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11 Senator Cowin moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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17 Section 15. Subsection (7) of section 230.23, Florida
18 Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:
19 230.23 Powers and duties of school board.--The school
20 board, acting as a board, shall exercise all powers and
21 perform all duties listed below:
22 (7) COURSES OF STUDY AND OTHER INSTRUCTIONAL
23 AIDS.--Provide adequate instructional aids for all children as
24 follows and in accordance with the requirements of chapter
25 233. For purposes of this subsection, adequate instructional
26 materials means providing each student with a textbook or set
27 of materials serving as the basis for instruction in the core
28 courses of mathematics, language arts, social studies,
29 science, reading, and literature, unless the school advisory
30 council approves the use of a program that does not include a
31 textbook as a major tool of instruction.
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1 (a) Courses of study; adoption.--Adopt courses of
2 study for use in the schools of the district.
3 (b) Textbooks.--Provide for proper requisitioning,
4 distribution, accounting, storage, care, and use of all
5 textbooks and other books furnished by the state and furnish
6 such other textbooks and library books as may be needed. The
7 school board is responsible for assuring that instructional
8 materials used in the district are consistent with the
9 district goals and objectives and the curriculum frameworks
10 approved by the State Board of Education, as well as with the
11 state and district performance standards provided for in ss.
12 229.565 and 232.2454.
13 (c) Other instructional aids.--Provide such other
14 teaching accessories and aids as are needed to carry out the
15 program.
16 (d) School library media services; establishment and
17 maintenance.--Establish and maintain school library media
18 centers, or school library media centers open to the public,
19 and, in addition thereto, such traveling or circulating
20 libraries as may be needed for the proper operation of the
21 district school system. Establish and maintain a program of
22 school library media services for all public schools.
23 Section 16. Paragraph (f) of subsection (4) of section
24 233.09, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
25 233.09 Duties of each state instructional materials
26 committee.--The duties of each state instructional materials
27 committee shall be:
28 (4) EVALUATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS.--To
29 evaluate carefully all instructional materials submitted, to
30 ascertain which instructional materials, if any, submitted for
31 consideration best implement the selection criteria developed
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1 by the Commissioner of Education and those curricular
2 objectives included within applicable performance standards
3 provided for in s. 229.565.
4 (f) When recommending instructional materials for use
5 in the schools, each committee shall have the recommendations
6 of all districts which submit evaluations on the materials
7 submitted for adoption in that particular subject area
8 aggregated and presented to the members to aid them in the
9 selection process.; however, such aggregation shall be
10 weighted in accordance with the full-time equivalent student
11 percentage of each district. Each committee shall prepare an
12 additional aggregation, unweighted, with Each district
13 recommendation shall be given equal consideration. No
14 instructional materials shall be evaluated or recommended for
15 adoption unless each of the district committees shall have
16 been loaned the specified number of samples.
