Senate Bill sb0716c1

    Florida Senate - 2003                            CS for SB 716

    By the Committee on Education; and Senators Fasano and Dockery





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  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to instructional materials for

  3         K-12 public education; authorizing a pilot

  4         program within specified counties to enable

  5         selected school districts to realize cost

  6         savings in the purchase of used instructional

  7         materials; imposing requirements on the vendors

  8         of such materials; absolving the state from

  9         responsibility for certain financial losses;

10         requiring the Department of Education to report

11         to the Legislature; providing for future

12         repeal; 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.  The Department of Education may conduct a

17  pilot program to enable selected school districts to realize

18  cost savings without loss of quality or availability for

19  individual students in the purchase of used instructional

20  materials.  The school districts of Hernando County, Pasco

21  County, and Polk County may participate in the pilot program.

22  Charter schools in each school district are eligible to

23  participate.  For purposes of the pilot program, the

24  Department of Education may waive the requirements of section

25  1006.37, Florida Statutes, relating to the requisition of

26  instructional materials from publisher depositories. When a

27  secondhand book dealer or other third-party book vendor

28  provides used adopted instructional materials to a school

29  district, the dealer or vendor must certify the availability

30  of the used instructional materials, provide the International

31  Standard Book Number of each of the used instructional

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    Florida Senate - 2003                            CS for SB 716
    304-1936-03




 1  materials, and certify that the used instructional materials

 2  are the most currently adopted, Florida-specific instructional

 3  materials and conform to the Sunshine State Standards. This

 4  state is not responsible for financial loss caused by the

 5  school district's deviating from the requirements of section

 6  1006.37, Florida Statutes. The Department of Education shall

 7  submit to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the

 8  House of Representatives for consideration during the 2004

 9  Regular Session a report of the cost savings to school

10  districts based on results of the pilot program. This section

11  is repealed July 1, 2006.

12         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.

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14          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
15                              SB 716

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17  Provides that the pilot program's purpose is to realize a cost
    savings when purchasing instructional materials without a loss
18  of quality or the availability of materials to students.

19  Eliminates Hillsborough County as a pilot program and adds
    Polk County.
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    Allows, rather than requires, school districts to participate
21  in the pilot program.

22  Requires a secondhand book dealer or a third-party book vendor
    who provides used materials to a school district to certify
23  specific information about the materials.

24  Provides that the state is not responsible for a financial
    loss resulting from the use of a waiver.
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    Provides for the repeal of the pilot program on July 1, 2006.
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