HB 1277 – Student Discipline – 2019
General Bill by Antone
Student Discipline: Revises duties of district school boards relating to student discipline & school safety & qualifications of school resource officer & school safety officer; requires district school board to adopt policy on referrals to criminal justice system or juvenile justice system, rather than policy of zero tolerance for crime & victimization. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
SB 1644 – Instructional Personnel and Educational Support Employee Salaries – 2019
General Bill by Powell
Instructional Personnel and Educational Support Employee Salaries; Creating the “Florida Instructional Personnel Fair Pay Act” and “Florida Educational Support Employees Fair Pay Act”; requiring the Legislature to fund the Florida Education Finance Program at a level that ensures that instructional personnel and educational support employees earn a living wage; providing for specified percentage increases to the base salaries of instructional personnel and educational support employees for certain years, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
SB 1684 – Educator Certification Requirements – 2019
General Bill by Broxson
Educator Certification Requirements; Revising the period of validity of a temporary certificate; revising the length of time within which educators who are issued a temporary certificate must complete certain requirements, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
HB 7061 – Teacher Preparation – 2019
General Bill by PreK-12 Quality Subcommittee, Donalds
Teacher Preparation: Revises provisions relating to teacher preparation programs, educator preparation institutes, DOE duties relating to teacher recruitment & retention, supports for first-time teachers, & educator certification requirements relating to mastery of general knowledge requirements. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
Students with Disabilities in Public Schools
SB 62
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/62/BillText/Filed/PDF
Book
Students with Disabilities in Public Schools; Providing requirements for the use of physical restraint; providing requirements for the use of exclusionary and nonexclusionary time; providing requirements for documenting, reporting, and monitoring the use of restraint and exclusionary or nonexclusionary time; requiring continuing education and inservice training for instructional personnel in teaching students with emotional or behavioral disabilities, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Drinking Water in Public Schools
SB 66
http:// https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/66/BillText/Filed/PDF
Cruz
Drinking Water in Public Schools; Defining the term “drinking water source”; requiring each school district to locate all drinking water sources in certain schools, install a barcode on each source, and install filters that meet certain specifications on all such sources, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
High School Graduation Requirements
HB 73
https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0073__.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0073&Session=2019
Fetterhoff
High School Graduation Requirements: Revises requirements for Next Generation Sunshine State Standards to include financial literacy; revises required credits for standard high school diploma to include one-half credit of instruction in personal financial literacy & money management & seven & one-half, rather than eight, credits in electives. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
High School Graduation
Requirements/Dorothy L. Hukill Financial Literacy Act
SB
114
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/114/BillText/Filed/PDF
Hutson
High School Graduation Requirements/Dorothy L. Hukill Financial Literacy Act; Designating the act as the “Dorothy L. Hukill Financial Literacy Act”; revising the requirements for the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards to include financial literacy; revising the required credits for a standard high school diploma to include one-half credit of instruction in personal financial literacy and money management and seven and one-half, rather than eight, credits in electives, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Instructional Personnel and School Administrator Salary Schedules
HB 77
Instructional Personnel and School Administrator Salary Schedules: Authorizes district school board to use advanced degree in setting salary schedule for specified employees; requires each district school board to adopt salary schedule for specified employees; authorizes rather than requires district school board to adopt performance salary schedule; authorizes rather than requires district school board to provide for specified salary supplements. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Pilot Program
SB 120
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/120/BillText/Filed/PDF
Perry
Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Pilot Program; Extending the scheduled expiration of the pilot program, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Instructional Personnel Salaries
HB 121
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/121/BillText/Filed/PDF
Polsky
Instructional Personnel Salaries: Requires funding Florida Education Finance Program at certain level; provides statewide minimum salary for instructional personnel; provides for annual salary adjustments. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
Instructional
Personnel Salaries
SB 152
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/152/BillText/Filed/PDF
Rader
Instructional Personnel Salaries; Creating the “Florida Teacher Fair Pay Act”; requiring the Legislature to fund the Florida Education Finance Program at a level that ensures that certain schedules guarantee a minimum annual starting salary for instructional personnel; specifying a statewide minimum salary for all instructional personnel for the 2019-2020 fiscal year; requiring the Department of Education to annually calculate an adjusted statewide minimum annual starting salary, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Mental Health Education in Schools
