Senate Bill 1142c1

    Florida Senate - 1998                           CS for SB 1142

    By the Committee on Education and Senator Gutman





    304-1857-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to courses of study and

  3         instructional materials; amending s. 233.061,

  4         F.S.; including the study of Hispanic

  5         contributions and women's contributions to the

  6         the United States in required public school

  7         instruction; providing an effective date.

  8

  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

10

11         Section 1.  Paragraphs (o) and (p) are added to

12  subsection (2) of section 233.061, Florida Statutes, to read:

13         233.061  Required instruction.--

14         (2)  Members of the instructional staff of the public

15  schools, subject to the rules and regulations of the

16  commissioner, the state board, and the school board, shall

17  teach efficiently and faithfully, using the books and

18  materials required, following the prescribed courses of study,

19  and employing approved methods of instruction, the following:

20         (o)  The study of Hispanic contributions to the United

21  States.

22         (p)  The study of women's contributions to the United

23  States.

24         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1998.

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

                                  1

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 1998                           CS for SB 1142
    304-1857-98




  1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  2                             SB 1142

  3

  4  The Committee Substitute differs from SB 1142 as follows:

  5  School curricula must include the contribution of women to the
    United States.
  6
    Authorization for school districts to use their entire annual
  7  instructional materials allocation to buy materials not on the
    state-adopted list, and to negotiate directly with textbook
  8  companies, is removed.

  9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

                                  2