Senate Bill sb0306c1

    Florida Senate - 2006                            CS for SB 306

    By the Committee on Education; and Senator Margolis





    581-1785-06

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to public K-12 education;

  3         amending s. 1001.42, F.S., relating to powers

  4         and duties of district school boards; providing

  5         a requirement relating to the opening date of

  6         the school year; amending s. 1011.60, F.S.;

  7         including the opening date requirement for

  8         participation in the Florida Education Finance

  9         Program; providing for applicability beginning

10         with the 2007-2008 school year unless a

11         decision is made by the district school board

12         to apply such provisions beginning with the

13         2006-2007 school year; providing an effective

14         date.

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

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18         Section 1.  Paragraph (f) of subsection (4) of section

19  1001.42, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

20         1001.42  Powers and duties of district school

21  board.--The district school board, acting as a board, shall

22  exercise all powers and perform all duties listed below:

23         (4)  ESTABLISHMENT, ORGANIZATION, AND OPERATION OF

24  SCHOOLS.--Adopt and provide for the execution of plans for the

25  establishment, organization, and operation of the schools of

26  the district, including, but not limited to, the following:

27         (f)  Opening and closing of schools; fixing uniform

28  date.--Adopt policies for the opening and closing of schools

29  and fix uniform dates provided that the opening date of the

30  school year for schools in the district shall be no earlier

31  than 7 days before Labor Day each year.

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 1         Section 2.  Subsection (2) of section 1011.60, Florida

 2  Statutes, is amended to read:

 3         1011.60  Minimum requirements of the Florida Education

 4  Finance Program.--Each district which participates in the

 5  state appropriations for the Florida Education Finance Program

 6  shall provide evidence of its effort to maintain an adequate

 7  school program throughout the district and shall meet at least

 8  the following requirements:

 9         (2)  MINIMUM TERM AND OPENING DATE.--Operate all

10  schools for a term of at least 180 actual teaching days or the

11  equivalent on an hourly basis as specified by rules of the

12  State Board of Education each school year provided that the

13  opening date of the term shall be no earlier than 7 days

14  before Labor Day each year. The State Board of Education may

15  prescribe procedures for altering, and, upon written

16  application, may alter, this requirement during a national,

17  state, or local emergency as it may apply to an individual

18  school or schools in any district or districts if, in the

19  opinion of the board, it is not feasible to make up lost days,

20  and the apportionment may, at the discretion of the

21  Commissioner of Education and if the board determines that the

22  reduction of school days is caused by the existence of a bona

23  fide emergency, be reduced for such district or districts in

24  proportion to the decrease in the length of term in any such

25  school or schools. A strike, as defined in s. 447.203(6), by

26  employees of the school district may not be considered an

27  emergency.

28         Section 3.  The amendments to ss. 1001.42(4)(f) and

29  1011.60(2), Florida Statutes, made by this act shall apply to

30  school years beginning with the 2007-2008 school year unless a

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 1  district school board decides to make such provisions

 2  applicable beginning with the 2006-2007 school year.

 3         Section 4.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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 5          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
 6                         Senate Bill 306

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 8  The committee substitute makes the school start date
    provisions effective beginning with the 2007-2008 school year
 9  unless a district school board decides to apply the start date
    provisions beginning with the 2006-2007 school year.
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