Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 508
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/27/2025           .                                
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       The Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education (Jones)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 18 - 29
    4  and insert:
    5         (d) Before a student with an Individualized Education Plan,
    6  Education Plan, English Learner Plan, or 504 plan’s initial
    7  enrollment or grade level transition, provide to the parent, in
    8  writing, For a student determined eligible pursuant to paragraph
    9  (3)(b), discuss the school’s academic programs and policies,
   10  specialized services, code of conduct, and attendance policies,
   11  and specialized services and therapies offered at the school.
   12  The private school must specifically delineate for the parent
   13  which elements of the student’s Individualized Education Plan,
   14  Education Plan, English Learner Plan, or 504 plan will be met. A
   15  private school may update specialized services and therapies
   16  offered if a school district updates its list of equitable
   17  services offered, or at a student’s grade level transition,
   18  whichever comes first. In addition, within 30 days of the school
   19  district providing an eligible student with a private school
   20  services plan, before enrollment with the parent must be
   21  informed of what modifications, accommodations, and therapies
   22  included in to determine which programs and services may meet
   23  the student’s plan will be honored by the private school
   24  individual needs.
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   26  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   27  And the title is amended as follows:
   28         Delete lines 6 - 7
   29  and insert:
   30         in writing to parents before certain students enroll
   31         in the school; requiring that the parent of certain
   32         students be informed of certain information within a
   33         specified timeframe; providing an effective date.