| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to assessment requirements for high school |
| 3 | graduation; creating s. 1008.225, F.S.; providing for |
| 4 | satisfaction of an assessment requirement for high school |
| 5 | graduation by a student temporarily evacuated due to a |
| 6 | natural disaster who meets certain requirements; providing |
| 7 | an effective date. |
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| 9 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 11 | Section 1. Section 1008.225, Florida Statutes, is created |
| 12 | to read: |
| 13 | 1008.225 Temporarily evacuated students; satisfaction of |
| 14 | assessment requirement for graduation.--An out-of-state student |
| 15 | entering a public school during the 12th grade who is |
| 16 | temporarily evacuated from his or her home state due to a |
| 17 | natural disaster and who provides satisfactory proof of having |
| 18 | passed his or her home state's high school exit examination |
| 19 | shall satisfy the assessment requirement for a standard high |
| 20 | school diploma as provided in s. 1003.43(5)(a). |
| 21 | Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law. |