17 Section 17. Subsection (2) of section 233.16, Florida
18 Statutes, is amended to read:
19 233.16 Powers and duties of Department of Education in
20 selecting and adopting instructional materials.--The powers
21 and duties of the Department of Education in selecting and
22 adopting instructional materials shall be:
23 (2) SELECTION AND ADOPTION OF INSTRUCTIONAL
24 MATERIALS.--The Department of Education shall notify all
25 publishers or manufacturers of instructional materials who
26 have submitted bids that within 3 weeks after the deadline for
27 receiving bids, at a designated time and place, it will open
28 bids and proposals which have been submitted and deposited
29 with the Department of Education. At the time and place
30 designated, the bids or proposals shall be opened, read, and
31 tabulated in the presence of the bidders or their
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1 representatives. No one may revise his or her bid after the
2 bids have been filed. When all bids or proposals have been
3 carefully considered, the Commissioner of Education department
4 shall, from the list of suitable, usable, and desirable
5 instructional materials reported by the state instructional
6 materials committee, select and adopt instructional materials
7 for each grade and subject field in the curriculum of public
8 elementary and secondary schools in the state in which
9 adoptions are made and in the subject areas designated in the
10 advertisement, which adoption shall continue for the period
11 specified in the advertisement, to begin on the ensuing April
12 1. Such adoption shall not prevent the extension of a
13 contract as provided in subsection (3). The Commissioner of
14 Education department shall always reserve to itself the right
15 to reject any and all bids or proposals if it is of the
16 opinion that any or all bids, for any reason, should be
17 rejected. The Commissioner of Education department may ask for
18 new sealed bids from publishers or manufacturers whose
19 instructional materials were recommended by the state
20 instructional materials committee as suitable, usable, and
21 desirable; specify the dates for filing such bids and the date
22 on which they shall be opened; and proceed in all matters
23 regarding the opening of bids and the awarding of contracts as
24 required by the terms and provisions of this chapter. In all
25 cases, bids or proposals shall be accompanied by a cash
26 deposit or certified check of from $500 to $2,500, as the
27 Commissioner of Education department may direct. The
28 department, in adopting instructional materials, shall give
29 due consideration both to the prices bid for furnishing
30 instructional materials and to the report and recommendations
31 of the state instructional materials committee. When the
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1 Commissioner of Education department has finished with the
2 report of the state instructional materials committee, the
3 report shall be filed and preserved in the office of the
4 Department of Education and shall be available at all times
5 for public inspection.
6 Section 18. Section 233.17, Florida Statutes, is
7 amended to read:
8 233.17 Term of adoption for instructional materials.--
9 (1) The term of adoption of any instructional
10 materials must be an 8-year period beginning on April 1
11 following the adoption, except for the core subject areas
12 which include mathematics, science, social studies, reading,
13 and literature which shall be for a term not to exceed 6 years
14 beginning on April 1 following the adoption. Any contract for
15 instructional materials may be extended as prescribed in s.
16 233.16(2). The Commissioner of Education may approve terms of
17 adoption of less than 8 years for materials in content areas
18 which require more frequent revision.
19 (2) Any contract placing an instructional material on
20 adoption for 4 or more years shall provide that a publisher or
21 manufacturer of instructional materials may, at the end of the
22 third year during the term of the contract, upon giving 60
23 days' notification, increase such contract price to the
24 publisher's or manufacturer's then-current lowest wholesale
25 price at which the materials are then being offered to any
26 state or school district in the United States, except that
27 such adjustment shall not exceed the percentage by which the
28 consumer price index as determined by the United States
29 Department of Labor has increased during the time the contract
30 has been in force. Such price increase shall remain in effect
31 for the remaining term of the contract, unless the contract
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1 price is increased as permitted above.
2 (2)(3) The department shall publish annually an
3 official schedule of subject areas to be called for adoption
4 for each of the succeeding 2 years, and a tentative schedule
5 for years 3, 4, 5, and 6. If extenuating circumstances
6 warrant, the Commissioner of Education may order the
7 department to add one or more subject areas to the official
8 schedule, in which event the commissioner shall develop
9 criteria for such additional subject area or areas pursuant to
10 s. 229.512(15) and make them available to publishers as soon
11 as practicable. Notwithstanding the provisions of s.
12 229.512(15), the criteria for such additional subject area or
13 areas may be provided to publishers less than 24 months before
14 the date on which bids are due. The schedule shall be
15 developed so as to promote balance among the subject areas so
16 that the required expenditure for new instructional materials
17 is approximately the same each year in order to maintain
18 curricular consistency.
19 Section 19. Section 233.22, Florida Statutes, is
20 amended to read:
21 233.22 Requisition of instructional materials from
22 publisher's depository.--
23 (1) The superintendent shall requisition adopted
24 instructional materials from the depository of the publisher
25 with whom a contract has been made. However, the
26 superintendent shall requisition current instructional
27 materials to provide each student with a textbook or other
28 materials as a major tool of instruction in core courses of
29 the subject areas in s. 233.34(2). These materials must be
30 requisitioned within the first 2 years of the adoption cycle,
31 except for instructional materials related to growth of
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1 student membership or instructional-materials-maintenance
2 needs. The superintendent may requisition instructional
3 materials in the core subject areas in s. 233.34(2) that are
4 related to growth of student membership or
5 instructional-materials-maintenance needs during the 3rd, 4th,
6 5th, and 6th years of the original contract period.
