Florida Senate - 2010                                    SB 2602
       
       
       
       By Senator Storms
       
       
       
       
       10-01658B-10                                          20102602__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to grade K through 12 schools;
    3         requiring that locker rooms in K-12 schools be locked
    4         when not in use by students or other authorized
    5         persons and be directly supervised by faculty or staff
    6         when in use by students; providing fines for
    7         violations; providing for the use of any fines that
    8         are collected; providing an effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Each locker room within any school attended by
   13  students in grades K through 12 must be:
   14         (1) Locked when the locker room is not in use by students
   15  or other authorized persons; and
   16         (2) Under direct supervision by an adult member of the
   17  faculty or staff of the school during any time the locker room
   18  is in use by students.
   19         Section 2. A school that is found to be in violation of
   20  this act three times shall be fined $1,000 for the third and
   21  each subsequent violation by the Department of Education. Fines
   22  collected pursuant to this act shall be transferred to the local
   23  educational foundation in the county where the school is
   24  located. If that county does not have an educational foundation,
   25  the fines shall be transferred to the Consortium of Florida
   26  Education Foundations. The fines shall be used for anti-bullying
   27  measures.
   28         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.