The Florida Senate

SB 1720: Literacy Education for Blind Persons [SPCC]

GENERAL BILL by Crist

Literacy Education for Blind Persons [SPCC]; requires that instruction in braille be part of individualized education program for child who is blind or visually impaired; provides exceptions & conditions to that requirement; provides standards for such instruction & specifies contents of individualized education program. Amends 1003.55.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  2/20/2007	Senate	• Filed
  3/7/2007	Senate	• Introduced, referred to Education Pre-K - 12; Education Pre-K - 12 Appropriations -SJ 00113
  4/4/2007	Senate	• On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K - 12, 04/10/07, 2:00 pm, 110-S
  4/10/2007	Senate	• Favorable by Education Pre-K - 12; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 -SJ 00328
  4/11/2007	Senate	• Now in Education Pre-K - 12 Appropriations -SJ 00328
  5/4/2007	Senate	• Died in Committee on Education Pre-K - 12 Appropriations

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• SB 1720, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 2/20/2007 at 8:29 AM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	Education Pre-K - 12 (Post-Meeting) 4/10/2007 (pdf)

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location
  H 883	Literacy Education for Blind Persons		Identical	Last Action: 5/4/2007 H Died in Committee on K-12 (SL) Location:

  Committee Votes (1)

  Date	Committee	Result
  4/10/2007 2:00 PM	Education Pre-K - 12	6 Yeas - 0 Nays

  Citations - Statutes (1)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  1003.55	Instructional programs for blind or visually impaired students and deaf or hard-of-hearing students.

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