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2017 M-DCPS Bill Tracking List Page 1 SB 2 Relating to Higher Education Galvano Higher Education; Citing this act as the “Florida Excellence in Higher Education Act of 2017”; revising requirements for the performance-based metrics used to award Florida College System institutions with performance-based incentives; revising the Distinguished Florida College System Institution Program excellence standards requirements; requiring each Florida Community College System institution to execute at least one “2+2” Targeted Pathway articulation agreement by a specified time, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017 HB 3 Relating to Higher Education Avila Higher Education: Cites act as "Florida Excellence in Higher Education Act of 2017"; revises requirements for performance-based metrics used to award Florida College System institutions with performance-based incentives; revises Distinguished Florida College System Institution Program excellence standards requirements; requires Florida Community College System institution to execute at least one "2+2" Targeted Pathway articulation agreement by specified time. Effective Date: July 1, 2017 SB 4 Relating to Faculty Recruitment Galvano Faculty Recruitment; Establishing the World Class Faculty and Scholar Program; authorizing investments in certain faculty retention, recruitment, and recognition activities; establishing the State University Professional and Graduate Degree Excellence Program; specifying the requirements for quality improvement efforts to elevate the prominence of state university medicine, law, and graduate-level business programs, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017 HB 5 Relating to Faculty Recruitment Avila Faculty Recruitment: Requires state universities to use gap analyses to identify internship opportunities in high-demand fields; establishes World Class Faculty & Scholar Program; authorizes investments in certain faculty retention, recruitment & recognition activities; establishes State University Professional & Graduate Degree Excellence Program; specifies requirements for quality improvement efforts to elevate prominence of certain state university degree programs; revises provisions relating to Alec P. Courtelis University Facility Enhancement Challenge Grant Program. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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SB 2 Relating to Higher Education Galvano

Higher Education; Citing this act as the “Florida Excellence in Higher Education Act of 2017”; revising requirements for the performance-based metrics used to award Florida College System institutions with performance-based incentives; revising the Distinguished Florida College System Institution Program excellence standards requirements; requiring each Florida Community College System institution to execute at least one “2+2” Targeted Pathway articulation agreement by a specified time, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 3 Relating to Higher Education Avila

Higher Education: Cites act as "Florida Excellence in Higher Education Act of 2017"; revises requirements for performance-based metrics used to award Florida College System institutions with performance-based incentives; revises Distinguished Florida College System Institution Program excellence standards requirements; requires Florida Community College System institution to execute at least one "2+2" Targeted Pathway articulation agreement by specified time. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 4 Relating to Faculty Recruitment Galvano

Faculty Recruitment; Establishing the World Class Faculty and Scholar Program; authorizing investments in certain faculty retention, recruitment, and recognition activities; establishing the State University Professional and Graduate Degree Excellence Program; specifying the requirements for quality improvement efforts to elevate the prominence of state university medicine, law, and graduate-level business programs, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 5 Relating to Faculty Recruitment Avila

Faculty Recruitment: Requires state universities to use gap analyses to identify internship opportunities in high-demand fields; establishes World Class Faculty & Scholar Program; authorizes investments in certain faculty retention, recruitment & recognition activities; establishes State University Professional & Graduate Degree Excellence Program; specifies requirements for quality improvement efforts to elevate prominence of certain state university degree programs; revises provisions relating to Alec P. Courtelis University Facility Enhancement Challenge Grant Program. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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HB 7 Relating to Certificates of Need Miller (A)

Certificates of Need: Revises & deletes certain provisions relating to local health councils, rural hospitals, health facility licensing, & certificates of need; provides duties of AHCA & DOH. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 8 Relating to Gaming Galvano

Gaming; Authorizing the department, a retailer operating from one or more locations, or a vendor approved by the department to use a point-of-sale terminal to sell a lottery ticket or game; ratifying and approving a specified compact executed by the Governor and the Seminole Tribe of Florida contingent upon the adoption of a specified amendment to the compact; creating the “Fantasy Contest Amusement Act"; creating the Office of Amusements within the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, etc. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this act, and except for this section, which shall take effect upon this act becoming a law, this act shall take effect only if the Gaming Compact between the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the State of Florida executed by the Governor and the Seminole Tribe of Florida on December 7, 2015, under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, is amended as required by this act, and is approved or deemed approved and not voided by the United States Department of the Interior, and shall take effect on the date that notice of the effective date of the amended compact is published in the Federal Register.

HB 9 Relating to Florida Tourism Industry Marketing Corporation Renner

Florida Tourism Industry Marketing Corporation: Authorizes Florida Tourism Industry Marketing Corporation to enter into agreement with DEO for certain purposes & to use certain funds; provides that certain funds shall be transferred to or deposited in General Revenue Fund; transfers certain responsibilities from Enterprise Florida, Inc., to DEO; terminates certain trust funds; revises provisions relating to expenses, funds, duties, & transparency of corporation & requires one-to-one match of private to public contributions to corporation; terminates Division of Tourism Marketing of Enterprise Florida, Inc. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 11 Relating to Labor Organizations Plakon

Labor Organizations: Revises required information to be included in application for renewal of registration of employee organization; provides for revocation of certification under certain conditions; requires certain employee organizations to recertify as certified bargaining agents; provides nonapplicability with respect to employee organizations that represent or seek to represent certain employees. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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HB 15 Relating to Educational Options Sullivan

Educational Options: Revises provisions relating to Gardiner Scholarship Program, John M. McKay Scholarship Program, & Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program; provides appropriations. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 17 Relating to Local Regulation Preemption Fine

Local Regulation Preemption: Prohibits certain local governments from imposing or adopting certain regulations on businesses, professions, & occupations after certain date; preempts to state regulations concerning businesses, professions, & occupations; provides exceptions to preemption. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 23 Relating to Public Assistance Eagle

Public Assistance: Revises penalties for noncompliance with work requirements for temporary cash assistance; limits receipt of child-only benefits during periods of noncompliance with work requirements; provides applicability of work requirements before expiration of minimum penalty period; requires DCF to refer sanctioned participants to appropriate community services; requires DEO, in cooperation with CareerSource Florida, Inc., & DCF, to develop & implement work plan agreement for participants in temporary cash assistance program; prohibits use of EBT card at specified locations; requires DCF to impose replacement fee for EBT cards; revises eligibility guidelines for Relative Caregiver Program with respect to relative & nonrelative caregivers; provides appropriation. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 39 Relating to Autism Awareness Training for Law Enforcement Officers Jenne

Autism Awareness Training for Law Enforcement Officers: Requires FDLE to establish continued employment training component relating to autism spectrum disorder; specifies instruction to be included in training component; provides that completion of training may count toward continued employment instruction requirements. Effective Date: October 1, 2017

HB 45 Relating to Haitian American Heritage Month Watson (B)

Haitian American Heritage Month: Urges Congress to recognize month of May as "Haitian American Heritage Month." Effective Date: Not Specified

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HB 47 Relating to Texting While Driving Stark

Texting While Driving: Revises penalties for violations of Florida Ban on Texting While Driving Law; provides enhanced penalties for such violations when committed in school zone or school crossing; removes requirement that specified provisions be enforced as secondary action by law enforcement agency. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 49 Relating to Ad Valorem Taxation Eagle

Ad Valorem Taxation: Requires property appraisers to reduce the assessed value on residential property damaged or destroyed by natural disaster under certain conditions; requiring the property appraiser to submit written statement to the tax collector & specifying the contents thereof; provides duties of tax collector relating to reduction in taxes; requires annual notification to DOR & board of county commissioners of reduction in taxes; provides retroactive applicability; provides effective date. Effective Date: upon becoming a law

SB 60 Relating to Children Obtaining Driver Licenses Bean

Children Obtaining Driver Licenses; Revising a pilot program to make it permanent; authorizing the program to pay for a child to complete a driver education program and obtain a driver license or the related costs of licensure under certain circumstances; revising a child’s transition plan to include options to use in obtaining a driver license under certain circumstances; providing that a guardian ad litem authorized by a minor’s caregiver to sign for the minor’s learner’s driver license does not assume any obligation or liability for damages, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law

HB 67 Relating to Public School Recess Plasencia

Public School Recess: Requires district school board to provide K-5 students with minimum number of minutes of free-play recess each week & minimum number of consecutive minutes of free-play recess per day. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 69 Relating to Use of Wireless Communications Devices while Driving Slosberg

Use of Wireless Communications Devices while Driving: Provides for primary enforcement of Florida Ban on Texting While Driving Law for drivers age 18 or younger; requires deposit of fines into Emergency Medical Services Trust Fund. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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SB 72 Relating to Voter Registration Clemens (J)

Voter Registration; Providing that driver license or identification card applications, driver license or identification card renewal applications, and changes of address for existing driver licenses or identification cards submitted to the department serve as voter registration applications; specifying that an applicant must consent to the use of his or her signature for voter registration purposes; providing for paper-based applications, etc. ; Effective Date: 1/1/2018

SB 76 Relating to Limitations on Property Tax Assessments Lee (T)

Limitations on Property Tax Assessments ; Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution to remove a future repeal of provisions in Section 4 of Article VII which limit annual assessment increases for specified nonhomestead real property, etc.

SB 78 Relating to Public School Recess Flores

Public School Recess; Requiring each district school board to provide students in certain grades with a minimum number of minutes of free-play recess per week and with a minimum number of consecutive minutes of free-play recess per day, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 79 Relating to Education Harrell

Education: Revises duties of Just Read, Florida! Office relating to reading instruction, training, & research; revises data & monitoring requirements for school improvement plans & early warning systems; revises parent notification requirements relating to students with reading deficiencies; revises requirements & standards for teacher training & professional certificates & endorsements; requires OEL to identify guidelines for reading instruction strategies; revises requirements & criteria for remediation & identification of students with reading deficiencies; revises reporting requirements relating to school improvement & accountability; revises requirements for instructional materials funds; revises duties of school districts relating to professional development. Effective Date: upon becoming a law

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SB 80 Relating to Public Records Steube

Public Records; Requiring a complainant to timely provide certain written notice in order to be entitled to attorney fees in certain civil actions for enforcement of ch. 119, F.S., etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 82 Relating to Postsecondary Education Tuition and Fee Waivers Steube

Postsecondary Education Tuition and Fee Waivers; Deleting a requirement that a state university, Florida College System institution, career center operated by a school district, or charter technical career center waive out-of-state fees for certain students, including certain undocumented students, who meet specified requirements, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 85 Relating to Students Remaining on School Grounds During School Hours Slosberg

Students Remaining on School Grounds During School Hours: Provides short title; authorizes district school boards to adopt policies permitting students to leave school grounds during lunch period; prohibits schools in certain districts from permitting students to leave school grounds during lunch period without prior written parental consent. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 87 Relating to Selection and Duties of County Officers Diaz (M)

Selection and Duties of County Officers: Proposes amendment to State Constitution to remove authority for county charter to specify method for choosing certain county officers; prohibit special law from specifying method for choosing property appraiser; requiring county voter approval to abolish a county office & transfer duties; removes authority for county charter to transfer certain duties of the clerk of circuit court.Effective Date: Not Specified

SB 88 Relating to Threatening Violence Using a Firearm Steube

Threatening Violence Using a Firearm; Prohibiting a person from threatening to use a firearm in a violent manner against another person, etc. Effective Date: 10/1/2017

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SB 104 Relating to Computer Coding Instruction Brandes

Computer Coding Instruction; Authorizing high schools to offer students opportunities to take specified computer coding courses beginning with a specified school year; providing that high schools will not be required to offer such courses; requiring the Commissioner of Education to identify the computer coding courses that satisfy two credits of sequential foreign language instruction under certain circumstances, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 110

Relating to Public Records and Public Meetings/Information Technology/Postsecondary Education Institutions Brandes

Public Records and Public Meetings/Information Technology/Postsecondary Education Institutions; Creating an exemption from public records requirements for certain records held by a state university or Florida College System institution which identify detection, investigation, or response practices for suspected or confirmed information technology security incidents; creating an exemption from public meetings requirements for portions of public meetings which would reveal such data and information; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing statements of public necessity, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law

HB 111 Relating to Pub. Rec./Identity of Witness to a Murder Stafford

Pub. Rec./Identity of Witness to a Murder: Provides that personal identifying information of witness to murder remains confidential & exempt for specified period; authorizes specified entities to receive information; provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemption. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 119 Relating to Interscholastic Extracurricular Activities Donalds

Interscholastic Extracurricular Activities: Authorizes charter school student to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities at private school under certain circumstances. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 126 Relating to Public Officers and Employees Steube

Public Officers and Employees; Authorizing an agency to promote or advance an employee who is a relative of a public official if certain conditions are met, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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HB 127 Relating to Public School Attendance Policies Plasencia

Public School Attendance Policies: Authorizes parent to request & be granted permission for student absence from school for treatment of autism spectrum disorder; requires district school board to adopt attendance policy authorizing absence for treatment of autism spectrum disorder; revises exemption relating to parental responsibility for nonattendance of student. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 130 Relating to Selection and Duties of County Officers/Clerk of the Circuit Court Artiles

Selection and Duties of County Officers/Clerk of the Circuit Court; Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution to remove authority for a county charter to provide for choosing certain county officers in a manner other than election, prohibit a special law to provide for choosing a clerk of the circuit court in a manner other than election, authorize the abolition of any county office if its duties are transferred to another office by special law approved by county voters, and remove authority for a county charter to transfer certain duties of the clerk of the circuit court to another officer, etc.

HB 131 Relating to Mandatory Retention Cortes (J)

Mandatory Retention: Removes requirement for mandatory retention of third grade students based on performance on ELA assessment. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 132 Relating to Selection and Duties of County Officers/Tax Collector Artiles

Selection and Duties of County Officers/Tax Collector; Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to remove authority for a county charter to provide for choosing certain county officers in a manner other than election, prohibit a special law to provide for choosing a tax collector in a manner other than election, authorize the abolition of any county office if its duties are transferred to another office by special law approved by county voters, and remove authority for a county charter to transfer certain duties of the clerk of the circuit court to another officer, etc.

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SB 134 Relating to Selection and Duties of County Officers/Sheriff Artiles

Selection and Duties of County Officers/Sheriff; Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to remove authority for a county charter to provide for choosing certain county officers in a manner other than election, prohibit a special law to provide for choosing a sheriff in a manner other than election, authorize the abolition of any county office if its duties are transferred to another office by special law approved by county voters, and remove authority for a county charter to transfer certain duties of the clerk of the circuit court to another officer, etc.

SB 136 Relating to Selection and Duties of County Officers/Property Appraiser Artiles

Selection and Duties of County Officers/Property Appraiser; Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to remove authority for a county charter to provide for choosing certain county officers in a manner other than election, prohibit a special law to provide for choosing a property appraiser in a manner other than election, authorize the abolition of any county office if its duties are transferred to another office by special law approved by county voters, and remove authority for a county charter to transfer certain duties of the clerk of the circuit court to another officer, etc.

