Florida SB 630: Pregnant Women in Custody

Bill Text

630 
Administrative Efficiency in Public Schools 
2025-11-20T09:47:00Z 
Exempting district school boards from requirements for adopting certain rules; deleting a requirement for a district school board to employ an internal auditor in certain circumstances; revising requirements relating to district school board attendance policies for Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Programs; prohibiting a school from being required to use a certain parameter as the sole determining factor to recruit instructional personnel; specifying requirements for advanced degrees that may be used to set salary schedules for instructional personnel and school administrators hired after a specified date; revising eligibility requirements for individuals to participate in the Teacher Apprenticeship Program, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
S 
2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
GB 
General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 630 

 By Senator Simon 

 3-00772A-26 2026630__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to administrative efficiency in public 
 3 schools; amending s. 120.81, F.S.; exempting district 
 4 school boards from requirements for adopting certain 
 5 rules; amending s. 1001.23, F.S.; requiring the 
 6 Department of Education to annually inform district 
 7 school superintendents by a specified date that they 
 8 are authorized to petition to receive a specified 
 9 declaratory statement; requiring the department to 
 10 annually maintain and provide school districts with a 
 11 list of certain statutory and rule requirements; 
 12 specifying requirements for such list; amending s. 
 13 1001.42, F.S.; deleting a requirement for a district 
 14 school board to employ an internal auditor in certain 
 15 circumstances; amending s. 1002.20, F.S.; deleting a 
 16 requirement that the school financial report be 
 17 included in the student handbook; requiring the 
 18 department to produce specified reports relating to 
 19 school accountability and make them available on the 
 20 department’s website; requiring each school district 
 21 to provide a link to such reports; amending s. 
 22 1002.33, F.S.; conforming a provision relating to a 5 
 23 year facilities plan; amending s. 1002.451, F.S.; 
 24 requiring innovation schools of technology to comply 
 25 with specified provisions relating to instructional 
 26 multiyear contracts, in addition to annual contracts, 
 27 for instructional personnel; amending s. 1002.61, 
 28 F.S.; deleting public schools from a requirement for 
 29 early learning coalitions to verify compliance with 
 30 certain law; amending s. 1002.63, F.S.; deleting a 
 31 requirement for an early learning coalition to verify 
 32 that certain public schools comply with specified 
 33 provisions; amending s. 1002.71, F.S.; revising 
 34 requirements relating to district school board 
 35 attendance policies for Voluntary Prekindergarten 
 36 Education Programs; requiring a school district to 
 37 certify its attendance records for a Voluntary 
 38 Prekindergarten Education Program; amending s. 
 39 1006.40, F.S.; revising the timeframe within which 
 40 certain instructional materials must be purchased; 
 41 authorizing the State Board of Education to modify the 
 42 timeframe; amending s. 1008.212, F.S.; providing that 
 43 certain assessments are not subject to specified 
 44 requirements; specifying the assessments from which 
 45 IEP teams are authorized to submit requests for 
 46 extraordinary exemptions; amending s. 1008.22, F.S.; 
 47 requiring the Commissioner of Education to notify 
 48 school districts of the assessment schedule for a 
 49 specified time interval and to publish such schedule 
 50 on the department’s website; deleting requirements 
 51 relating to a uniform calendar that must be published 
 52 by the commissioner each year; revising an annual 
 53 timeframe for each school district to establish 
 54 schedules for the administration of statewide, 
 55 standardized assessments; requiring each school 
 56 district to publish certain information regarding such 
 57 schedules on its website; conforming provisions to 
 58 changes made by the act; amending s. 1008.25, F.S.; 
 59 conforming cross-references; amending s. 1008.33, 
 60 F.S.; prohibiting a school from being required to use 
 61 a certain parameter as the sole determining factor to 
 62 recruit instructional personnel; specifying 
 63 requirements for a rule adopted by the State Board of 
 64 Education; amending s. 1010.20, F.S.; requiring 
 65 charter schools to respond to monitoring questions 
 66 from the department; amending s. 1011.035, F.S.; 
 67 deleting a requirement that each district school board 
 68 budget posted on the school board’s website include a 
 69 graphical representation of specified information; 
 70 revising website requirements; amending s. 1011.14, 
 71 F.S.; revising the types of facilities for which 
 72 district school boards may incur certain financial 
 73 obligations; amending s. 1011.60, F.S.