Florida Senate - 2026                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 538
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/03/2026           .                                
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Gaetz) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 445 - 449
    4  and insert:
    5         (d) The public school in which a personalized education
    6  program student wishes to participate may assess an activity fee
    7  to an eligible student pursuant to this section, provided that
    8  such fee is uniformly applied within the school or district for
    9  the activity and does not exceed the prorated per-student cost
   10  to the school or district for the activity.
   11         1. For purposes of this paragraph, the term “prorated per
   12  student cost to the school or district for the activity” means
   13  the school’s or district’s direct costs that are necessary to
   14  provide the specific interscholastic or intrascholastic
   15  extracurricular activity within the school or district, divided
   16  by the number of students participating in that activity in the
   17  school or district.
   18         2. The school or district shall adopt a written policy
   19  establishing the methodology for calculating such costs and
   20  shall annually publish online the activity fee schedule and
   21  supporting calculations for each activity.
   22         3. The public school in which a homeschool student wishes
   23  to participate may assess an eligible homeschool student only
   24  the out-of-pocket costs paid by the public school student for
   25  the interscholastic or intrascholastic extracurricular activity.
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   28  And the title is amended as follows:
   29         Delete lines 21 - 23
   30  and insert:
   31         schools; authorizing a public school to assess an
   32         activity fee for certain students; defining the term
   33         “prorated per-student cost to the school or district
   34         for the activity”; requiring the school or district to
   35         adopt a written policy for calculating specified
   36         costs; requiring the school or district to publish
   37         online the activity fee schedule; providing a
   38         limitation on a specified fee assessed by a public
   39         school; requiring parents to