Florida Senate - 2009 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB 2160
Barcode 173420
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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Floor: 1/AD/2R .
04/24/2009 03:54 PM .
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Senator Detert moved the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Between lines 4747 and 4748
4 insert:
5 Section 187. Subsections (24), (25), and (26) of section
6 1001.42, Florida Statutes, as amended by section 2 of chapter
7 2009-3, Laws of Florida, are amended to read:
8 1001.42 Powers and duties of district school board.—The
9 district school board, acting as a board, shall exercise all
10 powers and perform all duties listed below:
11 (24) REDUCE PAPERWORK AND DATA COLLECTION AND REPORTING
12 REQUIREMENTS.—Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year:
13 (a) Each district school board shall designate a classroom
14 teacher to serve as the teacher representative to speak on
15 behalf of the district’s teachers regarding paperwork and data
16 collection reduction.
17 (b) Each district school board must provide the school
18 community with an efficient method for the school community to
19 communicate with the classroom teacher designee regarding
20 possible paperwork and data collection burdens and potential
21 solutions.
22 (c) The teacher designee shall annually report his or her
23 findings and potential solutions to the school board.
24 (d) Each district school board must submit its findings and
25 potential solutions to the State Board of Education by September
26 1 of each year.
27 (e) The State Board of Education shall prepare a report of
28 the statewide paperwork and data collection findings and
29 potential solutions and submit the report to the Governor, the
30 President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of
31 Representatives by October 1 of each year.
32 (24)(25) EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS.—On or after February 1,
33 2009, a district school board may not enter into an employment
34 contract that is funded from state funds and that requires the
35 district to pay an employee an amount in excess of 1 year of the
36 employee’s annual salary for termination, buy-out, or any other
37 type of contract settlement.
38 (25)(26) ADOPT RULES.—Adopt rules pursuant to ss.
39 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement this section.
40 Section 188. Present paragraph (c) of subsection (3) of
41 section 1008.31, Florida Statutes, is redesignated as paragraph
42 (e), and new paragraphs (c) and (d) are added to that
43 subsection, to read:
44 1008.31 Florida’s K-20 education performance accountability
45 system; legislative intent; mission, goals, and systemwide
46 measures; data quality improvements.—
47 (3) K-20 EDUCATION DATA QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS.—To provide
48 data required to implement education performance accountability
49 measures in state and federal law, the Commissioner of Education
50 shall initiate and maintain strategies to improve data quality
51 and timeliness. All data collected from state universities
52 shall, as determined by the commissioner, be integrated into the
53 K-20 data warehouse. The commissioner shall have unlimited
54 access to such data solely for the purposes of conducting
55 studies, reporting annual and longitudinal student outcomes, and
56 improving college readiness and articulation. All public
57 educational institutions shall provide data to the K-20 data
58 warehouse in a format specified by the commissioner.
59 (c) The commissioner shall continuously monitor and review
60 the collection of paperwork, data, and reports by school
61 districts and complete an annual review of such collection no
62 later than June 1 of each year. The annual review must include
63 recommendations for consolidating paperwork, data, and reports,
64 wherever feasible, in order to reduce the burdens on school
65 districts.
66 (d) By July 1 of each year, the commissioner shall prepare
67 a report assisting the school districts in eliminating or
68 consolidating paperwork, data, and reports by providing
69 suggestions, technical assistance, and guidance.
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72 And the title is amended as follows:
73 Delete line 416
74 and insert:
75 made by the act; amending s. 1001.42, F.S.; deleting
76 provisions that require each district school board to
77 reduce paperwork and data collection and report its
78 findings and potential solutions on reducing burdens
79 associated with such collection; amending s. 1008.31,
80 F.S.; requiring that the Commissioner of Education
81 monitor and review the collection of paperwork, data,
82 and reports by school districts; requiring that the
83 commissioner complete an annual review of such
84 collection by a specified date each year; requiring
85 that the commissioner prepare a report, by a specified
86 date each year, assisting the school districts with
87 eliminating or consolidating paperwork, data, and
88 reports by providing suggestions, technical
89 assistance, and guidance; providing an effective date.