HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES STAFF ANALYSIS
BILL #: CS/HB 1429 District and School Advisory Councils
SPONSOR(S): Education Quality Subcommittee, Bell and others
TIED BILLS: None. IDEN./SIM. BILLS: SB 1652
REFERENCE ACTION ANALYST STAFF DIRECTOR or
BUDGET/POLICY CHIEF
1) Education Quality Subcommittee 14 Y, 0 N, As CS Wolff Sanchez
2) Education & Employment Committee 17 Y, 0 N Wolff Hassell
SUMMARY ANALYSIS
Current law requires that each district school board establish an advisory council for each school in the district
and to develop procedures for the election and appointment of advisory council members. The school advisory
council shall be the sole body responsible for final decisionmaking at the school relating to implementation of
school improvement and education accountability.
The bill updates the name for the district and school advisory council to the district and community advisory
board. The bill requires that at least 70 percent of the members of the board be persons not employed by the
school district. The bill specifies the length of member terms and provides term limits for specified community
advisory board members, specifically, members serve 2-year terms while the president, vice president,
secretary, and treasurer of the board may not serve consecutive terms.
The bill requires the community advisory board to publicize open positions on the community advisory board,
information regarding board elections and appointments, and information about becoming a member of the
community advisory board. Additionally, the bill requires the board to work with each school to ensure the
board's efforts to publicize such information are effective.
The bill requires that the advisory board adopt bylaws for the approval, review, and updating of its bylaws.
Each district school board must establish a schedule to approve, review, and update such bylaws.
The bill does not appear to have a fiscal impact.
The bill has an effective date of July 1, 2024.
This docum ent does not reflect the intent or official position of the bill sponsor or House of Representatives .
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FULL ANALYSIS
I. SUBSTANTIVE ANALYSIS
A. EFFECT OF PROPOSED CHANGES:
Present Situation
District and School Advisory Councils
Current law requires that each district school board establish an advisory council for each school in the
district and develop procedures for the election and appointment of advisory council members. The
school advisory council shall be the sole body responsible for final decisionmaking at the school
relating to implementation of school improvement and education accountability.1
The advisory councils must consist of the principal and an appropriately balanced number of teachers,2
education support employees,3 students, parents, and other business and community citizens who are
representative of the ethnic, racial, and economic community served by the school. Career center and
high school advisory councils shall include students, and middle and junior high school advisory
councils may include students. School advisory councils of career centers and adult education centers
are not required to include parents as members. Council members representing teachers, education
support employees, students, and parents shall be elected by their respective peer groups at the
school in a fair and equitable manner. 4
The district school board must review the membership composition of each advisory council. If the
district school board determines that the membership elected by the school is not representative of the
ethnic, racial, and economic community served by the school, the district school board shall appoint
additional members to achieve proper representation. The commissioner of education shall determine if
schools have maximized their efforts to include on their advisory councils minority persons and persons
of lower socioeconomic status.5
The law provides an exception to the requirement that each school have a school advisory council for
school districts with a student population of 10,000 or less. In such districts, the district school board is
only required to establish a district advisory council that includes at least one duly elected teacher from
each school in the district.6
The district school board may establish a district advisory council representative of the district that is
composed of teachers, students, parents, and other citizens or a district advisory council that may be
comprised of representatives of each school advisory council. 7 Similarly, the district school boards may
establish a district advisory council with appropriate representatives for the purpose of developing and
monitoring a district school improvement plan that encompasses all such schools in the district for
those schools operating for the purpose of providing educational services to youth in Department of
Juvenile Justice programs.8
Each school advisory council shall adopt bylaws establishing procedures for:
Requiring a quorum, or a majority of the membership, to be present before a vote may be taken
by the school advisory council.
1 Section 1001.452(1)(a), F.S.
2 For the purposes of school advisory councils and district advisory councils, the term “teacher” includes classroom teachers, certified
student services personnel, and media specialists.
3 For the purposes of school advisory councils and district advisory councils, “education support employee” means any person
employed by a school who is not defined as instructional or administrative personnel and whose duties require 20 or more hours in
each normal working week.
4 Id.
5 Id. (flush left provision at the end of the paragraph).
6 Id. (flush left provision at the end of the paragraph).
7 Section 1001.452(1)(b), F.S.
8 Section 1001.452(1)(c), F.S.
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Requiring at least 3 days’ advance notice in writing to all members of the advisory council of any
matter that is scheduled to come before the council for a vote.
