Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 916
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/02/2016           .                                
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       The Committee on Education Pre-K - 12 (Garcia) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Section 1012.441, Florida Statutes, is created
    6  to read:
    7         1012.441 Qualifications for educational interpreters.—
    8         (1) The State Board of Education shall adopt by rule
    9  standards for educational interpreters. An educational
   10  interpreter is an individual who facilitates direct instruction
   11  by professionals and directs communication between students who
   12  are deaf or hard of hearing and their peers as designated in
   13  each student’s individual education plan or 504 accommodation
   14  plan. The standards must include interpreter assessments,
   15  including both written and performance assessments, offered by a
   16  national organization of professional sign language interpreters
   17  and transliterators.
   18         (2) Beginning July 1, 2017, each school district shall:
   19         (a) Notify a parent in writing if an individual assigned to
   20  provide interpreter services for his or her student, in
   21  accordance with the student’s individual education plan or 504
   22  accommodation plan, does not meet the educational interpreter
   23  standards established in state board rule.
   24         (b) Report to the Department of Education, for publication
   25  on its website, the total number of individuals providing
   26  interpreter services in the district and the total number of
   27  such individuals who meet the educational interpreter standards
   28  established in state board rule.
   29         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.
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   31  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   32  And the title is amended as follows:
   33         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   34  and insert:
   35                        A bill to be entitled                      
   36         An act relating to qualifications for educational
   37         interpreters; creating s. 1012.441, F.S.; requiring
   38         the State Board of Education to adopt standards for
   39         educational interpreters; requiring school districts
   40         to notify parents if an individual assigned to provide
   41         interpreter services for their student does not meet
   42         such standards; requiring school districts to report
   43         to the Department of Education, for publication on its
   44         website, certain information regarding individuals
   45         providing interpreter services; providing an effective
   46         date.