Florida Senate - 2025                                    SB 1528
       
       
        
       By Senator Collins
       
       
       
       
       
       14-00440A-25                                          20251528__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the educational opportunities for
    3         military children; amending s. 1000.40, F.S.; revising
    4         the repeal date of the Interstate Compact on
    5         Educational Opportunity for Military Children;
    6         amending s. 1003.05, F.S.; requiring that strategies
    7         addressed in specified memoranda of agreement between
    8         school districts and military installations include
    9         the development and implementation of a specified
   10         training module; requiring the Department of Education
   11         to provide the training module to each district school
   12         board; requiring each district school board to provide
   13         such module to each public and charter K-12 school in
   14         its district; requiring district school boards to make
   15         certain training available to certain employees;
   16         providing an effective date.
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   18  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   20         Section 1. Section 1000.40, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   21  read:
   22         1000.40 Future repeal of the Interstate Compact on
   23  Educational Opportunity for Military Children.—Sections 1000.36,
   24  1000.361, 1000.38, and 1000.39 and this section shall stand
   25  repealed on July 1, 2028 2025, unless reviewed and saved from
   26  repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
   27         Section 2. Subsection (2) of section 1003.05, Florida
   28  Statutes, is amended to read:
   29         1003.05 Assistance to transitioning students from military
   30  families.—
   31         (2) The Department of Education shall facilitate the
   32  development and implementation of memoranda of agreement between
   33  school districts and military installations which address
   34  strategies for assisting students who are the children of active
   35  duty military personnel in the transition to Florida schools.
   36         (a) The strategies developed by the department must include
   37  the development and implementation of a training module relating
   38  to facilitating and expediting the transfer of a K-12 student’s
   39  education records from an out-of-state school.
   40         (b) The department shall provide the training module
   41  required under paragraph (a) to each district school board to
   42  provide to each public and charter K-12 school within its
   43  district. The district school board shall make the training
   44  available to employees who work directly with miliary students
   45  and families.
   46         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.