Florida Senate - 2019                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 770
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Hutson) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (453306) (with directory and
    2  title amendments)
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    4         Delete lines 464 - 496
    5  and insert:
    6         (g) Eight credits in electives.—School districts must
    7  develop and offer coordinated electives so that a student may
    8  develop knowledge and skills in his or her area of interest,
    9  such as electives with a STEM or liberal arts focus. Such
   10  electives must include opportunities for students to earn
   11  college credit, including industry-certified career education
   12  programs or series of career-themed courses that result in
   13  industry certification or articulate into the award of college
   14  credit, or career education courses for which there is a
   15  statewide or local articulation agreement and which lead to
   16  college credit. Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, all
   17  school districts must offer a financial literacy course
   18  consisting of at least one-half credit as an elective.
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   21  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   22         Delete line 412
   23  and insert:
   24  (c), and (g) of subsection (3), subsection (7), and
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   27  And the title is amended as follows:
   28         Delete lines 1433 - 1440
   29  and insert:
   30         requiring school districts to offer, beginning in a
   31         specified school year, a financial literacy course
   32         consisting of at least one-half credit as an elective;
   33         correcting a cross-reference relating