Florida Senate - 2025 SB By Senator Collins 14-00440A-25 20251528__ CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. A bill to be entitled

An act relating to the educational opportunities for military children; amending s. 1000.40, F.S.; revising the repeal date of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children; 5 amending s. 1003.05, F.S.; requiring that strategies addressed in specified memoranda of agreement between school districts and military installations include the development and implementation of a specified training module; requiring the Department of Education to provide the training module to each district school board; requiring each district school board to provide such module to each public and charter K-12 school in its district; requiring district school boards to make certain training available to certain employees; 15 providing an effective date. 16

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 18

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Section 1000.40, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 21 1000.40 Future repeal of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.—Sections 1000.36, 23 1000.361, 1000.38, and 1000.39 and this

section shall stand repealed on July 1, 2028 2025, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature. 26

Section 2. Subsection (2) of

section 1003.05, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 28 1003.05 Assistance to transitioning students from military Florida Senate - 2025 SB 1528 14-00440A-25 20251528__ CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. families.— 30

(2) The Department of Education shall facilitate the development and implementation of memoranda of agreement between school districts and military installations which address strategies for assisting students who are the children of active duty military personnel in the transition to Florida schools. 35

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a) The strategies developed by the department must include the development and implementation of a training module relating to facilitating and expediting the transfer of a K-12 student’s education records from an out-of-state school. 39

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b) The department shall provide the training module required under paragraph

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a) to each district school board to provide to each public and charter K-12 school within its district. The district school board shall make the training available to employees who work directly with miliary students and families. 45

Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025. 46