Florida Senate - 2013                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS/CS/SB 1388, 1st Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Montford moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to House Amendment (336735) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Delete lines 5 - 956
    5  and insert:
    6         Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section
    7  1006.28, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    8         1006.28 Duties of district school board, district school
    9  superintendent; and school principal regarding K-12
   10  instructional materials.—
   11         (1) DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD.—The district school board has
   12  the duty to provide adequate instructional materials for all
   13  students in accordance with the requirements of this part. The
   14  term “adequate instructional materials” means a sufficient
   15  number of student or site licenses or sets of materials that are
   16  available in bound, unbound, kit, or package form and may
   17  consist of hardbacked or softbacked textbooks, electronic
   18  content, consumables, learning laboratories, manipulatives,
   19  electronic media, and computer courseware or software that serve
   20  as the basis for instruction for each student in the core
   21  courses of mathematics, language arts, social studies, science,
   22  reading, and literature. The district school board has the
   23  following specific duties:
   24         (b) Instructional materials.—Provide for proper
   25  requisitioning, distribution, accounting, storage, care, and use
   26  of all instructional materials and furnish such other
   27  instructional materials as may be needed. The district school
   28  board shall ensure that instructional materials used in the
   29  district are consistent with the district goals and objectives
   30  and the course descriptions established in curriculum frameworks
   31  adopted by rule of the State Board of Education, as well as with
   32  the state and district performance standards provided for in s.
   33  1001.03(1).
   34         Section 2. Section 1006.283, Florida Statutes, is created
   35  to read:
   36         1006.283 District school board instructional materials
   37  review process.—
   38         (1) A school board or consortium of school districts may
   39  implement an instructional materials program that includes the
   40  review, approval, adoption, and purchase of instructional
   41  materials. Beginning in the 2013-2014 school year, the district
   42  school superintendent shall certify to the department by March
   43  31 of each year that all instructional materials for core
   44  courses used by the district are aligned with applicable state
   45  standards. Included in the certification shall be a list of the
   46  core instructional materials that will be used or purchased for
   47  use by the school district.
   48         (2) The school board shall adopt rules implementing the
   49  district’s instructional materials program which must include,
   50  but need not be limited to:
   51         (a) Its review and purchase process.
   52         (b) Identification of a review cycle for instructional
   53  materials.
   54         (c) The duties and qualifications of the instructional
   55  materials reviewers.
   56         (d) The requirements for an affidavit made by a district
   57  instructional materials reviewer which substantially includes
   58  the requirements of s. 1006.30.
   59         (e) Compliance with s. 1006.32, relating to prohibited
   60  acts.
   61         (f) A process that certifies the accuracy of instructional
   62  materials.
   63         (g) The incorporation of applicable requirements of s.
   64  1006.31, which relates to the duties of instructional material
   65  reviewers.
   66         (h) The incorporation of applicable requirements of s.
   67  1006.38, relating to the duties, responsibilities, and
   68  requirements of publishers of instructional materials.
   69         (i) The process by which instructional materials will be
   70  purchased, including advertising, bidding, and purchasing
   71  requirements.
   72         (3)(a) The school board may assess and collect fees from
   73  publishers participating in the instructional materials approval
   74  process. The amount assessed and collected must be posted on the
   75  school district’s website and reported to the department. The
   76  fees may not exceed the actual cost of the review process, and
   77  the fees may not exceed $3,500 per submission by a publisher.
   78  Any fees collected for this process shall be allocated for the
   79  support of the review process and maintained in a separate line
   80  item for auditing purposes.
   81         (b) The fees shall be used to cover the actual cost of
   82  substitute teachers for each workday that a member of a school
   83  district’s instructional staff is absent from his or her
   84  assigned duties for the purpose of rendering service as an
   85  instructional materials reviewer. In addition, each reviewer may
   86  be paid a stipend and is entitled to reimbursement for travel
   87  expenses and per diem in accordance with s. 112.061 for actual
   88  service in meetings.
   89         (4) Instructional materials that have been reviewed by the
   90  district instructional materials reviewers and approved must
   91  have been determined to align with all applicable state
   92  standards pursuant to s. 1003.41 and the requirements in s.
   93  1006.31. The district school superintendent shall annually
   94  certify to the department that all instructional materials for
   95  core courses used by the district are aligned with all
   96  applicable state standards.
   97         (5) A publisher that offers instructional materials to a
   98  district school board must provide such materials at a price
   99  that, including all costs of electronic transmission, does not
  100  exceed the lowest price at which the publisher offers such
  101  instructional materials for approval or sale to any state or
  102  school district in the United States.
