Florida Senate - 2023                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 986
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/13/2023           .                                
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       The Appropriations Committee on Education (Jones) recommended
       the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 140 and 141
    4  insert:
    5         Section 2. Paragraph (k) is added to subsection (1) of
    6  section 1003.02, Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         1003.02 District school board operation and control of
    8  public K-12 education within the school district.—As provided in
    9  part II of chapter 1001, district school boards are
   10  constitutionally and statutorily charged with the operation and
   11  control of public K-12 education within their school districts.
   12  The district school boards must establish, organize, and operate
   13  their public K-12 schools and educational programs, employees,
   14  and facilities. Their responsibilities include staff
   15  development, public K-12 school student education including
   16  education for exceptional students and students in juvenile
   17  justice programs, special programs, adult education programs,
   18  and career education programs. Additionally, district school
   19  boards must:
   20         (1) Provide for the proper accounting for all students of
   21  school age, for the attendance and control of students at
   22  school, and for proper attention to health, safety, and other
   23  matters relating to the welfare of students in the following
   24  areas:
   25         (k) Instructions on emergency first aid for choking.
   26  Require that a poster that contains step-by-step instructions on
   27  how to provide emergency first aid for choking on conscious
   28  individuals be posted in each public school cafeteria within the
   29  school district. The poster must be easily visible and
   30  prominently placed.
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   32  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   33  And the title is amended as follows:
   34         Between lines 7 and 8
   35  insert:
   36         amending s. 1003.02, F.S.; requiring that a poster
   37         containing specified information relating to choking
   38         be placed in public school cafeterias; requiring that
   39         the posters be easily visible and prominently placed;