SB 138 Relating to Selection and Duties of County Officers/Supervisor of Elections Artiles

Selection and Duties of County Officers/Supervisor of Elections; Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to remove authority for a county charter to provide for choosing certain county officers in a manner other than election, prohibit a special law to provide for choosing a supervisor of elections in a manner other than election, authorize the abolition of any county office if its duties are transferred to another office by special law approved by county voters, and remove authority for a county charter to transfer certain duties of the clerk of the circuit court to another officer, etc.

HB 139 Relating to Local Tax Referenda Ingoglia

Local Tax Referenda: Requires local government discretionary sales surtax referenda to be held on the date of a general election. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 140 Relating to Openly Carrying a Handgun Steube

Openly Carrying a Handgun; Authorizing a compliant licensee to openly carry a handgun, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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SB 142 Relating to Safe Storage of Loaded Firearms Farmer

Safe Storage of Loaded Firearms; Revising the locations and circumstances in which a loaded firearm is required to be kept or secured with a trigger lock; deleting provisions relating to conditions for committing the crime of failing to safely store, leave, or secure a loaded firearm in a specified manner, etc. Effective Date: 10/1/2017

SB 144 Relating to Use of Wireless Communications Devices While Driving Garcia

Use of Wireless Communications Devices While Driving; Providing for primary enforcement of the Florida Ban on Texting While Driving Law for drivers age 18 or younger; requiring deposit of fines into the Emergency Medical Services Trust Fund, etc. Effective Date: 10/1/2017

SB 148 Relating to Students Remaining on School Grounds During School Hours Garcia

Students Remaining on School Grounds During School Hours; Citing this act as the "Mayra Capote Act"; requiring schools in certain districts to obtain written parental consent before permitting students to leave school grounds during the lunch period, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 153 Relating to Excess Credit Hour Surcharges Mariano

Excess Credit Hour Surcharges: Provides exceptions to excess credit hour surcharge requirement for certain students & under certain circumstances. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 154 Relating to Autism Awareness Training for Law Enforcement Officers Thurston, Jr.

Autism Awareness Training for Law Enforcement Officers; Requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to establish an online continued employment training component relating to autism spectrum disorder, etc. Effective Date: 10/1/2017

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HB 155 Relating to Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program Mariano

Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program: Removes condition under which student may use Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program award for summer term enrollment if funds are available; requires Legislature to appropriate additional funds necessary for use of award for summer term enrollment as provided in GAA. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 159 Relating to Elections Pritchett

Elections: Revises timeframe for candidate to pay qualifying fee. Effective Date: upon becoming a law

SB 160 Relating to Minimum Wage Rodriguez (J)

Minimum Wage; Revising the formula for the adjusted state minimum wage, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 163 Relating to Public Records Burgess

Public Records: Revises circumstances under which a court must assess & award reasonable costs of enforcement against an agency in a civil action to enforce ch. 119, F.S.; prohibits court from assessing & awarding reasonable costs of enforcement against an agency if certain conditions exist; specifies circumstances under which a complainant is not required to provide certain written notice of public record request. Effective Date: upon becoming a law

HB 167 Relating to Assault Weapons and High Capacity Magazines Smith

Assault Weapons and High Capacity Magazines: Prohibits sale or transfers of assault weapon or large capacity ammunition magazine; provides exceptions; prohibits possession of assault weapon or large-capacity magazine; provides exceptions; requires certificates of possession for assault weapons or large capacity ammunition magazines lawfully possessed before specified date; limits transfers of weapons or large capacity ammunition magazines represented by such certificates; provides conditions for continued possession of such weapons or large capacity ammunition magazines; requires certificates of transfer for transfers of assault weapons or large capacity magazines; provides for relinquishment of assault weapons or large capacity magazines; provides requirements for transportation of assault weapons; specifies

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circumstances in which manufacture or transportation of assault weapons or large capacity magazines is not prohibited; provides enhanced criminal penalties for certain offenses when committed with assault weapon or large capacity magazine. Effective Date: October 1, 2017

SB 170 Relating to Prohibited Places for Weapons and Firearms Braynon

Prohibited Places for Weapons and Firearms; Revising the locations where a licensee is prohibited from openly carrying a handgun or carrying a concealed weapon or firearm, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 186 Relating to Postsecondary Educational Institutions Rodriguez (J)

Postsecondary Educational Institutions; Requiring certain institutions to provide each student a specified disclosure statement; requiring the Commission for Independent Education to develop the disclosure statement; revising the commission’s evaluation standards for licensure of an institution; requiring the commission to create a Closed Institution Panel by a specified date; requiring the commission to determine whether certain personnel of licensed institutions are qualified and to require certain personnel to complete continuing education and training, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 192 Relating to Juvenile Justice Powell

Juvenile Justice; Revising the circumstances under which a state attorney may file an information when a child of a certain age range commits or attempts to commit specified crimes; prohibiting the transfer of a child to adult court under certain circumstances based on the child’s competency; providing specified sanctions to which a juvenile may be sentenced, etc. Effective Date: 10/1/2017

SB 196 Relating to Juvenile Civil Citation and Similar Diversion Programs Flores

Juvenile Civil Citation and Similar Diversion Programs; Requiring the establishment of civil citation or similar diversion programs for juveniles, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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HB 207 Relating to Agency Inspectors General Plakon

Agency Inspectors General: Prohibits agency & FHFS from offering bonus on work performance in an inspector general contract or agreement. Effective Date: upon becoming a law

SB 226 Relating to Property Taxes Artiles

Property Taxes; Providing that a possessor of real property for 7 years must pay all delinquent taxes prior to claiming adverse possession; providing criteria under which a property appraiser may waive unpaid penalties and interest for improper nonpayment or reduction payment of ad valorem taxes by certain property owners claiming a homestead exemption; revising a provision authorizing a property appraiser to exempt certain tangible personal property from ad valorem taxation without filing an initial return, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 227 Relating to Electrical and Alarm System Contracting Killebrew

Electrical and Alarm System Contracting: Specifies that provisions regulating electrical & alarm system contractors do not prevent such certified contractors from acting as prime contractor or from subcontracting work to other licensed contractors. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 233 Relating to Students with Disabilities in Public Schools Edwards

Students with Disabilities in Public Schools: Provides requirements for use of physical restraint & seclusion; prohibits use of physical restraint by school personnel who are not certified in specific techniques; revises school district policies & procedures; requires continuing education & inservice training relating to certain disabilities. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 235 Relating to Prohibited Places for Weapons and Firearms Stafford

Prohibited Places for Weapons and Firearms: Revises locations where licensees are prohibited from openly carrying handgun or carrying concealed weapon or firearm.Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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SB 236 Relating to Sports Development Lee (T)

Sports Development; Repealing provisions relating to state funding for sports facility development by a unit of local government, or by a certified beneficiary or other applicant, on property owned by the local government, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 238 Relating to Instructional Personnel Salaries Rader

Instructional Personnel Salaries; Citing this act as the “Florida Teacher Fair Pay Act”; requiring the Legislature to fund the Florida Education Finance Program at a level that ensures a guaranteed minimum annual starting salary for instructional personnel; specifying a statewide minimum salary for all instructional personnel for the 2017-2018 fiscal year; requiring the Department of Education to annually adjust the statewide minimum annual starting salary, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 244

Relating to Criminal History Records in Applications for Public Employment and Admission to Public Postsecondary Educational Institutions Clemens (J)

Criminal History Records in Applications for Public Employment and Admission to Public Postsecondary Educational Institutions; Prohibiting a public employer from inquiring into or considering an applicant’s criminal history on an initial employment application unless required to do so by law; prohibiting public postsecondary educational institutions from inquiring into or considering the criminal history of an applicant seeking admission, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 246 Relating to Public Records Garcia

Public Records; Revising the circumstances under which a court must assess and award the reasonable costs of enforcement against an agency in a civil action to enforce ch. 119, F.S.; prohibiting a court from assessing and awarding the reasonable costs of enforcement against an agency if certain conditions exist; specifying circumstances under which a complainant is not required to provide certain written notice of a public records request, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law

HB 251 Relating to Charter Schools Hahnfeldt

Charter Schools: Revises sponsor duties relating to charter school contracts, funding, & property; authorizes charter school to enter into certain financial arrangements & assign future payment of its funding; provides exception to requirement that district make timely payment &

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reimbursement to charter school; requires district to issue payment to charter school within specified period after receiving FEFP funds. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 253 Relating to Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program Duran

Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program: Revises criteria for renewal of Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program awards to include minimum number of volunteer service work hours; provides applicability; specifies requirements for eligible volunteer service work; prohibits use of hours earned from certain work to satisfy requirement; requires written & signed documentation of earned volunteer service work hours; provides exception for student who enlists in military service. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 254 Relating to Gun Safety Stewart

Gun Safety; Prohibiting the sale or transfer of an assault weapon or large capacity ammunition magazine; prohibiting possession of an assault weapon or large-capacity magazine; requiring certificates of possession for assault weapons or large capacity ammunition magazines lawfully possessed before a specified date; providing enhanced criminal penalties for certain offenses when committed with an assault weapon or large capacity magazine, etc. Effective Date: 10/1/2017

SB 256 Relating to Florida Center for the Partnerships for Arts Integrated Teaching Steube

Florida Center for the Partnerships for Arts Integrated Teaching; Abrogating the scheduled expiration of the center, etc. Effective Date: 6/30/2017

SB 258 Relating to Education Hutson

Education; Authorizing a maximum bonus of $3,000 for Advanced International Certificate of Education teachers under certain circumstances, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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HB 265 Relating to Computer Coding Instruction Porter

Computer Coding Instruction: Authorizes high schools to offer students opportunities to take specified computer coding courses; requires Commissioner of Education to identify computer coding courses that satisfy foreign language credit requirements; requires inclusion of certain computer coding courses in Course Code Directory; authorizes Florida Virtual School to offer such computer coding courses; requires DOE to annually report to BOG & Legislature. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 272 Relating to Ad Valorem Taxation Hutson

Ad Valorem Taxation; Requiring a property appraiser to reduce the assessed value of a residential property damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster under certain conditions; requiring a property appraiser who determines a property is eligible for a reduction to submit a written statement to the tax collector and specifying the contents thereof; requiring the tax collector to notify the Department of Revenue and the board of county commissioners of the total reduction in taxes, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law

SB 274 Relating to STEM Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program Thurston, Jr.

STEM Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program; Creating the STEM Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program; requiring the Department of Education to administer the program; specifying candidate eligibility and the use of program funds, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 278 Relating to Local Tax Referenda Steube

Local Tax Referenda; Requiring local government discretionary sales surtax referenda to be held on the date of a general election, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 286 Relating to Human Trafficking Education in Schools Steube

Human Trafficking Education in Schools; Revising the required health education in public schools to include information regarding the dangers and signs of human trafficking, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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HB 289 Relating to Property Taxes Donalds

Property Taxes: Revises provision concerning delinquent taxes prior to claiming adverse possession; revises provisions related to payment of ad valorem taxes & ad valorem assessments under specified situations; revises provisions authorizing property appraisers to waive unpaid penalties & interest; revises property value owned by certain persons that is exempt from taxation; revises publication requirements for certain public hearings by local governments. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 293 Relating to Middle School Study Burton

Middle School Study: Requires that DOE conduct comprehensive study of states with nationally recognized high-performing middle schools in reading & mathematics; requires report to Governor, SBE & Legislature by specified time; provides for expiration. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 297 Relating to District School Board Direct-Support Organizations Stone

District School Board Direct-Support Organizations: Revises requirement that certain district school board direct-support organizations provide for independent annual financial audit. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 302 Relating to Penalties and Fees Brandes

Penalties and Fees; Revising requirements relating to the payment of court-related fines or other monetary penalties, fees, charges, and costs; prohibiting the suspension of a person’s driver license solely for failure to pay a penalty if the person demonstrates to the court, when specified, that he or she is unable to pay such penalty; revising penalties relating to suspending, revoking, or withholding issuance of driver licenses or driving privileges for minors under a specified age who possess firearms under certain circumstances, etc. Effective Date: 10/1/2017

HB 303 Relating to Religious Expression in Public Schools Daniels

Religious Expression in Public Schools: Prohibits school district from discriminating against students, parents, & school personnel on basis of religious viewpoints or expression; requires school district to adopt limited public forum policy & deliver disclaimer at school events; requires DOE to develop & publish model policy; requires district school board to adopt & implement model policy. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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HB 305 Relating to Law Enforcement Body Cameras Harrison

Law Enforcement Body Cameras: Requires law enforcement agencies to develop guidelines authorizing an officer's review of camera footage of an incident before writing report or providing statement. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 306 Relating to Ethics Clemens (J)

Ethics; Prohibiting a public officer from voting on a matter that would inure to any gain or loss, rather than a special private gain or loss, of the officer, or a principal, relative, or business associate of the officer; providing an exception to the abstention requirement under certain circumstances; prohibiting an appointed public officer from participating in any matter that would inure to any gain or loss, rather than a special private gain or loss, of the officer, or a principal, relative, or business associate of the officer, without certain disclosure, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 312 Relating to Eyewitness Identification Baxley

Eyewitness Identification; Citing this act as the “Eyewitness Identification Reform Act”; requiring state, county, municipal, or other law enforcement agencies that conduct lineups to follow specified procedures; requiring the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission to create educational materials and provide training programs on how to conduct lineups, etc. Effective Date: 10/1/2017

SB 322 Relating to Public Records and Meetings/Unsolicited Proposals Steube

Public Records and Meetings/Unsolicited Proposals ; Reenacting provisions which provide exemptions from public records and public meetings requirements for unsolicited proposals received by a responsible public entity, unsolicited proposals discussed in a portion of a meeting of such an entity, and the recording of, and any records generated during, a closed meeting; expanding the exemptions to incorporate the amendment made to the definition of the term “responsible public entity” in provisions by SB 332; providing a statement of public necessity, etc. Effective Date: On the same date that SB 332 or similar legislation relating to public-private partnerships takes effect, if such legislation is adopted in the same legislative session or an extension thereof and becomes a law

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HB 325 Relating to Fire Safety McClain

Fire Safety: Provides that installation & maintenance of automatic fire sprinkler system in specified nonresidential farm buildings is not required. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 328 Relating to Regulation of Nursing Grimsley

Regulation of Nursing; Removing an obsolete qualification no longer sufficient to satisfy certain certification requirements; requiring certain continuing education courses to be approved by the Board of Nursing; removing a requirement that certain nursing program graduates complete a specific preparatory course; providing that accredited and nonaccredited nursing education programs must disclose probationary status, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 332 Relating to Public-private Partnerships Steube

