Florida Senate - 2020                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1220
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Lee moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 307 and 308
    4  insert:
    5         Section 4. Paragraph (r) is added to subsection (1) of
    6  section 1002.421, Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         1002.421 State school choice scholarship program
    8  accountability and oversight.—
    9         (1) PRIVATE SCHOOL ELIGIBILITY AND OBLIGATIONS.—A private
   10  school participating in an educational scholarship program
   11  established pursuant to this chapter must be a private school as
   12  defined in s. 1002.01(2) in this state, be registered, and be in
   13  compliance with all requirements of this section in addition to
   14  private school requirements outlined in s. 1002.42, specific
   15  requirements identified within respective scholarship program
   16  laws, and other provisions of Florida law that apply to private
   17  schools, and must:
   18         (r) Report to the department by October 1 of each year, in
   19  a format developed by the department, the following information
   20  for the preceding school year:
   21         1. The total number of students enrolled in the school;
   22         2. The number of students enrolled in the school who
   23  participated in a state school choice scholarship program under
   24  chapter 1002, and indicate student participation in each
   25  scholarship program;
   26         3. The number of students enrolled in the school who
   27  participated in a state school scholarship program under chapter
   28  1002 and who also took courses through dual enrollment under
   29  chapter 1007 or a virtual school under chapter 1002, and
   30  indicate student enrollment in such courses, either through dual
   31  enrollment or a virtual school or both; and
   32         4. The number of students by grade level who withdrew from
   33  enrollment in the school or transferred to another school and
   34  the reason for such withdrawal or transfer.
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   36  The department shall suspend the payment of funds to a private
   37  school that knowingly fails to comply with this subsection, and
   38  shall prohibit the school from enrolling new scholarship
   39  students, for 1 fiscal year and until the school complies. If a
   40  private school fails to meet the requirements of this subsection
   41  or has consecutive years of material exceptions listed in the
   42  report required under paragraph (q), the commissioner may
   43  determine that the private school is ineligible to participate
   44  in a scholarship program.
   45         (2) DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OBLIGATIONS.—
   46         (c) Annually, by December 15, the department shall report
   47  to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of
   48  the House of Representatives a summary of the information under
   49  paragraph (1)(r) and the department’s its actions in
   50  implementing accountability in the scholarship programs under
   51  this section, any substantiated allegations or violations of law
   52  or rule by an eligible private school under this section, and
   53  the corrective action taken.
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   57  And the title is amended as follows:
   58         Delete line 35
   59  and insert:
   60         specified students under certain conditions; amending
   61         s. 1002.421, F.S.; requiring the Department of
   62         Education to prepare a report that contains specified
   63         information by a certain date each year; requiring the
   64         Department of Education to submit a summary containing
   65         certain information to the Governor, President of the
   66         Senate, and Speaker of the House of Representatives;
   67         providing