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 This section is repealed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