Bill Text: FL H0623 | 2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Instructional Materials for K-12 Public Education

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-2)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Messages [H0623 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-H0623-Comm_Sub.html

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CS/HB 623

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to instructional materials for K-12 public
3	education; amending s. 1006.28, F.S.; including computer
4	hardware in the definition of the term "adequate
5	instructional materials"; requiring each district school
6	board to provide technology as needed for its educational
7	program; amending s. 1006.40, F.S.; authorizing the use of
8	certain funds for the purchase of computer hardware by
9	district school boards; providing restrictions; providing
10	an effective date.
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12	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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14	Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 1006.28, Florida
15	Statutes, is amended to read:
16	1006.28 Duties of district school board, district school
17	superintendent; and school principal regarding K-12
18	instructional materials.-
19	(1) DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD.-The district school board has
20	the duty to provide adequate instructional materials for all
21	students in accordance with the requirements of this part. The
22	term "adequate instructional materials" means a sufficient
23	number of textbooks or sets of materials that are available in
24	bound, unbound, kit, or package form and may consist of hard-
25	backed or soft-backed textbooks, consumables, learning
26	laboratories, manipulatives, electronic media, and computer
27	hardware, courseware, or software that serve as the basis for
28	instruction for each student in the core courses of mathematics,
29	language arts, social studies, science, reading, and literature,
30	except for instruction for which the school advisory council
31	approves the use of a program that does not include a textbook
32	as a major tool of instruction. The district school board has
33	the following specific duties:
34	(a) Courses of study; adoption.-Adopt courses of study for
35	use in the schools of the district.
36	(b) Textbooks.-Provide for proper requisitioning,
37	distribution, accounting, storage, care, and use of all
38	instructional materials furnished by the state and furnish such
39	other instructional materials as may be needed. The district
40	school board shall assure that instructional materials used in
41	the district are consistent with the district goals and
42	objectives and the curriculum frameworks adopted by rule of the
43	State Board of Education, as well as with the state and district
44	performance standards provided for in s. 1001.03(1).
45	(c) Other instructional materials.-Provide such other
46	technology and teaching accessories and aids as are needed for
47	the school district's educational program.
48	(d) School library media services; establishment and
49	maintenance.-Establish and maintain a program of school library
50	media services for all public schools in the district, including
51	school library media centers, or school library media centers
52	open to the public, and, in addition such traveling or
53	circulating libraries as may be needed for the proper operation
54	of the district school system.
55	Section 2. Subsection (4) of section 1006.40, Florida
56	Statutes, is amended to read:
57	1006.40 Use of instructional materials allocation;
58	instructional materials, library books, and reference books;
59	repair of books.-
60	(4) The funds described in subsection (3) which district
61	school boards may use to purchase materials not on the state-
62	adopted list shall be used for the purchase of instructional
63	materials or other items having intellectual content which
64	assist in the instruction of a subject or course. These items
65	may be available in bound, unbound, kit, or package form and may
66	consist of hardbacked or softbacked textbooks, replacements for
67	items which were part of previously purchased instructional
68	materials, consumables, learning laboratories, manipulatives,
69	electronic media, computer hardware, courseware, or software,
70	and other commonly accepted instructional tools as prescribed by
71	district school board rule. The funds available to district
72	school boards for the purchase of materials not on the state-
73	adopted list may not be used to purchase electronic or computer
74	hardware unless even if such hardware is provided for the sole
75	purpose of delivering instructional materials content in an
76	electronic format. The funds provided for instructional
77	materials bundled with software or other electronic media, nor
78	may not such funds be used to purchase equipment or supplies.
79	However, when authorized to do so in the General Appropriations
80	Act, a school or district school board may use a portion of the
81	funds available to it for the purchase of materials not on the
82	state-adopted list to purchase science laboratory materials and
83	supplies.
84	Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.

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