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2022 Florida Statutes (including 2022C, 2022D, 2022A, and 2023B)
SECTION 53
Religious observances.
Religious observances.
1006.53 Religious observances.—Each public postsecondary educational institution shall adopt a policy which reasonably accommodates the religious observance, practice, and belief of individual students in regard to admissions, class attendance, and the scheduling of examinations and work assignments. Each policy shall include a grievance procedure by which a student who believes that he or she has been unreasonably denied an educational benefit due to his or her religious belief or practices may seek redress. Such policy shall be made known to faculty and students annually in inclusion in the institution’s handbook, manual, or other similar document regularly provided to faculty and students.
History.—s. 323, ch. 2002-387; s. 105, ch. 2007-217.