Senate Bill sb0716c2

    Florida Senate - 2003                     CS for CS for SB 716

    By the Committees on Governmental Oversight and Productivity;
    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 the Council

  4         for Education Policy Research and Improvement

  5         to conduct a pilot program within specified

  6         counties to enable selected school districts to

  7         realize cost savings in the purchase of used

  8         instructional materials; imposing requirements

  9         on the vendors of such materials; absolving the

10         state from responsibility for certain financial

11         losses; requiring a report to the Legislature;

12         providing for future repeal; providing an

13         effective date.

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

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17         Section 1.  Notwithstanding the provisions of section

18  1006.37, Florida Statutes, the Council for Education Policy

19  Research and Improvement may conduct a pilot program to enable

20  selected school districts to realize cost savings without loss

21  of quality or availability for individual students in the

22  purchase of used instructional materials.  The school

23  districts of Hernando County, Pasco County, and Polk County

24  may participate in the pilot program.  Charter schools in each

25  school district are eligible to participate. When a secondhand

26  book dealer or other third-party book vendor provides used

27  adopted instructional materials to a school district, the

28  dealer or vendor must certify the availability of the used

29  instructional materials, provide the International Standard

30  Book Number of each of the used instructional materials, and

31  certify that the used instructional materials are not samples

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    Florida Senate - 2003                     CS for CS for SB 716
    302-1971-03




 1  or first printings and are the most currently adopted,

 2  Florida-specific instructional materials and conform to the

 3  Sunshine State Standards. This state is not responsible for

 4  financial loss caused by the school district's deviating from

 5  the requirements of section 1006.37, Florida Statutes. The

 6  Council for Education Policy Research and Improvement 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                      CS for Senate Bill 716

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17  The CS for the CS directs the completion of the pilot project
    by the Council for Education Policy Research and Improvement
18  instead of the Department of Education. It provides an
    exception to the procurement of instructional materials
19  specified in s. 1006.37 to correct an invalid delegation of
    legislative powers, and provides that the procured materials
20  not be samples or first printings.

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