Public-private Partnerships; Revising the definition of the term “responsible public entity”; revising legislative findings to recognize the public need of pursuing information technology projects through the establishment of public-private partnerships, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 333 Relating to Rural Economic Development Initiative Clemons (C)

Rural Economic Development Initiative: Requires analysis of Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI) & rural areas of opportunity; revises legislative intent; redefines term "rural area of opportunity"; revises duties, responsibilities, & membership of REDI; revises reporting requirements. Effective Date: upon becoming a law

HB 351 Relating to Pub. Rec. and Meetings/Postsecondary Education Executive Search Rommel

Pub. Rec. and Meetings/Postsecondary Education Executive Search: Provides exemption from public records requirements for personal identifying information of applicant for president, provost, or dean of state university or FCS institution; provides exemption from public meeting requirements for meeting held for specified purposes relating to postsecondary executive search; provides for future legislative review & repeal; provides statement of public necessity. Effective Date: upon becoming a law

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SB 360 Relating to Middle School Study Stargel

Middle School Study; Requiring the Department of Education to conduct a comprehensive study of states with nationally recognized high-performing middle schools in reading and mathematics, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 367 Relating to Prearrest Diversion Programs Plakon

Prearrest Diversion Programs: Encourages local prearrest diversion programs for certain offenders; encourages such programs to share information with other such programs; authorizes law enforcement officers to issue civil citation or similar prearrest diversion program notice to adults; requires program to provide certain services; requires that adult issued civil citation fulfill community service requirement & pay restitution to victim; permits criminal charges if adults fail to complete program; prohibits arrest record from being associated with certain offense for adult who successfully completes program; provides for creation of program & development of policies & procedures; specifies nonviolent misdemeanor offenses that are eligible for program. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 369 Relating to Pub. Rec./Prearrest Diversion Programs Plakon

Pub. Rec./Prearrest Diversion Programs: Provides exemption from public records for civil citation, documentation of prearrest diversion program, & other report or document concerning program; provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemption; provides statement of public necessity. Effective Date: on the same date that HB 367 or similar legislation takes effect

HB 371 Relating to Assistive Technology Devices Ausley

Assistive Technology Devices: Revises provisions relating to accessibility & use of assistive technology devices by persons with disabilities. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 373 Relating to Education Grant (M)

Education: Prohibits district school board from awarding annual contract for instructional personnel under certain circumstances; prohibits district school board from altering or limiting its authority to award or not award annual contract; provides applicability. Effective Date: upon becoming a law

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SB 374 Relating to Postsecondary Education Hukill

Postsecondary Education; Citing this act as the “College Competitiveness Act of 2017”;renaming the Florida College System as the Florida Community College System; creating the State Board of Community Colleges; revising the function and mission of the Florida K-20 education system; providing the primary mission of a career center operated by a district school board; providing that the State Board of Community Colleges, instead of the State Board of Education, provide guidelines for Florida Community College System institution boards of trustees’ policies, etc. Effective Date: Except as otherwise expressly provided in this act, this act shall take effect October 1, 2017

SB 376 Relating to Charter School Funding Simmons

Charter School Funding; Authorizing school boards to levy specified amounts for charter schools; providing that charter school capital outlay funding consists of shared local capital outlay and state funding as provided in the General Appropriations Act; prohibiting a charter school from being eligible for a funding allocation under certain circumstances, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 391 Relating to Minimum Salaries for Full-time Public School Teachers Abruzzo

Minimum Salaries for Full-time Public School Teachers: Proposes amendment to State Constitution to establish minimum salaries for new & experienced full-time teachers in public schools. By 2019, minimum salaries of new & experienced full-time teachers in public schools must be at least national average salaries of new & experienced full-time teachers in public schools. Any salary adjustments are independent of employee benefits & may not result in decreased employee benefits or impair collective bargaining. State must fund any required salary increases.

SB 392 Relating to High School Graduation Requirements Hukill

High School Graduation Requirements; Revising the requirements for the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards to include financial literacy; 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, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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SB 396 Relating to Student Loan Debt Hukill

Student Loan Debt; Defining the term “student loans”; requiring postsecondary institutions to annually provide certain students with specified information regarding their student loans; providing that an institution does not incur any liability for providing such information, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 403 Relating to STEM Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program Newton

STEM Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program: Creates STEM Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program; requires DOE to administer program; provides for funding; specifies candidate eligibility & use of program funds; authorizes DOE to recover administrative costs of program; provides for rulemaking.Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 406 Relating to Compassionate Use of Low-THC Cannabis and Marijuana Bradley

Compassionate Use of Low-THC Cannabis and Marijuana; Authorizing physicians to issue physician certifications to specified patients who meet certain conditions; requiring written consent of a parent or legal guardian for the treatment of minors; requiring that certain physicians annually reexamine and reassess patients and update patient information in the compassionate use registry; requiring the Department of Health to register caregivers meeting certain requirements on the compassionate use registry; Effective Date: Upon becoming a law

HB 407 Relating to Alternative High School Graduation Requirements Massullo, Jr.

Alternative High School Graduation Requirements: Provides alternative pathways to standard high school diploma for certain students, student eligibility requirements, & requirements for meeting alternative pathways to standard high school diploma; specifies required documentation & requires district school boards to incorporate certain information in specified plan. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 411 Relating to Student Discipline Antone

Student Discipline: Revises duties of district school boards relating to student discipline & school safety & qualifications of school resource officer & school safety officer; requires district school board to adopt policy on referrals to criminal justice system or juvenile justice system, rather than policy of zero tolerance for crime & victimization. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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SB 420 Relating to Flood Insurance Brandes

Flood Insurance; Revising the intervals at which specified standards and guidelines for projecting certain rate filings must be revised by the Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology; authorizing an insurer to issue flood insurance policies on a flexible basis; specifying a condition for an eligible surplus lines insurer before a surplus lines agent may be excepted from a diligent-effort requirement when exporting flood insurance contracts or endorsements to the insurer, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 427 Relating to Refugee Assistance Programs Santiago

Refugee Assistance Programs: Requires state's withdrawal from federal refugee program & provides notice requirements relating thereto; removes language relating to refugee assistance program & rulemaking for program. Effective Date: upon becoming a law

SB 436 Relating to Religious Expression In Public Schools Baxley

Religious Expression in Public Schools; Citing this act as the "Florida Student and School Personnel Religious Liberties Act";Prohibiting a school district from discriminating against students, parents, or school personnel on the basis of religious viewpoints or expression; prohibiting penalty or reward for a student’s religious expression in coursework, artwork, or other specified assignments; requiring a school district to comply with the federal requirements in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 438 Relating to Out-of-school Suspension Baxley

Out-of-school Suspension; Authorizing a parent to give public testimony regarding a district school board’s out-of-school suspension policy at a specified meeting; requiring a district school board to review its rules authorizing out-of-school suspension during a specified timeframe at a district school board meeting; requiring the board to take public testimony at the meeting; providing that the rules expire under certain circumstances, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 448 Relating to Prearrest Diversion Programs Brandes

Prearrest Diversion Programs; Encouraging local communities and public or private educational institutions to implement prearrest diversion programs for certain offenders; authorizing law enforcement officers, at their sole discretion, to issue a civil citation to adults under specified

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circumstances; requiring an adult who is issued a civil citation by a participating law enforcement agency to report for intake as required by the prearrest diversion program, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 450 Relating to Public Records Brandes

Public Records; Requiring that a civil citation, documentation of a prearrest diversion program, and any other reports or documents concerning a civil citation or a prearrest diversion program which are held by a law enforcement agency, a public or private educational institution, or a program service provider are exempt from public record requirements; providing for future review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc. Effective Date: On the same date that SB 448 or similar legislation takes effect, if such legislation is adopted in the same legislative session or an extension thereof and becomes a law

HB 457 Relating to Terrorism and Terrorist Activities Gonzalez

Terrorism and Terrorist Activities: Provides that violation of specified provisions with certain intent is crime of terrorism; prohibits person from using military-type training from designated foreign terrorist organizations; prohibits providing material support or resources to or engaging in other specified actions in connection with designated foreign terrorist organizations; provides penalties for person who willfully becomes member of designated foreign terrorist organization & serves with intent to further illegal acts; provides penalties for intentionally disseminating or spreading contagious, communicable, or infectious disease among crops, poultry, livestock, or other animals; reenacts provisions. Effective Date: October 1, 2017

SB 468 Relating to Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Stargel

Voluntary Prekindergarten Education; Requiring the Just Read, Florida! Office to provide teachers, reading coaches, and principals in prekindergarten through grade 3 with specified training; requiring voluntary prekindergarten providers to provide parents with pre- and post- assessment results within a specified timeframe, etc. APPROPRIATION: $10,000,000.00 Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 476 Relating to Terrorism and Terrorist Activities Bean

Terrorism and Terrorist Activities; Extending the applicability of the definition of the term “terrorism” to other sections of ch. 775, F.S.; prohibiting a person from using, attempting to use, or conspiring to use military-type training received from a designated foreign terrorist

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organization for certain purposes; prohibiting a person from providing material support or resources, or engaging in other specified actions, to violate specified criminal provisions, etc. Effective Date: 10/1/2017

SB 478

Relating to Public Records and Public Meetings/Postsecondary Education Executive Search Passidomo

Public Records and Public Meetings/Postsecondary Education Executive Search; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for any personal identifying information of an applicant for president, provost, or dean of a state university or Florida College System institution; requiring release of the names of specified applicants within a certain timeframe; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing a statement of public necessity, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law

HB 479 Relating to Government Accountability Metz

Government Accountability: Requires Governor & Commissioner of Education, or their designee, to notify the Legislative Auditing Committee of entity's failure to comply with certain auditing and financial reporting requirements; excludes water management districts from certain audit requirements; revises reporting requirements applicable to the Florida Clerks of Court Operations Corporation; revises certain lodging rates for the purpose of reimbursement to specified employees; revises responsibilities of specified entities to include the establishment & maintenance of certain internal controls; revises auditing protocols for certain agencies, councils, & state schools; requires counties, & municipalities to maintain certain budget documents on entities' websites for specified period; provides annual financial audit requirements for the Florida Virtual School. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 485 Relating to State Technology Grant (J)

State Technology: Directs DHSMV to implement protocols & standards for issuing optional digital proof of driver license & procure interfaces necessary for manufacture; requires Agency for State Technology to publish & maintain such protocols & standards; requires agency to review & approve or reject private entity's request for access to interfaces; provides for designation of authorized manufacturer of digital proofs; provides for revenue sharing; provides that presenting electronic device displaying digital proof does not constitute consent for law enforcement officer access; provides for assumption of liability. Effective Date: October 1, 2017

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HB 489 Relating to Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program Smith

Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program: Removes condition under which student may use Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program award for summer term enrollment; requires Legislature to appropriate additional funds necessary for use of award for summer term enrollment as provided in GAA; revises initial eligibility criteria relating to test scores & corresponding percentile ranks for certain awards under program; specifies amounts of certain awards eligible to cover tuition & other college-related expenses. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 493 Relating to Enhanced Safety for School Crossings Toledo

Enhanced Safety for School Crossings: Requires DOT to adopt uniform system of high-visibility markings & signage for designation of safe school crossing locations, to compile & distribute system manual, & to install & maintain certain safe school crossing locations under certain circumstances; requires markings & signage to be installed & maintained in conformity with such system; authorizes DOT to enter into maintenance agreements with counties/municipalities; requires county/municipality to maintain safe school crossings located therein; requires inspection for proper maintenance; requires DOT to establish standards for permanent & portable signs. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 499 Relating to School Attendance Williams

School Attendance: Provides that compulsory school attendance laws apply to children ages 6 to 18 years; requires parental notification of forfeiture of benefits received from state financial assistance program upon request for termination of school enrollment; requires students to attend school until age of 18 years; removes discretionary authority of district school board to allow student to take high school equivalency examination after reaching specified age. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 501

Relating to Pub. Rec. and Meetings/Information Technology/Postsecondary Education Institutions Leek

Pub. Rec. and Meetings/Information Technology/Postsecondary Education Institutions: Creates exemption from public records & meetings requirements for certain data & information held by state universities & FCS institutions relating to information technology security programs; authorizes certain entities or agencies to access such records; provides retroactive application; provides for future legislative review & repeal; provides statements of public necessity; provides directive to Division of Law Revision & Information. Effective Date: upon becoming a law

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SB 502 Relating to Florida Statutes Benacquisto

Florida Statutes; Deleting provisions that have expired, have become obsolete, have had their effect, have served their purpose, or have been impliedly repealed or superseded, etc. Effective Date: Except as otherwise provided by this act, this act shall take effect on the 60th day after adjournment sine die of the session of the Legislature in which enacted

SB 504 Relating to Florida Statutes Benacquisto

Florida Statutes; Deleting provisions which have become inoperative by noncurrent repeal or expiration and, pursuant to s. 11.242(5)(b) and (i), F.S., may be omitted from the 2017 Florida Statutes only through a reviser’s bill duly enacted by the Legislature, etc. Effective Date: On the 60th day after adjournment sine die of the session of the Legislature in which enacted

SB 506 Relating to Florida Statutes Benacquisto

Florida Statutes; Amending and repealing provisions to conform to the directive of the Legislature in section 9 of chapter 2012-116, Laws of Florida, codified as section 11.242(5)(j), Florida Statutes, to prepare a reviser’s bill to omit all statutes and laws, or parts thereof, which grant duplicative, redundant, or unused rulemaking authority, etc. Effective Date: On the 60th day after adjournment sine die of the session of the Legislature in which enacted

HB 507 Relating to Marjory Stoneman Douglas Diaz (J)

Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Requests the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress to approve replacement of the statue of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith in the National Statuary Hall with a statue of Marjory Stoneman Douglas.

