SENATE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS/HB 501, 2nd Eng.
    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 551746
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11  Senator Bronson moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
14         On page 42, between lines 3 and 4,
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17         Section 44.  Paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section
18  232.246, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
19         232.246  General requirements for high school
20  graduation.--
21         (1)  Graduation requires successful completion of
22  either a minimum of 24 academic credits in grades 9 through 12
23  or an International Baccalaureate curriculum. The 24 credits
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25         (a)  Four credits in English, with major concentration
26  in composition and literature.
27         (b)  Three credits in mathematics.  Effective for
28  students entering the 9th grade in the 1997-1998 school year
29  and thereafter, one of these credits must be Algebra I, a
30  series of courses equivalent to Algebra I, or a higher-level
31  mathematics course.
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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS/HB 501, 2nd Eng.
    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 551746
 1         (c)  Three credits in science, two of which must have a
 2  laboratory component. The State Board of Education may grant
 3  an annual waiver of the laboratory requirement to a school
 4  district that certifies that its laboratory facilities are
 5  inadequate, provided the district submits a capital outlay
 6  plan to provide adequate facilities and makes the funding of
 7  this plan a priority of the school board. Effective July 1,
 8  2001, Agriscience Foundations I, the core course in secondary
 9  Agriscience and Natural Resources programs, counts as one of
10  the science credits.
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14  And the title is amended as follows:
15         On page 5, line 10, after the semicolon
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18         amending s. 232.246, F.S.; allowing Agriscience
19         to count as a science course;
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