Florida Senate - 2021                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (943370) for SB 410
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/30/2021           .                                
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       The Committee on Criminal Justice (Brandes) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subsection (3) of section
    6  1002.20, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         1002.20 K-12 student and parent rights.—Parents of public
    8  school students must receive accurate and timely information
    9  regarding their child’s academic progress and must be informed
   10  of ways they can help their child to succeed in school. K-12
   11  students and their parents are afforded numerous statutory
   12  rights including, but not limited to, the following:
   13         (3) HEALTH ISSUES.—
   14         (d) Reproductive health and disease education.—A public
   15  school student whose parent makes written request to the school
   16  principal shall be exempted from the teaching of reproductive
   17  health or any disease, including HIV/AIDS, in accordance with
   18  the provisions of s. 1003.42(3). Each school district shall
   19  notify parents of this right through publication on the district
   20  website of the curriculum, including the process for a parent to
   21  exercise this right.
   22         Section 2. Subsections (1) and (3) of section 1003.42,
   23  Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
   24         1003.42 Required instruction.—
   25         (1)(a) Each district school board shall provide all courses
   26  required for middle grades promotion, high school graduation,
   27  and appropriate instruction designed to ensure that students
   28  meet State Board of Education adopted standards in the following
   29  subject areas: reading and other language arts, mathematics,
   30  science, social studies, foreign languages, health and physical
   31  education, and the arts. The state board must remove a middle
   32  grades course in the Course Code Directory that does not fully
   33  integrate all appropriate curricular content required by s.
   34  1003.41 and may approve a new course only if it meets the
   35  required curricular content.
   36         (b) The curriculum of any teaching of reproductive health
   37  or any disease, including HIV/AIDS, its symptoms, development,
   38  and treatment, as part of the courses required by paragraph (a)
   39  must be annually approved by a district school board in an open,
   40  noticed public meeting.
   41         (3) Any student whose parent makes written request to the
   42  school principal shall be exempted from the teaching of
   43  reproductive health or any disease, including HIV/AIDS, its
   44  symptoms, development, and treatment. A student so exempted may
   45  not be penalized by reason of that exemption. Course
   46  descriptions for comprehensive health education shall not
   47  interfere with the local determination of appropriate curriculum
   48  which reflects local values and concerns. Each school district
   49  shall notify parents of this right through publication on the
   50  district website of the curriculum, including the process for a
   51  parent to exercise this right.
   52         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.
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   54  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   55  And the title is amended as follows:
   56         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   57  and insert:
   58                        A bill to be entitled                      
   59         An act relating to reproductive health and disease
   60         education; amending s. 1002.20, F.S.; requiring each
   61         school district to publish specified materials on the
   62         district website to notify parents of their right to
   63         exempt their student from reproductive health and
   64         disease education; amending s. 1003.42, F.S.;
   65         requiring district school boards to annually approve
   66         curriculum relating to reproductive health and disease
   67         education in an open, noticed public meeting;
   68         requiring each school district to publish specified
   69         materials on the district website to notify parents of
   70         their right to exempt their student from reproductive
   71         health and disease education; providing an effective
   72         date.