HB 0231 2003
1	CHAMBER ACTION
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6	The Committee on Education K-20 recommends the following:
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8	Committee Substitute
9	Remove the entire bill and insert:
10	A bill to be entitled
11	An act relating to instructional materials for K-12 public
12	education; authorizing the Department of Education to
13	conduct a pilot program; authorizing a pilot program
14	within specified counties to enable selected school
15	districts to realize cost savings in the purchase of used
16	instructional materials; imposing requirements on the
17	vendors of such materials; absolving the state from
18	responsibility for certain financial losses; requiring the
19	Council for Education Policy Research and Improvement to
20	report to the Legislature; providing for future repeal;
21	providing an effective date.
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23	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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25	Section 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 1006.37,
26	Florida Statutes, the Department of Education may conduct a
27	pilot program to enable selected school districts to realize
28	cost savings without loss of quality or availability for
29	individual students in the purchase of used instructional
30	materials. The school districts of Hernando County, Pasco
31	County, and Polk County may participate in the pilot program.
32	Charter schools in such school districts shall be eligible to
33	participate in the pilot program. When a secondhand book dealer
34	or other third-party book vendor provides used adopted
35	instructional materials to a school district, the dealer or
36	vendor must certify the availability of the used instructional
37	materials, provide the International Standard Book Number of
38	each of the used instructional materials, and certify that such
39	materials are not samples or first printings, are the most
40	currently adopted, Florida-specific instructional materials, and
41	conform to the Sunshine State Standards. The state is not
42	responsible for financial loss caused by the school district’s
43	deviating from the requirements of s. 1006.37, Florida Statutes.
44	The Council for Education Policy Research and Improvement shall
45	submit to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the
46	House of Representatives for consideration during the 2004
47	Regular Session a report of the cost savings to school districts
48	based on results of the pilot program. This section is repealed
49	July 1, 2006.
50	Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.