Sen. Corey Simon

Benefits, Training, and Employment for Veterans and their Spouses; Requiring the Economic Development Programs Evaluation to include a periodic analysis of the Veterans Employment and Training Services Program; revising the duties of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and Florida Is For Veterans, Inc., respectively, to include the provision of certain assistance to veterans’ spouses; requiring the Department of Health to waive certain fees for veterans and their spouses under certain circumstances; establishing the Office of Veteran Licensure Services within the Division of Medical Quality Assurance, etc. APPROPRIATION: $399,565

Apalachicola Bay Area of Critical State Concern; Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to expend certain funds for the purpose of entering into financial assistance agreements with the City of Apalachicola for specified surface water and groundwater quality improvement projects within the Apalachicola Bay Area of Critical State Concern; providing for expiration of the authorization, etc.

Education and Training for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Forms of Dementia; Designating the “Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Forms of Dementia Education and Training Act”; requiring the Department of Elderly Affairs to offer certain education about Alzheimer’s disease and related forms of dementia to the general public; providing minimum requirements for the training; authorizing persons to satisfy the training requirements of this act using training curricula approved before the effective date of this act until the department adopts rules for training curricula guidelines, etc.

Operation New Hope; Authorizing the Department of Corrections, contingent upon appropriation, to contract with Operation New Hope for specified services, etc.

Florida Atlantic University Men’s Basketball Team; Recognizing and celebrating the incredible accomplishments of the Florida Atlantic University men’s basketball team and the university’s commitment to both academic and athletic excellence, creating a collegiate brand that is nationally renowned, etc.

Individual Education Plans; Requiring individual education plans for certain students to contain information and instruction on certain legal rights and responsibilities that transfer to students at the age of 18; requiring such information to include ways in which a student may provide informed consent to allow his or her parent to continue to participate in his or her educational decisions; requiring the State Board of Education to adopt rules, etc.

Interference with Sporting or Entertainment Events; Prohibiting certain actions during covered sporting and entertainment events; providing criminal penalties; prohibiting profiting from violations; providing for seizure and forfeiture of specified assets, etc.

Education; Revising student eligibility and ineligibility requirements for the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program; revising student eligibility and ineligibility requirements for the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program; revising the eligibility criteria and obligations of private schools participating in certain educational scholarship programs; authorizing public schools, including charter schools, to enroll certain students on a part-time basis, etc.

Black History Month in Florida; Recognizing February 2023 as “Black History Month” in Florida, etc.