Florida Senate - 2021 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. PCS (808686) for CS for SB 200
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: RCS .
04/20/2021 .
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The Committee on Appropriations (Berman) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete everything after the enacting clause
4 and insert:
5 Section 1. Notwithstanding s. 1008.25, Florida Statutes, a
6 parent or guardian may request that his or her K-5 public school
7 student be retained for the 2021-2022 school year in the grade
8 level to which the student was assigned at the beginning of the
9 2020-2021 school year, provided that such request is made for
10 academic reasons.
11 (1) A parent or guardian who wishes for his or her student
12 to be retained as provided by this act must submit, in writing,
13 to the school principal a retention request that specifies the
14 academic reasons for the retention. Only requests received by
15 the principal on or before June 30, 2021, must be considered. A
16 principal may consider a request received after that date at his
17 or her discretion.
18 (2)(a) A principal who considers a retention request
19 submitted pursuant to this act shall inform the student’s
20 teachers of the retention request and collaboratively discuss
21 with the parent or guardian any basis for agreement or
22 disagreement with the request. As part of the discussion with
23 the parent or guardian, the principal shall disclose that
24 retention may impact the student’s eligibility to participate in
25 high school interscholastic or intrascholastic sports due to the
26 student’s age.
27 (b) In lieu of retention, the principal, teachers, and
28 parent or guardian may collaborate to develop a customized 1
29 year education plan for the student with the intent of helping
30 the student return to grade level readiness by the end of the
31 next academic year. Such plan may include, but need not be
32 limited to, supplemental educational support, services, and
33 interventions; summer education; promotion in some, but not all,
34 courses; and midyear promotion.
35 (c) The parent’s or guardian’s decision to promote or
36 retain his or her student after discussing the retention request
37 with the principal shall control. The parent or guardian must
38 sign a form provided by the principal indicating the parent or
39 guardian’s decision and acknowledging the academic and athletic
40 ramifications of their decision. This form must be retained in
41 the student’s record.
42 (3) If a student retained under this subsection has an
43 individual education plan (IEP) in effect, the student’s IEP
44 team must convene to review and revise the student’s IEP, as
45 appropriate.
46 (4) By June 30, 2022, school districts shall report to the
47 Department of Education the number of students retained pursuant
48 to this act for all or part of the 2021-2022 school year.
49 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.
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52 And the title is amended as follows:
53 Delete everything before the enacting clause
54 and insert:
55 A bill to be entitled
56 An act relating to student retention; authorizing a
57 parent or guardian to request that his or her K-5
58 student be retained in a grade level for academic
59 reasons for a specified school year; requiring that
60 such a request be submitted in a specified manner;
61 requiring school principals to consider such requests
62 if they are timely received; authorizing school
63 principals to consider requests that are not timely
64 received; requiring a school principal who considers a
65 request for retention to inform the student’s teachers
66 of the request and collaboratively discuss with the
67 parent or guardian any basis for agreement or
68 disagreement with the request; requiring such
69 discussion to disclose that retention may impact the
70 student’s eligibility to participate in high school
71 interscholastic or intrascholastic sports; authorizing
72 the principal, teachers, and parent or guardian to
73 collaborate to develop a customized 1-year education
74 plan for the student in lieu of retaining the student;
75 requiring a parent’s or guardian’s decision regarding
76 retention to control; requiring a parent or guardian
77 to sign a form provided by the principal indicating
78 the parent or guardian’s decision and acknowledging
79 the academic and athletic ramifications of their
80 decision; requiring such form to be retained in the
81 student’s record; requiring the individual education
82 plan (IEP) team for a retained student to review and
83 revise the student’s IEP, as appropriate; requiring
84 school districts to report certain data to the
85 Department of Education by a specified date; providing
86 an effective date.