HB 129
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/129/BillText/Filed/PDF
Silvers
Mental Health Education in Schools: Revises requirements for comprehensive health education; provides requirements for mental & emotional health education. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
False Personation
SB 136
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/136/BillText/Filed/PDF
Rouson
False Personation; Adding school guardians to the list of officials the false personation of whom is prohibited and is subject to criminal penalties, etc.; Effective Date: 10/1/2019
Employment After
Retirement of School District Personnel
HB 137
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/137/BillText/Filed/PDF
Good
Employment After Retirement of School District Personnel: Provides that retired instructional personnel may immediately after termination become employed by school district as substitute teacher; authorizes retired instructional personnel to be reemployed as substitute teacher & continue receiving retirement benefits; provides requirements for such reemployment. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
Tobacco-free Schools
SB 150
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/150/BillText/Filed/PDF
Rader
Tobacco-free Schools; Requiring each school district to adopt a policy that prohibits the use or distribution of tobacco products in school facilities, on school grounds, in school vehicles, and at school functions; requiring that each school district adopt a policy to refer individuals to voluntary cessation education and support programs that address tobacco use; prohibiting the use of school facilities, school real property, or vehicles owned by a school district for the advertisement of any tobacco product, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Panic Alarms in Public Schools
SB 174
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/174/BillText/Filed/PDF
Book
Panic Alarms in Public Schools; Citing this act as “Alyssa’s Law”; requiring each public school building on the campus of a public elementary school, middle school, or high school to be equipped with at least one panic alarm, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Student Elopement
HB 183
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/183/BillText/Filed/PDF
Jenne
Student Elopement: Requires public schools to create Staff Assistance for Emergencies (SAFE) Team & school elopement plan; provides requirements for team & plan; requires & provides requirements for elopement quick reference guides for certain students; requires public schools to annually submit their plans to district school board. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
High School Equivalency Diploma Program
HB 185
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/185/BillText/Filed/PDF
Valdes
High School Equivalency Diploma Program: Provides for award of high school equivalency diploma to students who meet specified criteria relating to high school graduation requirements. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
Postsecondary Education for Secondary Students
HB 189
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/189/BillText/Filed/PDF
Zika
Postsecondary Education for Secondary Students: Requires instructional materials be made available to certain dual enrollment students free of charge; provides additional options for students participating in early college program; revises program, contract, notification, & reporting requirements; authorizes charter schools to establish early college programs; provides that certain students & schools are not responsible for specified costs; provides FTE bonuses under certain circumstances. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
Study of the Bible and Religion
HB 195
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/195/BillText/Filed/PDF
Daniels
Study of the Bible and Religion: Requires each school district to offer specified courses relating to religion, Hebrew Scriptures, & Bible to certain students as elective courses; provides course requirements. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
District School Taxes
HB 215
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/215/BillText/Filed/PDF
Valdes
District School Taxes: Authorizes district school board to levy up to 2.0 mills, rather than 1.5 mills, for specified purposes by supermajority vote of school board. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
Education
HB 225
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/225/BillText/Filed/PDF
Beltran
Education: Provides that district school board may not prohibit student from lawfully wearing uniform of any branch of military or naval service of United States or of state at graduation ceremony. Effective Date: upon becoming a law
Mastery-based Education
SB 226
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/226/BillText/Filed/PDF
Brandes
Mastery-based Education; Renaming the
Competency-Based Education Pilot Program as the Mastery-Based Education Pilot
Program; authorizing a district school board participating in the Mastery-Based
Education Pilot Program to award credit based on student mastery of certain
content and skills; authorizing a district school board participating in the
Mastery-Based Education Pilot Program to use an alternative interpretation of
letter grades for certain students, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Limitation
on Terms of Office for Members of a District School Board
HB 229
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/229/BillText/Filed/PDF
Sabatini
Limitation on Terms of Office for Members of a District School Board: Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to limit the terms of office for a member of a district school board.