7 (2) The superintendent shall verify that such
8 requisition is complete and accurate and order the depository
9 to forward to him or her the adopted instructional materials
10 shown by the requisition. The depository shall prepare an
11 invoice of the materials shipped, including shipping charges,
12 and mail it to the superintendent to whom the shipment is
13 being made. The superintendent shall pay the depository within
14 60 days after receipt of the requisitioned materials from the
15 appropriation for the purchase of adopted instructional
16 materials.
17 Section 20. Subsection (12) of section 233.25, Florida
18 Statutes, is amended, present subsections (13) and (14) of
19 that section are redesignated as subsections (16) and (17),
20 respectively, and new subsections (13), (14), and (15) are
21 added to that section, to read:
22 233.25 Duties, responsibilities, and requirements of
23 publishers and manufacturers of instructional
24 materials.--Publishers and manufacturers of instructional
25 materials, or their representatives, shall:
26 (12) Maintain, or contract with, a depository in the
27 state and maintain there an inventory sufficient to receive
28 and fill orders for instructional materials.
29 (13) For the core subject areas in s. 233.34(2),
30 maintain in the depository for the first 2 years of the
31 contract an inventory of instructional materials that is
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1 sufficient to receive and fill orders.
2 (14) For the core subject areas in s. 233.34(2),
3 ensure the availability of an inventory sufficient to receive
4 and fill orders for instructional materials for growth,
5 including the opening of a new school, and replacement during
6 the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th years of the original contract
7 period.
8 (15) For all other subject areas, maintain in the
9 depository an inventory of instructional materials that is
10 sufficient to receive and fill orders.
11 Section 21. Section 233.34, Florida Statutes, is
12 amended to read:
13 233.34 Use of instructional materials allocation;
14 instructional materials, library books, and reference books;
15 repair of books; exceptions.--
16 (1) On or before July 1 each year, the commissioner
17 shall certify to the superintendent of each district the
18 estimated allocation of state funds for instructional
19 materials, computed pursuant to the provisions of chapter 236
20 for the ensuing fiscal year.
21 (2)(a) Each school district must purchase current
22 instructional materials to provide each student with a
23 textbook or other instructional materials as a major tool of
24 instruction in core courses of the subject areas of
25 mathematics, language arts, science, social studies, reading,
26 and literature for kindergarten through grade 12. Such
27 purchase must be made within the first 2 years of the
28 effective date of the adoption cycle.
29 (b) The requirement in paragraph (a) does not apply to
30 contracts in existence prior to April 1, 1999, or to a
31 purchase related to growth of student membership in the
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1 district or for instructional-materials-maintenance needs.
2 (c) Any school district that meets the requirement in
3 paragraph (a) may use 5 percent of public school technology
4 funds to purchase laptop computers for use as readers when
5 authorized to do so in the General Appropriations Act.
6 (d) The exceptions in subsections (3) and (4) for the
7 use of the annual allocation do not apply to this subsection.
8 (3)(a)(2) Each school district shall use the annual
9 allocation for the purchase of instructional materials
10 included on the state-adopted list. No less than 50 percent
11 of the annual allocation shall be used to purchase items which
12 will be used to provide instruction to students at the level
13 or levels for which the materials are designed.
14 (b) However, up to 50 percent of the annual allocation
15 may be used for the purchase of instructional materials,
16 including library and reference books and nonprint materials,
17 not included on the state-adopted list and for the repair and
18 renovation of textbooks and library books.
19 (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection,
20 school districts may use 100 percent of that portion of the
21 annual allocation which is designated by the district for the
22 purchase of instructional materials for kindergarten, and 75
23 percent of that portion of the annual allocation which is
24 designated for the purchase of instructional materials for
25 first grade, to purchase materials not on the state-adopted
26 list.
