Domestic Violence; Adding nonresidential outreach services to the list of services certified domestic violence centers must provide; revising the program content requirements for batterers’ intervention programs; requiring the Department of Children and Families to certify and monitor batterers’ intervention programs, etc.
Wildlife Corridors; Requires DEP to encourage certain activities in support of Florida Wildlife Corridor & take specified actions; requires St. Johns River Water Management District, in consultation with Seminole County, DEP, FWCC, & DOT, to issue report by specified date that includes information & updates regarding implementation of specified management plan recommendations; requires certain enforcement actions to be taken for violations of permit conditions.
Biscayne Bay; Establishing the Biscayne Bay Commission; providing for commission purpose, membership, duties, and authority; prohibiting sewage disposal facilities from disposing of any wastes into Biscayne Bay without providing advanced waste treatment, etc.
Civic Education Curriculum; Revising the social studies high school graduation credit requirement; requiring the Department of Education to develop or approve an integrated civic education curriculum that meets certain requirements; requiring the department to curate oral history resources to be used along with such curriculum; designating the “Portraits in Patriotism Act”, etc.
Veterans Treatment Courts; Authorizing certain courts to create and administer veterans treatment courts for specified purposes; providing standards for admission to a veterans treatment court program; specifying eligibility requirements for participation in the program; revising eligibility for certain pretrial programs to include certain individuals eligible to participate in a veterans treatment court program; specifying applicability of the act to participants in certain court programs in existence as of a specified date, etc.
Impact of COVID-19 on Educational Institutions; Requiring the Board of Nursing to extend an approved program’s probationary status under certain circumstances; prohibiting an educational institution that has taken certain reasonably necessary actions to diminish the impact or spread of COVID-19 from being civilly liable for such actions; providing that certain publications of educational institutions are not evidence of an express or implied contract to provide specified services during the COVID-19 public health emergency; specifying conditions for an action against an educational institution, etc.
Education; Authorizing members of certain committees of a district school board to attend meetings and establish quorums in person or through the use of telecommunications networks; requiring additional specified strategies to be included in rules establishing uniform core curricula for each state-approved teacher preparation program; expanding the instruction that an educator preparation institute may provide to include instruction and professional development for part-time and full-time nondegreed teachers of career programs, etc.
Purple Star Campuses; Requiring the Department of Education to establish the Purple Star Campus program; specifying program criteria for participating schools; authorizing schools to partner with school districts to meet such criteria, etc.
Economic Self-sufficiency; Requiring an early learning coalition to give priority for participation in a school readiness program to certain children; requiring the Office of Early Learning within the Department of Education to coordinate with the University of Florida Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies to conduct an analysis of certain assistance programs, etc.
Veterans Employment and Training; Directing Florida Is For Veterans, Inc., to serve as the state’s principal assistance organization under the United States Department of Defense’s SkillBridge program; prescribing duties of the corporation to facilitate the administration of the SkillBridge program, etc.
Health Care Practitioner Discipline; Subjects health care practitioners to disciplinary action for specified offenses; revises provisions relating to immediate suspension of licensure to apply to all health care practitioners; requires DOH to issue emergency orders to suspend health care practitioner's license if he or she pleads guilty to, is convicted or found guilty of, or enters plea of nolo contendere to, regardless of adjudication, felony relating to homicide or is arrested for committing or attempting, soliciting, or conspiring to commit acts that would constitute violations of specified criminal offenses.
Victims of Sexual Offenses; Requiring counties to establish sexual assault response teams; requiring the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission, in consultation with the Florida Council Against Sexual Violence, to establish minimum standards for basic and advanced career development training programs for law enforcement officers that include a culturally responsive trauma-informed response to sexual assault; requiring the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission to incorporate a culturally responsive trauma-informed response to sexual assault into a certain course curriculum, etc.
