Florida Senate - 2025 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 7030 Ì247708@Î247708 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . Floor: 2/AD/2R . 04/09/2025 01:07 PM . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Senator Gaetz moved the following: 1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 2 3 Between lines 4025 and 4026 4 insert: 5 Section 17. (1) The Department of Education shall work 6 with eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations (SFO) 7 to resolve discrepancies in which a student was awarded a 8 scholarship under s. 1002.394, Florida Statutes, and was 9 reported by a school district for funding during a student 10 membership survey under s. 1011.62(1)(a), Florida Statutes, for 11 the 2024-2025 fiscal year. The department and SFO must reach a 12 resolution that does all of the following: 13 (a) Provides documented evidence of the student’s actual 14 enrollment and attendance at a public school and, if applicable, 15 evidence of the student’s withdrawal from a public school. 16 (b) Allows the student to maintain his or her scholarship 17 award if the department has documented evidence of eligibility 18 at the time the payment was deposited into the student’s 19 scholarship account. 20 (c) Ensures that school districts receive full funding for 21 all students whose enrollment and attendance were verified 22 during the student membership surveys. 23 (2) The department shall report the findings of all 24 discrepancies under subsection (1) and their respective 25 resolutions no later than May 31, 2025, to the chair of the 26 Senate Appropriations Committee, the chair of the House Budget 27 Committee, and the Executive Office of the Governor’s Office of 28 Policy and Budget. 29 30 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 31 And the title is amended as follows: 32 Delete line 222 33 and insert: 34 conforming cross-references; requiring the Department 35 of Education to work with eligible nonprofit 36 scholarship-funding organizations to resolve 37 discrepancies in certain student funding; providing 38 requirements for such resolution; requiring the 39 department to provide a report of certain 40 discrepancies and their resolutions to specified 41 officials or entities by a specified date; providing 42 an effective