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A bill to be entitled 1
An act relating to financial accountability in 2
publicly funded education ; amending s. 1002.421, F.S.; 3
revising requirements for a private school to 4
participate in certain educational scholarship 5
programs; requiring the Department of Education to 6
suspend the payment of funds to participating private 7
schools under certain circumstances; creating s. 8
1011.781, F.S.; creating the K -12 Education Funding 9
Task Force within the department; providing the 10
purpose of the task force; providing for membership of 11
the task force; providing for the terms of task force 12
members; providing requirements for the selection of a 13
chair, a quorum, and meetings of the task force; 14
authorizing task force members to receive specified 15
reimbursements; providing the duties and 16
responsibilities of the task force; requiring the task 17
force to annually provide a report to specified 18
individuals and the public; providing requirements for 19
such report; providing an effective date. 20
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 22
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Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 1002.421, Florida 24
Statutes, is amended to read: 25
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1002.421 State school choice scholarship program 26
accountability and oversi ght.— 27
(1) PRIVATE SCHOOL ELIGIBILITY AND OBLIGATIONS. —A private 28
school participating in an educational scholarship program 29
established pursuant to this chapter must be a private school as 30
defined in s. 1002.01(2) in this state, be registered, and be in 31
compliance with all requirements of this section in addition to 32
private school requirements outlined in s. 1002.42, specific 33
requirements identified within respective scholarship program 34
laws, and other provisions of Florida law that apply to private 35
schools, and must: 36
(a) Comply with the antidiscrimination provisions of 42 37
U.S.C. s. 2000d. 38
(b) Notify the department of its intent to participate in 39
a scholarship program. 40
(c) Notify the department of any change in the school's 41
name, school director, mail ing address, or physical location 42
within 15 days after the change. 43
(d) Provide to the department or scholarship -funding 44
organization all documentation required for a student's 45
participation, including the private school's and student's 46
individual fee schedule, and attendance verification as required 47
by the department or scholarship -funding organization, prior to 48
scholarship payment. 49
(e) Annually complete and submit to the department a 50
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notarized scholarship compliance statement certifying that all 51
school employees and contracted personnel with direct student 52
contact have undergone background screening pursuant to s. 53
435.12 and have met the screening standards as provided in s. 54
435.04. 55
(f) Demonstrate fiscal soundness and accountability by: 56
1. Being in operation for at least 3 school years or 57
obtaining a surety bond or letter of credit for the amount equal 58
to the scholarship funds for any quarter and filing the surety 59
bond or letter of credit with the department. 60
2. Requiring the parent of each schola rship student to 61
personally restrictively endorse the scholarship warrant to the 62
school or to approve a funds transfer before any funds are 63
deposited for a student. The school may not act as attorney in 64
fact for the parent of a scholarship student under th e authority 65
of a power of attorney executed by such parent, or under any 66
other authority, to endorse a scholarship warrant or approve a 67
funds transfer on behalf of such parent. 68
(g) Meet applicable state and local health, safety, and 69
welfare laws, codes, and rules, including: 70
1. Firesafety. 71
2. Building safety. 72
(h) Employ or contract with teachers who hold 73
baccalaureate or higher degrees, have at least 3 years of 74
teaching experience in public or private schools, or have 75
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special skills, knowledge, or expertise that qualifies them to 76
provide instruction in subjects taught. 77
(i) Maintain a physical location in the state at which 78
each student has regular and direct contact with teachers. 79
(j) Publish on the school's website, or provide in a 80
written format, information for parents regarding the school, 81
including, but not limited to, programs, services, and the 82
qualifications of classroom teachers. 83
(k) At a minimum, provide the parent of each scholarship 84
student with a written explanation of the student' s progress on 85
a quarterly basis. 86
(l) Cooperate with a student whose parent chooses to 87
participate in the statewide assessments pursuant to s. 1008.22. 88
(m) Require each employee and contracted personnel with 89
direct student contact, upon employment or en gagement to provide 90
services, to undergo a state and national background screening, 91
pursuant to s. 943.0542, by electronically filing with the 92
Department of Law Enforcement a complete set of fingerprints 93
taken by an authorized law enforcement agency or an employee of 94
the private school, a school district, or a private company who 95
is trained to take fingerprints and deny employment to or 96
terminate an employee if he or she fails to meet the screening 97
standards under s. 435.04. Results of the screening shall b e 98
provided to the participating private school. For purposes of 99