27 (4)(3) Notwithstanding the definition of instructional
28 materials in s. 233.07(4), the funds described in subsection
29 (3) (2) which school districts may use to purchase materials
30 not on the state adopted list may be used for the purchase of
31 instructional materials or other items having intellectual
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1 content which assist in the instruction of a subject or
2 course. These items may be available in bound, unbound, kit,
3 or package form and may consist of hardbacked or softbacked
4 textbooks, replacements for items which were part of
5 previously purchased instructional materials, consumables,
6 learning laboratories, manipulatives, electronic media,
7 computer courseware or software, and other commonly accepted
8 instructional tools as prescribed by school board policy. The
9 funds available to school districts for the purchase of
10 materials not on the state adopted list may not be used to
11 purchase electronic or computer hardware even if such hardware
12 is bundled with software or other electronic media, nor may
13 such funds be used to purchase equipment or supplies. However,
14 when authorized to do so in the General Appropriations Act, a
15 school or school district may use a portion of the funds
16 available to it for the purchase of materials not on the state
17 adopted list to purchase science laboratory materials and
18 supplies.
19 (5)(4) Each district school board shall adopt
20 policies, and each superintendent shall implement procedures,
21 that will assure the maximum use by the students of the
22 materials herein authorized.
23 (6)(5) District school boards are authorized to issue
24 purchase orders subsequent to March 15 in an aggregate amount
25 which does not exceed 20 percent of the current year's
26 allocation, and subsequent to May 1 in an aggregate amount
27 which does not exceed 90 percent of the current year's
28 allocation, for the purpose of expediting the delivery of
29 instructional materials which are to be paid for from the
30 ensuing year's allocation.
31 (7)(6) In any year in which the total allocation for a
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1 district has not been expended or obligated prior to June 30,
2 the district shall carry forward such unobligated amount and
3 shall add this amount to the next year's allocation.
4 Section 22. Section 233.37, Florida Statutes, is
5 amended to read:
6 233.37 Disposal of instructional materials.--
7 (1) Under policy rules of the commissioner, or rules
8 of the district school board which have been approved by the
9 commissioner, the district school board may dispose of the
10 instructional materials of an old adoption when they have
11 become unserviceable or are no longer on state contract by any
12 of the following means:
13 (a) Giving the materials to other public education
14 programs within the district or state.
15 (b) Giving the materials to the teachers to use in
16 developing supplementary teaching materials.
17 (c) Giving the materials to students or others.
18 (d) Giving the materials to any charitable
19 organization, governmental agency, private school, or state.
20 (e) Selling the materials to used book dealers,
21 recycling plants, pulp mills, or other persons, firms, or
22 corporations upon such terms as are most economically
23 advantageous to the district school board.
24 (2) The district school board may prescribe by policy
25 the manner for destroying instructional materials that cannot
26 be disposed of as provided in subsection (1).
27 (3) All moneys received by reason of sale, exchange,
28 or other disposition of instructional materials shall be
29 deposited in the district school fund and added to the
30 district appropriation for instructional materials., upon such
31 terms and conditions as will yield their fair salvage value.
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1 The Department of Education shall enter into one or more
2 contracts with recycling firms for periodic pickup in school
3 districts of obsolete or unusable materials to be salvaged.
4 Section 23. Section 233.38, Florida Statutes, is
5 repealed.
6 Section 24. Section 233.43, Florida Statutes, is
7 amended to read:
8 233.43 Duties of superintendent relating to
9 instructional materials.--The duties and responsibilities of
10 each superintendent for the requisition, purchase, receipt,
11 storage, distribution, use, conservation, records, and reports
12 of, and management practices and property accountability
13 concerning, instructional materials shall be prescribed by
14 policies of the district school board. Such policies shall
15 also provide for an evaluation of any instructional materials
16 to be requisitioned that have not been used previously in the
17 schools of the district. The duties and responsibilities shall
18 include keeping adequate records and accounts for all
19 financial transactions for funds collected pursuant to s.
