| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to public secondary schools; creating s. |
| 3 | 1003.451, F.S.; prohibiting any school district or |
| 4 | public secondary school from prohibiting ROTC units on |
| 5 | campus, preventing a student from enrolling in an ROTC |
| 6 | unit at another educational institution, or preventing |
| 7 | military recruiters from having certain access to |
| 8 | students; providing for enforcement; providing for the |
| 9 | adoption of rules by the State Board of Education; |
| 10 | providing an effective date. |
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| 12 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 14 | Section 1. Section 1003.451, Florida Statutes, is |
| 15 | created to read: |
| 16 | 1003.451 Prohibiting school districts or schools from |
| 17 | preventing ROTC access to campus; providing for enforcement by |
| 18 | the State Board of Education.-- |
| 19 | (1) A school district or public secondary school may not |
| 20 | have a policy or practice that prohibits or in effect |
| 21 | prevents: |
| 22 | (a) The maintaining, establishing, or operation of a |
| 23 | unit of the Reserve Officer Training Corps of any branch of |
| 24 | the United States Armed Forces at the school; |
| 25 | (b) A student at the school from enrolling in a unit of |
| 26 | the Reserve Officer Training Corps at another educational |
| 27 | institution; or |
| 28 | (c) Military recruiters from having the same access to |
| 29 | the school's students as is provided by the school to |
| 30 | postsecondary educational institutions or to prospective |
| 31 | employers of those students. |
| 32 | (2) The State Board of Education shall enforce this |
| 33 | section pursuant to s. 1008.32. |
| 34 | (3) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules to |
| 35 | administer this section. |
| 36 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2008. |