Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1546
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  04/15/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Budget (Flores) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 1192 - 1214
    4  and insert:
    5         (18)(16) EXEMPTION FROM STATUTES AND ORDINANCES.—
    6         (a) A charter school shall operate in accordance with its
    7  charter and shall be exempt from all statutes in chapters 1000
    8  1013. However, a charter school shall be in compliance with the
    9  following statutes in chapters 1000-1013:
   10         1. Those statutes specifically applying to charter schools,
   11  including this section.
   12         2. Those statutes pertaining to the student assessment
   13  program and school grading system.
   14         3. Those statutes pertaining to the provision of services
   15  to students with disabilities.
   16         4. Those statutes pertaining to civil rights, including s.
   17  1000.05, relating to discrimination.
   18         5. Those statutes pertaining to student health, safety, and
   19  welfare.
   20         (b) Additionally, a charter school shall be in compliance
   21  with the following statutes:
   22         1. Section 286.011, relating to public meetings and
   23  records, public inspection, and criminal and civil penalties.
   24         2. Chapter 119, relating to public records.
   25         3. Section 1003.03, relating to the maximum class size,
   26  except that the calculation for compliance pursuant to s.
   27  1003.03 shall be the average at the school level.
   28         (c) A charter school is exempt from any local government
   29  ordinance, resolution, or regulation that regulates, directly or
   30  indirectly, the operation, hours, programs, curriculum,
   31  location, enrollment capacity, grade levels, size, or facilities
   32  of the charter school except as expressly permitted under this
   33  section, and any such ordinance, resolution, or regulation is
   34  expressly preempted.
   35  
   36         Delete lines 1393 - 1399
   37  and insert:
   38         (g) Each school district shall annually provide to the
   39  Department of Education as part of its 5-year work plan the
   40  number of existing vacant classrooms in each school that the
   41  district does not intend to use or does not project will be
   42  needed for educational purposes for the following school year.
   43  The department shall require may recommend that a district to
   44  make such space available to an appropriate charter school
   45  through a request-for-proposal process.
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   47  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   48         And the title is amended as follows:
   49         Delete line 11
   50  and insert:
   51         to changes made by the act; providing an exemption for
   52         charter schools from certain local government
   53         ordinances, resolutions, or regulations; requiring
   54         that the Department of Education require a school
   55         district to make classroom space available to an
   56         appropriate charter school through a request-for
   57         proposal process; amending ss. 1002.34,