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FL S0352

Bill

Status

Failed

5/1/2015

Primary Sponsor

Anitere Flores

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Origin

Senate

2015 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Designates September as "American Founders' Month" in Florida and authorizes the Governor to issue an annual proclamation urging civic, fraternal, religious organizations, and educational institutions to recognize and observe the occasion.

  • Requires district school boards to celebrate the American Founders and founding principles by observing American Founders' Month in September, which may be coordinated with existing Celebrate Freedom Week.

  • Mandates instruction during American Founders' Month focus on founding figures, their moral virtue and patriotism, founding documents (Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, Federalist Papers), and principles including individual freedom, equality, representative government, and natural law.

  • Allows instruction to be integrated into existing school curriculum through supplementing lesson plans, holding school assemblies, or providing school-related activities.

  • Requires the Department of Education to distribute the law to district school boards, which must then distribute it to all school administrators and instructional personnel at the beginning of each school year; effective July 1, 2015.

Legislative Description

American Founders' Month

Last Action

Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Education

5/1/2015

Committee Referrals

Appropriations Subcommittee on Education4/1/2015
Education Pre-K - 121/22/2015

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