Florida Senate - 2025                             CS for SB 1528
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and
       Domestic Security; and Senator Collins
       
       
       
       
       583-02562-25                                          20251528c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the educational opportunities for
    3         military children; amending s. 1003.05, F.S.;
    4         requiring that strategies addressed in specified
    5         memoranda of agreement between school districts and
    6         military installations include the development and
    7         implementation of a specified training module;
    8         requiring the Department of Education to provide the
    9         training module to each district school board;
   10         requiring each district school board to provide such
   11         module to each public and charter K-12 school in its
   12         district; requiring district school boards to make
   13         certain training available to certain employees;
   14         providing an effective date.
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   16  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   18         Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 1003.05, Florida
   19  Statutes, is amended to read:
   20         1003.05 Assistance to transitioning students from military
   21  families.—
   22         (2) The Department of Education shall facilitate the
   23  development and implementation of memoranda of agreement between
   24  school districts and military installations which address
   25  strategies for assisting students who are the children of active
   26  duty military personnel in the transition to Florida schools.
   27         (a) The strategies developed by the department must include
   28  the development and implementation of a training module relating
   29  to facilitating and expediting the transfer of a K-12 student’s
   30  education records from an out-of-state school.
   31         (b) The department shall provide the training module
   32  required under paragraph (a) to each district school board to
   33  provide to each public and charter K-12 school within its
   34  district. The district school board shall make the training
   35  available to employees who work directly with miliary students
   36  and families.
   37         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.