Florida Senate - 2017                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 926
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/03/2017           .                                
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       The Committee on Education (Flores) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 31 and 32
    4  insert:
    5         Section 2. Section 1001.4205, Florida Statutes, is created
    6  to read:
    7         1001.4205 Visitation of schools by an individual school
    8  board member.—An individual member of a district school board
    9  may, on any day and at any time at his or her pleasure, visit
   10  any district school or charter school in his or her school
   11  district. The school board member must sign in and sign out at
   12  the school’s main office and wear his or her school board
   13  identification badge at all times while present on school
   14  premises. The school board, the school, or any other person or
   15  entity including, but not limited to, the principal of the
   16  school, the school superintendent, or any other school board
   17  member, may not require the visiting school board member to
   18  provide notice before visiting the school. The school may offer,
   19  but may not require, an escort to accompany a visiting school
   20  board member during the visit. Another school board member or a
   21  district employee including, but not limited to, the
   22  superintendent, the school principal, or his or her designee,
   23  may not limit the duration or scope of the visit or direct a
   24  visiting school board member to leave the premises. A school
   25  board, district, or school administrative policy or practice may
   26  not prohibit or limit the authority granted to a school board
   27  member under this section.
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   30  And the title is amended as follows:
   31         Delete line 10
   32  and insert:
   33         of Education by a specified date; creating s.
   34         1001.4205, F.S.; authorizing an individual district
   35         school board member to visit any district school or
   36         charter school in his or her school district;
   37         providing requirements and restrictions; amending s.
   38         1008.22,