Bills Pending Florida Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee

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FLS0772Intro
25%
Authorizing a school district or charter school to annually request a prescription for glucagon from certain entities; authorizing a licensed pharmacist to dispense undesignated glucagon in accordance with specified provisions; authorizing a school d...
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2025-03-17
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1402Intro
25%
Authorizing virtual instruction program providers who exclusively provide services through a dropout retrieval program to receive a school improvement rating; revising the criteria used to determine if certain students are not included in the calcula...
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2025-03-17
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0364Intro
25%
Establishing the council within the Department of Education, rather than the Department of Legal Affairs; requiring the Department of Education, rather than the Office of the Attorney General, to provide staff and administrative support to the counci...
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2025-03-17
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0430Intro
25%
Citing this act as the "Kickstart My Heart Act"; requiring public schools, including charter schools, to have at least one operational automated external defibrillator on school grounds by a specified date; providing immunity from liability for schoo...
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2025-03-17
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1122Intro
25%
Deleting provisions requiring the Florida Virtual School to give priority to certain students; providing that officers and employees are granted sovereign immunity in addition to the board of trustees; providing that certain expenditures are continge...
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2025-03-17
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0140Intro
25%
Revising which persons or entities may apply for a conversion charter school; authorizing a municipality to apply for a job engine charter under certain conditions; requiring a school board to submit a 5-year plan to the Department of Education befor...
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2025-03-17
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1424Intro
25%
Requiring school districts to provide transportation to students in kindergarten through grade 12 under certain circumstances; requiring district school boards to provide transportation to students in kindergarten through grade 12 who live more than ...
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2025-03-10
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0442Intro
25%
Requiring the Just Read, Florida! Office to work with the Florida Center for Reading Research to identify certain personnel and reading coaches to participate in specified training; requiring that intensive reading instruction be provided to students...
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2025-03-10
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1688Intro
25%
Requiring that certain internships be included in counseling materials and presented with certain courses; revising the requirements of a certain strategic 3-year plan to include the Florida Gold Seal CAPE Scholars award; prohibiting the inclusion of...
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2025-03-10
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1504Intro
25%
Citing this act as the "Florida Religious Liberty Awareness and Activation Act"; creating the "Florida Student and School Personnel Religious Liberties Act"; prohibiting a school district from discriminating against students, parents, or school perso...
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2025-03-10
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1462Intro
25%
Authorizing students to enroll in virtual programs through private schools using Family Empowerment Scholarship and Florida Tax Credit Scholarship awards, respectively; authorizing public schools to operate hybrid models of education while maintainin...
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2025-03-10
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1698Intro
25%
Deleting provisions providing for the award of a certificate of completion to certain students; revising the student eligibility criteria for enrollment in certificate career education programs, etc.
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2025-03-10
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1530Intro
25%
Citing this act as the "Smart Living Curriculum Act"; requiring students in grade 8 to take the Smart Living Course for promotion to high school beginning in a specified school year; requiring that a curriculum known as "Smart Living" be included in ...
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2025-03-10
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0444Intro
25%
Requiring public schools to designate a member of the administrative personnel to provide annual training regarding human trafficking awareness to specified employees; requiring employees who receive such training to submit an acknowledgment to the s...
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2025-03-10
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1590Intro
25%
Establishing the Task Force for Educator Preparation; requiring the Department of Education to provide administrative support for the task force; providing the duties of the task force; providing for expiration of the task force, etc.
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2025-03-10
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1440Intro
25%
Requiring, rather than authorizing, a school district to use specified reports and plans of care to complete a matrix of services for a nonpublic school student without an individual education plan; revising the instructional materials for which Flor...
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2025-03-10
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1514Intro
25%
Requiring each district school board to ensure that specified emergency action plans are effective at all times when certain students are on campus; requiring each district school board to ensure that school personnel and employees and contracted per...
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2025-03-10
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1296Intro
25%
Requiring the Commissioner of Education to coordinate with school districts selected by the Department of Education to implement a policy for a specified school year prohibiting the use of cell phones while on school grounds or engaged in certain act...
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2025-03-10
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1288Intro
25%
Deleting exceptions for certain parental rights; creating the parental right to review and consent to a survey or questionnaire provided to his or her minor child; revising exceptions for specified requirements of parental consent; prohibiting the us...
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2025-03-10
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1394Intro
25%
Requiring students in specified grades to receive instruction in cursive writing; providing requirements for such instruction; requiring students to demonstrate proficiency in cursive writing by the end of a specified grade, etc.
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2025-03-10
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1780Intro
25%
Citing this act as the "Early Education Workforce Support and Access Act"; establishing the Early Education Workforce Support Pilot Program within the Department of Education for a specified period; providing the purpose of and funding for the progra...
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2025-03-10
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1608Intro
25%
Providing that a specified maximum number of full-time virtual students of private schools may be approved to participate in the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program under certain conditions for specified fiscal years; requiring eligible private sc...