High School Academic Advisors
SB 244
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/244/BillText/Filed/PDF
Hutson
High School Academic Advisors; Requiring schools that serve students in grades 9 through 12 to designate academic advisors; requiring students who meet specified criteria to meet with an academic advisor within a specified timeframe, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Senior Citizen and Teacher Property Tax Protection
HB 269
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/269/BillText/Filed/PDF
Bush III
Senior Citizen and Teacher Property Tax Protection: Prohibits tax collector from including on forms, assessing, or collecting certain charges on property tax bills for certain identified populations; prohibits tax collector to authorize debt collection entity to collect certain charges on property tax bills for certain identified populations; prohibits tax collector from selling tax certificate on certain properties if only outstanding amounts due are for delinquent payment of property tax; requires DOR to work with tax collectors to identify mechanisms, strategies, & funding sources for helping certain populations pay for delinquent charges. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
Limitation on Terms of Office for Members of a District School Board
SB 274
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/274/BillText/Filed/PDF
Baxley
Limitation on Terms of Office for Members of a District School Board; Proposing amendments to State Constitution to limit the terms of office for a member of a district school board, etc.
Placement of Instructional Personnel
SB 280
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/280/BillText/Filed/PDF
Albritton
Placement of Instructional Personnel;
Prohibiting the use of a specified student learning growth formula as the only
factor in determining the placement of certain instructional personnel, etc.
Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Medicaid
School-based Services
SB 290
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/290/BillText/Filed/PDF
Montford
Medicaid School-based Services; Revising applicable provisions for the reimbursement of school-based services by the Agency for Health Care Administration to certain school districts; deleting a requirement specifying the use of certified state and local education funds for school-based services; revising a requirement for the agency’s reimbursement of school-based services to certain private and charter schools, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Education
SB 292
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/292/BillText/Filed/PDF
Lee
Education; Prohibiting a district school board from prohibiting a student from lawfully wearing the uniform of any branch of the military or naval service of the United States or of the state at his or her graduation ceremony, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law
Summer
Youth Service Learning Program
HB 293
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/293/BillText/Filed/PDF
Bush III
Summer Youth Service Learning Program: creates summer youth service learning program; provides SBE, DOE, employer, student, & program requirements; provides for funding & rulemaking. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
Educational Facilities
SB 294
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/294/BillText/Filed/PDF
Montford
Educational Facilities; Authorizing a school district, in the absence of a survey recommendation, to use funds from a taxpayer-approved bond referendum to fund construction of educational, auxiliary, or ancillary facilities and to use funds from a specified district school tax for certain capital outlay purposes; prohibiting a district school board from using funds from any source, other than specified local sources, for certain new construction of educational plant space; revising the costs that may not be included in calculating the cost per student station, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law
Alternative High School Graduation Requirements
SB 312
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/312/BillText/Filed/PDF
Montford
Alternative High School Graduation Requirements; Providing that, as of a specified school year, certain students are eligible to complete an alternative pathway to a standard high school diploma; specifying alternative pathways; requiring that students provide verified documentation of completion of an alternative pathway, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Exceptional Student Education State Assessment Accommodation Task Force
HB 321
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/321/BillText/Filed/PDF
Stone
Exceptional Student Education State Assessment Accommodation Task Force: Creates Exceptional Student Education State Assessment Accommodation Task Force within DOE; provides requirements for task force; provides for expiration of task force. Effective Date: upon becoming a law
Educational Standards for K-12 Public Schools
SB 330
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/330/BillText/Filed/PDF
Baxley
Educational Standards for K-12 Public Schools; Revising the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards; providing that such standards are the minimum baseline core content standards for K-12 public schools; revising the requirements for instructional materials that a district school superintendent annually certifies, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Exceptional Student Education State Assessment Accommodation Task Force
SB 348
