The Commissioner of Education may prescribe such rules and minimum standards as are necessary to carry out his or her responsibilities under the school code, with the exception of provisions relating to state universities and community colleges and the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, and all such rules and minimum standards, if not in conflict with the school code, have the full force and effect of law. The commissioner, in prescribing such rules, is considered an "agency" for purposes of chapter 120.

History.--s. 88, ch. 97-190.