Florida Senate - 2015                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS/HB 7069, 1st Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senators Lee and Gaetz moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (211438) (with directory and
    2  title amendments)
    3  
    4         Between lines 624 and 625
    5  insert:
    6         (11) EXEMPTION.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
    7  students who take and pass Advanced Placement, International
    8  Baccalaureate, Advanced International Certificate of Education,
    9  or national industry certification examinations or other
   10  articulated acceleration mechanisms authorized under s. 1007.27,
   11  or who achieve required cut scores on ACT or SAT examinations,
   12  are exempt from taking statewide, standardized assessments in
   13  the subject areas covered by those examinations. The
   14  Commissioner of Education shall, by the first day of school of
   15  the 2015-2016 school year, establish concordant scores or
   16  comparative scores, as appropriate, relating to passage of those
   17  examinations relative to the associated statewide assessment and
   18  use those scores to satisfy high school graduation requirements
   19  pursuant to s. 1003.4282.
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   22  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   23         Delete lines 135 - 137
   24  and insert:
   25  1008.22, Florida Statutes are amended, present subsections (7),
   26  (8), and (9) are redesignated as subsections (8), (9), and (10),
   27  respectively, new subsections (7) and (11) are added to that
   28  section, and present subsections (10) and (11) are redesignated
   29  as subsections (12) and (13), respectively,
   30  
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   32  And the title is amended as follows:
   33         Delete line 1638
   34  and insert:
   35         regarding the training of such employees; providing
   36         that students who meet certain criteria are exempt
   37         from certain statewide, standardized assessments;
   38         requiring the Commissioner of Education to establish
   39         concordant or comparative scores by a specified date;
   40         amending s.