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/348/BillText/Filed/PDF
Montford
Exceptional Student Education State Assessment Accommodation Task Force; Establishing the Exceptional Student Education State Assessment Accommodation Task Force within the Department of Education for the purpose of making recommendations on school accommodations for exceptional students; providing duties of the task force and the department, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law
Students with Disabilities in Public Schools
HB 349
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/349/BillText/Filed/PDF
DuBose
Students with Disabilities in Public Schools: Provides requirements for use of physical restraint & exclusionary & nonexclusionary time; prohibits specified physical restraint techniques; provides requirements for school districts, schools, and school personnel; requires continuing education & inservice training for instructional personnel in teaching certain students. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
Apprenticeship Programs
HB 367
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/367/BillText/Filed/PDF
Donalds
Apprenticeship Programs: Requires DOE to provide annual report to Legislature & State Apprenticeship Advisory Council; requires department to provide certain information on its website; requires department to develop & manage Florida Apprenticeship Grant Program, subject to appropriation of funds by Legislature; authorizes certain registered program sponsors to apply for grant awards to help fund apprenticeship programs; requires department to perform certain duties related to apprenticeships. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
Discrimination In
Florida K-20 Public Education System
HB 371
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/371/BillText/Filed/PDF
Caruso
Discrimination In Florida K-20 Public Education System: Prohibits discrimination in K-20 public education system based on religion; requires public K-20 educational institution to take into consideration anti-Semitism under certain instances of discrimination; defines “anti-Semitism.” Effective Date: July 1, 2019
School District Career
Centers
HB 381
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/381/BillText/Filed/PDF
Robinson
School District Career Centers: Authorizes school district career centers to conduct certain associate degree nursing programs. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
Medical Use of Marijuana in Schools
SB 384
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/384/BillText/Filed/PDF
Montford
Medical Use of Marijuana in Schools; Authorizing
a qualified patient to designate more than one caregiver to assist with the
qualified patient’s medical use of marijuana if the qualified patient is a
student whose parent has requested that a county-designated caregiver assist
the student with the medical use of marijuana during the school day; providing
a procedure for a parent of a student who is a qualified patient to request
that marijuana be administered to the student during the school day;
prohibiting a school from obstructing a student who is a qualified patient from
accessing marijuana during the school day, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Mastery-based
Education
HB 401
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/401/BillText/c1/PDF
DiCeglie
Mastery-based Education: Provides for alternative award of credits & letter grades under certain circumstances; renames Competency-Based Education Pilot Program as Mastery-Based Education Pilot Program; authorizes public school districts to submit applications for program & amend applications for specified purposes relating to credits & letter grades; provides requirements for such changes; revises statewide articulation agreement. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
Employment after Retirement of School District Personnel
SB 402
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/402/BillText/Filed/PDF
Gruters
Employment after Retirement of School District Personnel; Establishing an exception to reemployment after retirement limitations to authorize retired instructional staff to be employed as substitute teachers before meeting the definition of termination; requiring the State Board of Administration and the Department of Management Services to request a determination letter and private letter ruling from the United States Internal Revenue Service, etc. Effective Date: Except as otherwise expressly provided in this act and except for this section, which shall take effect upon becoming a law, this act shall take effect January 1, 2020
High School Graduation Requirements
SB 416
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/416/BillText/Filed/PDF
Gruters
High School Graduation Requirements; Revising the required credits for certain students for a standard high school diploma to include one-half credit of instruction in civics and seven and one-half, rather than eight, credits in electives; requiring certain students to correctly answer a minimum number of questions on a test identical to the civics portion of the naturalization test used by the United States Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Election of the Commissioner of Education
SB 422
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/422/BillText/Filed/PDF
Cruz
Election of the Commissioner of Education; Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to provide for the election of the Commissioner of Education and his or her inclusion as a member of the Cabinet and the State Board of Education, etc.