HB 509 Relating to Postsecondary Fee Waivers Ponder

Postsecondary Fee Waivers: Authorizes FCS institutions to waive portion of certain postsecondary fees for active duty members of U.S. Armed Forces using military tuition assistance; requires FCS institutions to report to SBE number & value of such fee waivers granted annually. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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HB 513 Relating to Law Enforcement Body Cameras Jacquet

Law Enforcement Body Cameras: Requires that law enforcement agencies with officers who engage in routine traffic stops require officers engaging in such stops to wear & use body cameras on or before specified date. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 517 Relating to Career Education Jacquet

Career Education: Authorizes Commissioner of Education to establish advisory committee to review & evaluate career education program standards; provides membership; requires submission of findings & recommendations to commissioner & SBE by specified date; provides for future expiration. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 525 Relating to High School Graduation Requirements Silvers

High School Graduation Requirements: Authorizes student to use credit earned upon completion of apprenticeship or preapprenticeship program to satisfy specified high school graduation requirements; requires SBE to approve & identify registered apprenticeship & preapprenticeship programs. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 538 Relating to Charter Schools Clemens (J)

Charter Schools; Requiring applicants for charter status to demonstrate that they meet certain needs that the local school district does not, or is unable to, meet; authorizing a charter school to share the results of innovative methods and best practices with the school district, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 540 Relating to Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program Campbell

Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program; Revising the criteria for renewal of Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program awards to include a minimum number of volunteer service work hours; providing an exception for a student who enlists in military service, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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HB 543 Relating to Regulation of Nursing Pigman

Regulation of Nursing: Removes obsolete qualification to satisfy certain certification requirements for advanced registered nurse practitioner; requires certain continuing education courses to be approved by Board of Nursing; removes requirement that certain nursing program graduates complete specific preparatory course; provides requirements related to probationary status of nursing education programs. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 549 Relating to Student Assessments Fine

Student Assessments: Requires that Commissioner of Education periodically publish on DOE's website any assessment administered or adopted during previous school year. Effective Date: upon becoming a law

SB 550 Relating to Public Records/Murder Witness Bracy

Public Records/Murder Witness; Providing that the personal identifying information of a witness to a murder remains confidential and exempt for a specified period; providing an exemption from public records requirements for criminal intelligence or criminal investigative information that reveals the personal identifying information of a witness to a murder for a specified period; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 553

Relating to Criminal History Records in Applications for Public Employment and Admission to Public Postsecondary Educational Institutions Alexander

Criminal History Records in Applications for Public Employment and Admission to Public Postsecondary Educational Institutions: Prohibits public employer from inquiring into or considering applicant's criminal history on initial employment application unless required to do so by law; prohibits public postsecondary educational institution from inquiring into or considering criminal history of applicant seeking admission. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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HB 559 Relating to Public Educational Facilities Duran

Public Educational Facilities: Provides requirements for determining capacity of facilities in certain schools as reported in Florida Inventory of School Houses; requires Commissioner of Education to grant exemption from SREF to district school board under certain circumstances. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 561 Relating to Preference in Hiring Veterans Daniels

Preference in Hiring Veterans: Authorizes corporate income tax credit for private employers hiring certain veterans/spouses of veterans; provides limitation; requires DOR to adopt rules & establish requirements. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 562 Relating to Music Therapists Campbell

Music Therapists; Establishing requirements for registration as a music therapist; providing responsibilities of a music therapist; authorizing the Department of Health to adopt rules, to establish application, registration, and renewal fees, and to take disciplinary action against an applicant or registrant who violates the act, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 566 Relating to Student Loans Campbell

Student Loans; Creating the For the Greater Good Attorney Student Loan Repayment Program to increase employment and retention of attorneys in government service; providing eligibility requirements; requiring the Department of Education to make payments to eligible attorneys, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 567 Relating to Solar Energy Systems McClain

Solar Energy Systems: Revises legislative findings & intent; provides applicability of certain standards & criteria for solar systems manufactured or sold in state; provides for solar systems to be certified pursuant to National Renewable Energy Laboratory standards. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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SB 570 Relating to Public Assistance Rouson

Public Assistance; Revising penalties for noncompliance with work requirements for temporary cash assistance; requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity, in cooperation with CareerSource Florida, Inc., and the Department of Children and Families, to develop and implement a work plan agreement for participants in the temporary cash assistance program; requiring the Department of Children and Families to impose a replacement fee for electronic benefits transfer cards under certain circumstances, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 572 Relating to Haitian Independence and Flag Day/Haitian Heritage Month Campbell

Haitian Independence and Flag Day/Haitian Heritage Month ; Urging Congress to annually recognize January 1 as “Haitian Independence Day,” May 18 as “Haitian Flag Day,” and the month of May as “Haitian Heritage Month”, etc.

SB 584 Relating to Alternative High School Graduation Requirements Montford

Alternative High School Graduation Requirements; Authorizing certain students to be eligible for an alternative pathway to a standard high school diploma; requiring a school district to establish an Alternative Pathway to Graduation Review Committee for certain students; requiring each district school board to ensure certain instruction, to waive certain assessment results, and to administer a hard copy of the grade 10 ELA assessment or the statewide, standardized Algebra I EOC assessment for certain students, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law

HB 591 Relating to Maximum Class Size Massullo, Jr.

Maximum Class Size: Revises calculation of school district's class size categorical allocation reduction to school average when maximum class size requirements are not met; provides exemption from reduction of school district's class size categorical allocation for specified fiscal years if certain conditions are met. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 599 Relating to Public Works Projects Williamson

Public Works Projects: Prohibits state & political subdivisions that contract for public works projects from imposing restrictive conditions on certain contractors, subcontractors, or material suppliers or carriers; prohibits state & political subdivisions from restricting qualified bidders from submitting bids or being awarded contracts; provides applicability. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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SB 600 Relating to Rural Economic Development Initiative Grimsley

Rural Economic Development Initiative; Requiring an analysis of the Rural Economic Development Initiative and rural areas of opportunity; revising legislative intent relating to the Rural Economic Development Initiative; revising the duties, responsibilities, and membership of the Rural Economic Development Initiative, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law

SB 602 Relating to Presidential Preference Primary Garcia

Presidential Preference Primary; Authorizing certain preregistered voter registration applicants to vote in the presidential preference primary; prohibiting such persons from voting on any other race, amendment, or ballot measure on the ballot; providing that such persons are not considered electors for purposes of the Florida Election Code, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 603 Relating to Publicly Funded Defined Benefit Retirement Plans Fischer

Publicly Funded Defined Benefit Retirement Plans: Defines term "long-range return rate"; revises requirements for actuarial reports submitted by retirement plan or system subject to part VII of ch. 112, F.S., to conform; prohibits actuarial assumed rate of return of plan or system from exceeding long-range return rate, as of specified date; specifies length of time that long-range return rate is in effect; specifies method of reducing actuarial assumed rate of return under certain conditions; provides reporting requirements for plan or system with an actuarial assumed rate of return in excess of long-range return rate; provides declaration of important state interest. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 604 Relating to Education Funding Simmons

Education Funding; Revising the amount each school board may levy for certain purposes; revising the purposes for which a school district may levy additional millage by specified means to include fixed capital outlay, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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HB 607 Relating to Public-private Partnerships Burton

Public-private Partnerships: Defines terms "information technology" & "state agency"; revises definition of term "responsible public entity"; revises legislative findings to recognize public need of pursuing information technology projects through establishment of public-private partnerships. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 609 Relating to Pub. Rec. and Meetings/Unsolicited Proposals Burton

Pub. Rec. and Meetings/Unsolicited Proposals: Reenacts s. 255.065(15), F.S., which provides exemptions from public records & public meetings requirements for unsolicited proposals received by responsible public entity, unsolicited proposals discussed in portion of meeting of such entity, & recording of, & records generated during, closed meeting; expands exemptions to incorporate amendment made to definition of term "responsible public entity" by HB 607; provides statement of public necessity. Effective Date: on the same date that HB 607 or similar legislation relating to public-private partnerships takes effect

SB 610 Relating to Firearms Steube

Firearms; Requiring a business, organization, or entity that prohibits a concealed weapon or firearm licensee from carrying a weapon or firearm onto its property to assume certain responsibility for the safety and defense of such licensee; providing a cause of action for a concealed weapon or firearm licensee who incurs injury, death, damage, or loss as the result of certain acts or attacks occurring on the property of such business, organization, or entity or on other specified properties, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 614 Relating to Medical Marijuana Brandes

Medical Marijuana; Creating the "Florida Medical Marijuana Act"; authorizing a qualifying patient or his or her caregiver to purchase, acquire, and possess up to the allowed amount of marijuana, medical marijuana products, and associated paraphernalia for a qualifying patient’s medical use; providing that a physician must certify, on a specified form, that a patient is suffering from a debilitating medical condition and that the benefits to the patient of using marijuana outweigh the potential health risks before a patient may register with the department and obtain a registry identification card; requiring that the department create a secure, online, electronic medical marijuana patient registry containing a file containing specified information for each qualifying patient, caregiver, and certifying physician, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law

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SB 616 Relating to Concealed Weapons or Firearms Steube

Concealed Weapons or Firearms; Authorizing a concealed weapons or concealed firearms licensee to temporarily surrender a weapon or firearm if the licensee approaches courthouse security or management personnel upon arrival and follows their instructions, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 618 Relating to Concealed Weapons and Firearms Steube

Concealed Weapons and Firearms; Authorizing a concealed weapons or concealed firearms licensee to carry a concealed weapon or firearm into any area of an airport excluding the sterile area, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 620 Relating to Concealed Weapons or Firearms Steube

Concealed Weapons or Firearms; Authorizing a concealed weapons or concealed firearms licensee to carry a concealed weapon or firearm into any meeting or committee meeting of the Legislature, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 622 Relating to Concealed Weapons or Firearms Steube

Concealed Weapons or Firearms; Prohibiting a concealed weapons or concealed firearms licensee from carrying a concealed weapon or firearm into any athletic event for a K-12 school, college, or university which is not related to firearms; deleting an exception authorizing a student, employee, or faculty licensee to carry specified nonlethal weapons, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 624 Relating to Body Cameras Steube

Body Cameras; Requiring law enforcement agencies that permit law enforcement officers to wear body cameras to establish policies and procedures that include general guidelines for the law enforcement officers to review relevant audio and video recordings before taking certain actions, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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SB 626 Relating to Concealed Weapons or Firearms Steube

Concealed Weapons or Firearms; Authorizing a concealed weapons or concealed firearms licensee to carry a concealed weapon or firearm into any meeting of the governing body of a county, public school district, municipality, or special district, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 632 Relating to Publicly Funded Defined Benefit Retirement Plans Brandes

Publicly Funded Defined Benefit Retirement Plans; Revising requirements for actuarial reports submitted by a retirement plan or system subject to part VII of ch. 112, F.S., to conform; prohibiting the actuarial assumed rate of return of a plan or system from exceeding the long-range return rate, as of a specified date; prescribing reporting requirements for a plan or system with an actuarial assumed rate of return in excess of the long-range return rate, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 634 Relating to Involuntary Examinations Under the Baker Act Campbell

Involuntary Examinations Under the Baker Act; Authorizing physician assistants and advanced registered nurse practitioners to execute a certificate under certain conditions stating that he or she has examined a person and finds the person appears to meet the criteria for involuntary examination, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 637 Relating to Florida Kidcare Program Duran

Florida Kidcare Program: Establishes Kidcare Operational Efficiency & Health Care Improvement Workgroup; provides purpose, duties, staffing, & membership; requires report to Governor & Legislature. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 640 Relating to Concealed Weapons or Firearms Steube

Concealed Weapons or Firearms; Authorizing a concealed weapons or concealed firearms licensee to carry a concealed weapon or firearm into any career center, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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SB 642 Relating to Public Educational Facilities Garcia

Public Educational Facilities; Providing requirements for determining the capacity of facilities in certain schools as reported in the Florida Inventory of School Houses; Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 644 Relating to Openly Carrying A Handgun Steube

Openly Carrying A Handgun; Authorizing a concealed weapons or firearms licensee to openly carry a handgun, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 645 Relating to Involuntary Examinations Under the Baker Act Lee Jr. (L)

Involuntary Examinations Under the Baker Act: Authorizes physician assistants & advanced registered nurse practitioners to execute certificate under certain conditions. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 646 Relating to Weapons And Firearms Steube

Weapons And Firearms; Providing that a person licensed to carry a concealed weapon or firearm who is lawfully carrying a firearm does not violate certain provisions if the firearm is temporarily and openly displayed; authorizing each member of the Florida Cabinet to carry a concealed weapon or firearm if he or she is licensed to carry a concealed weapon or firearm and does not have full-time security provided by the Department of Law Enforcement, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 648 Relating to Weapons and Firearms Book

Weapons and Firearms; Increasing the penalties for a person who exhibits a weapon in a certain way in the presence of one or more persons on or near a school or school activity; creating criminal penalties for the discharge of a firearm obtained by the minor if a person violates certain provisions, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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HB 655 Relating to Exceptional Student Instruction Porter

Exceptional Student Instruction: Prohibits certain school districts from declining to provide or contract for certain students' educational instruction; provides for funding of such students. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 656 Relating to Education Bean

Education; Revising the duties of the Just Read, Florida! Office; requiring the Office of Early Learning to approve specific Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program assessments and establish requirements for individuals administering the assessments; revising criteria and requiring the State Board of Education to identify guidelines for determining whether certain students have a substantial deficiency in reading, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law

HB 659 Relating to Housing Discrimination Raschein

Housing Discrimination: Removes housing discrimination as cause of action for certain relief & damages resulting from violations of Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992; revises provisions of the Fair Housing Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation & gender identity; revises conditions under which aggrieved person may commence civil action against specified respondent; prohibits aggrieved person from commencing specified civil action if such person has consented to conciliation agreement, with exception, or if administrative law judge has commenced hearing on record on allegation. Effective Date: upon becoming a law

HB 665 Relating to Human Trafficking Education in Schools Spano

Human Trafficking Education in Schools: Revises required health education in public schools to include information regarding dangers & signs of human trafficking. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 668 Relating to Postsecondary Distance Education Bean

Postsecondary Distance Education; Authorizing this state to participate in a reciprocity agreement for delivery of postsecondary distance education; establishing the Postsecondary Reciprocal Distance Education Coordinating Council within the Department of Education; Effective Date: Upon becoming a law

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SB 676 Relating to Availability of Health Care Services Bradley

Availability of Health Care Services; Repealing provisions relating to the issuance of certificates of need by the Agency for Health Care Administration; establishing local health councils as public or private nonprofit agencies serving the counties of certain districts; removing a requirement that hospitals must submit certain data related to certificate-of-need reviews; removing a requirement that the agency adopt by rule a process by which a rural hospital may deactivate general hospital beds, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 688 Relating to Teacher Scholarship Program Montford

Teacher Scholarship Program; Establishing the Teacher Scholarship Program within the Department of Education; specifying student eligibility requirements for undergraduate and graduate scholarships under the program; requiring each postsecondary institution to annually certify to the department by a specified date the names of students who are eligible for the program; requiring each postsecondary institution to notify the department throughout the academic year of whose scholarship should be rescinded due to disenrollment from an eligible teacher program, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 692 Relating to Student Eligibility for K-12 Virtual Instruction Baxley

Student Eligibility for K-12 Virtual Instruction; revising eligibility requirements for specified students to receive part-time instruction at the Florida Virtual School; authorizing all students, including home education and private school students, to participate in specified virtual instruction options; revising the options that a district school board or charter school governing board may offer for a student to satisfy certain online course requirements, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 696 Relating to Charter Schools Baxley

Charter Schools; Requiring a sponsor to honor irrevocable instructions by a charter school to deposit certain funds; providing that a charter school that pledges or assigns future payment of its funding is not pledging the credit or taxing power of the state or a school district, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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SB 700 Relating to Postsecondary Educational Institution Fee Waivers Campbell

Postsecondary Educational Institution Fee Waivers; Requiring a state university, a Florida College System institution, a career center operated by a school district, or a charter technical career center to waive out-of-state fees for students who have a current temporary protected status; requiring such institutions to require the student to provide supporting documentation for the status, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 710 Relating to Haitian American Heritage Month Campbell

Haitian American Heritage Month; Urging Congress to recognize the month of May as “Haitian American Heritage Month”, etc.

