House Bill hb0513

    Florida House of Representatives - 2001                 HB 513

        By Representative Bullard






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to compulsory school

  3         attendance; amending s. 232.01, F.S.;

  4         establishing a 2-year pilot program in the

  5         Miami-Dade school district in which the

  6         compulsory school attendance age will be

  7         lowered to include those children who have

  8         attained the age of 5 years by a certain date;

  9         requiring an appropriation; limiting

10         implementation to the extent specifically

11         funded in the General Appropriations Act;

12         providing an effective date.

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

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16         Section 1.  Subsection (2) of section 232.01, Florida

17  Statutes, is renumbered as subsection (3) and a new subsection

18  (2) is added to said section to read:

19         232.01  School attendance.--

20         (2)  The Miami-Dade school district shall conduct a

21  2-year pilot program, beginning in the 2001-2002 school year,

22  which shall require all children in that district who have

23  attained the age of 5 years, who will have attained the age of

24  5 years by February 1 of the current school year, or who are

25  older than 5 years of age but who have not attained the age of

26  16 years to attend school regularly during the entire school

27  term. The Legislature shall appropriate to the Department of

28  Education funds sufficient to carry out the provisions of this

29  subsection. The requirements of this subsection shall be

30  implemented only to the extent specifically funded in the

31  General Appropriations Act.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2001                 HB 513

    756-104-01






  1         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.

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      Establishes a 2-year pilot program in the Miami-Dade
  6    school district in which the compulsory school attendance
      age will be lowered to include those children who have
  7    attained the age of 5 years by a certain date. Requires
      an appropriation. Limits implementation to the extent
  8    specifically funded in the General Appropriations Act.

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