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A bill to be entitled 1
An act relating to reading scholarship accounts; 2
amending s. 1002.411, F.S.; establishing the Miami -3
Dade Reading Scholarship Account Pilot Program to 4
expand student eligibility for a reading scholarship 5
account and allow an eligible nonprofit scholarship -6
funding organization to reimburse certain service 7
providers directly; providing expanded student 8
eligibility criteria, subject to appropriation; 9
providing that certain students receive priority for 10
an account; providing that students receiving an 11
account under the pilot program and their parents are 12
subject to certain requirements; providing the amount 13
of an account under the pilot program; requiring 14
certain eligible nonprofit scholarship -funding 15
organizations to reimburse certain service providers 16
directly; providing for the future repeal of the pilot 17
program; providing an effective date. 18
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 20
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Section 1. Subsection (8) of section 1002.411, Florida 22
Statutes, is renumbered as subsection (9), and a new subsection 23
(8) is added to that section to read: 24
1002.411 Reading scholarship accounts. — 25
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(8) PILOT PROGRAM.—Beginning in the 2022 -2023 school year, 26
and for a period of 3 years, there is established the Miami -Dade 27
Reading Scholarship Account Pilot Program to expand student 28
eligibility for a reading scholarship account and allow an 29
eligible nonprofit schol arship-funding organization to reimburse 30
certain service providers directly. 31
(a)1. Subject to appropriation in the General 32
Appropriations Act, and on a first -come, first-served basis, and 33
in a manner consistent with this section, each student in grades 34
6 through 8 who is enrolled in a Florida pu blic school in the 35
Miami-Dade County Public Schools and who scored below a Level 3 36
on the grade 6 or grade 7 statewide, standardized English 37
Language Arts (ELA) assessment in the prior school year is 38
eligible to apply to an eligible nonprofit scholarship -funding 39
organization for a reading scholarship account pursuant to this 40
subsection. A student who is classified as an English Language 41
Learner and is enrolled in a program or receiving services that 42
are specifically designed to meet the instructional needs of 43
English Language Learner students shall receive priority. 44
2. A student receiving a reading scholarship account 45
pursuant to this paragraph and his or her parent are subject to 46
the requirements of this section. 47
3. The amount of a student's reading sch olarship account 48
under this paragraph shall be the same as the amount of the 49
reading scholarship account for a student in grades 3 through 5 50
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who is eligible under this section. 51
(b) For a student who is enrolled in a Florida public 52
school in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools who receives a 53
reading scholarship account under this section and uses his or 54
her reading scholarship to receive part -time tutoring services 55
or attend a summer education program or after -school education 56
program, the eligible nonpro fit scholarship-funding organization 57
must reimburse such service provider directly. 58
(c) This subsection is repealed on July 1, 2025. 59
Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022. 60