  103         (6) A publisher shall reduce automatically the price of the
  104  instructional materials to the district school board to the
  105  extent that reductions in price are made elsewhere in the United
  106  States.
  107         Section 3. Section 1006.31, Florida Statutes, is amended to
  108  read:
  109         1006.31 Duties of the Department of Education and school
  110  district each state instructional materials reviewer.—The duties
  111  of the each state instructional materials reviewer are:
  112         (1) PROCEDURES.—To adhere to procedures prescribed by the
  113  department or the district for evaluating instructional
  114  materials submitted by publishers and manufacturers in each
  115  adoption. This section applies to both the state and district
  116  approval processes.
  117         (2) EVALUATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS.—To evaluate
  118  carefully all instructional materials submitted, in order to
  119  ascertain which instructional materials, if any, submitted for
  120  consideration implement the selection criteria developed by the
  121  department and those curricular objectives included within
  122  applicable performance standards provided for in s. 1001.03(1).
  123         (a) When recommending instructional materials for use in
  124  the schools, each reviewer shall include only instructional
  125  materials that accurately portray the ethnic, socioeconomic,
  126  cultural, and racial diversity of our society, including men and
  127  women in professional, career, and executive roles, and the role
  128  and contributions of the entrepreneur and labor in the total
  129  development of this state and the United States.
  130         (b) When recommending instructional materials for use in
  131  the schools, each reviewer shall include only materials that
  132  accurately portray, whenever appropriate, humankind’s place in
  133  ecological systems, including the necessity for the protection
  134  of our environment and conservation of our natural resources and
  135  the effects on the human system of the use of tobacco, alcohol,
  136  controlled substances, and other dangerous substances.
  137         (c) When recommending instructional materials for use in
  138  the schools, each reviewer shall require such materials as he or
  139  she deems necessary and proper to encourage thrift, fire
  140  prevention, and humane treatment of people and animals.
  141         (d) When recommending instructional materials for use in
  142  the schools, each reviewer shall require, when appropriate to
  143  the comprehension of students, that materials for social
  144  science, history, or civics classes contain the Declaration of
  145  Independence and the Constitution of the United States. A
  146  reviewer may not recommend any instructional materials for use
  147  in the schools which contain any matter reflecting unfairly upon
  148  persons because of their race, color, creed, national origin,
  149  ancestry, gender, or occupation.
  150         (e) Any instructional material recommended by each reviewer
  151  for use in the schools shall be, to the satisfaction of each
  152  reviewer, accurate, objective, and current and suited to the
  153  needs and comprehension of students at their respective grade
  154  levels. Reviewers shall consider for adoption materials
  155  developed for academically talented students such as those
  156  enrolled in advanced placement courses.
  157         (3) REPORT OF REVIEWERS.— After a thorough study of all
  158  data submitted on each instructional material, to submit an
  159  electronic report to the department. The report shall be made
  160  public and must include responses to each section of the report
  161  format prescribed by the department.
  162         Section 4. Subsection (1) of section 1006.37, Florida
  163  Statutes, is amended, and subsection (3) is added to that
  164  section, to read:
  165         1006.37 Requisition of instructional materials from
  166  publisher’s depository.—
  167         (1) The district school superintendent shall requisition
  168  adopted instructional materials from the depository of the
  169  publisher with whom a contract has been made. However, the
  170  superintendent shall requisition current instructional materials
  171  to provide each student with a textbook or other materials as a
  172  major tool of instruction in core courses of the subject areas
  173  specified in s. 1006.40(2). These materials must be
  174  requisitioned within the first 3 2 years of the adoption cycle,
  175  except for instructional materials related to growth of student
  176  membership or instructional materials maintenance needs. The
  177  superintendent may requisition instructional materials in the
  178  core subject areas specified in s. 1006.40(2) that are related
  179  to growth of student membership or instructional materials
  180  maintenance needs during the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th years of the
  181  original contract period.
  182         (3) A district school board or a consortium of school
  183  districts which implements an instructional materials program
  184  pursuant to s. 1006.283 is not required to requisition
  185  instructional materials from the publisher’s depository.
  186         Section 5. Section 1006.38, Florida Statutes, is amended to
  187  read:
  188         1006.38 Duties, responsibilities, and requirements of
  189  instructional materials publishers and manufacturers.—This
  190  section applies to both the state and district approval
  191  processes. Publishers and manufacturers of instructional
  192  materials, or their representatives, shall:
  193         (1) Comply with all provisions of this part.
  194         (2) Electronically deliver fully developed sample copies of
  195  all instructional materials upon which bids are based to the
  196  department pursuant to procedures adopted by the State Board of
  197  Education.
  198         (3) Submit, at a time designated in s. 1006.33, the
  199  following information:
  200         (a) Detailed specifications of the physical characteristics
  201  of the instructional materials, including any software or
  202  technological tools required for use by the district, school,
  203  teachers, or students. The publisher or manufacturer shall
  204  comply with these specifications if the instructional materials
  205  are adopted and purchased in completed form.