SB 714 Relating to Comprehensive Transitional Education Programs Garcia

Comprehensive Transitional Education Programs; Authorizing the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to petition a court for the appointment of a receiver for a comprehensive transitional education program under certain circumstances; providing that no new comprehensive transitional education programs may be licensed after a specified date, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 729 Relating to Music Therapists Ponder

Music Therapists: Establishes requirements for registration as music therapist; provides responsibilities of music therapists; requires biennial renewal of registration; prohibits practice of music therapy unless registered; provides exemptions to registration. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 751 Relating to Stormwater Management Clemons (C)

Stormwater Management: Requires local governments to adopt specified best management practices & measures; provides that such practices & measures comply with certain water quality standards; prohibits adoption of more stringent standards; exempts certain standards.Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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HB 757 Relating to Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Donalds

Voluntary Prekindergarten Education: Requires Just Read, Florida! Office to provide teachers, reading coaches, & principals in prekindergarten through grade 3 with specified training; requires VPK providers to provide parents with pre- and post-assessment results within specified timeframe. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 772 Relating to Assistive Technology Devices Rouson

Assistive Technology Devices; Revising provisions relating to the accessibility and use of assistive technology devices by persons with disabilities, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 773 Relating to K-12 Student Assessments Diaz (M)

K-12 Student Assessments: Requires Commissioner of Education to review specified college entrance exams to determine alignment with certain core curricular content in state standards & submit report to Governor, Legislature, & SBE by specified date; revises provisions relating to K-12 student assessment program for public schools; provides requirements for administering certain assessments & reporting certain student assessment results.Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 781 Relating to Designation of School Grades Porter

Designation of School Grades: Revises requirements for certain schools to receive school grade designation of K-3 feeder pattern school; provides majority of students must be scheduled to be assigned to certain school for feeder pattern to exist. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 782 Relating to High School Graduation Requirements Mayfield

High School Graduation Requirements; Removing a requirement that a student participating in an interscholastic sport pass a competency test on personal fitness to satisfy the physical education credit requirement for high school graduation, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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HB 789 Relating to Procurement of Professional Services Stone

Procurement of Professional Services: Removes requirement for agencies to encourage certain firms to submit annual statements of qualifications & performance data; clarifies provisions relating to selection of firms & authorizes rejection of submissions received in response to public announcement under competitive selection process; creates best value selection process; removes requirement that agency terminate negotiations with most qualified firm when agency is unable to negotiate satisfactory contract & undertake negotiations with second most qualified firm; authorizes DMS to adopt rules. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 793 Relating to Statute of Limitations for Criminal Offenses Against Minors Fant

Statute of Limitations for Criminal Offenses Against Minors: Extends statute of limitations periods for certain kidnapping & false imprisonment offenses involving minor victims based on age of victim at time of offense. Effective Date: upon becoming a law

HB 795 Relating to Student Loan Forgiveness Program Jones

Student Loan Forgiveness Program: Creates Student Loan Forgiveness Program; provides for administration of program, eligibility requirements, funding, payment of student loan, & loan requirements; provides that payment under the program is not taxable income. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 796 Relating to Charter Schools Bean

Charter Schools; Revising charter school contract and funding requirements; authorizing certain entities to apply for designation as a High-Impact Charter Management Organization; requiring the Department of Education to give priority to certain charter schools applying for specified grants, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 798 Relating to Public Information of School Districts Baxley

Public Information of School Districts; Revising the duties of a district school board to include the administration of public information programs; providing for district school board policies that authorize advertisements on school buses, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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HB 803 Relating to Licenses to Carry Concealed Weapons or Firearms Hahnfeldt

Licenses to Carry Concealed Weapons or Firearms: Removes restrictions on places where persons holding licenses to carry concealed weapons or firearms may carry. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 806 Relating to Committee on Early Grade Success Stargel

Committee on Early Grade Success; Creating the Committee on Early Grade Success within the Department of Education; specifying committee purpose; requiring the University of Florida Lastinger Center for Learning to provide necessary staff for the committee, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 808 Relating to Maximum Class Size Mayfield

Maximum Class Size;Deleting a provision relating to compliance with maximum class size requirements for certain public schools of choice; revising requirements for charter school compliance with maximum class size requirements; calculating a school district’s class size categorical allocation reduction at the school average when maximum class size requirements are not met; revising requirements for compliance with maximum class size requirements for a school participating in the Principal Autonomy Pilot Project Program, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 810 Relating to Students with Disabilities in Public Schools Stewart

Students with Disabilities in Public Schools; Amending provisions relating to the use, prevention, and reduction of restraint and seclusion on students with disabilities; prohibiting the use of physical restraint by school personnel who are not certified to use district-approved methods for applying restraint techniques; requiring continuing education and inservice training for teaching students with emotional or behavioral disabilities, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 813 Relating to Flood Insurance Lee Jr. (L)

Flood Insurance: Revises intervals at which specified standards & guidelines must be revised by Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology; authorizes insurer to issue insurance policies, contracts, or endorsements providing excess coverage for peril of flood & to issue flood & excess flood insurance policies, contracts, or endorsements on flexible basis; specifies condition for surplus lines agent to be excepted from diligent-effort requirement when exporting flood insurance contracts or endorsements to insurer. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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HB 817 Relating to Presidential Preference Primary Baez

Presidential Preference Primary: Authorizes certain preregistered voter registration applicants to vote in presidential preference primary; prohibits such persons from voting on any other race, amendment, or ballot measure on ballot; provides that such persons are not considered electors for purposes of Florida Election Code; requires supervisor of elections to generate separate precinct register containing preregistered voter registration applicants eligible to vote in presidential preference primary. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 824 Relating to Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Pilot Program Perry

Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Pilot Program; Creating the Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Pilot Program within the Department of Education for a specified period; providing for school district selection, funding, and program payments; requiring the University of Florida’s College of Education to perform an evaluation, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 827 Relating to Teacher Bonuses Porter

Teacher Bonuses: Deletes provisions relating to caps imposed on amounts of bonuses awarded to teachers based on student performance on certain course examinations. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 831 Relating to High School Graduation Requirements Alexander

High School Graduation Requirements: Requires students to earn one-half credit in health education for high school graduation; authorizes waiver for students who request to take & successfully complete health education assessment; reduces number of required credits in elective courses. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 833 Relating to Student Eligibility for K-12 Virtual Instruction Sullivan

Student Eligibility for K-12 Virtual Instruction: Revises eligibility requirements for certain students to receive part-time instruction at Florida Virtual School; removes requirement that Auditor General conduct operational audit of Florida Virtual School; authorizes all students to

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participate in specified virtual instruction options; deletes eligibility criteria for student participation in virtual instruction; revises options for student to satisfy online course requirement for high school graduation. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 836 Relating to Preference In Hiring Veterans Gibson

Preference in Hiring Veterans; Citing this act as "Veterans Preference Incentive Act"; authorizing a corporate income tax credit for private employers hiring certain veterans or spouses of veterans, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 843

Relating to Pub. Meetings and Records/Meetings Between Two Members of Board or Commission Donalds

Pub. Meetings and Records/Meetings Between Two Members of Board or Commission: Exempts meetings between two members of certain boards or commissions from public meetings & public records requirements; provides restriction on such meetings; provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemption; provides statement of public necessity. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 845

Relating to Direct-support Organization for the Florida Prepaid Tuition Scholarship Program Mariano

Direct-support Organization for the Florida Prepaid Tuition Scholarship Program: Extends repeal date of direct-support organization for Florida Prepaid Tuition Scholarship Program. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 849 Relating to Weapons and Firearms Combee

Weapons and Firearms: Revises provisions prohibiting possession & discharge of weapons or firearms on school property or during school-sanctioned activities; creates & revises definitions; revises provisions relating to regulation of persons holding licenses to carry concealed weapons or firearms. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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HB 855 Relating to Sports Development Avila

Sports Development: Repeals a provision relating to state funding for sports facility development by unit of local government, or by certified beneficiary or other applicant, on property owned by local government. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 856 Relating to Education Broxson

Education; Prohibiting a district school board from awarding an annual contract for instructional personnel under certain circumstances; prohibiting a district school board from altering or limiting its authority to award or not award an annual contract, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law

HB 859 Relating to Postsecondary Distance Education Mariano

Postsecondary Distance Education: Authorizes this state to participate in State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA) for delivery of postsecondary distance education; establishes Postsecondary Reciprocal Distance Education Coordinating Council within DOE; requires SBE to adopt rules & approve fee schedule proposed by council; revises provisions relating to jurisdiction of Commission on Independent Education. Effective Date: upon becoming a law

SB 860 Relating to Building Code Administrators and Inspectors Brandes

Building Code Administrators and Inspectors; Creating an internship path to certification as an inspector or plans examiner; requiring the board to authorize specified candidates for certification as building code inspectors or plans examiners to perform duties during a specified period after initial application, to apply for a 1-year provisional certificate under certain circumstances, and to apply for standard certification within a certain time before completing the internship period, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 867 Relating to Student Loan Debt Leek

Student Loan Debt: Requires postsecondary institutions to annually provide certain students with specified information regarding their student loans; provides institution does not incur any liability for providing such information. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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SB 868 Relating to Educational Options and Services Baxley

Educational Options and Services; Providing that a participant in an adult or youth work experience activity in the Division of Blind Services is considered an employee of the state for workers’ compensation coverage; revising student eligibility requirements for the Florida Virtual School and virtual instruction programs; requiring an institution that seeks initial approval after a specified date to offer a graduate-level teacher preparation program to offer students certain options, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 869 Relating to Honesty in Postsecondary Education Hager

Honesty in Postsecondary Education: Requires certain postsecondary educational institutions to publish information through link on website relating to certain degree programs offered & salaries of individuals earning such degrees; requires link & information to be posted by specified date. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 880 Relating to Government Accountability Stargel

Government Accountability; Specifying that the Governor, the Commissioner of Education, or the designee of the Governor or of the commissioner may notify the Legislative Auditing Committee of an entity’s failure to comply with certain auditing and financial reporting requirements; authorizing the Auditor General to conduct audits of tourist development councils and county tourism promotion agencies; requiring counties and municipalities to maintain certain budget documents on the entities’ websites for a specified period, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 883 Relating to Memory Disorder Clinics Miller (M)

Memory Disorder Clinics: Establishes memory disorder clinic at Florida Hospital in Orange County. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 896

Relating to Direct-support Organization for the Florida Prepaid Tuition Scholarship Program Simmons

Direct-support Organization for the Florida Prepaid Tuition Scholarship Program; Extending the repeal date of the direct-support organization for the Florida Prepaid Tuition Scholarship Program, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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HB 899 Relating to Comprehensive Transitional Education Programs Stevenson

Comprehensive Transitional Education Programs: Authorizes APD to petition for appointment of receiver for comprehensive transitional education program. Effective Date: upon becoming a law

HB 901 Relating to Florida Building Commission McClain

Florida Building Commission: Requires commission to use specified editions of Florida Building Code as foundation for development of & updates to code; requires commission to review, rather than update, code every 3 years; deletes provision that specifies how long amendments or modifications to foundation remain effective; deletes provisions limiting how long amendment or modification is effective; deletes provision requiring certain amendments or modifications to be carried forward into next edition of code, subject to certain conditions; deletes certain requirements for resubmission of expired amendments; deletes provision prohibiting proposed amendment from being included in foundation if it has been addressed in international code; requires commission to adopt code & amendments thereto, by minimum percentage of votes. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 902 Relating to Gardiner Scholarship Program Simmons

Gardiner Scholarship Program; Revising program eligibility requirements; prohibiting a student who is enrolled in the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind from being eligible for the program; specifying that certain actions of the private school are a basis for program ineligibility; providing an appropriation, etc. APPROPRIATION:$206,000,000.00 Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 906 Relating to Student Assessments Steube

Student Assessments; Requiring that the Commissioner of Education periodically publish on the Department of Education’s website any assessment administered or adopted during the previous school year, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law

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SB 908 Relating to Licenses to Carry Concealed Weapons or Firearms Baxley

Licenses to Carry Concealed Weapons or Firearms; Authorizing persons holding licenses to carry concealed weapons or firearms to carry concealed weapons or firearms in secure and restricted areas of seaports and at school-sponsored events or on school property; authorizing persons holding licenses to carry concealed firearms to carry concealed firearms in pharmacies, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 909 Relating to Building Code Administrators & Inspectors Goodson

Building Code Administrators & Inspectors: Authorizes building code administrator or building official to perform plan review or inspection when acting as building official under certain interagency service agreements; revises eligibility requirements for examination for certification as building code inspector or plans examiner to include internship certification program; revises provisions related to provisional certificates to remove eligibility condition; requires board to establish rules. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 914 Relating to Public Meetings Baxley

Public Meetings; Specifying conditions under which members of any board or commission of any state agency or authority or of any agency or authority of any county, municipal corporation, or political subdivision may participate in fact-finding exercises or excursions, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law

HB 917 Relating to Child Care Facilities Brown

Child Care Facilities: Revises definition "child care facility" to exclude facilities offering programs for children which are owned & operated by county or municipal government. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 919 Relating to Public Meetings Roth

Public Meetings: Specifies conditions under which members of board or commission of state agency or authority or of agency or authority of county, municipal corporation, or political subdivision may participate in fact-finding exercises or excursions; provides for construction. Effective Date: upon becoming a law

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SB 926 Relating to K-12 Student Assessments Flores

K-12 Student Assessments; Requiring the Commissioner of Education to review specified college entrance examinations to determine their alignment with the core curricular content for high school level English Language Arts and mathematics established in state standards; revising provisions relating to achievement levels for certain statewide, standardized assessments; providing requirements for administration of the statewide, standardized English Language Arts and mathematics assessments in specified grades, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 929 Relating to Postsecondary Education Raburn

Postsecondary Education: Renames Florida College System as Florida Community College System; creates State Board of Community Colleges (SBCC); revises function & mission of Florida K-20 education system; provides primary mission of career center operated by district school board; provides that SBCC, instead of SBE, provide guidelines for Florida Community College System institution boards of trustees' policies. Effective Date: October 1, 2017

SB 930 Relating to Access to Capital Baxley

Access to Capital; Expanding the authority of the Florida Development Finance Corporation to function within the corporate limits of this state as opposed to the corporate limits of an agency with which it has entered into an interlocal agreement; deleting a requirement that interlocal agreements entered into by the corporation be executed pursuant to specified provisions of ch. 163, F.S.; increasing the maximum maturation date for specified bonds, notes, or other forms of indebtedness, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 931 Relating to Powers and Duties of District School Boards Hahnfeldt

Powers and Duties of District School Boards: Requires district school board to implement public information programs & authorizes use of certain funds; authorizes district school board to adopt policies allowing advertisements on school buses; provides requirements for school buses & district school board. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 937 Relating to Lottery Games Sullivan

Lottery Games: Requires contracts entered into between DOL & vendor or retailer of lottery tickets to include provision that requires specified warning label on all lottery tickets. Effective Date: January 1, 2018

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SB 938 Relating to Minimum Salaries for Full-time Public School Teachers Rader

Minimum Salaries for Full-time Public School Teachers; Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution to establish minimum salaries for full-time public school teachers, etc.

