Florida Senate - 2024                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 996
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/16/2024           .                                
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       The Committee on Fiscal Policy (Burgess) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 607 - 612
    4  and insert:
    5         (3) Make sample student editions of instructional materials
    6  on the commissioner’s list of state-adopted instructional
    7  materials electronically available, at a discount below
    8  publisher cost, for use by teacher preparation programs and by
    9  educator preparation institutes as defined in ss. 1004.04 and
   10  1004.85(1), respectively, for each adoption cycle, to enable
   11  educators to practice teaching with currently adopted
   12  instructional materials aligned to state academic standards.
   13         (a) Teacher preparation programs and educator preparation
   14  institutes that use samples to practice teaching shall provide
   15  reasonable safeguards against the unauthorized use,
   16  reproduction, and distribution of the sample copies of
   17  instructional materials.
   18         (b) Notwithstanding s. 1006.38(5), publishers may make
   19  sample student editions of adopted instructional materials
   20  available at a discounted price to teacher preparation programs
   21  and educator preparation institutes for the instructional
   22  purpose of educators practicing with current materials.
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   24  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   25  And the title is amended as follows:
   26         Delete lines 53 - 56
   27  and insert:
   28         or their representatives to make sample student
   29         editions of specified instructional materials
   30         available electronically for use by certain programs
   31         and institutes for a specified purpose; requiring
   32         teacher preparation programs and educator preparation
   33         institutes that use sample student editions to meet
   34         certain requirements; authorizing publishers to make
   35         available at a discounted price sample student
   36         editions of specified instructional materials to
   37         certain programs; amending s. 1007.25, F.S.; creating