Florida H1307

Section 3. Subsection (12) of section 446.041, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 446.041 Duties of the department.—The department shall: (12) Ensure that minority and gender diversity are considered in administering this program.

A public school or Florida College System institution must may provide separate toilet, locker room, and shower facilities on the basis of sex, and gender, but such facilities shall be comparable to such facilities provided for students of the other sex.

Students may be separated by sex for a single-sex single-gender program, [...]

Parents of public school students may seek any public educational school choice options that are applicable and available to students throughout the state. These options may include controlled open enrollment, single-sex single-gender programs, [...]

The Office of Equal Educational Opportunity of the Department of Education shall [...] (d) Conducting studies of the effectiveness of methods and strategies designed to increase the participation of students in programs and courses in which students of a particular race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or marital status have been traditionally underrepresented and monitoring the success of students in such programs or courses, including performing followup monitoring.

Section 28. Paragraph (c) of subsection (8) of section 1009.23, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 1009.23 Florida College System institution student fees. [...] 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 or; who participate in athletics, public service, cultural arts, and other extracurricular programs as determined by the institution; or who are identified as members of a targeted gender or ethnic minority population.