Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 864
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/26/2014           .                                
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       (Hays) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (840528) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Delete lines 300 - 330
    5  and insert:
    6         (3) A district school board or publisher may not
    7  participate in a pilot program of materials being considered for
    8  adoption during the 18-month period before the official adoption
    9  of the materials by the commissioner. Any pilot program during
   10  the first 2 years of the adoption period must have the prior
   11  approval of the commissioner.
   12         (4) Any publisher or manufacturer of instructional
   13  materials or representative thereof or any district school board
   14  official or state instructional materials reviewer who violates
   15  any provision of this section commits a misdemeanor of the
   16  second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s.
   17  775.083. A Any representative of a publisher or manufacturer who
   18  violates any provision of this section, in addition to any other
   19  penalty, shall be banned from practicing business in the state
   20  for a period of 1 calendar year.
   21         (5) This section does not prohibit any publisher,
   22  manufacturer, or agent from supplying, for purposes of
   23  examination, necessary sample copies of instructional materials
   24  to any district school board official or state instructional
   25  materials reviewer.
   26         (6) This section does not prohibit a district school board
   27  official or state instructional materials reviewer from
   28  receiving sample copies of instructional materials.
   29         (7) This section does not prohibit or restrict a district
   30  school board official from receiving royalties or other
   31  compensation, other than compensation paid to him or her as
   32  commission for negotiating sales to district school boards, from
   33  the publisher or manufacturer of instructional materials
   34  written, designed, or prepared by such district school board
   35  official, and adopted by the commissioner or purchased by any
   36  district school board. A No district school board official may
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   38  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   39  And the title is amended as follows:
   40         Delete line 704
   41  and insert:
   42         changes made by the act; deleting references to the
   43         Commissioner of Education regarding a pilot program
   44         and the adoption of instructional materials; repealing
   45         s. 1006.33, F.S.,