House Bill 3755

    Florida House of Representatives - 1998                HB 3755

        By Representatives Chestnut, Kelly, Wise, Dennis and
    Turnbull





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to school attendance; amending

  3         s. 232.0315, F.S.; requiring presentation of a

  4         certification of a school-entry comprehensive

  5         vision examination and analysis; providing for

  6         exemption; providing an effective date.

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

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10         Section 1.  Section 232.0315, Florida Statutes, is

11  amended to read:

12         232.0315  School-entry health and vision

13  examinations.--

14         (1)  The school board of each district and the

15  governing authority of each nonpublic school shall require

16  that each child who is entitled to admittance to

17  prekindergarten or kindergarten, or is entitled to any other

18  initial entrance into a public or nonpublic school in this

19  state, present a certification of a school-entry health

20  examination, and a certification of a school-entry

21  comprehensive vision examination and analysis, performed

22  within 1 year prior to enrollment in school.  The school board

23  of each district, and the governing authority of each

24  nonpublic school, may establish a policy which permits a

25  student up to 30 school days to present a certification of a

26  school-entry health examination and a certification of a

27  school-entry comprehensive vision examination and analysis.

28  Any school board which establishes such a policy shall include

29  provisions in its local school health services plan to assist

30  students in obtaining the health and vision examinations.

31  However, any child shall be exempt from the requirement of a

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1998                HB 3755

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  1  health examination or a vision examination upon written

  2  request of the parent or guardian of such child stating

  3  objections to such examination on religious grounds.

  4         (2)  The Department of Education, subject to the

  5  concurrence of the Department of Health and Rehabilitative

  6  Services, shall adopt rules to govern medical examinations

  7  performed under this section.

  8         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1 of the

  9  year in which enacted.

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      Requires each child to present a certification of a
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      analysis upon initial entrance into a public or nonpublic
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