Sen. Randolph Bracy

Fees/Batterers’ Intervention Programs; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to assess and collect an annual certification fee from batterers’ intervention programs; requiring certain persons attending certified batterers’ intervention programs to pay a fee for each program attended; requiring the batterers’ intervention programs to collect and remit such fees to the department; requiring certification and user fees to be deposited in the Domestic Violence Trust Fund for a specified purpose, etc.

Guidance Services for Academic and Career Planning; Requiring district school boards to inform students and parents of certain acceleration, academic, and career planning options; requiring certain information to be included in such notification; requiring a personalized academic and career plan be developed in consultation with a certified school counselor for certain students, etc.

Batterers’ Intervention Programs; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to certify and monitor specified batterers’ intervention programs; requiring programs to have certain safety measures in place; providing requirements for program orientation and weekly group sessions; authorizing the department to reject or suspend certification of a program for failure to comply with the requirements, etc.

Required Instruction in the History of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; Requiring the history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to be included in specified instruction, etc.

Military Corpsmen and Medics of Florida (MCMF) Program; Creating the MCMF Program Office of Veterans Advocacy within the Department of Health; requiring the MCMF Program, through the Department of Economic Opportunity, to assist certain veterans and their spouses with specified tasks; requiring Florida Is for Veterans, Inc., to collaborate with specified entities to implement the MCMF Program, etc.

William L. Boyd, IV, Effective Access to Student Education Grant Program; Revising the institutions a student must attend to receive a William L. Boyd, IV, Effective Access to Student Education grant to include certain for-profit independent colleges and universities, etc.

Transportation Facility Designations/Rep. Alzo Reddick Road; Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in a specified county; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.

Entertainment Industry; Creating the Targeted High Wage Production Program within the Department of Economic Opportunity under the supervision of the Commissioner of Film and Entertainment; requiring that film, television, and digital media projects being produced in this state meet specified criteria to be eligible for tax credit awards; requiring a certified project to make a good faith effort to use existing providers of infrastructure or equipment in this state and to employ residents of this state; requiring the Florida Film and Entertainment Advisory Council to determine a score for each qualified project using specified criteria; requiring the department to disqualify a project under certain circumstances, etc.

Child Safety; Defining the term “motor vehicle”; requiring, by a specified date, that motor vehicles be equipped with an alarm system that prompts the driver to inspect the motor vehicle for unattended occupants before exiting; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to adopt by rule minimum standards for such systems and to maintain a list of approved alarm manufacturers and alarm systems; revising transportation safety minimum standards for the licensure of child care facilities, etc.

Special Days of Observance; Designating “Emancipation Day” to officially commemorate the freeing of enslaved African Americans in Florida; authorizing the Governor to issue an annual proclamation honoring the significance of Emancipation Day; specifying that Juneteenth Day officially commemorates the freeing of all remaining enslaved African Americans in the United States; requiring high school students enrolled in a United States History course to receive specified instruction on the significance of Emancipation Day and Juneteenth Day, etc.