Florida Senate - 2005 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 768
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11 The Committee on Children and Families (Lynn) recommended the
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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19 (2)(a) An exceptional student with a disability who
20 resides in a residential facility and receives special
21 instruction or services is considered a resident of the state
22 in which the student's parent or guardian is a resident. The
23 cost of such instruction, facilities, and services for a
24 nonresident student with a disability shall be provided by the
25 placing authority in the student's state of residence, such as
26 a public school entity, other placing authority, or parent. A
27 nonresident student with a disability may not be reported by
28 any school district for FTE funding in the Florida Education
29 Finance Program.
30 (b) The Department of Education shall provide to each
31 school district a statement of the specific limitations of the
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1 district's financial obligation for exceptional students with
2 disabilities under federal and state law. The department shall
3 also provide to each school district technical assistance as
4 necessary for developing a local plan to impose on a student's
5 home state the fiscal responsibility for educating a
6 nonresident exceptional student with a disability.
7 (c) The Department of Education shall develop a
8 process by which a school district must, before providing
9 services to an exceptional student with a disability who
10 resides in a residential facility in this state, review the
11 residency of the student. The residential facility, not the
12 district, is responsible for billing and collecting from a
13 nonresidential student's home state payment for the student's
14 educational and related services.
15 (d) This subsection applies to any nonresident student
16 with a disability who resides in a residential facility and
17 who receives instruction as an exceptional student with a
18 disability in any type of residential facility in this state,
19 including, but not limited to, a private school, a group home
20 facility as defined in s. 393.063, an intensive residential
21 treatment program for children and adolescents as defined in
22 s. 395.002, a facility as defined in s. 394.455, an
23 intermediate care facility for the developmentally disabled or
24 ICF/DD as defined in s. 393.063 or s. 400.960, or a community
25 residential home as defined in s. 419.001.
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29 And the title is amended as follows:
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2 exceptional student with a disability;
3 requiring the student's placing authority or
4 parent to pay the cost of such instruction,
5 facilities, and services; providing
6 responsibilities of the Department of
7 Education; providing responsibilities of
8 residential facilities that educate exceptional
9 students with disabilities; providing
10 applicability; amending s.
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