Florida Senate - 2015                                      SB 96
       
       
        
       By Senator Hays
       
       
       
       
       
       11-00042B-15                                            201596__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to patriotic film screening; creating
    3         s. 1003.447, F.S.; requiring that each district school
    4         board ensure that each middle school and high school
    5         within its jurisdiction requires its 8th grade and
    6         11th grade students to annually attend a screening of
    7         a certain film; requiring student attendance;
    8         providing an exception; providing an effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Section 1003.447, Florida Statutes, is created
   13  to read:
   14         1003.447 Patriotic film screening.—Each district school
   15  board shall ensure that each middle school and high school
   16  within its jurisdiction requires its 8th grade and 11th grade
   17  students, respectively, to annually attend a screening of the
   18  film “America: Imagine the World Without Her.” The school board
   19  shall require each such student to attend the screening unless
   20  the student’s parent requests in writing that the student be
   21  excused.
   22         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.