Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (610298) for SB 616
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                 Comm: UNFAV           .                                
                  03/04/2015           .                                
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       The Committee on Education Pre-K - 12 (Bullard) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 209 and 210
    4  insert:
    5         Section 3. Section 1008.222, Florida Statutes, is created
    6  to read:
    7         1008.222 Administration of assessments.—Notwithstanding any
    8  other provision of law, each public school and school district
    9  shall allow a parent of a student to elect to have any
   10  statewide, standardized assessment required under s. 1008.22
   11  administered to the student in a hard copy format until the
   12  technology infrastructure, connectivity, and capacity of all
   13  public schools and school districts have been load tested;
   14  independently verified as appropriate, adequate, efficient, and
   15  sustainable; and certified by the district school
   16  superintendents as ready for the successful deployment of online
   17  assessments.
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   20  And the title is amended as follows:
   21         Delete line 27
   22  and insert:
   23         and publication of testing schedules; creating s.
   24         1008.222, F.S.; requiring public schools and school
   25         districts to allow a parent of a student to elect to
   26         have specified assessments administered to the student
   27         in a hard copy format until certain criteria have been
   28         satisfied by all public schools and school districts;
   29         amending s.