DNA Evidence Collected in Sexual Offense Investigations; Citing this act as "Gail's Law"; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement, by a specified date and subject to legislative appropriation, to create and maintain a statewide database for tracking sexual offense evidence kits; providing database requirements; requiring the department to ensure that alleged sexual offense victims and certain other persons receive specified notice and instructions and be informed that they are entitled to access information regarding such kits and evidence, etc.
Public Records/Department of Military Affairs; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for certain information held by the Department of Military Affairs which is stored in a United States Department of Defense system of records, is transmitted using a United States Department of Defense network or communications device, or pertains to the United States Department of Defense; providing for retroactive application; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Office of Minority Health and Health Equity; Requiring the Office of Minority Health and Health Equity to develop and promote the statewide implementation of certain policies, programs, and practices; requiring one representative from each county health department to serve as a minority health liaison for a specified purpose; requiring the Department of Health to maintain specified information on its website; requiring the office to serve as a liaison to and assist certain federal offices, etc.
Students with Disabilities in Public Schools; Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of seclusion on students with disabilities in public schools; requiring school districts to adopt approved behavioral interventions and restraint training, pursuant to State Board of Education rules; creating the Video Cameras in Public School Classrooms Pilot Program; requiring continuing education and inservice training for instructional personnel teaching students with emotional or behavioral disabilities, etc.
Community Associations; Specifying requirements for the contents, delivery, and posting of certain association notices; providing that certain associations have the right to seek judicial review, appeal decisions, and represent unit or parcel owners in certain proceedings; providing and revising the parties considered as the defendants in a tax suit; providing unit or parcel owners’ options for defending a tax suit; providing that a condominium association may take certain actions relating to a challenge to ad valorem taxes in its own name or on behalf of unit owners, etc.
Electronic Threats; Prohibiting a person from sending, posting, or transmitting, or from procuring the sending, posting, or transmission of a written or electronic record when in such record the person makes a threat to kill or to do bodily harm to another person or to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism; providing criminal penalties, etc.
Involuntary Examinations of Minors; Revises certain notification requirements that must be met before removing minor from school, school transportation, or school-sponsored activity for involuntary examination.
Student Literacy; Revising and providing duties for the Just Read, Florida! Office within the Department of Education; requiring the Department of Education, in consultation with the Office of Early Learning, to implement a coordinated screening and progress monitoring system for students in the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program through grade 8; requiring certain students to participate in a certain coordinated screening and progress monitoring system; creating the “Reading Achievement Initiative for Scholastic Excellence Act”, etc.
Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety; Revises & provides requirements for driver of motor vehicle overtaking bicycle or other nonmotorized vehicle or electric bicycle; requires DHSMV to provide annual awareness & safety campaign; revises requirements for turning at intersections; revises & provides requirements for persons riding bicycles in groups; requires Class E driver license examination to address bicycle & pedestrian safety.
Medicaid; Deleting a requirement for the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit an annual report to the Legislature on the operation of the pharmaceutical expense assistance program; revising the method for determining prescribed drug provider reimbursements; requiring the agency to establish certain procedures related to prior authorization requests rather than prior consultation requests; revising the definitions of the terms “medical necessity” and “medically necessary” to provide an exception for behavior analysis services determinations, etc.
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training in Public Schools; Providing that school districts are encouraged to provide basic training in first aid, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation, in specified grades; requiring school districts to provide basic training in first aid, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation, in specified grades; revising requirements for instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, etc.
Required Health Education Instruction; Providing additional requirements for health education; revising the grade levels when students receive certain health education instruction; requiring such education to include an awareness of the benefits of sexual abstinence as the expected standard and the consequences of teenage pregnancy, etc.
