Bill Text: FL S0418 | 2020 | Regular Session | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Workforce Education

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2020-03-14 - Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Education [S0418 Detail]

Download: Florida-2020-S0418-Comm_Sub.html
       Florida Senate - 2020                              CS for SB 418
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Education; and Senator Diaz
       
       
       
       
       
       581-02003-20                                           2020418c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to workforce education; amending s.
    3         1011.80, F.S.; revising the workforce education
    4         programs that school district career centers are
    5         authorized to conduct; providing an effective date.
    6          
    7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
    8  
    9         Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 1011.80, Florida
   10  Statutes, is amended to read:
   11         1011.80 Funds for operation of workforce education
   12  programs.—
   13         (2) Any workforce education program may be conducted by a
   14  Florida College System institution or a school district, except
   15  that college credit in an associate in applied science or an
   16  associate in science degree may be awarded only by a Florida
   17  College System institution. However, a school district career
   18  center may conduct the following:
   19         (a) Portions of if an associate in applied science or an
   20  associate in science degree program which contain contains
   21  within it an occupational completion point that confers a
   22  certificate or an applied technology diploma.
   23         (b) An associate in applied science or an associate in
   24  science degree program in nursing if the career center offering
   25  the associate in applied science or associate in science degree
   26  program in nursing offers it to graduates of a licensed
   27  practical nursing program offered by the same center, that
   28  portion of the program may be conducted by a school district
   29  career center. Any instruction designed to articulate to a
   30  degree program is subject to guidelines and standards adopted by
   31  the State Board of Education pursuant to s. 1007.25.
   32         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.

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