Bill Text: FL S0532 | 2021 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

Florida Senate Bill 532 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Workforce Education

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2021-04-30 - Died in Rules [S0532 Detail]

Download: Florida-2021-S0532-Comm_Sub.html

       Florida Senate - 2021                              CS for SB 532
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Education; and Senator Burgess
       
       
       
       
       
       581-02632-21                                           2021532c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to workforce education; amending s.
    3         1011.80, F.S.; revising the workforce education
    4         programs that school district career centers are
    5         authorized to conduct; providing an effective date.
    6          
    7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
    8  
    9         Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 1011.80, Florida
   10  Statutes, is amended to read:
   11         1011.80 Funds for operation of workforce education
   12  programs.—
   13         (2) Any workforce education program may be conducted by a
   14  Florida College System institution or a school district, except
   15  that college credit in an associate in applied science or an
   16  associate in science degree may be awarded only by a Florida
   17  College System institution. However, a school district career
   18  center may conduct the following:
   19         (a) Portions of if an associate in applied science or an
   20  associate in science degree program which contain contains
   21  within it an occupational completion point that confers a
   22  certificate or an applied technology diploma.
   23         (b) An associate in applied science or an associate in
   24  science nursing degree program if the career center offering the
   25  associate in applied science or associate in science nursing
   26  degree program offers it only to graduates of a licensed
   27  practical nursing program offered by the same, that portion of
   28  the program may be conducted by a school district career center.
   29  Any instruction designed to articulate to a degree program is
   30  subject to guidelines and standards adopted by the State Board
   31  of Education pursuant to s. 1007.25.
   32         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.