  206         (b) Evidence that the publisher or manufacturer has
  207  provided materials that address the performance standards
  208  provided for in s. 1001.03(1) and that can be accessed through
  209  the district’s local instructional improvement system and a
  210  variety of electronic, digital, and mobile devices.
  211         (c) Evidence that the instructional materials include
  212  specific references to statewide standards in the teacher’s
  213  manual and incorporate such standards into chapter tests or the
  214  assessments.
  215         (4) Make available for purchase by any district school
  216  board any diagnostic, criterion-referenced, or other tests that
  217  they may develop.
  218         (5) Furnish the instructional materials offered by them at
  219  a price in the state which, including all costs of electronic
  220  transmission, may not exceed the lowest price at which they
  221  offer such instructional materials for adoption or sale to any
  222  state or school district in the United States.
  223         (6) Reduce automatically the price of the instructional
  224  materials to any district school board to the extent that
  225  reductions are made elsewhere in the United States.
  226         (7) Provide any instructional materials free of charge in
  227  the state to the same extent as they are provided free of charge
  228  to any state or school district in the United States.
  229         (8) Guarantee that all copies of any instructional
  230  materials sold in this state will be at least equal in quality
  231  to the copies of such instructional materials that are sold
  232  elsewhere in the United States and will be kept revised, free
  233  from all errors, and up-to-date as may be required by the
  234  department.
  235         (9) Agree that any supplementary material developed at the
  236  district or state level does not violate the author’s or
  237  publisher’s copyright, provided such material is developed in
  238  accordance with the doctrine of fair use.
  239         (10) Not in any way, directly or indirectly, become
  240  associated or connected with any combination in restraint of
  241  trade in instructional materials, nor enter into any
  242  understanding, agreement, or combination to control prices or
  243  restrict competition in the sale of instructional materials for
  244  use in the state.
  245         (11) Maintain or contract with a depository in the state.
  246         (12) For the core subject areas specified in s. 1006.40(2),
  247  maintain in the depository for the first 3 2 years of the
  248  contract an inventory of instructional materials sufficient to
  249  receive and fill orders.
  250         (13) For the core subject areas specified in s. 1006.40(2),
  251  ensure the availability of an inventory sufficient to receive
  252  and fill orders for instructional materials for growth,
  253  including the opening of a new school, and replacement during
  254  the 3rd and subsequent years of the original contract period.
  255         (14) Accurately and fully disclose only the names of those
  256  persons who actually authored the instructional materials. In
  257  addition to the penalties provided in subsection (16), the
  258  commissioner may remove from the list of state-adopted
  259  instructional materials those instructional materials whose
  260  publisher or manufacturer misleads the purchaser by falsely
  261  representing genuine authorship.
  262         (15) Grant, without prior written request, for any
  263  copyright held by the publisher or its agencies automatic
  264  permission to the department or its agencies for the
  265  reproduction of instructional materials and supplementary
  266  materials in Braille, large print, or other appropriate format
  267  for use by visually impaired students or other students with
  268  disabilities that would benefit from use of the materials.
  269         (16) Upon the willful failure of the publisher or
  270  manufacturer to comply with the requirements of this section, be
  271  liable to the department in the amount of three times the total
  272  sum which the publisher or manufacturer was paid in excess of
  273  the price required under subsections (5) and (6) and in the
  274  amount of three times the total value of the instructional
  275  materials and services which the district school board is
  276  entitled to receive free of charge under subsection (7).
  277         Section 6. Subsection (2) and paragraph (a) of subsection
  278  (3) of section 1006.40, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
  279         1006.40 Use of instructional materials allocation;
  280  instructional materials, library books, and reference books;
  281  repair of books.—
  282         (2) Each district school board must purchase current
  283  instructional materials to provide each student with a major
  284  tool of instruction in core courses of the subject areas of
  285  mathematics, language arts, science, social studies, reading,
  286  and literature for kindergarten through grade 12. Such purchase
  287  must be made within the first 3 2 years after the effective date
  288  of the adoption cycle. For the 2012-2013 mathematics adoption, a
  289  district using a comprehensive mathematics instructional
  290  materials program adopted in the 2009-2010 adoption shall be
  291  deemed in compliance with this subsection if it provides each
  292  student with such additional state-adopted materials as may be
  293  necessary to align the previously adopted comprehensive program
  294  to common core standards and the other criteria of the 2012-2013
  295  mathematics adoption.
  296         (3)(a) By the 2015-2016 fiscal year, each district school
  297  board shall use at least 50 percent of the annual allocation for
  298  the purchase of digital or electronic instructional materials
  299  that align with state standards included on the state-adopted
  300  list, except as otherwise authorized in paragraphs (b) and (c).
