House Bill hb0401c2

    Florida House of Representatives - 2002           CS/CS/HB 401

        By the Council for Lifelong Learning and Committee on
    Colleges & Universities and Representative Argenziano





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to community college required

  3         instruction; amending s. 240.325, F.S.;

  4         requiring community college general education

  5         requirements to include civics instruction

  6         which focuses on American national government;

  7         providing an effective date.

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

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11         Section 1.  Paragraph (c) of subsection (4) of section

12  240.325, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

13         240.325  Minimum standards, definitions, and guidelines

14  for community colleges.--The State Board of Education shall

15  prescribe minimum standards, definitions, and guidelines for

16  community colleges which will assure the quality of education,

17  systemwide coordination, and efficient progress toward

18  attainment of the community college mission.  At a minimum,

19  these rules must address:

20         (4)  Provisions for curriculum development, graduation

21  requirements, college calendars, and program service areas.

22  These provisions shall include rules that:

23         (c)  Require no more than 36 semester credit hours in

24  general education courses in the subject areas of

25  communication, mathematics, social sciences, humanities, and

26  natural sciences. At least one of the courses a student must

27  take to satisfy the social sciences requirement shall include

28  civics instruction which focuses on American national

29  government. The required civics instruction applies to

30  students who enroll in a community college for the first time

31  in the fall semester of 2002 or thereafter.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2002           CS/CS/HB 401

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  2  The rules should encourage community colleges to enter into

  3  agreements with universities which allow community college

  4  students to complete upper-division-level courses at a

  5  community college.  An agreement may provide for concurrent

  6  enrollment at the community college and the university,

  7  authority for the community college to offer an

  8  upper-division-level course, or distance learning.

  9         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2002.

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