HB 345 Florida House · 2025 Regular Session

Student Elopement

Summary

Student Elopement; Requires public schools to create School Staff Assistance for Emergencies (SAFE) Team & school elopement plan; provides requirements for SAFE Teams, elopement plans, & schools.

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 3, 2025 Last action Jun 16, 2025

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H 345 Filed → H 345 c1 · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was amended to reorganize the statute's structure, moving the requirement for student-specific elopement quick reference guides from a general requirement to apply only to students prone to elopement. The amendment also consolidated several procedural requirements and simplified the SAFE Team's responsibilities by removing detailed search grid specifications and combining notification procedures.

Scope change

The bill's scope remains the same regarding student elopement prevention, but the requirements for creating quick reference guides are now explicitly limited to students who are prone to elopement rather than all students with disabilities.

REQUIREMENT

The requirement to create student-specific elopement quick reference guides was changed to apply only to students who are prone to elopement, rather than all students with disabilities at risk of elopement.

Detailed requirements for the search grid were removed from the SAFE Team's plan development responsibilities, simplifying the planning requirements.

The requirement for the SAFE Team to notify school resource officers and local law enforcement upon elopement notification was removed, though the requirement to contact parents remains.

TECHNICAL

The statute's structure was reorganized with paragraph numbering changes and consolidated sections for better readability and logical flow.

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Committee

Mar 27, 2025

Lower · Passed

Now in Education & Employment Committee

lower

Mar 27, 2025

Committee

Referred to Education & Employment Committee

lower

Mar 26, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported out of Student Academic Success Subcommittee

lower

Mar 25, 2025

Lower · Passed

Favorable with CS by Student Academic Success Subcommittee

lower

Mar 21, 2025

Lower · Passed

Added to Student Academic Success Subcommittee agenda

lower

Feb 12, 2025

Lower · Passed

Now in Student Academic Success Subcommittee

lower

Feb 12, 2025

Committee

Referred to Education & Employment Committee

lower

Feb 12, 2025

Committee

Referred to Student Academic Success Subcommittee

lower

2 primary · 2 co-sponsors