SENATE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 30-A
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CHAMBER ACTION
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11 Senator Fasano moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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17 Section 53. Notwithstanding the provisions of section
18 1006.37, Florida Statutes, the Department of Education may
19 conduct a pilot program to enable selected school districts to
20 realize cost savings without loss of quality or availability
21 for individual students in the purchase of used instructional
22 materials. The school districts of Hernando County, Pasco
23 County, and Polk County may participate in the pilot program.
24 Charter schools in such school districts shall be eligible to
25 participate in the pilot program. When a secondhand book
26 dealer or other third-party book vendor provides used adopted
27 instructional materials to a school district, the dealer or
28 vendor must certify the availability of the used instructional
29 materials, provide the International Standard Book Number of
30 each of the used instructional materials, and certify that
31 such materials are not samples or first printings, are the
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1 most currently adopted, Florida-specific instructional
2 materials, and that the materials conform to the Sunshine
3 State Standards. The state is not responsible for financial
4 loss caused by the school district's deviating from the
5 requirements of section 1006.37, Florida Statutes. The Council
6 for Education Policy Research and Improvement shall submit to
7 the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
8 Representatives for consideration during the 2004 Regular
9 Session a report of the cost savings to school districts based
10 on results of the pilot program. This section is repealed July
11 1, 2006.
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17 And the title is amended as follows:
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21 authorizing the Department of Education to
22 conduct a pilot program; authorizing a pilot
23 program within specified counties to enable
24 selected school districts to realize cost
25 savings in the purchase of used instructional
26 materials; imposing requirements on the vendors
27 of such materials; absolving the state from
28 responsibility for certain financial losses;
29 requiring the Council for Education Policy
30 Research and Improvement to report to the
31 Legislature; providing for future repeal of the
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