Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 958
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/28/2025           .                                
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       The Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
       (Bernard) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 20 - 41
    4  and insert:
    5  made available to each early learning coalition, school
    6  district, school board, and charter school through the
    7  department’s website.
    8         (2) Within 90 days after July 1, 2025, the department shall
    9  develop the materials related to the early detection of Type 1
   10  diabetes and post the information on its website. The department
   11  shall develop a standardized methodology for each early learning
   12  coalition, school district, school board, and charter school for
   13  the notification of the parents or guardians of public school
   14  voluntary prekindergarten, kindergarten, and first-grade
   15  students, by September 30, 2025, and annually thereafter, of the
   16  availability of the Type 1 diabetes early detection materials.
   17         (3) Information provided to parents and guardians must
   18  include, but not be limited to, all of the following:
   19         (a) A description of Type 1 diabetes.
   20         (b) A description of the risk factors and warning signs
   21  associated with Type 1 diabetes.
   22         (c) A description of the process for screening students for
   23  early detection of Type 1 diabetes using a blood autoantibody
   24  test.
   25         (d) A recommendation for further evaluation for students
   26  displaying warning signs associated with Type 1 diabetes or
   27  positive early detection screening results.
   28         Section 2. Subsection (5) of section 1002.53, Florida
   29  Statutes, is amended to read:
   30         1002.53 Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program;
   31  eligibility and enrollment.—
   32         (5) The early learning coalition shall provide each parent
   33  enrolling a child in the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education
   34  Program with a profile of every private prekindergarten provider
   35  and public school delivering the program within the county where
   36  the child is being enrolled. The profiles must shall be provided
   37  to parents in a format prescribed by the department in
   38  accordance with s. 1002.92(3). The early learning coalition
   39  shall also annually notify parents and guardians of the
   40  availability of informational materials for the early detection
   41  of Type 1 diabetes pursuant to s. 381.992.
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   43  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   44  And the title is amended as follows:
   45         Delete line 9
   46  and insert:
   47         informational materials; amending s. 1002.53, F.S.;
   48         requiring early learning coalitions to notify parents
   49         and guardians of the availability of specified
   50         informational materials; providing an effective date.