HOUSE AMENDMENT Bill No. HB 47A
1	CHAMBER ACTION
2	Senate House
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12	Representative Russell offered the following:
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14	Amendment (with title amendment)
15	Between line(s) 3708 and 3709, insert:
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17	Section 53. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of s.
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 for
21	individual students in the purchase of used instructional
22	materials.
23	(2) The school districts of Hernando County, Pasco County,
24	and Polk County may participate in the pilot program. Charter
25	schools in such school districts shall be eligible to
26	participate in the pilot program. When a secondhand book dealer
27	or other third-party book vendor provides used adopted
28	instructional materials to a school district, the dealer or
29	vendor must certify the availability of the used instructional
30	materials, provide the International Standard Book Number of
31	each of the used instructional materials, and certify that such
32	materials are not samples or first printing, are the most
33	currently adopted, Florida-specific instructional materials, and
34	that the materials conform to the Sunshine State Standards.
35	(3) The state is not responsible for financial loss caused
36	by the school district’s deviating from the requirements of s.
37	1006.37, Florida Statutes. The Council for Education Policy
38	Research and Improvement shall submit to the President of the
39	Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives for
40	consideration during the 2004 Regular Session a report of the
41	cost savings to school districts based on results of the pilot
42	program.
43	(4) This section is repealed July 1, 2006.
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46	Between line(s) 209 and 210, insert:
47	authorizing the Department of Education to conduct a pilot
48	program within specified counties to enable selected
49	school districts to realize cost savings in the purchase
50	of used instructional materials; imposing requirements on
51	the vendors of such materials; absolving the state from
52	responsibility for certain financial losses; requiring the
53	Council for Education Policy Research and Improvement to
54	report to the Legislature; providing for future repeal;
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