Senate Bill sb0974
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Florida Senate - 2001 SB 974
By Senator Bronson
18-1139-01 See HB 267
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
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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, may 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 LEGISLATIVE 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 and from riding on a
school bus in which the victim or a sibling of the victim
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transportation costs associated with attending another
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