Deregulation of Public Schools/Instructional, Administrative, and Support Personnel; Requiring innovation schools of technology to comply with specified provisions of law relating to instructional multiyear contracts for instructional personnel in addition to annual contracts; requiring newly hired prekindergarten instructors to complete specified training within a specified timeframe; requiring the State Board of Education to develop written strategies to address critical teacher shortages; revising requirements for school bus drivers; revising requirements for individuals to participate in the Teacher Apprenticeship Program, etc.
Deregulation of Public Schools/School District Finance and Budgets, Facilities, and Administration and Oversight; Providing that district school boards are not subject to certain rule requirements under certain circumstances; requiring a district school board to advertise its intent to adopt a tentative budget on a publicly available website if it does not advertise such intent in a newspaper of general circulation; requiring district school boards to provide personnel access to facilities for emergency management, rather than staffing such facilities; revising requirements for signage that must be posted on certain school buses; requiring the Department of Education to annually inform district school superintendents that they may petition to receive a specified declaratory statement, etc.
Scrutinized Companies; Revising the definition of the term “scrutinized company”; requiring the State Board of Administration to identify and maintain the Scrutinized Companies with Activities in Iran Terrorism Sectors List; providing that companies on the Scrutinized Companies with Activities in the Iran Petroleum Energy Sector List as of a specified date are deemed, beginning on a certain date, to be on the Scrutinized Companies with Activities in Iran Terrorism Sectors List until removed pursuant to specified procedures; providing that certain entities are ineligible to, and may not, bid on, submit a proposal for, or enter into or renew certain contracts, etc.
Family Empowerment Scholarship Program; Revising the number of certain students eligible to participate in the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program, etc.
Taxation; Requiring that a referendum to reenact an expiring tourist impact tax be held at a general election; specifying that certain permanently and totally disabled veterans or their surviving spouses are entitled to, rather than may receive, a prorated refund of ad valorem taxes paid under certain circumstances; revising requirements for applying for property tax refunds due to catastrophic events; providing a sales tax exemption for the purchase of certain equipment necessary for the storage of electrical energy; exempting from sales and use tax the retail sale of certain clothing, wallets, bags, school supplies, learning aids and jigsaw puzzles, and personal computers and personal computer-related accessories during specified timeframes; exempting from sales and use tax specified disaster preparedness supplies during a specified timeframe, etc. APPROPRIATION: $35,000,000
Department of Health; Prohibiting certain research in this state relating to enhanced potential pandemic pathogens; prohibiting medical marijuana treatment centers from producing marijuana products that are attractive to children or manufactured in specified manners; requiring local registrars to electronically file all live birth, death, and fetal death records in their respective jurisdictions in the department’s electronic registration system; revising the types of health care practitioners who may make certain determinations of death; extending the timeframe for the confidentiality of certain birth records; requiring that hearing aids provided to persons younger than 18 years of age be prescription hearing aids and not over-the-counter hearing aids, etc.
Charter School Capital Outlay Funding; Revising charter school eligibility requirements; providing school district requirements for the distribution of capital outlay funds to eligible charter schools; requiring that any purchase, lease-purchase, or lease be at the appraised value, etc.
Middle School and High School Start Times; Providing requirements for middle school and high school start times; requiring such school start times to be implemented by a specified date; providing district school board requirements, etc.
Deceased Individuals; Citing this act as "Curtis’ Law"; requiring law enforcement agencies to provide certain information during the investigation of the death of a minor; providing an exception, etc.
Commercial Financing Transaction Brokers and Providers; Designating the "Florida Commercial Financing Disclosure Law"; requiring providers that consummate commercial financing transactions to provide specified written disclosures; authorizing providers to provide specified required disclosures when consummating a commercial financing facility based on an example of a transaction; prohibiting brokers from taking specified actions, etc.
Licensing Fee Relief; Requiring the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to waive a portion of the initial license application fee and the renewal fee for certain licenses; providing a maximum waiver; providing for expiration; providing an appropriation; providing for the disposition of any unexpended balance etc. APPROPRIATION: $50,000,000
Provider Accountability; Revising the rights of residents of nursing home facilities; providing additional disqualifying offenses for purposes of background screening of employees of certain health care providers; creating a cause of action for ex parte injunctive relief against continued unlicensed activity relating to health care provider facilities; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to petition the court for such injunctive relief; providing for ex parte temporary injunctive relief under certain circumstances, etc.
