Amendment
Bill No. CS/CS/HB 1255
Amendment No. 121399
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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1Representative Fresen offered the following:
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3     Amendment (with title amendment)
4     Between lines 652 and 653, insert:
5     Section 17.  Subsections (2), (3), (4), and (7) of section
61003.429, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
7     1003.429  Accelerated high school graduation options.-
8     (2)  Prior to selecting a program described in paragraph
9(1)(b) or paragraph (1)(c), a student and the student's parent
10should must meet with designated school personnel to receive an
11explanation of the relative requirements, advantages, and
12disadvantages of each program option, and the student must also
13receive the written consent of the student's parent. If an
14effort to meet with the student's parent fails and that effort
15has been documented by designated school personnel, the student
16may select a program described in paragraph (1)(b) or paragraph
17(1)(c) with the written consent of the student's parent. A
18student may select a program described in paragraph (1)(b) or
19paragraph (1)(c) without the written consent of the student's
20parent if the student is 18 years of age or older.
21     (3)  Beginning with the 2011-2012 2006-2007 school year,
22each district school board shall provide each student in grades
236 through 12 9 and their parents with information concerning the
243-year and 4-year high school graduation options listed in
25subsection (1), including the respective curriculum requirements
26for those options, so that the students and their parents may
27select the program that best fits their needs. The information
28must include a timeframe for achieving each graduation option.
29     (4)  Selection of one of the graduation options listed in
30subsection (1) may must be completed by the student at any time
31during grades 9 through 12 prior to the end of grade 9 and is
32exclusively up to the student and parent, subject to the
33requirements in subsection (2). Each district school board shall
34establish policies for extending this deadline to the end of a
35student's first semester of grade 10 for a student who entered a
36Florida public school after grade 9 upon transfer from a private
37school or another state or who was prevented from choosing a
38graduation option due to illness during grade 9. If the student
39and parent fail to select one of the accelerated high school
40graduation options a graduation option, the student shall be
41considered to have selected the general requirements for high
42school graduation pursuant to paragraph (1)(a).
43     (7)  If, at the end of each grade 10, a student is not on
44track to meet the credit, assessment, or grade-point-average
45requirements of the accelerated graduation option selected, the
46school shall notify the student and parent of the following:
47     (a)  The requirements that the student is not currently
48meeting.
49     (b)  The specific performance necessary in grade 11 for the
50student to meet the accelerated graduation requirements.
51     (c)  The right of the student to change to the 4-year
52program set forth in s. 1003.428 or s. 1003.43, as applicable.
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T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T
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58circumstances; amending s. 1003.429, F.S.; revising provisions
59relating to the selection of accelerated high school graduation
60options; amending s. 1003.491, F.S.; revising


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