Senate Bill sb0716c3

    Florida Senate - 2003              CS for CS for CS for SB 716

    By the Committees on Appropriations; Governmental Oversight
    and Productivity; Education; and Senators Fasano and Dockery




    309-2442-03

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to instructional materials for

  3         K-12 public education; authorizing the

  4         Department of Education to conduct a pilot

  5         program; authorizing a pilot program within

  6         specified counties to enable selected school

  7         districts to realize cost savings in the

  8         purchase of used instructional materials;

  9         imposing requirements on the vendors of such

10         materials; absolving the state from

11         responsibility for certain financial losses;

12         requiring the Council for Education Policy

13         Research and Improvement to report to the

14         Legislature; providing for future repeal;

15         providing an effective date.

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

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19         Section 1.  Notwithstanding the provisions of section

20  1006.37, Florida Statutes, the Department of Education may

21  conduct a pilot program to enable selected school districts to

22  realize cost savings without loss of quality or availability

23  for individual students in the purchase of used instructional

24  materials. The school districts of Hernando County, Pasco

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

26  Charter schools in such school districts shall be eligible to

27  participate in the pilot program. When a secondhand book

28  dealer or other third-party book vendor provides used adopted

29  instructional materials to a school district, the dealer or

30  vendor must certify the availability of the used instructional

31  materials, provide the International Standard Book Number of

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    Florida Senate - 2003              CS for CS for CS for SB 716
    309-2442-03




 1  each of the used instructional materials, and certify that

 2  such materials are not samples or first printings, are the

 3  most currently adopted, Florida-specific instructional

 4  materials, and that the materials conform to the Sunshine

 5  State Standards. The state is not responsible for financial

 6  loss caused by the school district's deviating from the

 7  requirements of section 1006.37, Florida Statutes. The Council

 8  for Education Policy Research and Improvement shall submit to

 9  the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of

10  Representatives for consideration during the 2004 Regular

11  Session a report of the cost savings to school districts based

12  on results of the pilot program. This section is repealed July

13  1, 2006.

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

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16          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
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19  The committee substitute changes the Council for Education
    Policy Research and Improvement to the Department of Education
20  as the entity authorized to conduct a pilot program.

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