Department of Transportation; Increasing the maximum amount of debt service coverage that must be transferred from the State Transportation Trust Fund to the Right-of-Way Acquisition and Bridge Construction Trust Fund; authorizing the department to provide up to 100 percent of project costs for certain eligible projects in rural areas of opportunity; authorizing installation of an automated license plate recognition system within the right-of-way of any road on the State Highway System for a specified purpose; prohibiting use of an automated license plate recognition system to issue a notice of violation or a traffic citation, etc.
Florida Museum of Black History; Creating the Florida Museum of Black History Task Force within the Division of Historical Resources of the Department of State; requiring the division to provide staff and expend funds as necessary to assist the task force; requiring the task force to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature before a certain date, etc.
Home Health Aides for Medically Fragile Children; Requiring home health agencies to ensure that any delegation of tasks to home health aides for medically fragile children meets specified requirements; establishing the home health aides for medically fragile children program for specified purposes; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration, in consultation with the Board of Nursing, to approve training programs for home health aides for medically fragile children; authorizing home health aides for medically fragile children to administer certain medications under certain circumstances, etc. APPROPRIATION: $472,317
Postsecondary Educational Institutions; Revises powers & duties of BOG; revises academic & research excellence standards for preeminent state research universities; provides requirements for hiring university faculty; provides requirements for employment, promotion, & evaluation processes for state university employees; authorizes state university boards of trustees to review tenure status of faculty members; requires such boards to confirm selection & reappointment of specified personnel; requires state university presidents to annually present specified information to such boards; creates Institute for Risk Management & Insurance Education within College of Business at UCF; revises requirements for general education core courses.
Electronic Monitoring of Persons Charged with or Convicted of Offenses Involving Schools or Students; Requiring a court to consider electronic monitoring and location restrictions as conditions of pretrial release for persons charged with certain offenses against schools or students; requiring a court to consider electronic monitoring and location restrictions as conditions of probation or community control for persons charged with certain offenses against schools or students, etc.
Florida National Guard; Urges Congress to impel United States National Guard Bureau to examine resource allocations of Florida National Guard & allow increase in its force structure.
Automatic Sealing of Criminal History Records and Making Confidential Related Court Records; Requires that all counts of an indictment, information, or charging document be dismissed or nolle prosequi or that verdict of not guilty or judgment of acquittal be entered on all counts to be eligible for automatic sealing; requires clerk of court to automatically keep confidential & exempt court records related to certain criminal history records that meet specified criteria.
Officer of Inspector General of the Board of Governors of the State University System; Grants Office of Inspector General of Board of Governors additional authority to take certain actions in carrying out its duties.
Problem-solving Courts; Revises requirements for data & information collection & reporting; revises admission requirements for pretrial substance abuse education & treatment intervention programs & misdemeanor pretrial substance abuse education & treatment intervention programs.
Insurer Accountability; Revises requirements & conditions for certain insurer market conduct examinations after hurricane; specifies factors office may consider in determining whether continued operation of insurer may be deemed to be hazardous; prohibits officer or director of insolvent or impaired insurer from receiving bonus from such insurer; prohibits Citizens Property Insurance Corporation from determining that risk is ineligible for coverage solely on specified basis; revises prohibitions on insurers against cancellation or nonrenewal of residential property insurance policies; provides if roof deductible is applied under personal lines residential property insurance policy, no other deductible may be applied to other loss to property caused by same covered peril. APPROPRIATION: $3,171,718
Education; Requiring school districts to annually review and confirm that specified information is accurate and up to date; creating the Year-round School Pilot Program for a period of 4 school years beginning with a specified school year; requiring the Commission for Independent Education to annually prepare an accountability report by a specified date; providing requirements for searches of students’ personal belongings; requiring dual enrollment courses to be age and developmentally appropriate; authorizing students to use a combination of volunteer service hours and paid work hours to meet certain program eligibility requirements, etc.
Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Program; Renames Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Pilot Program as Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Program; transfers certain duties regarding program's administration from Commissioner of Education to DOE; provides that program funds are subject to legislative appropriation; provides maximum amount of funding school districts may receive per student in program; revises criteria for school district's eligibility to participate in program; removes obsolete provision requiring UF's College of Education to conduct specified evaluation; revises provisions relating to funding; & abrogates scheduled expiration of provisions governing program.
