Bill Text: FL S0486 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Florida School for Competitive Academics

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2024-03-08 - Died in Appropriations Committee on Education [S0486 Detail]

Download: Florida-2024-S0486-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2024                                     SB 486
       
       
        
       By Senator Perry
       
       
       
       
       
       9-00966-24                                             2024486__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the Florida School for Competitive
    3         Academics; amending s. 1002.351, F.S.; authorizing the
    4         school’s board of trustees to change the name of the
    5         school; providing an effective date.
    6          
    7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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    9         Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subsection (3) of section
   10  1002.351, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   11         1002.351 The Florida School for Competitive Academics.—
   12         (3) BOARD OF TRUSTEES.—
   13         (e) The board of trustees has the full power and authority
   14  to:
   15         1. Adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to
   16  implement provisions of law relating to operation of the Florida
   17  School for Competitive Academics. Such rules must be submitted
   18  to the State Board of Education for approval or disapproval.
   19  After a rule is approved by the State Board of Education, the
   20  rule must be filed immediately with the Department of State. The
   21  board of trustees shall act at all times in conjunction with the
   22  rules of the State Board of Education.
   23         2. Appoint a principal, administrators, teachers, and other
   24  employees.
   25         3. Remove principals, administrators, teachers, and other
   26  employees at the board’s discretion.
   27         4. Determine eligibility of students and procedures for
   28  admission.
   29         5. Provide for the proper keeping of accounts and records
   30  and for budgeting of funds.
   31         6. Receive gifts, donations, and bequests of money or
   32  property, real or personal, tangible or intangible, from any
   33  person, firm, corporation, or other legal entity for the use and
   34  benefit of the school.
   35         7. Recommend to the Legislature for the school to become a
   36  residential public school.
   37         8. Do and perform every other matter or thing requisite to
   38  the proper management, maintenance, support, and control of the
   39  school at the highest efficiency economically possible.
   40         9. Change the name of the school.
   41         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.