Florida Senate - 2019                              CS for SB 292
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs and Space; and
       Senator Lee
       
       
       
       
       583-02738-19                                           2019292c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to education; amending s. 1001.43,
    3         F.S.; making a technical change; prohibiting a
    4         district school board from prohibiting a student from
    5         lawfully wearing the uniform of any of the Armed
    6         Forces of the United States or of the state at his or
    7         her graduation ceremony; providing an effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Subsection (8) of section 1001.43, Florida
   12  Statutes, is amended to read:
   13         1001.43 Supplemental powers and duties of district school
   14  board.—The district school board may exercise the following
   15  supplemental powers and duties as authorized by this code or
   16  State Board of Education rule.
   17         (8) STUDENT ASSESSMENT AND AFFAIRS.—The district school
   18  board may adopt policies and procedures governing attendance
   19  monitoring and checks; truancy; graduation requirements and
   20  graduation exercises; fees, fines, and charges imposed on
   21  students; evaluation of student records and transcripts;
   22  transfer of student records; grading and academic evaluation of
   23  students; tests and examinations, including early examinations;
   24  guidance and counseling; and student participation in
   25  competitions, student performances and exhibitions, contests for
   26  students, and social events; and graduation requirements and
   27  graduation exercises. A district school board may not prohibit a
   28  student from lawfully wearing the uniform of any of the Armed
   29  Forces of the United States or of the state at his or her
   30  graduation ceremony.
   31         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.