Education
Deleting the Florida School for Competitive Academics from the list of entities subject to certain audit requirements; authorizing the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to develop contracts or agreements with institutions in the State University System for a specified purpose; requiring the department to take into account underrepresented groups in administering the apprenticeship training program, rather than minority and gender diversity; changing the term "gender" to "sex"; deleting a provision requiring the Commissioner of Education to determine whether school districts have maximized efforts to include minority persons and persons of lower socioeconomic status on their school advisory councils, etc.
2025 Regular Session
Students may be separated by sex for a single-sex single-gender program, [...]
A public school or Florida College System institution may provide separate toilet, locker room, and shower facilities on the basis of sex gender, but such facilities shall be comparable to such facilities provided for students of the other sex.
Section 45. Paragraph (c) of subsection (8) of section 1009.23, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 1009.23 Florida College System institution student fees.— (8) (c) Up to 25 percent or $600,000, whichever is greater, of the financial aid fees collected may be used to assist students who demonstrate academic merit; who participate in athletics, public service, cultural arts, and other extracurricular programs as determined by the institution; or who are identified as members of an underrepresented a targeted gender or ethnic minority population.
| date | time | type | location | description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-08 | 14:00 | Hearing | 412 Knott Building | Senate Fiscal Policy Hearing |
| 2025-03-24 | 13:30 | Hearing | 37 Senate Building | Senate Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education Hearing |
| 2025-03-11 | 16:00 | Hearing | 412 Knott Building | Senate Education Pre-K - 12 Hearing |
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 2025-04-24 | Retained on Special Order Calendar |
| 2025-04-21 | Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/24/25 |
| 2025-04-14 | CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time |
| 2025-04-10 | Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute) |
| 2025-04-10 | Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading |
| 2025-04-08 | CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 1 |
| 2025-04-03 | On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/08/25, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building |
| 2025-03-27 | Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute) |
| 2025-03-27 | Now in Fiscal Policy |
| 2025-03-27 | CS by Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education read 1st time |
| 2025-03-24 | CS by Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 |
| 2025-03-19 | On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education, 03/24/25, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building |
| 2025-03-12 | Now in Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education |
| 2025-03-11 | Favorable by Education Pre-K - 12; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 |
| 2025-03-06 | On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K - 12, 03/11/25, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building |
| 2025-03-04 | Introduced |
| 2025-02-28 | Referred to Education Pre-K - 12; Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education; Fiscal Policy |
| 2025-02-27 | Filed |