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    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to meetings of district school boards;
    3         amending s. 1001.372, F.S.; requiring district school
    4         boards to convene at least one regular meeting each
    5         quarter during a school year during the evening hours
    6         and to create written criteria for convening such a
    7         meeting; providing that a district school board is
    8         deemed to be in compliance under certain
    9         circumstances; deleting a provision regarding a
   10         special meeting; providing an effective date.
   11  
   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 1001.372, Florida
   15  Statutes, is amended to read:
   16         1001.372 District school board meetings.—
   17         (1) REGULAR AND SPECIAL MEETINGS.—
   18         (a) The district school board shall hold not less than one
   19  regular meeting each month for the transaction of business
   20  according to a schedule arranged by the district school board.
   21  The district school board shall convene at least one regular
   22  meeting each quarter within a school year during the evening
   23  hours. The district school board shall create written criteria
   24  for deciding when to convene a quarterly meeting during the
   25  evening hours. A district school board is deemed to be in
   26  compliance with this paragraph if it maintains, and operates in
   27  accordance with, a policy that requires the portion of a regular
   28  meeting which is open to public comment to begin no earlier than
   29  4:30 p.m.
   30         (b) The district school board and shall convene in a
   31  special meeting sessions when called by the district school
   32  superintendent or by the district school superintendent on
   33  request of the chair of the district school board, or on request
   34  of a majority of the members of the district school board. An
   35  action; provided that actions taken at a special meeting has
   36  meetings shall have the same force and effect as if taken at a
   37  regular meeting, and; and provided further that in the event the
   38  district school superintendent should fail to call a special
   39  meeting when requested to do so, as prescribed herein, such a
   40  meeting may be called by the chair of the district school board
   41  or by a majority of the members of the district school board by
   42  giving 2 days’ written notice of the time and purpose of the
   43  meeting to all members and to the district school
   44  superintendent, in which event the minutes of the meeting must
   45  shall set forth the facts regarding the procedure in calling the
   46  meeting and the reason the meeting was called. The minutes must
   47  therefor and shall be signed either by the chair or by a
   48  majority of the members of the district school board.
   49         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.