Bill Text: FL H0055 | 2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: District School Board Policies and Procedures

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-27 - Placed on Special Order Calendar; Substituted CS/SB 206; Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 206 (Ch. 2010-203) -HJ 01168 [H0055 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-H0055-Comm_Sub.html

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CS/HB 55

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to district school board policies and
3	procedures; amending s. 1001.43, F.S.; providing
4	legislative intent to recognize student academic
5	achievement; encouraging each district school board to
6	adopt policies and procedures that provide for an annual
7	"Academic Scholarship Signing Day"; providing an effective
8	date.
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10	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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12	Section 1. Subsection (14) is added to section 1001.43,
13	Florida Statutes, to read:
14	1001.43 Supplemental powers and duties of district school
15	board.-The district school board may exercise the following
16	supplemental powers and duties as authorized by this code or
17	State Board of Education rule.
18	(14) RECOGNITION OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT.-
19	(a) The Legislature recognizes the importance of promoting
20	student academic achievement, motivating students to attain
21	academic achievement, and providing positive acknowledgment for
22	that achievement. It is the intent of the Legislature that
23	school districts bestow the same level of recognition to the
24	state's academic scholars as to its athletic scholars.
25	(b) The district school board is encouraged to adopt
26	policies and procedures to provide for a student "Academic
27	Scholarship Signing Day" by declaring the third Tuesday in April
28	each year as "Academic Scholarship Signing Day." The "Academic
29	Scholarship Signing Day" shall recognize the outstanding
30	academic achievement of high school seniors who sign a letter of
31	intent to accept an academic scholarship offered to the student
32	by a postsecondary educational institution. District school
33	board policies and procedures may include, but not be limited
34	to, conducting assemblies or other appropriate public events in
35	which students offered academic scholarships assemble and sign
36	actual or ceremonial documents accepting those scholarships. The
37	district school board may encourage holding such events in an
38	assembly or gathering of the entire student body as a means of
39	making academic success and recognition visible to all students.
40	Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.

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