Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 150
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Education (Legg) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (6) is added to section 1003.55,
    6  Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         1003.55 Instructional programs for blind or visually
    8  impaired students and deaf or hard-of-hearing students.—
    9         (6)(a) In developing an individual education plan for a
   10  deaf or hard-of-hearing student, the individual education plan
   11  team must consider the student’s language and communication
   12  needs, opportunities for direct communication with peers and
   13  professional personnel in the student’s language and
   14  communication mode, and the student’s academic level and full
   15  range of needs, including opportunities for direct instruction
   16  in the student’s language and communication mode.
   17         (b) The Department of Education, in coordination with the
   18  Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind and with input from
   19  education stakeholders, shall develop a model communication plan
   20  that shall be used during the development of a student’s
   21  individual education plan. The model communication plan shall be
   22  adopted in rule by the State Board of Education and made
   23  available online to all school districts no later than December
   24  31, 2013. The department shall provide technical assistance for
   25  using the model communication plan.
   26         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.
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   29         And the title is amended as follows:
   30         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   31  and insert:
   32                        A bill to be entitled                      
   33         An act relating to deaf and hard-of-hearing students;
   34         amending s. 1003.55, F.S.; requiring that a student’s
   35         language and communication needs, including certain
   36         opportunities, be considered in the development of an
   37         individual education plan for a deaf or hard-of
   38         hearing student; requiring the Department of Education
   39         to develop a model communication plan to be used in
   40         the development of an individual education plan for
   41         deaf or hard-of-hearing students; requiring the
   42         department to disseminate the model communication plan
   43         to each school district and provide technical
   44         assistance; providing an effective date.