Bill Text: FL H0623 | 2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Instructional Materials for K-12 Public Education

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-2)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Messages [H0623 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-H0623-Comm_Sub.html

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CS/CS/HB 623

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to instructional materials for K-12 public
3	education; amending s. 1006.28, F.S.; including electronic
4	textbooks in the definition of the term "adequate
5	instructional materials"; requiring each district school
6	board to provide technology as needed for its educational
7	program; amending s. 1006.40, F.S.; authorizing the use of
8	certain funds for the purchase of electronic textbooks by
9	district school boards; providing for the purchase of
10	electronic or computer hardware under certain conditions;
11	providing an effective date.
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13	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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15	Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 1006.28, Florida
16	Statutes, is amended to read:
17	1006.28 Duties of district school board, district school
18	superintendent; and school principal regarding K-12
19	instructional materials.-
20	(1) DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD.-The district school board has
21	the duty to provide adequate instructional materials for all
22	students in accordance with the requirements of this part. The
23	term "adequate instructional materials" means a sufficient
24	number of textbooks or sets of materials that are available in
25	bound, unbound, kit, or package form and may consist of hard-
26	backed, or soft-backed, or electronic textbooks, consumables,
27	learning laboratories, manipulatives, electronic media, and
28	computer courseware or software that serve as the basis for
29	instruction for each student in the core courses of mathematics,
30	language arts, social studies, science, reading, and literature,
31	except for instruction for which the school advisory council
32	approves the use of a program that does not include a textbook
33	as a major tool of instruction. The district school board has
34	the following specific duties:
35	(a) Courses of study; adoption.-Adopt courses of study for
36	use in the schools of the district.
37	(b) Textbooks.-Provide for proper requisitioning,
38	distribution, accounting, storage, care, and use of all
39	instructional materials furnished by the state and furnish such
40	other instructional materials as may be needed. The district
41	school board shall assure that instructional materials used in
42	the district are consistent with the district goals and
43	objectives and the curriculum frameworks adopted by rule of the
44	State Board of Education, as well as with the state and district
45	performance standards provided for in s. 1001.03(1).
46	(c) Other instructional materials.-Provide such other
47	technology and teaching accessories and aids as are needed for
48	the school district's educational program.
49	(d) School library media services; establishment and
50	maintenance.-Establish and maintain a program of school library
51	media services for all public schools in the district, including
52	school library media centers, or school library media centers
53	open to the public, and, in addition such traveling or
54	circulating libraries as may be needed for the proper operation
55	of the district school system.
56	Section 2. Subsection (4) of section 1006.40, Florida
57	Statutes, is amended to read:
58	1006.40 Use of instructional materials allocation;
59	instructional materials, library books, and reference books;
60	repair of books.-
61	(4) The funds described in subsection (3) which district
62	school boards may use to purchase materials not on the state-
63	adopted list shall be used for the purchase of instructional
64	materials or other items having intellectual content which
65	assist in the instruction of a subject or course. These items
66	may be available in bound, unbound, kit, or package form and may
67	consist of hardbacked, or softbacked, or electronic textbooks,
68	replacements for items which were part of previously purchased
69	instructional materials, consumables, learning laboratories,
70	manipulatives, electronic media, computer courseware or
71	software, and other commonly accepted instructional tools as
72	prescribed by district school board rule. Beginning with the
73	2012-2013 fiscal year, the funds available to district school
74	boards for the purchase of materials not on the state-adopted
75	list may not be used to purchase electronic or computer hardware
76	unless even if such hardware is provided for the sole purpose of
77	delivering instructional materials content in an electronic
78	format. The funds provided for instructional materials bundled
79	with software or other electronic media, nor may not such funds
80	be used to purchase equipment or supplies. However, when
81	authorized to do so in the General Appropriations Act, a school
82	or district school board may use a portion of the funds
83	available to it for the purchase of materials not on the state-
84	adopted list to purchase science laboratory materials and
85	supplies.
86	Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.

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