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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS/HBs 751, 753 & 755, 2nd Eng.

    Amendment No.    

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11  Senator Dyer moved the following amendment to amendment

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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

15         On page 61, between lines 19 and 20,

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18         Section 16.  Section 233.061, Florida Statutes, 1998

19  Supplement, is amended to read:

20         233.061  Required instruction.--

21         (1)  Each school district and private school receiving

22  opportunity scholarships shall provide all courses required

23  for high school graduation and appropriate instruction

24  designed to ensure that students meet state board adopted

25  standards in the following subject areas: reading and other

26  language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, foreign

27  languages, health and physical education, and the arts.

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

29  schools and private schools receiving opportunity scholarships

30  , subject to the rules and regulations of the commissioner,

31  the state board, and the school board, shall teach efficiently

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS/HBs 751, 753 & 755, 2nd Eng.

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 1  and faithfully, using the books and materials required,

 2  following the prescribed courses of study, and employing

 3  approved methods of instruction, the following:

 4         (a)  The content of the Declaration of Independence and

 5  how it forms the philosophical foundation of our government.

 6         (b)  The arguments in support of adopting our

 7  republican form of government, as they are embodied in the

 8  most important of the Federalist Papers.

 9         (c)  The essentials of the United States Constitution

10  and how it provides the structure of our government.

11         (d)  Flag education, including proper flag display and

12  flag salute.

13         (e)  The elements of civil government shall include the

14  primary functions of and interrelationships between the

15  Federal Government, the state, and its counties,

16  municipalities, school districts, and special districts.

17         (f)  The history of the Holocaust (1933-1945), the

18  systematic, planned annihilation of European Jews and other

19  groups by Nazi Germany, a watershed event in the history of

20  humanity, to be taught in a manner that leads to an

21  investigation of human behavior, an understanding of the

22  ramifications of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping, and an

23  examination of what it means to be a responsible and

24  respectful person, for the purposes of encouraging tolerance

25  of diversity in a pluralistic society and for nurturing and

26  protecting democratic values and institutions.

27         (g)  The history of African Americans, including the

28  history of African peoples before the political conflicts that

29  led to the development of slavery, the passage to America, the

30  enslavement experience, abolition, and the contributions of

31  African Americans to society.

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS/HBs 751, 753 & 755, 2nd Eng.

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 1         (h)  The elementary principles of agriculture.

 2         (i)  The true effects of all alcoholic and intoxicating

 3  liquors and beverages and narcotics upon the human body and

 4  mind.

 5         (j)  Kindness to animals.

 6         (k)  The history of the state.

 7         (l)  The conservation of natural resources.

 8         (m)  Comprehensive health education that addresses

 9  concepts of community health; consumer health; environmental

10  health; family life, including an awareness of the benefits of

11  sexual abstinence as the expected standard and the

12  consequences of teenage pregnancy; mental and emotional

13  health; injury prevention and safety; nutrition; personal

14  health; prevention and control of disease; and substance use

15  and abuse.

16         (n)  Such additional materials, subjects, courses, or

17  fields in such grades as are prescribed by law or by rules of

18  the commissioner and the school board in fulfilling the

19  requirements of law.

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         (3)  Any child whose parent presents to the school

25  principal a signed statement that the teaching of disease, its

26  symptoms, development, and treatment, and the viewing of

27  pictures or motion pictures that teach about disease, conflict

28  with the religious teachings of the child's religious

29  affiliation, is exempt from such instruction; and a child so

30  exempted may not be penalized by reason of that exemption.

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

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 5  And the title is amended as follows:

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 9         amending s. 233.061, F.S.; requiring schools

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