Florida Senate Bill 678 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: Failed on March 14 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-14 - Died in Education
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requiring the Department of Education to adopt native language versions of the school readiness screener, the school readiness assessment, the Florida Voluntary Prekindergarten Assessment, and the Florida Kindergarten Readiness Screener; requiring that a high school equivalency examination administered in any language other than English be given the same weight as a high school equivalency examination administered in English; revising requirements of the statewide, standardized assessment program to include native language versions of related assessments, etc.

Native Language Assessment in Public Schools

Sen. Annette Taddeo [D]	Sen. Jason Pizzo [D]	Sen. Jose Rodriguez [D]	Sen. Victor Torres [D]
Sen. Janet Cruz [D]	Sen. Anitere Flores [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-14	Senate	Died in Education
2020-03-14	Senate	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2020-01-14	Senate	Introduced
2019-11-06	Senate	Referred to Education; Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; Appropriations
2019-10-25	Senate	Filed

H515 (Same As) 2020-03-14 - Died in PreK-12 Innovation Subcommittee

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
1002	69		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1003	435		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1008	22		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1008	30		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/678
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/678/BillText/Filed/HTML