Scheduling meetings when parents, students, teachers, businesspersons, and members of the
community can attend.
Replacing any member who has two unexcused consecutive absences from a school advisory
council meeting that is noticed according to the procedures in the bylaws.
Recording minutes of meetings.9
The district school board may review all proposed bylaws of a school advisory council and shall
maintain a record of minutes of council meetings.10
Each advisory council must perform functions established by regulations of the district school board;
however, no advisory council can have any of the powers and duties reserved by law to the district
school board. Each school advisory council shall assist in the preparation and evaluation of the school
improvement plan. Additionally, with technical assistance from the Department of Education, each
school advisory council must assist in the preparation of the school’s annual budget.11
Currently, members serving on a school advisory council do not have term limits.
Effect of Proposed Changes
The bill updates the name for the district and school advisory council to the district and community
advisory board. The bill requires that at least 70 percent of the members of the board be persons not
employed by the school district.
The bill requires the community advisory board to publicize open positions on the community advisory
board, information regarding board elections and appointments, and information about becoming a
member of the community advisory board. Additionally, the bill requires the board to work with each
school to ensure the board's efforts to publicize such information are effective.
The bill specifies the length of member terms and provides term limits for specified community advisory
board members, specifically, members serve 2-year terms while the president, vice president,
secretary, and treasurer of the board may not serve consecutive terms.
The bill requires school districts to provide, and board members to complete, training to advisory board
members.
The bill requires that the advisory board adopt bylaws for the approval, review, and updating of its
bylaws. Each district school board must establish a schedule to approve, review, and update such
bylaws.
B. SECTION DIRECTORY:
Section 1: Amends s. 1001.452, F.S.; renaming district advisory councils and school advisory
councils as "district community advisory boards" and "community advisory boards,"
respectively; requiring community advisory boards to publicize specified information;
establishing terms for board members; establishing term limits for specified board
officers; requiring district school boards to establish training for community advisory
board members; requiring members of such boards to complete such training; revising
the requirements for community advisory board bylaws
Section 2: Amends s. 24.121, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act.
Section 3: Amends s. 1001.42, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act.
9 Section 1001.452(1)(d), F.S.
10 Id. (flush left provision at the end of the paragraph).
11 Section 1001.452(2), F.S.
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Section 4: Amends s. 1001.43, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act.
Section 5: Amends s. 1002.23, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act.
Section 6: Amends s. 1002.32, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act.
Section 7: Amends s. 1002.33, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act.
Section 8: Amends s. 1003.02, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act.
Section 9: Amends s. 1003.4203, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act.
Section 10: Amends s. 1006.07, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act.
Section 11: Amends s. 1008.345, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act.
Section 12: Amends s. 1008.36, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act.
Section 13: Amends s. 1012.71, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act.
Section 14: Amends s. 1012.98, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act.
Section 15: Provides an effective date.
II. FISCAL ANALYSIS & ECONOMIC IMPACT STATEMENT
A. FISCAL IMPACT ON STATE GOVERNMENT:
1. Revenues:
None.
2. Expenditures:
None.
B. FISCAL IMPACT ON LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
1. Revenues:
None.
2. Expenditures:
None.
C. DIRECT ECONOMIC IMPACT ON PRIVATE SECTOR:
None.
D. FISCAL COMMENTS:
None.
III. COMMENTS
A. CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES:
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1. Applicability of Municipality/County Mandates Provision:
None.
2. Other:
None.
B. RULE-MAKING AUTHORITY:
None.
C. DRAFTING ISSUES OR OTHER COMMENTS:
None.
IV. AMENDMENTS/COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE CHANGES
On January 25, 2024, the Education Quality Subcommittee adopted one amendment and reported the bill
favorably as a committee substitute. The amendment:
requires that at least 70 percent of the members of a district and community advisory board be
persons not employed by the school district, rather than a simple majority as previously required.
The analysis is drafted to the committee substitute adopted by the Education Quality Subcommittee.
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Statutes affected: H 1429 Filed: 1001.452, 1001.43, 1002.33, 1003.02, 1003.4203, 1006.07, 1008.36, 1012.98
H 1429 c1: 1001.452, 1001.43, 1002.33, 1003.02, 1003.4203, 1008.36, 1012.71, 1012.98
H 1429 e1: 1001.452, 1001.43, 1002.33, 1003.02, 1003.4203, 1008.36, 1012.71, 1012.98