SB 940 Relating to Growth Management Perry

Growth Management; Requiring local governments to address the protection of private property rights in their comprehensive plans; requiring the comprehensive plan to include a private property rights element that sets forth principles, guidelines, standards, and strategies to achieve certain objectives; requiring the state land planning agency to approve the private property rights element adopted by each local government if it is substantially in a specified form, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 942 Relating to Public Records/Juvenile Offenders Thurston, Jr.

Public Records/Juvenile Offenders; Specifying that certain information retained by the Criminal Justice Information Program relating to juvenile offenders is exempt from public records requirements; deleting exceptions from an exemption from public records requirements for certain information relating to juvenile offenders; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 946 Relating to Child Care Facilities Stewart

Child Care Facilities; Revising the definition of the term “child care facility” to exclude facilities offering programs for children which are owned and operated by a county or municipal government under certain circumstances, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 955 Relating to High School Graduation Requirements Ahern

High School Graduation Requirements: Revises requirements for NGSSS to include financial literacy; revises required credits for standard high school diploma to include instruction in personal financial literacy & money management. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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SB 956 Relating to Concealed Weapons or Concealed Firearms Campbell

Concealed Weapons or Concealed Firearms; Requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to issue a license if, in addition to other specified criteria, the applicant has undergone a mental health evaluation conducted by certain licensed professionals and has been determined to be competent, etc Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 959 Relating to Honor and Remember Flag Mariano

Honor and Remember Flag: Designates Honor & Remember flag as state emblem; authorizes display of flag at specified locations, on specified days, & in specified manner; requires flags to be manufactured in U.S.; provides for adoption of certain regulations & for procurement & distribution of flags. Effective Date: January 1, 2018

SB 964 Relating to Education Accountability Montford

Education Accountability; Requiring an application and charter for a high school charter school to require the administration of a specified assessment for graduation purposes; revising the requirements for a standard high school diploma; revising the grades in which the statewide, standardized Reading assessment must be administered; providing responsibilities of the commissioner to select and approve a nationally recognized high school assessment to administer in lieu of the Florida Standards Assessment, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 970

Relating to Florida Compensation Trust Fund for Survivors of Human Trafficking/Department of Law Enforcement Bracy

Florida Compensation Trust Fund for Survivors of Human Trafficking/Department of Law Enforcement; Creating the Florida Compensation Trust Fund for Survivors of Human Trafficking within the Department of Law Enforcement; providing for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund, etc. Effective Date: July 1, 2017, if SB 972 or similar legislation is adopted in the same legislative session, or an extension thereof, and becomes law

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SB 972 Relating to Human Trafficking Bracy

Human Trafficking; Citing this act as the "Civil Action Against Human Trafficking of Minors and Survivors Compensation Fund Act"; creating a civil cause of action for minors who are victims of human trafficking; authorizing such minors to recover actual and punitive damages; providing for recovery by a prevailing victim or the Florida Compensation Trust Fund for Survivors of Human Trafficking of attorney fees, investigative expenses, court costs, economic and noneconomic damages, forfeited personal and real property, and other applicable civil penalties, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 978 Relating to High School Graduation Requirements Powell

High School Graduation Requirements; Authorizing the use of credits earned upon completion of a registered apprenticeship or preapprenticeship to satisfy specified high school graduation credit requirements; requiring that the State Board of Education approve and identify apprenticeship and preapprenticeship programs for such purpose, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 984 Relating to Shared Use of Public School Playground Facilities Bean

Shared Use of Public School Playground Facilities; Requiring the Department of Education to provide specified assistance to school districts; providing for funding as established in the General Appropriations Act; requiring funding priority to be given to high-need communities; creating the Shared Use Task Force within the department, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 989 Relating to Instructional Materials for K-12 Public Education Donalds

Instructional Materials for K-12 Public Education: Revises terminology, standards, & review & adoption processes relating to public K-12 instructional materials; provides for objection by certain persons to adoption of instructional materials; provides right to appeal school district decisions; requires district school boards to provide certain persons full access to materials in school libraries; revises annual allocation for purchase of instructional materials. Effective Date: upon becoming a law

SB 1000 Relating to Firesafety Standards Campbell

Firesafety Standards; Authorizing certain buildings to have specified balcony guard openings, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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SB 1004 Relating to Public Meetings and Public Records Baxley

Public Meetings and Public Records; Exempting meetings between two members of certain boards or commissions from public meetings and public records requirements; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 1017 Relating to Penalties and Fees Ingram

Penalties and Fees: Specifies information to be completed by persons seeking indigent status in certain situations; revises requirements relating to payment of court-related charges; revises provisions addressing authority of clerks of court to pursue collection of fees; specifies role of private attorneys & collection agents in pursuing unpaid monies; revises provisions relating to revocation or suspension of driver licenses in specified criminal & civil cases; revises provisions regarding person's inability to pay certain penalties; authorizes judges to rely on previously provided information to convert certain statutory financial obligations into obligations to perform community service. Effective Date: October 1, 2017

SB 1020 Relating to Collective Bargaining Impasses Powell

Collective Bargaining Impasses; Revising notice requirements for issues at impasse, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 1021 Relating to Construction Avila

Construction: Defines "recognized certifying entity"; provides applicability of certain standards & criteria for solar energy systems manufactured or sold in state; provides for solar energy systems to be certified pursuant to certain standards; requires DBPR to provide certain funds allocated to University of Florida School of Construction Management for specified purposes; prohibits local enforcement agencies from charging certain fees; requires Florida Building Commission to amend certain provisions of Florida Building Code; prohibits county, municipality, special taxing district, public utility, or private utility from requiring separate water connection or charging specified water or sewage rate under certain conditions; prohibits local government from requiring permit for painting residence; requires DOE in conjunction with DEO to create study for specified purposes; requires CareerSource Florida, Inc. to fund certain construction training programs; provides program requirements.Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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HB 1023 Relating to Required K-12 Instruction Henry

Required K-12 Instruction: Revises requirements for instruction relating to history of Africa to include specified contents relating to enslavement of African peoples; revises requirements for curriculum of required character-development program to include history of Africa & African Americans. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 1026 Relating to High School Graduation Requirements Farmer

High School Graduation Requirements; Requiring students to earn one-half credit in health education, independent of the physical education credit requirements, for high school graduation; authorizing a waiver for students who request to take and successfully complete a health education assessment developed by the Department of Education, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1030 Relating to Background Screening of Refugees Broxson

Background Screening of Refugees; Adopting a policy concerning background screening of potential refugees as a part of the State Comprehensive Plan; specifying duties of the Office of State-Federal Relations concerning background screening of refugees; specifying requirements for background screening of refugees as a condition of state participation in certain refugee resettlement or assistance programs, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 1035 Relating to School District Instructional and Administrative Personnel Daniels

School District Instructional and Administrative Personnel: Provides that school district employees have cause of action under Whistle-blower's Act for disclosure of certain information. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 1039 Relating to Emergency Alerts Plakon

Emergency Alerts: Authorizes law enforcement agency to request FHP to activate Yellow Alert if hit-and-run incident is reported to agency & agency determines that specified requirements are satisfied; requires FHP, upon activation of alert, to assist investigating law enforcement agency by issuing alert, in cooperation with DHSMV & DOT, using certain dynamic message signs; authorizes local law enforcement agency to activate Emergency Alert System & issue Lockdown Alert to schools & child care facilities; requires local law enforcement agencies to create &

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maintain list of all schools & child care facilities; requires FDLE, in cooperation with DHSMV & DOT, to activate Emergency Alert System & issue an Imminent Threat Alert to public at request of local law enforcement agency in certain circumstances. Effective Date: October 1, 2017

SB 1044 Relating to Child Welfare Garcia

Child Welfare; Providing that central abuse hotline information may be used for employment screening of residential group home caregivers; requiring a court to inquire as to the identity and location of a child’s legal father at the shelter hearing; requiring a court to consider maltreatment allegations against a parent in an evidentiary hearing relating to a dependency petition; requiring a court to conduct under oath the inquiry to determine the identity or location of an unknown parent after the filing of a termination of parental rights petition, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1050 Relating to Memory Disorder Clinics Simmons

Memory Disorder Clinics; Establishing a memory disorder clinic at Florida Hospital in Orange County, etc.Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1054 Relating to Florida Community Task Force on Student Behavior and Discipline Powell

Florida Community Task Force on Student Behavior and Discipline; Creating the Florida Community Task Force on Student Behavior and Discipline within the Department of Education, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1058 Relating to Required K-12 Instruction Powell

Required K-12 Instruction; Revising the requirements for instruction relating to the history of the continent of Africa to include specified contents relating to the enslavement of African persons; revising the requirements for the curriculum of a required character-development program to include the history of Africa and contributions of African Americans, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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SB 1064 Relating to Student Discipline Powell

Student Discipline; Revising the duties of the district school boards relating to student discipline and school safety; revising the qualifications of a school resource officer and a school safety officer; requiring each district school board to adopt a policy on referrals to the criminal justice system or the juvenile justice system, rather than a policy of zero-tolerance for crime and victimization, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 1073 Relating to Postsecondary Educational Institution Affordability Clemons (C)

Postsecondary Educational Institution Affordability: Prohibits Board of Trustees of Santa Fe College from increasing transportation access fee; prohibits FCS institution & state university boards of trustees from increasing certain student fees after specified date; requires FCS & SUS chancellors to submit annual reports regarding revenues generated by distance learning course fee to Governor & Legislature; removes authority of BOG to establish new student fees; requires state university to waive certain fees for specified graduate students. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 1101 Relating to Autism Spectrum Disorder Cruz

Autism Spectrum Disorder: Requires physician to refer minor to appropriate specialist for screening for autism spectrum disorder under certain circumstances; requires certain insurers & HMOs to provide direct patient access to specialist for screening for, or evaluation or diagnosis of, autism spectrum disorder. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 1105 Relating to Firesafety Standards Richardson

Firesafety Standards: Provides guard requirements for certain balconies on buildings constructed during specified time. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 1107 Relating to Pub. Rec./Workers' Compensation Albritton

Pub. Rec./Workers' Compensation: Provides exemption from public records requirements for personal identifying information of injured or deceased employees contained in certain notices or reports filed with DFS; authorizes division to disclose such information under specified circumstances; provides for future review & repeal of exemption; provides statement of public necessity. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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HB 1109 Relating to Private School Student Participation in Extracurricular Activities Antone

Private School Student Participation in Extracurricular Activities: Revises eligibility requirements for certain private school students to participate in interscholastic or intrascholastic sports at specified public schools. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 1110 Relating to Economic Development Brandes

Economic Development; Requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to contract with a specified direct-support organization to guide, stimulate, and promote the sports industry, the participation of residents in amateur athletic competitions, and this state as a host for national and international athletic competitions; requiring the Office of Economic and Demographic Research to calculate the net state gross domestic product per state dollar of certain programs; creating the Quick Action Closing Fund Escrow Account within the State Economic Enhancement and Development Trust Fund; creating the Start-Up Florida Grant Program, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 1111 Relating to Teacher Certification Plasencia

Teacher Certification: Revises provisions relating to educator certifications, professional development certification & education competency programs, school community professional development act, school district professional development systems, & DOE duties relating to specified professional development programs. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 1125 Relating to Postsecondary Performance-based Funding Alexander

Postsecondary Performance-based Funding: Requires OPPAGA to conduct study relating to performance-based funding of public community colleges & universities; specifies requirements for study; requires OPPAGA to provide report to Legislature by specified date. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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HB 1127 Relating to Property Appraisers Gruters

Property Appraisers: Revises provisions concerning property appraiser duties when making assessments or reassessments of property; provides specified remedies for taxpayers injured by certain actions of property appraiser; requires reporting by OPPAGA. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 1128 Relating to Public School Attendance Policies Farmer

Public School Attendance Policies; Authorizing a parent to request and be granted permission for a student’s absence from school for treatment of autism spectrum disorder by a licensed health care practitioner; requiring each district school board to adopt an attendance policy authorizing a student’s absence for treatment of autism spectrum disorder, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 1131 Relating to Shared Use of Public School Playground Facilities Drake

Shared Use of Public School Playground Facilities: Requires DOE to provide specified assistance to school districts, annually post information to its website, provide report, & create application for shared use; specifies funding allocation guidelines & funding priority; creates Shared Use Task Force within DOE; provides purpose, membership, & meeting requirements of task force; provides reporting requirements & expiration of task force. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 1132 Relating to Postsecondary Fee Waivers Gainer

Postsecondary Fee Waivers; Authorizing a Florida College System institution to waive any portion of certain postsecondary fees for active duty members of the Armed Forces of the United States using military tuition assistance; specifying that the student who receives such waiver may be reported for state funding purposes, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1134 Relating to Interscholastic Extracurricular Activities Lee (T)

Interscholastic Extracurricular Activities; Authorizing a charter school student to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities at a private school under certain circumstances, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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HB 1137 Relating to Use of State Funds Edwards

Use of State Funds: Provides limitation on actual expenses of certain lodging that may be reimbursed for specified employee; authorizes employee to expend own funds on lodging expenses that exceed specified amount; establishes maximum costs per square foot guidelines for new state-funded construction; provides duties of DMS; provides criminal penalties; requires legislative budget requests for fixed capital outlay for new construction to comply with certain requirements; prohibits use of state funds to purchase alcoholic beverages & food or beverages for certain state agency appreciation or recognition events. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 1139 Relating to Minority Teacher Education Scholars Davis

Minority Teacher Education Scholars: Revises eligibility criteria for receipt of minority teacher education scholarship; revises scholar awards on which Florida Fund for Minority Teachers, Inc.'s budget projection to DOE must be based. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 1148 Relating to Unemployment Compensation Rader

