Florida Senate - 2006                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for SB 2048
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11  The Committee on Education Appropriations (Miller) recommended
12  the following amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 138, between lines 22 and 23,
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18         Section 63.  Section 1003.425, Florida Statutes, is
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20         1003.425  Required information for 9th-grade
21  students.--Beginning in the 2007-2008 school year, each
22  student who is in the second semester of the 9th grade in a
23  public school must have been given instruction in:
24         (1)  The value of a high school education, both
25  financial and cultural;
26         (2)  The alternative assessments, such as the SAT and
27  the ACT, the scores of which could help the student obtain a
28  high school diploma; and
29         (3)  The postsecondary options that are available,
30  including workforce training and enrolling in a community
31  college or a university, and the prerequisites to each, with
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    Florida Senate - 2006                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for SB 2048
                        Barcode 085106
 1  or without a diploma. The instruction must include a detailed
 2  discussion of the relative advantages and disadvantages of
 3  each alternative.
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 9  And the title is amended as follows:
10         On page 10, line 16, after the second semicolon,
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13         creating s. 1003.425, F.S.; requiring that
14         9th-grade students receive certain instruction
15         relating to the value of a high school
16         education and the available postsecondary
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