  301  This section does not apply to a district school board or a
  302  consortium of school districts which implements an instructional
  303  materials program pursuant to s. 1006.283, except that by the
  304  2015-2016 fiscal year, each district school board shall use at
  305  least 50 percent of the annual allocation for the purchase of
  306  digital or electronic instructional materials that align with
  307  state standards.
  308         Section 7. Paragraphs (o) and (p) of subsection (6) of
  309  section 1001.10, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
  310         1001.10 Commissioner of Education; general powers and
  311  duties.—
  312         (6) Additionally, the commissioner has the following
  313  general powers and duties:
  314         (o) To develop criteria for use by department state
  315  instructional materials reviewers in evaluating materials
  316  submitted for adoption consideration. The criteria shall, as
  317  appropriate, be based on instructional expectations reflected in
  318  course descriptions curriculum frameworks and student
  319  performance standards. The criteria for each subject or course
  320  shall be made available to publishers and manufacturers of
  321  instructional materials pursuant to the requirements of chapter
  322  1006.
  323         (p) To prescribe procedures for evaluating instructional
  324  materials submitted by publishers and manufacturers in each
  325  adoption.
  326         Section 8. Paragraph (b) of subsection (6) of section
  327  1011.62, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
  328         1011.62 Funds for operation of schools.—If the annual
  329  allocation from the Florida Education Finance Program to each
  330  district for operation of schools is not determined in the
  331  annual appropriations act or the substantive bill implementing
  332  the annual appropriations act, it shall be determined as
  333  follows:
  334         (6) CATEGORICAL FUNDS.—
  335         (b) If a district school board finds and declares in a
  336  resolution adopted at a regular meeting of the school board that
  337  the funds received for any of the following categorical
  338  appropriations are urgently needed to maintain school board
  339  specified academic classroom instruction, the school board may
  340  consider and approve an amendment to the school district
  341  operating budget transferring the identified amount of the
  342  categorical funds to the appropriate account for expenditure:
  343         1. Funds for student transportation.
  344         2. Funds for safe schools.
  345         3. Funds for supplemental academic instruction if the
  346  required additional hour of instruction beyond the normal school
  347  day for each day of the entire school year has been provided for
  348  the students in each low-performing elementary school in the
  349  district pursuant to paragraph (1)(f).
  350         4. Funds for research-based reading instruction if the
  351  required additional hour of instruction beyond the normal school
  352  day for each day of the entire school year has been provided for
  353  the students in each low-performing elementary school in the
  354  district pursuant to paragraph (9)(a).
  355         5. Funds for instructional materials if all instructional
  356  material purchases necessary to provide updated materials that
  357  are aligned with applicable to Next Generation Sunshine state
  358  standards and course descriptions benchmarks and that meet
  359  statutory requirements of content and learning have been
  360  completed for that fiscal year, but no sooner than March 1.
  361  Funds available after March 1 may be used to purchase hardware
  362  for student instruction.
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  365         And the title is amended as follows:
  366         Delete lines 964 - 1049
  367  and insert:
  368         public education; amending s. 1006.28, F.S.; revising
  369         the duties of a district school board with regard to
  370         instructional materials; creating s. 1006.283, F.S.;
  371         authorizing a district school board or a consortium of
  372         school districts to implement an instructional
  373         materials program; requiring the district
  374         superintendent to certify to the Department of
  375         Education that instructional materials for core
  376         courses align with applicable state standards;
  377         requiring the district school board to adopt rules;
  378         authorizing the district school board to assess and
  379         collect fees from a publisher that participates in the
  380         instructional materials review process; requiring the
  381         fee amount to be posted on the school district’s
  382         website and reported to the department; providing a
  383         limit on fees; providing for a stipend, reimbursement
  384         for travel expenses, and per diem for reviewers;
  385         requiring instructional materials that are approved by
  386         the district instructional materials reviewers to be
  387         aligned with applicable state standards; requiring
  388         each district school superintendent to annually
  389         certify that the instructional materials for core
  390         courses used by the district align with applicable
  391         state standards; providing pricing requirements for
  392         instructional materials; amending s. 1006.31, F.S.;
  393         revising the procedure for evaluating instructional
  394         materials; amending s. 1006.37, F.S.; revising the
  395         time period in which the superintendent must
  396         requisition instructional materials; providing that a
  397         district school board or a consortium of school
  398         districts which implements an instructional materials
  399         program is not required to requisition instructional
  400         materials from the publisher’s depository; amending s.
  401         1006.38, F.S.; providing for applicability; revising
  402         duties of publishers and manufacturers; amending s.
  403         1006.40, F.S.; revising the allocation for
  404         instructional materials; providing for applicability;
  405         amending s. 1001.10, F.S.; revising the duties of the
  406         Commissioner of Education with regard to instructional
  407         materials; amending s. 1011.62, F.S.; conforming
  408         provisions to changes made by the act;