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2025-03-10
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1708Intro
25%
Providing that specified provisions relating to facilities apply to schools of hope of distinction; revising and providing definitions; providing that schools of hope of distinction have the right to locate or co-locate with other public schools in c...
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2025-03-10
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1334Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from being automatically found ineligible for educator certification and specified employment if certain offenses meet specified criteria, etc.
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2025-03-10
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1702Intro
25%
Requiring a charter school sponsor to use a standard monitoring tool to monitor and review a charter school; providing that a hope operator must submit a notice of intent to open a school of hope to the sponsoring entity, rather than the school distr...
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2025-03-10
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0644Intro
25%
Providing that certain students enrolled in an adult education program are eligible for dual enrollment, etc.
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2025-03-06
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0460Intro
25%
Requiring public schools to create a school staff assistance for emergencies (SAFE) team and a school elopement plan; requiring the SAFE team to create student-specific elopement quick reference guides for certain students; requiring public schools t...
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0506Intro
25%
Authorizing certain English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program students to meet the Algebra I end-of-course assessment requirements in a specified manner, etc.
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0720Intro
25%
Requiring district school boards to provide classroom teachers with access to mental health services and mental health days; providing requirements for such mental health services and mental health days, etc.
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0204Intro
25%
Revising the core curricula for certain teacher preparation programs to include training relating to mass casualty incidents; requiring certain postsecondary educator preparation institutes' programs to include training relating to mass casualty inci...
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0338Intro
25%
Requiring public high schools to establish a Bright Futures Scholarship mentorship program for students, etc.
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0484Intro
25%
Requiring minimum ratios of school psychologists and of certified school counselors, school social workers, or other licensed mental health professionals to students in certain grades, respectively, beginning with a specified school year, etc.
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0816Intro
25%
Revising the required instruction in specified life skills to include career readiness, financial literacy, and home economics, etc.
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0742Intro
25%
Providing that the Workforce Development Capitalization Incentive Grant Program includes charter schools; revising the number of workforce education programs that each school district and Florida College System institution must offer a money-back gua...
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1232Intro
25%
Requiring schools to establish anti-harassment policies and supportive measures; requiring schools to notify specified persons of the policies and measures; requiring the policies and measures to be published in specified places and on certain websit...
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0938Intro
25%
Requiring a student's primary teacher to report to the principal, or his or her designee, if a student is chronically absent; requiring the State Board of Education to create guidelines relating to student absences, etc.
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0540Intro
25%
Citing this act as the "Evin B. Hartsell Act"; requiring, rather than authorizing, disability history and awareness instruction; requiring that disability history and awareness instruction include specified material; authorizing a district school boa...
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0136Intro
25%
Deleting a requirement relating to cost-of-living salary adjustments; revising requirements for salary schedules for school employees; revising conditions under which a district school board must provide salary supplements; deleting a provision that ...
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1254Intro
25%
Requiring a district school board to ensure that all contracts between the school district and a third-party entity contain a specified provision; requiring a district school board to publish on its website any portion of a new or existing agreement ...
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1014Intro
25%
Creating the Youth Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation Pilot Program within the Community School Grant Program for a specified period; requiring the Center for Community Schools at the University of Central Florida to implement the pilot program a...
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0822Intro
25%
Providing requirements for specified deadlines for charter schools; authorizing a charter school to assign its charter to another governing board under certain circumstances; revising which facilities and land are exempt from specified ad valorem tax...
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1094Intro
25%
Requiring work-based learning opportunities to be scheduled at times and locations to maximize student access and participation; providing that a high school's annual career fair must provide certain students the opportunity to meet and interview wit...
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0260Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Education to develop versions of statewide, standardized assessments and specified portions of the statewide, standardized coordinated screening and progress monitoring system in certain languages by a specified date; requ...
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0670Intro
25%
Citing this act as the "Save Our Teachers Act"; increasing the minimum base salary for certain teachers; revising the purpose of the classroom teacher and other instructional personnel salary increase; revising requirements for funding for the increa...
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0930Intro
25%
Citing this act as the "Freedom to Learn Act"; repealing a provision relating to prohibited training or instruction in specified concepts which constitutes discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, or sex; authorizing and encouragi...
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1204Intro
25%
Revising the number of career-themed courses that must be offered by a school district; requiring at least two career-themed courses to meet certain requirements; revising the number of clock hours required for a certain component used to determine a...
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1150Intro
25%
Providing that persons employed as school social workers are exempt from teacher certification requirements; providing an exception, etc.
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0104Intro
25%
Revising a requirement for instruction on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of an automated external defibrillator; requiring each public school to develop a cardiac emergency response plan (CERP); requiring school officials to work with loca...
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS1112Intro
25%
Revising rules for teacher preparation programs to include a minimum of 85 instructional hours in specified content in mathematics; revising requirements for certificate programs from educator preparation institutes to include specified content in ma...
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
FLS0070Intro
25%
Revising the instructional hours required to be delivered in the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program for school-year and summer programs, etc.
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2025-03-04
To Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Committee
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