Senate Bill 1552c1

    Florida Senate - 1999                           CS for SB 1552

    By the Committee on Education and Senators Dawson-White,
    Kirkpatrick and Myers




    304-2176-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to education; creating s.

  3         232.042, F.S.; authorizing each district to

  4         require each child, prior to enrollment in

  5         school, to submit evidence of whether or not he

  6         or she has learned to swim; requiring the

  7         district school board to provide certain

  8         information; providing for review and repeal;

  9         providing an effective date.

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

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13         Section 1.  Section 232.042, Florida Statutes, is

14  created to read:

15         232.042  Swim lessons; school enrollment

16  requirements.--The school board of each district may establish

17  a policy that requires a child, prior to enrollment in public

18  school, to submit evidence of whether or not he or she has

19  learned to swim.  Such a policy shall include provisions for

20  providing information regarding available learn-to-swim

21  programs in the community to the parent or guardian of each

22  child who, upon enrollment, has not learned to swim.  No civil

23  liability shall be incurred by any school district based on

24  this section.

25         Section 2.  Section 232.042, Florida Statutes, as

26  created by this act, is repealed July 1, 2005, and shall be

27  reviewed prior to that date.

28         Section 3.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

29  law.

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    Florida Senate - 1999                           CS for SB 1552
    304-2176-99




  1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  2                             SB 1552

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  4  The committee substitute provides that no civil liability will
    be incurred by a school district on the basis of the new
  5  provisions of the bill and provides for the repeal and review
    of the new language.  The committee substitute also allows
  6  rather than requires the school district to establish a policy
    related to determining if a child has learned to swim at the
  7  time of enrollment in school.

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