Florida Senate - 2023                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 780
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/04/2023           .                                
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       The Committee on Education Pre-K -12 (Calatayud) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 87 - 135
    4  and insert:
    5         (3)(a) Subject to legislative appropriation, the Department
    6  of Education shall provide or fund professional development for
    7  instructional personnel to earn an educator certificate in
    8  computer science pursuant to s. 1012.56 or a technology-related
    9  industry certification associated with a course identified in
   10  the Course Code Directory pursuant to subsection (1) or for
   11  professional development for instructional personnel to provide
   12  instruction in computer science. Such funding must be used only
   13  to:
   14         1. Provide training pursuant to this paragraph for
   15  instructional personnel.
   16         2. Pay fees for examinations that lead to a credential for
   17  instructional personnel.
   18         3. Provide professional development for instructional
   19  personnel.
   20         (b) For purposes of this section, the term “instructional
   21  personnel” has the same meaning as in s. 1012.01(2)(a), (b), and
   22  (c).
   23         (4)(a) Subject to legislative appropriation, a member of
   24  the instructional personnel who was evaluated as effective or
   25  highly effective pursuant to s. 1012.34 in the previous school
   26  year or who is newly hired by the district school board and has
   27  not been evaluated pursuant to s. 1012.34 must receive a bonus
   28  as follows:
   29         1. If the member of the instructional personnel holds an
   30  educator certificate in computer science pursuant to s. 1012.56
   31  or if he or she has passed the computer science subject area
   32  examination and holds an adjunct certificate issued by a school
   33  district pursuant to s. 1012.57, he or she must receive a bonus
   34  of $1,000 after each year he or she completes teaching a
   35  computer science course identified in the Course Code Directory
   36  pursuant to subsection (1) at a public elementary, middle, high,
   37  or combination school for up to 3 years.
   38         2. If the member of the instructional personnel holds an
   39  industry certification associated with a course identified in
   40  the Course Code Directory pursuant to subsection (1), he or she
   41  must receive a bonus of $500 after each year he or she completes
   42  teaching the identified course at a public elementary, middle,
   43  high, or combination school for up to 3 years.
   44         (b) An eligible member of the
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   47  And the title is amended as follows:
   48         Delete lines 20 - 22
   49  and insert:
   50         legislative appropriation, requiring the Department of
   51         Education to provide funding for specified purposes;