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HB 4837: Education

GENERAL BILL by Education Appropriations ; Sublette ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Albright ; Alexander ; Andrews ; Argenziano ; Arnall ; Arnold ; Bainter ; Ball ; Barreiro ; Betancourt ; Bitner ; Bloom ; Boyd ; Bradley ; Brennan ; Bronson ; Brooks ; Brown ; Bullard ; Burroughs ; Bush ; Byrd ; Carlton ; Casey ; Chestnut ; Clemons ; Constantine ; Cosgrove ; Crady ; Crist ; Crow ; Culp ; Dawson-White ; Dennis ; Diaz de la Portilla ; Dockery ; Edwards ; Effman ; Eggelletion ; Fasano ; Feeney ; Fischer ; Flanagan ; Frankel ; Fuller ; Futch ; Garcia ; Gay ; Goode ; Gottlieb ; Greene ; Hafner ; Harrington ; Healey ; Heyman ; Hill ; Horan ; Jacobs ; Jones ; Kelly ; King ; Kosmas ; Lacasa ; Lawson ; Lippman ; Livingston ; Logan ; Lynn ; Mackenzie ; Mackey ; Maygarden ; Meek ; Melvin ; Merchant ; Miller ; Minton ; Morroni ; Morse ; Murman ; Ogles ; Peaden ; Posey ; Prewitt ; Pruitt ; Putnam ; Rayson ; Reddick ; Ritchie ; Ritter ; Rodriguez-Chomat ; Safley ; Sanderson ; Saunders ; Sembler ; Silver ; Sindler ; Smith ; Spratt ; Stabins ; Stafford ; Starks ; Tamargo ; Thrasher ; Tobin ; Trovillion ; Turnbull ; Valdes ; Villalobos ; Wallace ; Warner ; Wasserman Schultz ; Webster ; Westbrook ; Wiles ; Wise ; Ziebarth

Education; deletes certain provisions re background check re qualifications of district school system personnel; revises provisions re teaching out-of-field; revises provisions re qualification for temporary certificate; creates additional divisions of DOE; provides show-cause process for violations of probation imposed by Education Practices Commission; creates pilot programs for deregulated public schools in maximum of six counties, etc. Amends FS.

Effective Date: 5/28/1998
Last Action: 5/28/1998 - Became Law without Governor's Signature; Chapter No. 98-281
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Bill History

Date Chamber Action
4/23/1998 House • Filed; Introduced -HJ 01090
4/24/1998 House • Placed on General Calendar; Read second time -HJ 01136
4/28/1998 House • Read third time -HJ 01503; Passed; YEAS 119 NAYS 0 -HJ 01503
4/28/1998 Senate • In Messages
4/29/1998 Senate • Received, referred to Education; Ways and Means -SJ 01224; Immediately withdrawn from Education; Ways and Means -SJ 01153; Substituted for CS/CS/SB 2258 -SJ 01153; Read second time -SJ 01153; Amendment(s) adopted -SJ 01153; Read third time -SJ 01161; Passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 -SJ 01161
4/29/1998 House • In returning messages
4/30/1998 House • Concurred -HJ 01725; Passed as amended; YEAS 112 NAYS 3 -HJ 01734; Ordered engrossed, then enrolled -HJ 01734
5/12/1998 • Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
5/28/1998 • Became Law without Governor's Signature; Chapter No. 98-281