Senate Bill sb0254

    Florida Senate - 2004                                   SB 254

    By Senator Bennett





    21-209-04

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the compulsory age of school

  3         attendance; amending s. 1003.61, F.S.;

  4         providing a conditional expiration date for the

  5         pilot attendance project implemented by the

  6         Manatee County District School Board, which

  7         raises the compulsory age of attendance;

  8         providing an effective date.

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

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12         Section 1.  Subsection (5) is added to section 1003.61,

13  Florida Statutes, to read:

14         1003.61  Pilot attendance project.--It is the purpose

15  of this section to require the Manatee County District School

16  Board to implement a pilot project that raises the compulsory

17  age of attendance for children from the age of 16 years to the

18  age of 18 years. The pilot project applies to each child who

19  has not attained the age of 16 years by September 30 of the

20  school year in which a school board policy is adopted.

21         (5)  The pilot attendance project implemented under

22  this section expires June 30, 2005, unless the Manatee County

23  District School Board requests and the Legislature enacts a

24  later expiration date.

25         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2004.

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28                          SENATE SUMMARY

29    Provides that the pilot attendance project in Manatee
      County, which raises the compulsory age of school
30    attendance from the age of 16 years to the age of 18
      years, terminates June 30, 2005, unless the county school
31    board requests and the Legislature enacts an extension.

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