Florida Senate - 2024 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 1026 Ì654458JÎ654458 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House Comm: RCS . 01/18/2024 . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Committee on Education Pre-K -12 (Grall) recommended the following: 1 Senate Amendment (with directory amendment) 2 3 Delete lines 104 - 122 4 and insert: 5 (5) 6 (a) If a public school’s or private prekindergarten 7 provider’s program assessment composite score for its 8 prekindergarten classrooms fails to meet the minimum program 9 assessment composite score for contracting adopted in rule by 10 the department, the private prekindergarten provider or public 11 school may not participate in the Voluntary Prekindergarten 12 Education Program beginning in the consecutive program year and 13 thereafter until the public school or private prekindergarten 14 provider meets the minimum composite score for contracting. A 15 public school or private prekindergarten provider may request 16 one program assessment per program year in order to requalify 17 for participation in the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education 18 Program, provided that the public school or private 19 prekindergarten provider is not excluded from participation 20 under ss. 1002.55(6), 1002.61(10)(b), 1002.63(9)(b), or 21 paragraph (5)(b) of this section. If a public school or private 22 prekindergarten provider would like an additional program 23 assessment completed within the same program year, the public 24 school or private prekindergarten provider shall be responsible 25 for the cost of the program assessment. 26 27 ====== D I R E C T O R Y C L A U S E A M E N D M E N T ====== 28 And the directory clause is amended as follows: 29 Delete lines 81 - 83 30 and insert: 31 Section 3. Paragraphs (a) and (c) of subsection (4) and 32 paragraph (d) of subsection (6) of section 1002.68, Florida 33 Statutes, are amended, and upon the expiration and reversion of 34 the amendment made to paragraph (a) of subsection (5) of that 35 section pursuant to section 6 of chapter 2023-240, Laws of 36 Florida, paragraph (a) of subsection (5) is republished, to 37 read: