Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 2
                        Barcode 060568
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11  The Committee on Education (Webster) recommended the following
12  amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
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16            page 23, line 18, delete those lines
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19         (b)  A private school participating in the John M.
20  McKay Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program must
21  ensure that each employee with direct student contact is of
22  good moral character; is subject to the level 1 background
23  screening as provided under chapter 453; is denied employment,
24  or terminated from employment, if required under s. 435.06;
25  and is not ineligible to teach in a public school because his
26  or her educator certificate is suspended or revoked.  This
27  requirement does not apply to an individual who holds a valid
28  Florida teaching certificate and who has been fingerprinted
29  under s. 1012.32.  A school that continues to employ an
30  individual after notification that the individual has failed
31  the level 1 background screening is not eligible to
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    Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 2
                        Barcode 060568
 1  participate in the John M. McKay Scholarships for Students
 2  with Disabilities Program and may not provide scholarships
 3  under that program. As used in this paragraph, the term
 4  "employee with direct student contact" means an individual,
 5  paid by the school to provide a service or fill a position,
 6  who has unsupervised access to a scholarship student of the
 7  school. The costs of fingerprinting and the background check
 8  may not be borne by the state.
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12  And the title is amended as follows:
13         On page 2, lines 11-19, delete those lines
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16         departments; requiring the private school to
17         ensure that an employee with direct student
18         contact undergo a background screening and meet
19         certain criteria; providing that the state may
20         not bear the cost of the background check;
21         prohibiting the private school
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