Florida Senate - 2013 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 150 Barcode 350720 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Committee on Education (Legg) recommended the following: 1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 2 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. 27 28 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 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.