Florida Senate - 2025 SB 1528 By Senator Collins 14-00440A-25 20251528__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to the educational opportunities for 3 military children; amending s. 1000.40, F.S.; revising 4 the repeal date of the Interstate Compact on 5 Educational Opportunity for Military Children; 6 amending s. 1003.05, F.S.; requiring that strategies 7 addressed in specified memoranda of agreement between 8 school districts and military installations include 9 the development and implementation of a specified 10 training module; requiring the Department of Education 11 to provide the training module to each district school 12 board; requiring each district school board to provide 13 such module to each public and charter K-12 school in 14 its district; requiring district school boards to make 15 certain training available to certain employees; 16 providing an effective date. 17 18 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 19 20 Section 1.Section 1000.40, Florida Statutes, is amended to 21 read: 22 1000.40Future repeal of the Interstate Compact on 23 Educational Opportunity for Military Children.Sections 1000.36, 24 1000.361, 1000.38, and 1000.39 and this section shall stand 25 repealed on July 1, 2028 2025, unless reviewed and saved from 26 repeal through reenactment by the Legislature. 27 Section 2.Subsection (2) of section 1003.05, Florida 28 Statutes, is amended to read: 29 1003.05Assistance to transitioning students from military 30 families. 31 (2)The Department of Education shall facilitate the 32 development and implementation of memoranda of agreement between 33 school districts and military installations which address 34 strategies for assisting students who are the children of active 35 duty military personnel in the transition to Florida schools. 36 (a)The strategies developed by the department must include 37 the development and implementation of a training module relating 38 to facilitating and expediting the transfer of a K-12 students 39 education records from an out-of-state school. 40 (b)The department shall provide the training module 41 required under paragraph (a) to each district school board to 42 provide to each public and charter K-12 school within its 43 district. The district school board shall make the training 44 available to employees who work directly with miliary students 45 and families. 46 Section 3.This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.