Florida Virtual School; Provides flexibility in administration for specified assessments for FLVS full-time students of military families residing outside this state; provides requirements for such students, FLVS, & DOE.
Sponsored bills
Telehealth Practice Standards; Revises definition of term "telehealth."
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; providing an appropriation, etc. APPROPRIATION: $6,800,000
Technology in K-12 Public Schools; Prohibiting the use of certain platforms on district-owned devices and through Internet access provided by the school district; authorizing teachers and other instructional personnel to designate an area for wireless communications during instructional time; requiring public schools to provide instruction on the social, emotional, and physical effects of social media, etc.
Risk Protection Orders; Redefines term "petitioner" to include individual who has biological or legal parent-child relationship with, who is legal guardian of, or who is spouse or sibling of respondent.
Value of Motor Vehicles Exempt from Legal Process; Revises upward value of motor vehicle owned by natural person that is exempt from legal process.
Trust Funds/Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking/DLA; Creates Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking within DLA; provides for funding sources & purposes of trust fund; provides for future review & termination or re-creation of trust fund.
Drug-enhancement Zones; Revises certain drug-enhancement zones.
Sentencing Calculations; Provides sentencing points expire after specified period & cannot be used in calculations; provides for petitions to recalculate sentences due to changes in law in certain circumstances.
Contraband Forfeiture; Requires stay of proceedings subsequent to probable cause finding for forfeiture; requires stay of forfeiture until final disposition of associated criminal charges or while prosecuting agency determines whether charges will be filed; requires written notice of such charges to court; requires conviction in associated criminal offense for forfeiture; requires return of seized property if all associated criminal charges are dismissed or prosecuting agency declines to file; prohibits agencies from transferring property seized under state law to federal agency for specified purpose.