Unemployment Compensation; Requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to designate an alternative base period in certain circumstances for benefit years commencing after a specified date; requiring employers to provide wage information to support an individual’s eligibility for benefits upon request of the department; providing a penalty for employers who fail to timely provide that information; Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1152 Relating to Continuing Education for Barbers, Cosmetologists, and Specialists Farmer

Continuing Education for Barbers, Cosmetologists, and Specialists; Requiring a 1-hour course on domestic violence and sexual assault awareness as a condition of license or registration renewal, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1154 Relating to Student Loan Forgiveness Program Farmer

Student Loan Forgiveness Program; Creating the Student Loan Forgiveness Program; providing that a payment under the program is not taxable income, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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HB 1155 Relating to Child Safety Henry

Child Safety: Requires district school boards, nonpublic schools, or specified child care facilities to adopt specified policies; requires person to present picture identification before retrieving a student from such school or facility under certain circumstances; requires district school boards to provide policies to DOE; requires nonpublic school or child care facility to maintain policies on premises of each entity & be available for inspection. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 1163 Relating to Agency Rulemaking Spano

Agency Rulemaking: Requires agency to prepare statement of estimated regulatory costs before adopting, amending, or repealing any rule other than emergency rule; requires Department of State to maintain website that solely includes statements of estimated regulatory costs; requires agency that prepares or revises statement to provide statement to department for publication on website; requires agency to include website link to department's website on agency's website; requires department's website to be accessible to public. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 1166 Relating to Honor and Remember Flag Lee (T)

Honor and Remember Flag; Designating the Honor and Remember flag as an emblem of the state; authorizing that the flag be displayed at specified locations, on specified days, and in a specified manner; requiring displayed flags to be manufactured in the United States, etc. Effective Date: 1/1/2018

HB 1177 Relating to Medicinal Cannabis Research & Education Toledo

Medicinal Cannabis Research & Education: Establishes Coalition for Medicinal Cannabis Research & Education within H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Inc.; provides purpose & establishes board to direct operations of coalition; authorizes board to appoint coalition director; requires board to advise certain entities & officials regarding medicinal cannabis research & education in state; requires board to annually adopt plan & issue report to Governor & Legislature; specifies responsibilities of institute. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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HB 1179 Relating to Vocational Training Asencio

Vocational Training: Creates Vocational Opportunities For All Program within DOE; provides purpose of the program; provides DOE responsibilities; provides vocational training program requirements; provides for incentives for private sector companies to hire program graduates; requires rulemaking. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 1181 Relating to Bilingual Subject Area Certification for Certified Educators Asencio

Bilingual Subject Area Certification for Certified Educators: Requires SBE to establish subject area certifications in bilingual education for certified educators; provides requirements for certification; requires that specified courses be taught by faculty meeting specified criteria; requires certifications be available by a specified date. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 1197 Relating to School Resource Officer Programs Geller

School Resource Officer Programs: Encourages school resource officer to be placed at each public school in district; authorizes part-time law enforcement officer to be school resource officer or school safety officer; provides requirements for funding certain school resource officers' & school safety officers' salaries. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 1204 Relating to District School Board Direct-support Organizations Montford

District School Board Direct-support Organizations; Authorizing a district school board to contract with a district school board direct-support organization for personal services or operations; authorizing district school boards to contract with vendors for annual audits of district school board direct-support organizations, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1208 Relating to Sexual Crimes Book

Sexual Crimes; Redefining the term “sexual battery” to include the intentional touching in a lewd or lascivious manner upon specified areas or the clothing covering such areas; defining the term “disabled person” as it relates to lewd or lascivious offenses committed upon or in the presence of a disabled person; authorizing the Department of Legal Affairs to award relocation assistance to victims of specified sexual offenses, rather than only sexual battery, etc. Effective Date: 10/1/2017

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SB 1210 Relating to Instructional Materials for K-12 Public Education Lee (T)

Instructional Materials for K-12 Public Education; Requiring each district school board to adopt a process allowing parents or other persons who pay ad valorem property or sales tax in Florida to object to the use of specific instructional materials based on specified criteria; revising the requirement that the district school superintendent certify that all instructional materials used by the district for core courses meet certain standards; revising the standards that an instructional materials reviewer shall use to include instructional materials standards that are equivalent to or better than applicable state standards, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law

SB 1212 Relating to Emergency Alerts Simmons

Emergency Alerts; Authorizing a law enforcement agency to request the Florida Highway Patrol to activate a Yellow Alert if a hit-and-run incident is reported to the agency and the agency determines that specified requirements are satisfied; providing that radio, television, and cable and satellite systems are encouraged to cooperate in disseminating the information contained in a Yellow Alert; authorizing a local law enforcement agency to activate the Emergency Alert System and issue a Lockdown Alert to public and private schools and child care facilities under certain circumstances, etc. Effective Date: 10/1/2017

SB 1214 Relating to Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program Bracy

Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program; Revising the educational credentials and training required after a specified date for prekindergarten instructors in school-year prekindergarten programs delivered by private prekindergarten providers; providing for the future revision of alternate educational credentials that such instructors may hold, etc. Effective Date: Except as otherwise expressly provided in this act, this act shall take effect July 1, 2017

HB 1221 Relating to Adjourning and Reconvening of Legislature/2017 Regular Session Oliva

Adjourning and Reconvening of Legislature/2017 Regular Session: Provides for adjourning & reconvening of each house of Legislature & provides for adjournment sine die during 2017 Regular Session. Effective Date: Not Specified

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SB 1222 Relating to School Grades Bradley

School Grades; Providing that a school exhibits a feeder pattern for the purpose of designating school grades if at least a majority of its students are scheduled to be assigned to the graded school, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 1223 Relating to Retirement of Instructional Personnel and School Administrators Fine

Retirement of Instructional Personnel and School Administrators: Directs SBE to adopt rules prohibiting instructional personnel & school administrators from selecting retirement date that occurs during regular school year. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 1225 Relating to Division of Administrative Hearings Fitzenhagen

Division of Administrative Hearings: Revises positions that are exempt from Career Service System; requires Administration Commission to appoint division director from full-time administrative law judges employed with division; requires Governor to appoint administrative law judges from nominees recommended by statewide nominating commission; specifies composition & term lengths of members of commission; requires Governor to take certain action regarding judge after commission review. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 1226 Relating to Funds for the Education of Inmates Farmer

Funds for the Education of Inmates; Removing a provision prohibiting state funds for the operation of postsecondary workforce programs from being used for the education of state or federal inmates, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 1229 Relating to Committee on Early Grade Success Grall

Committee on Early Grade Success: Creates Committee on Early Grade Success within DOE; provides purpose, membership, staffing, duties, & responsibilities of committee; provides for expiration of committee. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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SB 1236 Relating to School District Instructional and Administrative Personnel Rouson

School District Instructional and Administrative Personnel; Providing that certain school district employees have a cause of action under the Whistle-blower’s Act for the disclosure of certain information, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 1239 Relating to School Bus Safety Eagle

School Bus Safety: Provides for mandatory noncriminal penalties, fine, driver license suspension, & driver license points for certain violations resulting in serious bodily injury to/death of another person. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 1246 Relating to Florida Retirement System Brandes

Florida Retirement System; Authorizing renewed membership in the Florida Retirement System for retirees who are reemployed in a position eligible for the Elected Officers’ Class under certain circumstances; providing for renewed membership in the retirement system for retirees of the Senior Management Service Optional Annuity Program who are reemployed on or after a specified date; revising criteria for eligibility of payment of death benefits to the surviving children of a Special Risk Class member killed in the line of duty under specified circumstances; requiring that certain retirees who are reemployed on or after a specified date be renewed members in the investment plan, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 1247 Relating to School Garden Programs Henry

School Garden Programs: Requires DOE, in collaboration with FDACS, to annually provide information relating to school garden programs to school districts; authorizes schools that establish school garden program to allow certain students to receive produce from garden; provides for distribution of produce & exemption from certain statutes & rules.Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 1249 Relating to Education Accountability Beshears

Education Accountability: Revises provisions related to charter schools, promotion & graduation requirements, standard high school diploma designations, statewide, standardized assessment program, specified reports relating to student progression & school improvement, school grading system, & personnel evaluations. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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SB 1252 Relating to Education Galvano

Education; Deleting obsolete provisions relating to a requirement that the Department of Education have an operating electronic individual education plan system in place for potential statewide use; revising the membership of the Higher Education Coordinating Council; revising the date by which the Board of Governors of the State University System must annually submit an accountability report, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 1267 Relating to Supplemental Academic Instruction Diamond

Supplemental Academic Instruction: Removes limitation on application of certain funds to provide additional intensive reading instruction; specifies method for designating the 300 lowest-performing elementary schools; requires categorical funds for supplemental academic instruction to be provided in FEFP; provides for determining allocation of categorical funding, recalculation of categorical funding, & prorating allocation. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 1276 Relating to Postsecondary Educational Institution Affordability Stargel

Postsecondary Educational Institution Affordability; Prohibiting the Board of Trustees of Santa Fe College from increasing its transportation access fee; providing that Florida College System institution boards of trustees may not increase certain student fees after a specified date; providing that state universities may not increase certain student fees after a specified date; requiring a state university to waive certain fees for specified graduate students, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1280 Relating to Mandatory Retention Rodriguez (J)

Mandatory Retention; Removing the requirement for mandatory retention of a third grade student based on his or her performance on the English Language Arts assessment, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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HB 1283 Relating to Inspectors General & Auditors Raulerson

Inspectors General & Auditors: Requires CIG to meet specified qualifications, have open & direct access to Governor & prepare annual report; revises duties, responsibilities & qualifications of agency inspectors general; provides certain employees within offices of inspector general & DFS are SES; provides agency inspectors general are SMS; requires SBA to appoint inspector general. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 1285 Relating to Pub. Rec./Chief Inspector General and Agency Inspectors General Raulerson

Pub. Rec./Chief Inspector General and Agency Inspectors General: Provides exemptions from public records requirements for audit or investigative workpapers, records, reports, reviews, inquiries, or other documentation obtained or created during or in relation to active audit or investigation by Chief Inspector General or agency inspector general until completion of such audit or investigation or issuance of final report; provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemptions; provides statement of public necessity. Effective Date: on the same date that HB 1283 or similar legislation takes effect

HB 1289 Relating to Local Financial Emergencies Raulerson

Local Financial Emergencies: Expands entities that have oversight over local governmental entities, charter schools, charter technical career centers, & district school boards under specified conditions; specifies number of members to be on financial emergency board; provides qualifications of members & chair of board; revises information to which board has access; authorizes board to hire or retain legal counsel; requires adoption of rules to conduct board business; requires recommendations & reports to be submitted to specified entities; authorizes board to assume operation & institutional control of local governmental entity's or district school board's government functions. Effective Date: upon becoming a law

SB 1290 Relating to Career and Technical Education Hutson

Career and Technical Education; Specifying goals for a CAPE pathway; requiring each school district, in consultation with local businesses and Florida College System institutions, to develop at least one CAPE pathway in a specified area by a specified school year; authorizing parents to enroll their children in any school’s CAPE pathway in the school district under certain circumstances, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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SB 1292 Relating to Labor Organizations Baxley

Labor Organizations; Revising the information required to be included in an application for renewal of registration of an employee organization; providing for the revocation of certification under certain conditions, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 1295 Relating to Monroe County Raschein

Monroe County: Authorizes School Board of Monroe County or Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County, or any political subdivision thereof, to conduct public meetings, hearings, & workshops by means of communications media technology; provides for meeting notices. Effective Date: upon becoming a law

SB 1296 Relating to Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program Torres, Jr.

Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program; Citing this act as the “Restore Our Bright Futures Act"; removing a condition under which a student is authorized to use a Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program award for summer term enrollment if funds are available; requiring that the Legislature appropriate additional funds necessary for use of an award for summer term enrollment as provided in the General Appropriations Act, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1302 Relating to Private School Student Participation in Extracurricular Activities Gibson

Private School Student Participation in Extracurricular Activities; Revising the eligibility requirements for certain private school students to participate in interscholastic or intrascholastic sports at specified public schools, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 1305 Relating to Sovereign Immunity Jenne

Sovereign Immunity: Revises requirements relating to waiver of sovereign immunity; requires judge to determine damages; provides certain damages be placed into trust; provides for distribution of damages in trust upon the death of a claimant; authorizes political subdivisions to insure for certain amounts to avoid claim bill; provides requirements with respect to such insurance; prohibits claim bill upon certain conditions; provides a remedy against insurers who act in bad faith; raises caps on damages for awards against local governments; provides for settlement above the cap on damages; provides for annual adjustment to the cap on damages against local governments; provides

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requirements for lobbyists of claim bills; removes a limitation on presenting claim to Legislature; limits ability to file claim bill; provides for applicability. Effective Date: October 1, 2017

SB 1306 Relating to Florida Sports Foundation Montford

Florida Sports Foundation; Requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to contract with a direct-support organization to promote the sports industry and the participation of residents in certain athletic competitions in this state and to promote the state as a host for certain athletic competitions; requiring the department to establish a direct-support organization known as the “Florida Sport Foundation,” rather than authorizing the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development to authorize a direct-support organization, to assist the department in certain promotion and development activities, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1308 Relating to Autism Spectrum Disorder Stewart

Autism Spectrum Disorder; Requiring a physician, to whom the parent or legal guardian of a minor reports observing symptoms of autism spectrum disorder exhibited by the minor, to refer the minor to an appropriate specialist for screening for autism spectrum disorder under certain circumstances; requiring that certain insurers and health maintenance organizations provide direct patient access for a minimum number of visits to an appropriate specialist for screening for, or evaluation or diagnosis of, autism spectrum disorder, etc. Effective Date: Except as otherwise expressly provided in this act, this act shall take effect July 1, 2017

HB 1309 Relating to Growth Management Payne

Growth Management: Requires local governments to address protection of private property rights in their comprehensive plans; requires comprehensive plan to include private property rights element; requires counties & municipalities to adopt or amend land development regulations consistent with private property rights element; provides deadlines; requires state land planning agency to approve private property rights element if it is substantially in specified form. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 1312 Relating to Construction Perry

Construction; Providing applicability of certain standards and criteria for solar energy systems manufactured or sold in the state; providing for solar energy systems manufactured or sold in the state to be certified pursuant to National Renewable Energy Laboratory standards;

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prohibiting a county, municipality, special taxing district, public utility, or private utility from requiring a separate water connection or charging a specified water or sewage rate under certain conditions, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1314 Relating to Educational Options Grimsley

Educational Options; Specifying the Department of Education’s duty to approve or deny an application for the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program within a specified time; requiring an eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organization to allow certain dependent children to apply for a scholarship at any time; revising parent and student responsibilities for program participation; authorizing the Learning Systems Institute to receive compensation for research under certain circumstances; authorizing specified eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations to develop a professional development system, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1330 Relating to Weapons and Firearms Stargel

Weapons and Firearms; Revising provisions prohibiting possession and discharge of weapons or firearms during school-sanctioned activities or on school property, etc. Effective Date: 10/1/2017

HB 1331 Relating to Education Grall

Education: Creates Schools of Excellence Program; provides for designation as School of Excellence, school requirements, redesignation, specified school flexibility, & loss of designation; provides additional authority & responsibilities to specified principals; revises provisions relating to educator certifications, professional development certification & education competency programs, school community professional development act, school district professional development systems, & DOE duties relating to specified professional development programs. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 1341 Relating to Postsecondary Education Tuition and Fees Mercado

Postsecondary Education Tuition and Fees: Provides that certain individuals may not be denied classification as resident for tuition purposes if certain criteria are met; provides that out-of-state fees for certain individuals who are undocumented for federal immigration purposes shall be waived if certain criteria are met; provides for uniform out-of-state fee waiver form. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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SB 1346 Relating to School Backpack Awareness Month Torres, Jr.

