Senate Bill sb0878

    Florida Senate - 2001                                   SB 878

    By Senator Webster





    12-759A-01                                              See HB

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to educator professional

  3         liability insurance; creating s. 231.800, F.S.;

  4         providing legislative intent; requiring

  5         educator professional liability insurance

  6         coverage for all full-time instructional

  7         personnel; providing for specific

  8         appropriations in the General Appropriations

  9         Act; extending such coverage at cost to

10         part-time instructional personnel; providing an

11         effective date.

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13         WHEREAS, Article IX, section 1, of the State

14  Constitution states that "The education of children is a

15  fundamental value of the people of the State of Florida," and

16         WHEREAS, effective teachers directing orderly

17  classrooms provide the key to the best public education the

18  State of Florida can offer, NOW, THEREFORE,

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

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22         Section 1.  Section 231.800, Florida Statutes, is

23  created to read:

24         231.800  Florida educators' professional liability

25  insurance protection.--

26         (1)  The Legislature intends that all the teachers in

27  this state be protected from liability for monetary damages

28  and the cost of defense of actions resulting from claims made

29  against them arising out of occurrences in the course of

30  activities in their professional capacity.

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    Florida Senate - 2001                                   SB 878
    12-759A-01                                              See HB




  1         (2)(a)  Beginning July 1, 2001, educator professional

  2  liability coverage for all instructional personnel as defined

  3  by s. 228.041(9) who are full-time personnel under their

  4  district contracts shall be provided by specific

  5  appropriations under the General Appropriations Act.

  6         (b)  Beginning July 1, 2001, educator professional

  7  liability coverage shall be extended at cost to all

  8  instructional personnel as defined by s. 228.041(9) who are

  9  part-time personnel under their district contracts and who

10  choose to participate in the state-provided program.

11         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.

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14                       LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY

15    Specifies that educator professional liability insurance
      coverage for all full-time instructional personnel be
16    provided by specific appropriations under the General
      Appropriations Act to protect teachers from liability for
17    monetary damages in defense of actions resulting from
      claims made against them arising out of occurrences in
18    the course of activities in their professional capacity
      and extends such coverage to part-time instructional
19    personnel at cost.

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