20 233.46(4). Each superintendent shall provide an annual report
21 on the funds collected from the sale, exchange, loss, or
22 damage of instructional materials under s. 233.46(4) to the
23 Department of Education. The Department of Education shall
24 annually review these reports and prepare a report to the
25 Legislature, including recommendations for any needed changes.
26 Section 25. Subsection (2) of section 233.46, Florida
27 Statutes, is amended to read:
28 233.46 Duties of principals.--The duties and
29 responsibilities of principals for instructional materials
30 management and care include:
31 (2) MONEY COLLECTED FOR LOST OR DAMAGED BOOKS;
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1 ENFORCEMENT.--It shall be the duty and responsibility of each
2 principal to collect from each pupil or the pupil's parent the
3 purchase price of any instructional material the pupil has
4 lost, destroyed, or unnecessarily damaged and to report and
5 transmit such amounts so collected to the superintendent. If
6 such material so lost, destroyed, or damaged has been in
7 school use for more than 1 year, a sum ranging between 50 and
8 75 percent of the purchase price of the book shall be
9 collected. Such sum shall be determined by the physical
10 condition of the book. The failure to collect such sum upon
11 reasonable effort by the principal may result in the
12 suspension of the pupil from participation in extracurricular
13 activities or satisfaction of the debt by the pupil through
14 community service activities at the school site as determined
15 by the principal. The provisions of this subsection must be
16 included in the policies of the district school board.
17 Section 26. The Department of Education shall review
18 the contracts used for the core subject areas and prepare a
19 report that includes recommendations for any needed changes.
20 The department shall provide a copy of the report to the
21 President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of
22 Representatives, and the minority leader of each house by
23 January 1, 2000.
24 Section 27. The Executive Office of the Governor and
25 the Secretary of State shall renegotiate any contracts in
26 existence on the effective date of this act which provides for
27 instructional materials for the core subject areas of
28 mathematics and social studies for grades 9 through 12 and
29 language arts for grades 6 through 12.
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2 And the title is amended as follows:
3 On page 2, line 6, after the semicolon
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6 amending s. 230.23, F.S.; defining the term
7 "adequate instructional materials" to mean
8 providing each student with a textbook or
9 certain other materials; amending s. 233.09,
10 F.S.; eliminating the requirements for
11 providing weighted and unweighted aggregations;
12 amending s. 233.16, F.S.; changing the
13 reference from the Department of Education to
14 the Commissioner of Education with respect to
15 certain duties in selecting and adopting
16 instructional materials; eliminating a
17 condition for rejecting bids; amending s.
18 233.17, F.S.; eliminating the optional
19 escalator clause in certain contracts; amending
20 s. 233.22, F.S.; requiring the superintendent
21 to requisition certain materials; allowing the
22 superintendent to requisition certain
23 materials; amending s. 233.25, F.S.; requiring
24 publishers and manufacturers to retain
25 instructional materials in a depository for a
26 specified period of time and to ensure the
27 availability of materials; authorizing the
28 Commissioner of Education to accept certain
29 submissions under certain circumstances;
30 amending s. 233.34, F.S.; requiring school
31 districts to purchase instructional materials
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1 in core courses of subject areas within a
2 specified time; providing exceptions; allowing
3 school districts to make certain purchases when
4 authorized in the General Appropriations Act;
5 amending s. 233.37, F.S.; providing for the
6 disposal of unserviceable instructional
7 materials and those no longer on state
8 contract; eliminating contracts between the
9 Department of Education and recycling firms;
10 authorizing the district school board to
11 prescribe policies for destroying instructional
12 materials; requiring that certain moneys be
13 deposited in the district school fund and added
14 to the district appropriation for instructional
15 materials; repealing s. 233.38, F.S., relating
16 to the exchange of textbooks by certain
17 districts; amending s. 233.43, F.S.; requiring
18 district school board policies to include the
19 superintendent's responsibilities for keeping
20 records pursuant to s. 233.46(4), F.S.;
21 requiring reports; amending s. 233.46, F.S.;
22 requiring policies by district school boards
23 related to lost or damaged books; requiring a
24 report by the Department of Education;
25 requiring that the Executive Office of the
26 Governor and the Secretary of State renegotiate
27 existing contracts for certain instructional
28 materials in core subject areas;
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