Florida Senate - 2021                                     SB 532
       
       
        
       By Senator Burgess
       
       
       
       
       
       20-00590-21                                            2021532__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to workforce education; amending s.
    3         1011.80, F.S.; revising the workforce education
    4         programs that school district career centers are
    5         authorized to conduct; providing an effective date.
    6          
    7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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    9         Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 1011.80, Florida
   10  Statutes, is amended to read:
   11         1011.80 Funds for operation of workforce education
   12  programs.—
   13         (2) Any workforce education program may be conducted by a
   14  Florida College System institution or a school district, except
   15  that college credit in an associate in applied science or an
   16  associate in science degree may be awarded only by a Florida
   17  College System institution. However, a school district career
   18  center may conduct the following:
   19         (a) Portions of if an associate in applied science or an
   20  associate in science degree program which contain contains
   21  within it an occupational completion point that confers a
   22  certificate or an applied technology diploma.
   23         (b) An associate in applied science or an associate in
   24  science degree nursing program if the career center offering the
   25  associate in science nursing degree program offers it only to
   26  graduates of a licensed practical nursing program offered by the
   27  same, that portion of the program may be conducted by a school
   28  district career center. Any instruction designed to articulate
   29  to a degree program is subject to guidelines and standards
   30  adopted by the State Board of Education pursuant to s. 1007.25.
   31         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.