Education; Requiring the Office of Reimagining Education and Career Help to develop certain criteria and display public information; providing a tax credit for eligible businesses that employ an apprentice or preapprentice under certain conditions; authorizing specified employers to apply to the Department of Financial Services for reimbursement of workers’ compensation premiums paid for students participating in work-based learning opportunities; encouraging the district school board to adopt policies and procedures to consult with certain entities to determine how to expose students to industries, businesses, and careers; providing admissions policies for career centers that offer certain science degree programs; revising requirements for the Florida Pathways to Career Opportunities Grant Program, etc. APPROPRIATION: $102,000,000
Sponsored bills
Tourist Development Taxes; Authorizing certain fiscally constrained counties to use a designated percentage of tourist development tax revenues received to reimburse expenses incurred for certain purposes; providing specifications for the use of such tax revenues, etc.
Coverage for Clinician-administered Drugs; Prohibiting certain acts by insurers or pharmacy benefit managers that cover clinician-administered drugs; providing that violations are deemed unfair methods of competition and unfair practices or acts, etc.
Required African-American Instruction; Requiring each school district to certify and provide certain evidence to the Department of Education regarding certain instruction; authorizing the department to seek input from and contract with certain educational organizations for specified purposes, etc.
Florida High School Athletic Association; Requiring the Florida High School Athletic Association, in consultation with its Sports Medicine Advisory Committee, to adopt bylaws to establish requirements for the provision of health care services to student athletes; requiring that the bylaws, at a minimum, require member schools, when practicable, to hire or contract with qualified health care providers to provide health care services to certain student athletes and provide for the legally compliant collection, review, and storage of student athlete health information, etc.
Missing Child Identification; Creating the Missing Child Identification Program to be administered by the Attorney General; requiring the Attorney General, or a specified entity if directed by the Attorney General, to provide the Department of Education with identification kits; requiring the department to distribute the identification kits to all students enrolled in grade 1; providing that a parent or person who has legal custody of a child may use and retain custody of the kit and may submit it to certain law enforcement agencies if the child is reported missing, etc.
Costs of Supervision or Care; Prohibiting a child, including a child who is found to be dependent, or the child’s parent or legal guardian or a young adult eligible for continued care from being ordered or deemed obligated to pay any fees for the cost of supervision or cost of care; providing that on or after a specified date certain warrants issued solely on the alleged failure of certain persons to pay or appear to pay certain fees are deemed null and void; providing that on or after a specified date certain persons who have had their driver license suspended solely for nonpayment of cost-of-supervision or cost-of care-fees are immediately eligible to have their driver licenses reinstated, etc.
Flat-rate Tire Installations or Replacements; Defining the term “flat-rate tire installation or replacement”; authorizing motor vehicle repair shops to comply with certain requirements for transactions that consist exclusively of flat-rate tire installation or replacement; providing requirements and authorizations for motor vehicle repair shops that are unable to complete work by a specified completion date; requiring motor vehicle repair shops to give a full refund within a specified timeframe to customers who cancel a flat-rate tire replacement or installation, etc.
Electric Vehicle Infrastructure; Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt rules for electric vehicle charging stations which meet certain requirements; providing a timeline for the proposal and adoption of such rules; prohibiting a public utility from using rate base investment for certain purposes, etc.
Financial Assistance for Rural Areas of Opportunity; Prohibiting certain agency agreements from requiring the expenditure of funds before reimbursement; authorizing agencies to undertake certain actions, etc.