Sen. Loranne Ausley

Relief of Donna Catalano by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Providing for the relief of Donna Catalano by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; providing an appropriation to compensate Donna Catalano for injuries and damages sustained as a result of the negligence of Donald Gerard Burthe, an employee of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; providing a limitation on the payment of certain fees, costs, and other expenses, etc. CLAIM WITH APPROPRIATION: $3,175,000

Children with Developmental Delays; Revising the definition of the term “exceptional student” to include additional students with developmental delays, etc.

Financial Literacy Instruction in Public Schools; Citing this act as the “Dorothy L. Hukill Financial Literacy Act”; revising the requirements regarding financial literacy for the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards; revising the required credits for a standard high school diploma to include one-half credit of instruction in personal financial literacy and money management and seven and one-half, rather than eight, credits in electives; modifying the requirements for the award of a standard high school diploma for Academically Challenging Curriculum to Enhance Learning options, etc.

Preemption of the Regulation of Tobacco and Nicotine Products; Repealing provisions relating to preemption of the regulation of tobacco and nicotine products, respectively, etc.

Sparsity Supplement Funds within the Florida Education Finance Program; Prohibiting a school district with a specified student population from receiving a sparsity wealth adjustment; providing an appropriation; specifying the purpose of the allocation made from the appropriation to certain school districts, etc. APPROPRIATION: $2,000,000

Social Services Estimating Conference; Requiring the Social Services Estimating Conference to develop specified information related to the home-based and community-based Medicaid waiver program, etc.

Broadband; Establishing the Broadband Deployment Task Force within the Department of Economic Opportunity for a specified purpose; requiring the task force to submit annual reports to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date; providing that certain information provided to the department from broadband service providers retains its confidentiality and exemption from public disclosure requirements; revising grant application written challenge requirements; establishing positions with the Office of Broadband for a specified purpose, 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.

Individual Education Plans; Requiring individual education plans for certain students to contain information and instruction on the legal rights and responsibilities regarding educational decisions which 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, etc.

Children and Young Adults in Out-of-home Care; Specifying the rights of, rather than goals for, children and young adults in out-of-home care; providing the roles and responsibilities of the Department of Children and Families, community-based care lead agencies, and other agency staff; designating a children’s ombudsman as an autonomous entity within the department; requiring the ombudsman, in consultation with the department and other specified entities and by a specified date, to develop standardized information explaining the rights of children and young adults placed in out-of-home care, etc.