SB 1216 (school board term limits by Gruters) has been placed on the agenda in the Senate Rules Committee for Monday, March 2 at noon. You can find contact information for the committee members HERE. If the bill passes this committee, it will then be ready for the Senate Floor. The bill already passed the House by a 3/5 vote and must pass both chambers by 3/5 to be placed on the ballot in November.
Many issues continue to move through the process that will affect school districts. Some of these issues include: including but not limited to budget issues such as:
How the legislature will:
- handle the teacher salary package,
- address the $400M FRS increase for school boards, state colleges and state universities
And policy issues such as:
- charter school flexibility and expansion of authorizers,
- scholarship eligibility and funding expansions,
- assessment and school turnaround changes,
- school safety measures.You can find your legislative contacts by school district HERE.
Below you will find today’s schedules and bills of interest to be heard. You can watch live on the Florida Channel.
9:00 AM Senate Appropriations
- SB 0070 by Book – Panic Alarms in Public Schools
- SB 0122 by Rouson – Child Welfare
- SB 0170 by Stewart – Time Limitation on the Prosecution of Sexual Battery Cases
- SB 0178 by Rodriguez (J) – Public Financing of Construction Projects
- SB 0524 by Gruters – Sales Tax Holiday for Disaster Preparedness Supplies
- SB 0836 by Simmons – Funds for the Operation of Schools
- SB 0542 by Perry – Back-to-school Sales Tax Holiday
- SB 0918 by Brandes – Civic Education
- SB 1066 by Gruters – Impact Fees
- SB 1074 by Wright – Surviving Spouse Ad Valorem Tax Reduction
- SB 1076 by Wright – Surviving Spouse Ad Valorem Tax Reduction
- SB 1628 by Book – Holocaust Education
- SB 7012 by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs – Mental Health
