| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to Reserve Officers' Training Corps |
| 3 | programs; creating s. 1003.451, F.S.; prohibiting a school |
| 4 | district from banning a Junior Reserve Officers' Training |
| 5 | Corps unit in certain schools; requiring a school district |
| 6 | to allow a student, under certain circumstances, to enroll |
| 7 | in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps at another |
| 8 | school; specifying that a school district is not required |
| 9 | to provide transportation for a student enrolling in the |
| 10 | Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps at another school; |
| 11 | requiring a school district to grant military recruiters |
| 12 | certain access to students, school facilities and grounds, |
| 13 | and certain student information; providing for |
| 14 | enforcement; providing for the adoption of rules by the |
| 15 | State Board of Education; creating s. 1004.009, F.S.; |
| 16 | prohibiting a community college or state university from |
| 17 | banning a Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit; |
| 18 | requiring that a community college or state university |
| 19 | grant military recruiters certain access to students and |
| 20 | campus facilities and grounds and, to the extent required |
| 21 | by federal law, access to certain student information; |
| 22 | providing an effective date. |
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| 24 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 26 | Section 1. Section 1003.451, Florida Statutes, is created |
| 27 | to read: |
| 28 | 1003.451 Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps; military |
| 29 | recruiters; access to public school campuses.-- |
| 30 | (1) A school district may not ban any branch of the United |
| 31 | States Armed Forces or the United States Department of Homeland |
| 32 | Security from establishing, maintaining, or operating a unit of |
| 33 | the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps at a public high |
| 34 | school in the district. |
| 35 | (2)(a) A school district shall allow a student attending a |
| 36 | public high school in the district to enroll in the Junior |
| 37 | Reserve Officers' Training Corps at another public high school |
| 38 | in the district unless: |
| 39 | 1. The student's school offers the Junior Reserve |
| 40 | Officers' Training Corps for any branch of the United States |
| 41 | Armed Forces or United States Department of Homeland Security; |
| 42 | 2. The student does not meet the Junior Reserve Officers' |
| 43 | Training Corps' minimum enrollment qualifications; or |
| 44 | 3. Scheduling of the student's courses of study do not |
| 45 | allow the student to attend the Junior Reserve Officers' |
| 46 | Training Corps at another public high school in the district. |
| 47 | (b) This subsection does not require a school district to |
| 48 | provide transportation for a student to attend the Junior |
| 49 | Reserve Officers' Training Corps at another public high school |
| 50 | in the district. |
| 51 | (3)(a) A school district shall grant military recruiters |
| 52 | of the United States Armed Forces and United States Department |
| 53 | of Homeland Security the same access to secondary school |
| 54 | students, and to school facilities and grounds, which the |
| 55 | district grants to postsecondary educational institutions or |
| 56 | prospective employers of students. |
| 57 | (b) A school district shall, as required in 20 U.S.C. s. |
| 58 | 7908(a)(1), grant military recruiters access to the names, |
| 59 | addresses, and telephone listings of secondary school students, |
| 60 | except, the district shall comply with a student's or parent's |
| 61 | request under 20 U.S.C. s. 7908(a)(2) or s. 1002.22(3)(d) not to |
| 62 | release the student's information without prior written parental |
| 63 | consent. |
| 64 | (4) The State Board of Education shall enforce this |
| 65 | section under s. 1008.32. |
| 66 | (5) The State Board of Education may adopt rules under ss. |
| 67 | 120.536(1) and 120.54 to administer this section. |
| 68 | Section 2. Section 1004.09, Florida Statutes, is created |
| 69 | to read: |
| 70 | 1004.09 Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps; military |
| 71 | recruiters; access to community college and state university |
| 72 | campuses.-- |
| 73 | (1) A community college or state university may not ban |
| 74 | any branch of the United States Armed Forces from establishing, |
| 75 | maintaining, or operating a unit of the Senior Reserve Officers' |
| 76 | Training Corps at the college or university. |
| 77 | (2)(a) A community college or state university shall grant |
| 78 | military recruiters of the United States Armed Forces and United |
| 79 | States Department of Homeland Security the same access to the |
| 80 | college's or university's students, and to campus facilities and |
| 81 | grounds, which the college or university grants to other |
| 82 | employers. |
| 83 | (b) A community college or state university shall, to the |
| 84 | extent required in 10 U.S.C. s. 983(b)(2), grant military |
| 85 | recruiters access to the names, addresses, telephone listings, |
| 86 | dates and places of birth, levels of education, academic majors, |
| 87 | degrees received, and most recent educational institutions |
| 88 | enrolled in by the college's or university's students. |
| 89 | Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2008. |