Sen. Perry E. Thurston, Jr.

COVID-19 Impact on School Accountability; Prohibiting a school from being required to select and implement a turnaround option in the 2021-2022 school year based on the school’s 2020-2021 school grade or improvement rating; prohibiting a school or an approved provider from being subject to sanctions or penalties as a result of its 2020-2021 school grade or improvement rating; prohibiting student performance results from the 2020-2021 statewide, standardized assessments from being used for determining grade 3 retention or high school graduation or for calculating student performance measurement and evaluating personnel, etc.

Youth in Confinement; Prohibiting a youth from being placed in disciplinary confinement; authorizing a youth to be placed in emergency confinement if certain conditions are met; requiring specific treatment for a youth who is in emergency confinement; requiring the Department of Corrections to review its policies and procedures relating to youth in confinement, etc.

Communicable and Infectious Diseases; Providing a presumption to specified workers that an impairment of health caused by an infectious disease happened in the line of duty; requiring certain actions in order to be entitled to the presumption; revising the vaccine requirement for specified workers if such vaccine is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration, etc.

Judicial Nominating Commissions; Revising the composition of judicial nominating commissions; prohibiting a commission member from serving more than two full terms; requiring appointing authorities to collect and release certain demographic data regarding commission members and applicants for commission membership; specifying circumstances under which a commission member may not vote on a matter and must disclose a conflict, etc.

Statewide Independent Counsel; Creating the Statewide Independent Counsel Board in the Department of Legal Affairs; requiring the board to oversee the investigation and prosecution of officer-involved incidents of deadly force; providing board membership requirements; providing that the statewide independent counsel has the sole prosecutorial jurisdiction over officer-involved incidents within this state; requiring the independent counsel to prosecute specified cases upon written request of the Governor or a state attorney; requiring the chief law enforcement officer of a law enforcement agency to notify the board if a law enforcement officer or a correctional officer is involved in an officer-involved incident, etc.

Divine Nine Specialty License Plates; Revising distribution of annual use fees from the sale of the plates; providing eligibility requirements for issuance of a plate; authorizing a plate to be personalized and to be displayed on certain vehicles; prohibiting the transfer of a plate between vehicle owners, etc.

Medical Marijuana Retail Facilities; Prohibiting qualified physicians and caregivers from being employed by or having an economic interest in a medical marijuana retail facility; authorizing, rather than requiring, medical marijuana treatment centers to cultivate, process, transport, and dispense marijuana for medical use; prohibiting an individual or entity from being awarded more than one facility license; providing requirements for the transfer of ownership of a medical marijuana retail facility; prohibiting a medical marijuana retail facility from engaging in Internet sales; prohibiting medical marijuana retail facilities from being located within a specified distance from school properties, etc.

Individual Retirement Accounts; Specifying that certain interests received by a transferee after a divorce are exempt from claims of creditors upon being awarded to or received by the transferee; specifying that such interests remain exempt; providing retroactive applicability, etc.

Criminal Justice Standards and Training; Requiring that a voluntary accreditation program be mandatory; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to establish a review process to assist agencies that fail to obtain or maintain accreditation, etc.

City of Lauderdale Lakes/Minority Representation in Government; Recognizing the people of the City of Lauderdale Lakes for having elected the first-ever city governing body of its size which is comprised solely of women of color and recognizing the City of Lauderdale Lakes for its minority representation in government, etc.