this paragraph: 100
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1. An "employee or contracted personnel with direct 101
student contact" means any employee or contracted personnel who 102
has unsupervised access to a scholarship student for whom the 103
private school is responsible. 104
2. The costs of fingerprinting and the background check 105
shall not be borne by the state. 106
3. Continued employment of an employee or contracted 107
personnel after notification that he or she has failed the 108
background screening under this paragraph shall cause a private 109
school to be ineligible for participation in a scholarship 110
program. 111
4. An employee or contracted personnel holding a valid 112
Florida teaching certificate who has been fingerprinted pursuant 113
to s. 1012.32 is not required to comply with the provisions of 114
this paragraph. 115
5. All fingerprints submitted to the Department of Law 116
Enforcement as required by this section shall be retained by the 117
Department of Law Enforcement in a manner provided by rule and 118
entered in the statewide automated biometric identification 119
system authorized by s. 943.05(2)(b). Such fingerprints shall 120
thereafter be available for all purposes and uses authorized for 121
arrest fingerprints entered in the statewide automated biometric 122
identification system pursuant to s. 943.051. 123
6. The Department of Law Enforcement shall search all 124
arrest fingerprints received under s. 943.051 against the 125
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fingerprints retained in the statewide automated biometric 126
identification system under subparagraph 5. Any arr est record 127
that is identified with the retained fingerprints of a person 128
subject to the background screening under this section shall be 129
reported to the employing school with which the person is 130
affiliated. Each private school participating in a scholarshi p 131
program is required to participate in this search process by 132
informing the Department of Law Enforcement of any change in the 133
employment or contractual status of its personnel whose 134
fingerprints are retained under subparagraph 5. The Department 135
of Law Enforcement shall adopt a rule setting the amount of the 136
annual fee to be imposed upon each private school for performing 137
these searches and establishing the procedures for the retention 138
of private school employee and contracted personnel fingerprints 139
and the dissemination of search results. The fee may be borne by 140
the private school or the person fingerprinted. 141
7. Employees and contracted personnel whose fingerprints 142
are not retained by the Department of Law Enforcement under 143
subparagraphs 5. and 6. are re quired to be refingerprinted and 144
must meet state and national background screening requirements 145
upon reemployment or reengagement to provide services in order 146
to comply with the requirements of this section. 147
8. Every 5 years following employment or engag ement to 148
provide services with a private school, employees or contracted 149
personnel required to be screened under this section must meet 150
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screening standards under s. 435.04, at which time the private 151
school shall request the Department of Law Enforcement to 152
forward the fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation 153
for national processing. If the fingerprints of employees or 154
contracted personnel are not retained by the Department of Law 155
Enforcement under subparagraph 5., employees and contracted 156
personnel must electronically file a complete set of 157
fingerprints with the Department of Law Enforcement. Upon 158
submission of fingerprints for this purpose, the private school 159
shall request that the Department of Law Enforcement forward the 160
fingerprints to the Fed eral Bureau of Investigation for national 161
processing, and the fingerprints shall be retained by the 162
Department of Law Enforcement under subparagraph 5. 163
(n) Adopt policies establishing standards of ethical 164
conduct for educational support employees, instru ctional 165
personnel, and school administrators. The policies must require 166
all educational support employees, instructional personnel, and 167
school administrators, as defined in s. 1012.01, to complete 168
training on the standards; establish the duty of educationa l 169
support employees, instructional personnel, and school 170
administrators to report, and procedures for reporting, alleged 171
misconduct by other educational support employees, instructional 172
personnel, and school administrators which affects the health, 173
safety, or welfare of a student; and include an explanation of 174
the liability protections provided under ss. 39.203 and 768.095. 175
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A private school, or any of its employees, may not enter into a 176
confidentiality agreement regarding terminated or dismissed 177
educational support employees, instructional personnel, or 178
school administrators, or employees, personnel, or 179
administrators who resign in lieu of termination, based in whole 180
or in part on misconduct that affects the health, safety, or 181
welfare of a student, and may n ot provide the employees, 182
personnel, or administrators with employment references or 183
discuss the employees', personnel's, or administrators' 184
performance with prospective employers in another educational 185
