Senate Bill 1392

    Florida Senate - 1999                                  SB 1392

    By Senator Cowin





    11-1360-99                                              See HB

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to school attendance; amending

  3         s. 232.01, F.S.; revising age requirements for

  4         compulsory school attendance; providing an

  5         effective date.

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  7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  9         Section 1.  Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) of

10  section 232.01, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, are amended

11  to read:

12         232.01  School attendance.--

13         (1)(a)1.  All children who have attained the age of 6

14  years or who will have attained the age of 6 years by February

15  1 of any school year or who are older than 6 years of age but

16  who have not attained the age of 16 years, except as

17  hereinafter provided, are required to attend school regularly

18  during the entire school term.

19         2.  All children who will have attained the age of 5

20  years on or before September 1 of the school year or who are

21  older than 5 years of age but who have not attained the age of

22  16 years, except as hereinafter provided, are required to

23  attend school regularly during the entire school term are

24  eligible for admission to public kindergartens during that

25  school year under rules prescribed by the school board.

26         3.  Children who will have attained the age of 3 years

27  on or before September 1 of the school year are eligible for

28  admission to prekindergarten early intervention programs

29  during that school year as provided in s. 230.2305 or a

30  preschool program as provided in s. 228.061.

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                  SB 1392
    11-1360-99                                              See HB




  1         (b)  Any child who has attained the age of 5 6 years on

  2  or before September 1 of the school year and who has been

  3  enrolled in a public school or who has attained the age of 6

  4  years on or before September 1 and has satisfactorily

  5  completed the requirements for kindergarten in a nonpublic

  6  school from which the district school board accepts transfer

  7  of academic credit, or who otherwise meets the criteria for

  8  admission or transfer in a manner similar to that applicable

  9  to other grades, shall progress according to the district's

10  pupil progression plan. However, nothing in this section shall

11  authorize the state or any school district to oversee or

12  exercise control over the curricula or academic programs of

13  nonpublic schools or home education programs.

14         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1999.

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17                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Revises age requirements for compulsory school
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