120.20 School board members; compatible positions.
(1) A school board member may serve as a volunteer coach or a supervisor of an extracurricular activity if all of the following apply:
(a) The school board member does not receive compensation for serving as a volunteer coach or supervisor.
(b) The school board member agrees to abstain from voting on any issue that comes before the school board that substantially and directly concerns the activity that he or she coaches or supervises while he or she is serving as a volunteer coach or supervisor.
(c) The school board receives the results of a criminal background investigation of the school board member conducted by the department of justice or the federal bureau of investigation.
(2) Subsection (1) (b) may not be construed to require a school board member who is serving as a volunteer coach or supervisor to abstain from voting on the school district's annual budget.
(3) Notwithstanding s. 120.001, this section applies to members of a school board of a common, union high, or unified school district.
History: 2015 a. 92.