setting, without disclosing the employees', personnel 's, or 186
administrators' misconduct. Any part of an agreement or contract 187
that has the purpose or effect of concealing misconduct by 188
educational support employees, instructional personnel, or 189
school administrators which affects the health, safety, or 190
welfare of a student is void, is contrary to public policy, and 191
may not be enforced. 192
(o) Before employing a person in any position that 193
requires direct contact with students, conduct employment 194
history checks of previous employers, screen the person through 195
use of the screening tools described in s. 1001.10(5), and 196
document the findings. If unable to contact a previous employer, 197
the private school must document efforts to contact the 198
employer. The private school may not employ a person whose 199
educator certificate is revoked, who is barred from reapplying 200
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for an educator certificate, or who is on the disqualification 201
list maintained by the department pursuant to s. 1001.10(4)(b). 202
(p) Require each owner or operator of the private school, 203
prior to employment or eng agement to provide services, to 204
undergo level 2 background screening as provided under chapter 205
435. For purposes of this paragraph, the term "owner or 206
operator" means an owner, operator, superintendent, or principal 207
of, or a person with equivalent decision making authority over, a 208
private school participating in a scholarship program 209
established pursuant to this chapter. The fingerprints for the 210
background screening must be electronically submitted to the 211
Department of Law Enforcement and may be taken by an authorized 212
law enforcement agency or a private company who is trained to 213
take fingerprints. However, the complete set of fingerprints of 214
an owner or operator may not be taken by the owner or operator. 215
The owner or operator shall provide a copy of the resul ts of the 216
state and national criminal history check to the Department of 217
Education. The cost of the background screening may be borne by 218
the owner or operator. 219
1. Every 5 years following employment or engagement to 220
provide services, each owner or operato r must meet level 2 221
screening standards as described in s. 435.04, at which time the 222
owner or operator shall request the Department of Law 223
Enforcement to forward the fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of 224
Investigation for level 2 screening. If the fingerpr ints of an 225
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owner or operator are not retained by the Department of Law 226
Enforcement under subparagraph 2., the owner or operator must 227
electronically file a complete set of fingerprints with the 228
Department of Law Enforcement. Upon submission of fingerprints 229
for this purpose, the owner or operator shall request that the 230
Department of Law Enforcement forward the fingerprints to the 231
Federal Bureau of Investigation for level 2 screening, and the 232
fingerprints shall be retained by the Department of Law 233
Enforcement under subparagraph 2. 234
2. Fingerprints submitted to the Department of Law 235
Enforcement as required by this paragraph must be retained by 236
the Department of Law Enforcement in a manner approved by rule 237
and entered in the statewide automated biometric identif ication 238
system authorized by s. 943.05(2)(b). The fingerprints must 239
thereafter be available for all purposes and uses authorized for 240
arrest fingerprints entered in the statewide automated biometric 241
identification system pursuant to s. 943.051. 242
3. The Department of Law Enforcement shall search all 243
arrest fingerprints received under s. 943.051 against the 244
fingerprints retained in the statewide automated biometric 245
identification system under subparagraph 2. Any arrest record 246
that is identified with an owner' s or operator's fingerprints 247
must be reported to the owner or operator, who must report to 248
the Department of Education. Any costs associated with the 249
search shall be borne by the owner or operator. 250
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4. An owner or operator who fails the level 2 background 251
screening is not eligible to participate in a scholarship 252
program under this chapter. 253
5. In addition to the offenses listed in s. 435.04, a 254
person required to undergo background screening pursuant to this 255
part or authorizing statutes may not have an arr est awaiting 256
final disposition for, must not have been found guilty of, or 257
entered a plea of nolo contendere to, regardless of 258
adjudication, and must not have been adjudicated delinquent for, 259
and the record must not have been sealed or expunged for, any of 260
the following offenses or any similar offense of another 261
jurisdiction: 262
a. Any authorizing statutes, if the offense was a felony. 263
b. This chapter, if the offense was a felony. 264
c. Section 409.920, relating to Medicaid provider fraud. 265
d. Section 409.9201, relating to Medicaid fraud. 266
e. Section 741.28, relating to domestic violence. 267
f. Section 817.034, relating to fraudulent acts through 268
mail, wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectronic, or 269
photooptical systems. 270
g. Section 817.234, relating to false and fraudulent 271
insurance claims. 272
h. Section 817.505, relating to patient brokering. 273
i. Section 817.568, relating to criminal use of personal 274
identification information. 275
