Dental Services for Veterans; Establishes Veterans Dental Care Grant Program within DVA; specifies purpose of program; requires DVA to contract with direct-support organization to administer program; provides program funding is subject to legislative appropriation.
Veterans' Services and Recognition; Creates Division of Long-term Care within DVA; revises qualifications for county & city veteran service officers; creates "Veterans' Adult Day Health Care of Florida Act"; provides for appointment, qualifications, duties, & responsibilities of program operator; establishes nondiscrimination policy; provides program admittance eligibility & priority; provides for audits, inspections, & operational standards; designates "Veterans Week."
Benefits, Training, and Employment for Veterans and Their Spouses; Requires analysis of VETS Program; revises duties of DVA & Florida Is For Veterans, Inc., to include assistance to veterans' spouses; revises purpose & duties of VETS Program to include assistance to veterans' spouses; requires Florida Is For Veterans, Inc., to assist veterans or their spouses in accessing employment & licensure in health care professions; requires DOH to waive certain fees for veterans & their spouses; requires appropriate board or DOH to expedite health care licensure applications submitted by veterans; establishes Office of Veteran Licensure Services; provides appropriations & authorizes positions. APPROPRIATION: $399,565
Offenses Against Certain Animals; Prohibits offering or doing violence to police horse or police canine in certain circumstances; increases classification of specified criminal offenses committed against police canines, fire canines, SAR canines, or police horses.
Residency of Local Elected Officials; Prohibiting changes to county commissioner district boundaries during a specified timeframe; prohibiting the consideration of the residential addresses of certain persons during the district-drawing process for boards of county commissioners, etc.
State Park Campsite Reservations; Requires DEP Division of Recreation & Parks to allow residents & nonresidents to make state park cabin & campsite reservations within specified timeframes; requires residents to provide specified information for advance reservations.
Apprenticeship and Preapprenticeship Direct Funding Grant Program; Creates Apprenticeship and Preapprenticeship Direct Funding Grant Program for specified purposes; requires DOE to administer program; provides requirements for such program.
Pub. Rec./Animal Foster or Adoption; Provides exemption from public records requirements for records containing information pertaining to persons with legal custody of animal from animal shelter or animal control agency operated by local government; provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemption.
Veterans' Preference for Promotion; Requires state & political subdivisions to give veterans' preference in employment promotion; authorizes waiver of postsecondary educational requirements; requires DVA to adopt rules to ensure veterans' preference in promotion; requires numerically based selection process to be used to determine qualifications for promotion; requires preference in promotion in positions for which numerically based selection process is not used; provides for investigation & administrative hearing of complaint regarding veterans' promotion preference; provides that military retirement on basis of longevity does not disqualify person from veterans' promotion preference.
Designation of the State Bird; Designates Florida scrub-jay as official state bird.
