)(c)1.b.(VI), and the home school district may shall
96 not report the student for funding for that course.
97 2. The full-time equivalent student membership calculated
98 under this subsection is subject to the requirements in s.
99 1011.61(4). The Department of Education shall establish
100 procedures to enable interdistrict coordination for the delivery
101 and funding of this online option.
102 Section 9. Subsection (11) of section 1011.62, Florida
103 Statutes, is amended to read:
104 1011.62 Funds for operation of schools.—If the annual
105 allocation from the Florida Education Finance Program to each
106 district for operation of schools is not determined in the
107 annual appropriations act or the substantive bill implementing
108 the annual appropriations act, it shall be determined as
109 follows:
110 (11) VIRTUAL EDUCATION CONTRIBUTION.—The Legislature may
111 annually provide in the Florida Education Finance Program a
112 virtual education contribution. The amount of the virtual
113 education contribution shall be the difference between the
114 amount per FTE established in the General Appropriations Act for
115 virtual education and the amount per FTE for each district and
116 the Florida Virtual School, which may be calculated by taking
117 the sum of the base FEFP allocation, the discretionary local
118 effort, the state-funded discretionary contribution, the
119 discretionary millage compression supplement, the research-based
120 reading instruction allocation, and the instructional materials
121 allocation, and then dividing by the total unweighted FTE. This
122 difference shall be multiplied by the virtual education
123 unweighted FTE for school district-operated part-time and full
124 time virtual instruction programs, full-time virtual charter
125 school programs, virtual courses offered, programs and options
126 identified in s. 1002.455(3) and the Florida Virtual School and
127 its franchises to equal the virtual education contribution and
128 shall be included as a separate allocation in the funding
129 formula.
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132 And the title is amended as follows:
133 Delete line 8
134 and insert:
135 in an emergency situation; amending s. 1002.31, F.S.;
136 revising available controlled open enrollment options
137 to include virtual charter schools and district
138 virtual programs; amending ss. 1002.37 and 1002.45,
139 F.S.; revising student eligibility requirements for
140 the Florida Virtual School and virtual instruction
141 programs; repealing s. 1002.455, F.S., relating to
142 student eligibility for K-12 virtual instruction;
143 amending ss. 1002.33, 1003.498, and 1011.62, F.S.;
144 conforming provisions to changes made by the act;
145 creating s. 1003.481, F.S.;