Florida Senate - 2015                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS/CS/CS/HB 1145, 1st Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Bullard moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 1444 and 1445
    4  insert:
    5         Section 20. Paragraph (h) of subsection (3) of section
    6  1008.22, Florida Statutes, as amended by chapter 2015-6, Laws of
    7  Florida, is amended to read:
    8         1008.22 Student assessment program for public schools.—
    9         (3) STATEWIDE, STANDARDIZED ASSESSMENT PROGRAM.—The
   10  Commissioner of Education shall design and implement a
   11  statewide, standardized assessment program aligned to the core
   12  curricular content established in the Next Generation Sunshine
   13  State Standards. The commissioner also must develop or select
   14  and implement a common battery of assessment tools that will be
   15  used in all juvenile justice education programs in the state.
   16  These tools must accurately measure the core curricular content
   17  established in the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards.
   18  Participation in the assessment program is mandatory for all
   19  school districts and all students attending public schools,
   20  including adult students seeking a standard high school diploma
   21  under s. 1003.4282 and students in Department of Juvenile
   22  Justice education programs, except as otherwise provided by law.
   23  If a student does not participate in the assessment program, the
   24  school district must notify the student’s parent and provide the
   25  parent with information regarding the implications of such
   26  nonparticipation. The statewide, standardized assessment program
   27  shall be designed and implemented as follows:
   28         (g) Contracts for assessments.—
   29         1. The commissioner shall provide for the assessments to be
   30  developed or obtained, as appropriate, through contracts and
   31  project agreements with private vendors, public vendors, public
   32  agencies, postsecondary educational institutions, or school
   33  districts. The commissioner may enter into contracts for the
   34  continued administration of the assessments authorized and
   35  funded by the Legislature. Contracts may be initiated in 1
   36  fiscal year and continue into the next fiscal year and may be
   37  paid from the appropriations of either or both fiscal years. The
   38  commissioner may negotiate for the sale or lease of tests,
   39  scoring protocols, test scoring services, and related materials
   40  developed pursuant to law. The contract of any vendor whose
   41  product has severe problems is void after three failed attempts
   42  to correct the problems, and the vendor must repay any money
   43  that was received as part of the contract.
   44         2. A student’s performance results on statewide,
   45  standardized assessments, EOC assessments, and Florida
   46  Alternative Assessments administered pursuant to this subsection
   47  must be provided to the student’s teachers and parents by the
   48  end of the school year, unless the commissioner determines that
   49  extenuating circumstances exist and reports the extenuating
   50  circumstances to the State Board of Education. This subparagraph
   51  does not apply to existing contracts for such assessments, but
   52  shall apply to new contracts and any renewal of existing
   53  contracts for such assessments.
   54         3. If liquidated damages are applicable, the department
   55  shall collect liquidated damages that are due in response to the
   56  administration of the spring 2015 computer-based assessments of
   57  the department’s Florida Standards Assessment contract with
   58  American Institutes for Research, and expend the funds to
   59  reimburse parties that incurred damages.
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   61  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   62  And the title is amended as follows:
   63         Delete line 140
   64  and insert:
   65         program for certain school principals; amending s.
   66         1008.22, F.S.; voiding the contract of certain
   67         vendors; requiring such vendors to repay certain
   68         moneys; providing