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j. Section 817.60, relating to obtaining a credit card 276
through fraudulent m eans. 277
k. Section 817.61, relating to fraudulent use of credit 278
cards, if the offense was a felony. 279
l. Section 831.01, relating to forgery. 280
m. Section 831.02, relating to uttering forged 281
instruments. 282
n. Section 831.07, relating to forging bank bills, checks, 283
drafts, or promissory notes. 284
o. Section 831.09, relating to uttering forged bank bills, 285
checks, drafts, or promissory notes. 286
p. Section 831.30, relating to fraud in obtaining 287
medicinal drugs. 288
q. Section 831.31, relating to the sale, manufact ure, 289
delivery, or possession with the intent to sell, manufacture, or 290
deliver any counterfeit controlled substance, if the offense was 291
a felony. 292
6. At least 30 calendar days before a transfer of 293
ownership of a private school, the owner or operator shall 294
notify the parent of each scholarship student. 295
7. The owner or operator of a private school that has been 296
deemed ineligible to participate in a scholarship program 297
pursuant to this chapter may not transfer ownership or 298
management authority of the school to a relative in order to 299
participate in a scholarship program as the same school or a new 300
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school. For purposes of this subparagraph, the term "relative" 301
means father, mother, son, daughter, grandfather, grandmother, 302
brother, sister, uncle, aunt, cousin, n ephew, niece, husband, 303
wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, 304
brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, 305
stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half -brother, or half-306
sister. 307
(q) Provide a report from an inde pendent certified public 308
accountant who performs the agreed -upon procedures developed 309
pursuant to s. 1002.395(6)(o) if the private school receives 310
more than $250,000 in funds from scholarships awarded under this 311
chapter in a state fiscal year. A private sc hool subject to this 312
subsection must annually submit the report by September 15 to 313
the scholarship-funding organization that awarded the majority 314
of the school's scholarship funds. However, a school that 315
receives more than $250,000 in scholarship funds onl y through 316
the John M. McKay Scholarship for Students with Disabilities 317
Program pursuant to s. 1002.39 must submit the annual report by 318
September 15 to the department. The agreed -upon procedures must 319
be conducted in accordance with attestation standards 320
established by the American Institute of Certified Public 321
Accountants. 322
(r) Prohibit education support employees, instructional 323
personnel, and school administrators from employment in any 324
position that requires direct contact with students if the 325
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personnel or administrators are ineligible for such employment 326
pursuant to this section or s. 1012.315, or have been terminated 327
or have resigned in lieu of termination for sexual misconduct 328
with a student. If the prohibited conduct occurs subsequent to 329
employment, the private school must report the person and the 330
disqualifying circumstances to the department for inclusion on 331
the disqualification list maintained pursuant to s. 332
1001.10(4)(b). 333
(s) Publish on the school's website, and provide to 334
parents in a written for mat, a clear and easy to understand 335
disclosure of any conditions of attendance or policies of the 336
school that require the following: 337
1. Compliance with religious tenants. 338
2. Compliance with a student code of conduct or dress code 339
which specifies groo ming or hair style requirements. 340
3. Compliance with provisions related to sexual 341
orientation or gender identity. 342
(t) Beginning February 28, 2024, and annually on February 343
28 thereafter, disclose to the school district the number of 344
vacant seats the sch ool intends to offer to eligible scholarship 345
students during the subsequent school year. 346
(u) Disclose to the department when a student is 347
disenrolled by the school . This paragraph does not apply to a 348
student removed at a parent's choosing. 349
(v) Return to the department or an eligible nonprofit 350
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scholarship-funding organization, as appropriate, a prorated 351
amount of funds, as determined by the department, for students 352
who disenroll from the private school midyear and enroll in a 353
public school, including a c harter school. 354
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The department shall suspend the payment of funds to a private 356
school that disenrolls, without the parents' consent, more than 357
25 percent of scholarship students within a single school year 358
or knowingly fails to comply with this subsection , and shall 359
prohibit the school from enrolling new scholarship students, for 360
1 fiscal year and until the school complies. If a private school 361
fails to meet the requirements of this subsection or has 362
consecutive years of material exceptions listed in the re port 363
required under paragraph (q), the commissioner may determine 364
that the private school is ineligible to participate in a 365
scholarship program. 366
Section 2. Section 1011.781, Florida Statutes, is created 367
to read: 368
1011.781 K-12 Education Funding Task F orce.— 369
(1) The K-12 Education Funding Task Force, a task force as 370