High School Equivalency Diploma Program
SB 506
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/506/BillText/Filed/PDF
Rouson
High School Equivalency Diploma Program; Providing additional qualifications for the award of a high school equivalency diploma to students who meet specified criteria relating to high school graduation requirements, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Funding for School Districts
SB 520
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/520/BillText/Filed/PDF
Montford
Funding for School Districts; Holding harmless certain funding to school districts that enrolled students from certain counties as a result of Hurricane Michael; requiring that a calculation and allocation be made; providing that the funds calculated support a nonrecurring appropriation, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Apprenticeship Programs
SB 522
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/522/BillText/Filed/PDF
Diaz
Apprenticeship Programs; Requiring the Department of Education to provide a specified annual report to the Legislature and the State Apprenticeship Advisory Council; requiring the department to develop and manage the Florida Apprenticeship Grant Program, subject to appropriation of funds by the Legislature; authorizing certain registered apprenticeship program sponsors to apply for grant awards to help fund apprenticeship programs, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Preapprenticeship and Apprenticeship Programs
HB 543
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/543/BillText/Filed/PDF
Webb
Preapprenticeship and Apprenticeship Programs: Creates Earn & Learn Grant Program within DOE; provides DOE responsibilities; provides requirements for preapprenticeship & apprenticeship programs receiving grant funds; establishes Task Force on Apprenticeship Expansion within DEO; provides for composition & meetings; requires DEO to provide specified assistance; requires task force to submit report to Governor & Legislature by specified date; provides for termination of task force; provides appropriations; requires percentage of students engaged in apprenticeship or preapprenticeship program to be used in determining school’s grade. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
Drinking Water in Public Schools
HB 545
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/545/BillText/Filed/PDF
Jenne
Drinking Water in Public Schools: Requires each
school district to locate all drinking water sources in certain schools,
install barcode on each source, & install filters that meet certain
specifications on all such sources; requires such schools to post certain
signage on certain water sources & to publish specified information on
school district’s website. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
Back-to-school
Sales Tax Holiday
SB 576
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/576/BillText/Filed/PDF
Perry
Back-to-school Sales Tax Holiday; Providing exemptions from the sales and use tax on the retail sale of certain clothing, school supplies, personal computers, and personal computer-related accessories during a specified timeframe; specifying locations where the exemptions do not apply, etc. APPROPRIATION: $225,000.00 Effective Date: Upon becoming a law
Charter Schools
SB 584
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/584/BillText/Filed/PDF
Cruz
Charter Schools; Prohibiting charter schools from operating as, or being operated by, a for-profit corporation, a for-profit educational management organization, or a for-profit charter management organization; prohibiting a charter school from entering into a subcontract to avoid certain requirements, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Structurally Sound and Accessible School Facilities
SB 586
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/586/BillText/Filed/PDF
Cruz
Structurally Sound and Accessible School Facilities; Providing that all students have certain rights relating to attending schools that meet specific standards; requiring that certain new school facilities be constructed in compliance with public shelter design criteria; requiring a startup charter school to use facilities that comply with the State Requirements for Educational Facilities; requiring the governing authority of a state scholarship-participating private school to require that any new construction, remodeling, or renovation of school facilities comply with the Florida Building Code and the State Requirements for Educational Facilities, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Medicaid School-based Services
HB 587
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/587/BillText/Filed/PDF
Andrade
Medicaid School-based Services: Revises provisions relating to reimbursement of school-based services by AHCA to certain school districts & private & charter schools; specifies that U.S. Department of Health & Human Services is authorized to waive certain school-based provider qualifications. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
Possession of Firearms on School Property
HB 6005
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/6005/BillText/Filed/PDF
Byrd
Possession of Firearms on School Property: Revises provisions relating to possession of firearms in student campus parking. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
Collective Bargaining for Instructional Personnel
SB 698
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/698/BillText/Filed/PDF
Collective Bargaining for Instructional Personnel; Removing a requirement that each school district and the certified collective bargaining unit for instructional personnel within each district negotiate a specified memorandum of understanding; removing a requirement that certain certified collective bargaining units include specified information in their applications for renewal of registration, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Collective Bargaining
HB 13
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/13/BillText/Filed/PDF
Williamson
Collective Bargaining: Prohibits collective bargaining agreements that authorize or require public employer to compensate public employee or third party for employee organization activities. Effective Date: July 1, 2019
