House Bill hb0267

    Florida House of Representatives - 2001                 HB 267

        By Representatives Kravitz, Davis, Wiles, Baxley,
    Needelman, Bean, Hogan, Negron, Kottkamp and Detert





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to school attendance by violent

  3         offenders; requiring courts to provide certain

  4         notice to a school district under certain

  5         circumstances; prohibiting certain persons from

  6         attending certain schools or riding on certain

  7         school buses under certain circumstances;

  8         providing for attending alternate schools;

  9         requiring responsibility for certain

10         transportation costs in attending alternate

11         schools; providing an effective date.

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

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15         Section 1.  (1)  Notwithstanding any provision of law

16  prohibiting the disclosure of the identity of a minor,

17  whenever any person who is required to attend school under

18  chapter 232, Florida Statutes, is adjudicated guilty of, or

19  pleads guilty or nolo contendere to, a violation of chapter

20  784, Florida Statutes, chapter 787, Florida Statutes, chapter

21  794, Florida Statutes, chapter 796, Florida Statutes, chapter

22  800, Florida Statutes, chapter 827, Florida Statutes, or

23  chapter 847, Florida Statutes, and, before or at the time of

24  such adjudication or plea, was attending a school attended by

25  the victim or a sibling of the victim of such violation, the

26  court shall notify the appropriate school district of such

27  adjudication or plea, of the operation of this section, and

28  that such person is prohibited from attending such school

29  whenever the victim or a sibling of the victim is attending

30  such school or riding on a school bus on which the victim or a

31  sibling of the victim is riding.

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  1         (2)  Any person who is required to attend school

  2  pursuant to chapter 232, Florida Statutes, and who is

  3  adjudicated guilty of, or pleads guilty or nolo contendere to,

  4  a violation of chapter 784, Florida Statutes, chapter 787,

  5  Florida Statutes, chapter 794, Florida Statutes, chapter 796,

  6  Florida Statutes, chapter 800, Florida Statutes, chapter 827,

  7  Florida Statutes, or chapter 847, Florida Statutes, shall not

  8  attend any school attended by a victim or a sibling of a

  9  victim of such violation or ride on a school bus on which the

10  victim or a sibling of the victim is riding. Such person shall

11  be permitted by the school district in which such person

12  resides to attend another school within the district, provided

13  such other school is not attended by a victim or sibling of a

14  victim of such violation, or shall be permitted by another

15  school district to attend a school in such district if such

16  person is unable to attend any school in the district in which

17  such person resides due to the operation of this section.

18         (3)  Such person or the parents or legal guardian of

19  such person shall be responsible for transportation or other

20  costs that would otherwise be paid by a school district

21  associated with or required by such person's attending another

22  school or that would be required as a consequence of the

23  prohibition against riding on a school bus on which the victim

24  or a sibling of the victim is riding.

25         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 2001.

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  2                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Requires a court to determine if a person who commits, or
  4    pleads guilty or nolo contendere to, specified violent
      offenses or sex offenses is required to attend school and
  5    to notify the appropriate school district. Prohibits such
      person from attending a school attended by a victim or
  6    sibling of a victim of such offenses or riding on a
      school bus in which the victim or a sibling of the victim
  7    is riding. Requires such person to be responsible for
      transportation costs associated with attending another
  8    school. See bill for details.

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