defined in s. 20.03(8), is created within the Department of 371
Education to: 372
(a) Make recommendations to identify and examine issues 373
within nontraditional schools that receive state funds. 374
(b) Provide recommendations for increased transparency 375
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with such schools. 376
(c) Provide recommendations for universal standards for 377
the use of public dollars in education. 378
(d) Provide recommendations for accountability measures 379
for nontraditional schools that fail to meet specified 380
requirements. 381
(2)(a) The task force shall be comprised of 16 members 382
appointed as follows: 383
1. Six members appointed by the Commissioner of Education 384
as follows: 385
a. One member who is a behavioral health professional who 386
specializes in childhood behavioral disabilities. 387
b. One member who is a health professional who specializes 388
in childhood developmental disabilities. 389
c. One member who i s a school safety specialist. 390
d. One member who is a certified school counselor, child 391
psychologist, or social worker. 392
e. One member who is an English for Speakers of Other 393
Languages representative. 394
f. One member who has experience with the state's a cademic 395
standards and curriculum transparency requirements. 396
2. The Chief Executive Officer of the Florida Association 397
of District School Superintendents or his or her designee. 398
3. One member who is selected by the Florida Education 399
Association. 400
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4. One member who is selected by the Minority Leader of 401
the House of Representatives. 402
5. One member who is selected by the Minority Leader of 403
the Senate. 404
6. Three members who are selected by the Speaker of the 405
House of Representatives. 406
7. Three members who are selected by the President of the 407
Senate. 408
(b) Members shall serve 4 -year terms. However, for the 409
purpose of staggered terms, of the initial appointments, seven 410
members shall be appointed for 2 -year terms and nine members 411
shall be appointed for 4 -year terms. 412
(c) The chair of the task force shall be selected by a 413
majority vote of members. A majority of the members of the task 414
force constitutes a quorum. 415
(d) The task force shall meet as necessary to accomplish 416
its responsibilities or at the call o f the chair and at a time a 417
place designated by the chair. The task force may conduct its 418
meetings through teleconferences or other similar means. Member s 419
of the task force are entitled to receive a reimbursement for 420
per diem and travel expenses pursuant t o s. 112.061. 421
(3) The task force shall develop recommendations for 422
establishing universal standards for the use of public funds in 423
the public education system and in nontraditional schools and 424
improve public integrity of such funding. 425
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(4) The task force shall identify and examine: 426
(a) All nontraditional schools that receive state funds. 427
(b) The number of students disenrolled by such schools 428
receiving state funds. Such examination does not include 429
students who are disenrolled at the choice of their p arents. 430
(c) The number of students removed from such schools at 431
the parents' request. 432
(d) The areas in which schools receiving state funds lack 433
transparency, including, but not limited to, such schools' high 434
school graduation rates, disclosure of any c onditions of 435
attendance or policies that require compliance with religious 436
tenants, student codes of conduct or dress codes which specify 437
grooming or hair style requirements, and policies related to 438
sexual orientation or gender identity. 439
(e) The impacts of the lack of transparency in the areas 440
identified in paragraph (d). 441
(f) The disciplinary data for such schools, including the 442
number of students expelled or suspended and the reasons for 443
such expulsions or suspensions. 444
(g) The quality of the curricul a and instructional 445
materials of such schools and the parental access to such 446
curricula and instructional materials. 447
(h) The experience and credentials of educators at such 448
schools. 449
(i) Data of students enrolled at such schools, including 450
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student achievement, learning gains, and acceleration success 451
data. 452
(j) Any information or data provided from parents of 453
students enrolled at such schools. 454
(k) Possible accountability measures for nontraditional 455
schools that fail to meet accountability measure s. 456
(5) The task force shall, beginning October 1, 2024, and 457
annually on October 1 , thereafter, provide a report to the 458
Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House 459
of Representatives, and the Minority Leaders of the House of 460
Representatives and the Senate and make such report available to 461
the public. The report must include: 462
(a) A summary of the task force's activities and progress 463
in identifying and examining the information in subsection ( 4). 464
(b) Any statutory or rule changes nece ssary to accomplish 465
the goals of the task force. 466
(c) Proposed accountability measures for nontraditional 467
schools that receive state funds, including, but not limited to, 468
bond or surety requirements, assigning property to the state, 469
and the imposition of liens. 470
Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023. 471