Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 830
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Education Pre-K - 12 (Montford) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
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    3         Between lines 335 and 336
    4  insert:
    5         (j)1. For purposes of continuity of educational choice, the
    6  placement of a student in a charter school shall remain in force
    7  until the student voluntarily withdraws from the charter school
    8  or successfully completes the highest grade offered in the
    9  charter school. A charter school student who voluntarily enrolls
   10  in a different charter school, a district-operated public
   11  school, a private school, a virtual education program, a home
   12  education program, or other education program approved by law is
   13  considered to have voluntarily withdrawn from the charter school
   14  for the purpose of determining the end of the student’s
   15  enrollment. However, if a student enters a Department of
   16  Juvenile Justice detention center for less than 21 days, the
   17  student is not considered to have withdrawn from the charter
   18  school.
   19         2. Before a student is voluntarily withdrawn from a charter
   20  school, the parent and charter school personnel must sign a
   21  document stating that the student is being voluntarily withdrawn
   22  and that charter school personnel have not prohibited,
   23  discouraged, or attempted to discourage the student from
   24  continued enrollment in the charter school.
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   28  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   29         Delete line 43
   30  and insert:
   31  of section 1002.33, Florida Statutes, are amended and paragraph
   32  (j) is added to subsection (10) of that section, to read:
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   34  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   35  And the title is amended as follows:
   36         Delete line 10
   37  and insert:
   38         enrollment preferences; specifying that a student’s
   39         placement in a charter school remains in force until
   40         the student voluntarily withdraws from the charter
   41         school; requiring the student’s parent and the charter
   42         school personnel to sign a specified statement before
   43         the student voluntarily withdrawals from the charter
   44         school; specifying that the reading