School Backpack Awareness Month; Recognizing August 2017 as “School Backpack Awareness Month” in Florida, etc.

SB 1352 Relating to Division of Administrative Hearings Young

Division of Administrative Hearings; Revising positions at the division that are exempt from the Career Service System; removing the requirement that the division director is subject to Senate confirmation; requiring the Governor to appoint administrative law judges; requiring the Governor to appoint administrative law judges from nominees recommended by a statewide nominating commission unless otherwise provided, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 1359 Relating to Early Learning Diamond

Early Learning: Revises provisions relating to VPK Education Program & school readiness program provider eligibility & membership & duties of early learning coalitions; requires coalitions to establish child eligibility priorities based on local community needs for participation in school readiness program; removes certain child eligibility priorities for participation in such program. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 1362 Relating to K-12 Education Broxson

K-12 Education; Removing a requirement that the Department of Education compare certain charter school student performance data to certain traditional public schools; authorizing certain entities to apply to the State Board of Education for designation as a High-Impact Charter Network; revising the exams each public high school is required to administer to all enrolled 10th grade students to include the preliminary ACT, rather than the ACT Aspire, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1364 Relating to Child Safety Rouson

Child Safety; Requiring a person to present picture identification before retrieving specified students from a public school under certain circumstances; requiring policies to be provided to the Department of Education; requiring a person to present picture identification before retrieving specified students from a nonpublic school or specified child care facility under certain circumstances; requiring policies to be maintained on the premises of each entity and available for inspection, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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SB 1366 Relating to Property Appraisers Artiles

Property Appraisers; Specifying rescheduling requirements if a property appraiser fails to timely provide certain evidence to be presented at a hearing before the value adjustment board; prohibiting a property appraiser, under certain circumstances, from increasing a tax assessment in excess of a court-established assessment for a specified time; providing specified remedies to a taxpayer who is injured by certain actions of a property appraiser, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1368 Relating to Exceptional Student Instruction Perry

Exceptional Student Instruction; Prohibiting certain school districts from declining to provide or contract for certain students’ educational instruction; providing for funding of such students, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1372 Relating to Electrical and Alarm System Contracting Perry

Electrical and Alarm System Contracting; Specifying that provisions regulating certified electrical contractors and certified alarm system contractors do not prevent such contractors from acting as a prime contractor or from subcontracting work to other licensed contractors under certain circumstances, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1378 Relating to Stormwater Management Perry

Stormwater Management; Requiring that all local government stormwater management plans and programs incorporate the best management practices adopted by the Department of Environmental Protection and other local stormwater management measures; exempting local governments that adopted more stringent standards before a specified date, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1388 Relating to Medical Cannabis Artiles

Medical Cannabis; Authorizing physicians to issue physician certifications for medical cannabis or cannabis delivery devices, instead of ordering low-THC cannabis, for patients suffering from a debilitating medical condition; deleting provisions requiring successful completion of a specified course and examination by a physician who orders low-THC cannabis and by a medical director of a dispensing organization;

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requiring the Department of Health to register medical marijuana treatment centers, rather than to authorize the establishment of dispensing organizations, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 1391 Relating to Education Eisnaugle

Education: Revises provisions relating to home education programs, compulsory school nonenrollment & nonattendance cases, & dual enrollment programs; provides appropriation. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 1394 Relating to Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability Hukill

Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability; Requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to conduct a study of the district cost differential for each school district and to provide recommendations, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1402 Relating to Local Governmental Financial Emergencies Latvala (J)

Local Governmental Financial Emergencies; Expanding the entities that have oversight over local governmental entities, charter schools, charter technical career centers, and district school boards under certain circumstances; authorizing the board to assume operation and institutional control of a local governmental entity’s or district school board’s functions under certain circumstances, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law

SB 1410 Relating to Best and Brightest Teachers and Principals Perry

Best and Brightest Teachers and Principals; Revising the eligibility criteria for the Florida Best and Brightest Teacher Scholarship Program; creating the Florida Best and Brightest Principal Scholarship Program; requiring each eligible school principal to receive a scholarship, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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SB 1414 Relating to School Funding Transparency Bradley

School Funding Transparency; Requiring the Department of Financial Services to create a website detailing the amount of state, local, and federal funding that school districts spend per child; requiring the Department of Education to provide specified information to the Department of Financial Services, etc. APPROPRIATION: $500,000.00 Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1416 Relating to Enhanced Safety for School Crossings Young

Enhanced Safety for School Crossings; Requiring the Department of Transportation to evaluate the viability and cost of a uniform system of high-visibility markings and signage for designation of safe school crossings, subject to certain requirements; authorizing the department to consider in its evaluation implementation of new technology or innovations that enhance pedestrian and crosswalk visibility, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1418 Relating to Seclusion and Restraint of Students with Disabilities in Public Schools Flores

Seclusion and Restraint of Students with Disabilities in Public Schools; Providing requirements for the use of manual physical restraint by school personnel; prohibiting specified manual physical restraint techniques; requiring that each school district develop policies and procedures governing the authorized use of manual physical restraint, the personnel authorized to use such restraint, training procedures, analysis of data, and the reduction of the use of manual physical restraint, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1420 Relating to Trespasses Upon School Buses Broxson

Trespasses Upon School Buses; Providing that a person who boards or enters any part of or who remains upon a school bus commits a trespass upon a school bus under specified circumstances; providing criminal penalties, etc. Effective Date: 10/1/2017

SB 1422 Relating to Minority Teacher Education Scholars Stewart

Minority Teacher Education Scholars; Revising eligibility criteria for receipt of a minority teacher education scholarship; revising the scholar awards on which the Florida Fund for Minority Teachers, Inc.’s budget projection to the Department of Education must be based, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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SB 1426 Relating to Sales Tax Exemptions for Governmental Entities Artiles

Sales Tax Exemptions for Governmental Entities; Providing construction relating to when a transaction is properly characterized as an exempt sale or lease to a governmental entity, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1456 Relating to Postsecondary Performance-based Funding Clemens (J)

Postsecondary Performance-based Funding; Requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA) to conduct a study relating to performance-based funding of public community colleges and universities, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1460 Relating to Florida Best and Brightest Teacher Scholarship Program Simmons

Florida Best and Brightest Teacher Scholarship Program; Revising the intent of the program to include eligibility for school administrators who meet certain standards; revising requirements for a classroom teacher to be eligible for a scholarship under the program; deleting the scheduled expiration of the program, etc. Effective Date: 6/30/2017

SB 1462 Relating to Excess Credit Hour Surcharges Hutson

Excess Credit Hour Surcharges; Revising provisions relating to additional student payment for credit hours exceeding baccalaureate degree program completion requirements at state universities, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1464 Relating to Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program Hutson

Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program; Requiring that the Legislature appropriate additional funds necessary for use of an award for summer term enrollment as provided in the General Appropriations Act, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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SB 1468 Relating to Education Galvano

Education; Requiring the Auditor General to conduct annual audits of the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind; authorizing the Commissioner of Education to coordinate with specified entities to assess needs for resources and assistance in an emergency situation; extending the timeframe by which the Florida Polytechnic University must meet specified criteria established by the Board of Governors of the State University System, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1472 Relating to Medicinal Cannabis Research and Education Galvano

Medicinal Cannabis Research and Education; Citing this act as the “Medicinal Cannabis Research and Education Act"; establishing the Coalition for Medicinal Cannabis Research and Education within the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc.; establishing the Medicinal Cannabis Research and Education Board to direct the operations of the coalition; requiring the board to advise specified entities and officials regarding medicinal cannabis research and education in this state; specifying responsibilities of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc., etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1474 Relating to Teacher Certification Perry

Teacher Certification; Requiring the Department of Education to issue a temporary educator certificate within a specified period; requiring the department to provide the applicant an official statement of status of eligibility upon issuance of a temporary certificate; authorizing charter schools and charter management organizations to develop a professional development certification and education competency program, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1492 Relating to Supplemental Academic Instruction Simmons

Supplemental Academic Instruction; Removing a limitation on the application of the requirement that specified school districts use certain funds to provide additional intensive reading instruction; specifying the method for designating the 300 lowest-performing elementary schools, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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SB 1500 Relating to Retirement of Instructional Personnel and School Administrators Mayfield

Retirement of Instructional Personnel and School Administrators; Directing the State Board of Education to adopt rules prohibiting instructional personnel and school administrators from selecting a retirement date that occurs during the regular school year, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1502

Relating to Disclosure of Contract Information by Individuals or Entities Receiving Public Funding Rouson

Disclosure of Contract Information by Individuals or Entities Receiving Public Funding; Requiring certain information to be included in contracts of specified individuals and corporations; providing that the definition of the term “proprietary business information” does not include certain information relating to the amount paid under specified contracts between a private corporation, partnership, or person and an economic development agency; revising the information an economic development agency is required to disclose after a specified period, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1528 Relating to Joint Session for Purpose of Receiving Governor's Message Benacquisto

Joint Session for Purpose of Receiving Governor's Message; Providing that the House of Representatives and the Senate convene in Joint Session for the purpose of receiving a message from the Governor, etc.

SB 1530 Relating to Adjourning & Reconvening of Legislature/2017 Regular Session Benacquisto

Adjourning & Reconvening of Legislature/2017 Regular Session; Providing for adjourning and reconvening of each house of the Legislature and providing for adjournment sine die during the 2017 Regular Session, etc.

SB 1552 Relating to Florida Best and Brightest Teacher and Principal Scholar Award Program Simmons

Florida Best and Brightest Teacher and Principal Scholar Award Program; Creating the Florida Best and Brightest Teacher and Principal Scholar Award Program to be administered by the Department of Education; providing timelines and requirements for program implementation; requiring the State Board of Education to adopt rules, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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SB 1556 Relating to Education Lee (T)

Education; Prohibiting a district school board from requiring any additional information or verification from a home education program parent under certain circumstances; providing an exception for certain children from the age verification requirements for school attendance; requiring a school and school district to comply with specified provisions before instituting criminal prosecution against certain parents relating to compulsory school attendance, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1572 Relating to Education Savings Account Program Bean

Education Savings Account Program; Authorizing a parent to direct a financial institution trustee of his or her child’s account to use funds for specified costs of attending specified private schools or programs, for participating in a dual enrollment program, or to make a contribution to the child’s college savings plan or to a contract under the Stanley G. Tate Florida Prepaid College Program; specifying eligibility criteria for private schools, private tutors, private tutoring programs, and private postsecondary institutions to participate in the program, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law

SB 1586 Relating to Student Eligibility for Interscholastic Athletic Competition Garcia

Student Eligibility for Interscholastic Athletic Competition; Revising requirements for the bylaws of the Florida High School Athletic Association governing student eligibility to participate in interscholastic athletic competition; revising the information that must be included on the preparticipation physical evaluation form, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1598 Relating to Education Brandes

Education; Creating the Schools of Excellence Program; providing for designation as a School of Excellence; providing additional authority and responsibilities to the principal of a School of Excellence; providing that successful completion of a specified program demonstrates mastery of certain skills; revising the activities designed to implement the School Community Professional Development Act to include specified training relating to the comprehensive teacher mentorship program, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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SB 1622 Relating to School Bus Safety Passidomo

School Bus Safety; Citing this act as the “Cameron Mayhew Act”; providing mandatory noncriminal penalties for certain violations resulting in serious bodily injury to or death of another person, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1630 Relating to English Language Learners Rodriguez (J)

English Language Learners; Creating the English Language Learner Advisory Council within the Department of Education; specifying the composition of the advisory council and providing for appointment of members and the terms they serve, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1640 Relating to Administrative Procedures Broxson

Administrative Procedures; Requiring an agency to prepare a statement of estimated regulatory costs before adoption, amendment, or repeal of any rule other than an emergency rule, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1648 Relating to School Bus Safety Torres, Jr.

School Bus Safety; Providing that a person using, operating, or driving a vehicle who passes a school bus on the side that children enter and exit while the school bus displays a stop signal commits reckless driving, rather than a moving violation; specifying that such violation is punished as reckless driving, rather than as a moving violation, etc. Effective Date: 10/1/2017

SB 1654 Relating to Florida Kidcare Program Campbell

Florida Kidcare Program; Establishing the Kidcare Operational Efficiency and Health Care Improvement Workgroup to maximize the return on investment and enhance the operational efficiencies of the Florida Kidcare program, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1662 Relating to Cannabis Clemens (J)

Cannabis; Providing that possession of a personal use quantity of cannabis or a cannabis accessory by an adult is a civil violation; providing that such possession by a minor is a civil violation; prohibiting state or local penalties or obligations other than specified penalties or obligations

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concerning possession of personal use quantities of cannabis or cannabis accessories; specifying that certain violations may not be considered probation or parole violations, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1666 Relating to Medical Use of Marijuana Braynon

Medical Use of Marijuana; Authorizing physicians to issue physician certifications to specified patients for the provision of marijuana and marijuana delivery devices; requiring physicians to meet certain conditions to be authorized to issue and make determinations in physician certifications; requiring the Department of Health to register on the compassionate use registry a caregiver and to issue him or her a caregiver identification card if the caregiver meets certain requirements, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law

SB 1668 Relating to Use of State Funds Perry

Use of State Funds; Providing a limitation on actual expenses of certain lodging that may be reimbursed for a state agency or judicial branch employee; requiring a state entity that requests state funds for the construction of a new building to comply with maximum cost per square foot requirements; prohibiting the use of state funds to purchase alcoholic beverages and to purchase food or beverages for certain state agency appreciation or recognition events, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1690 Relating to School Resource Officer Programs Torres, Jr.

School Resource Officer Programs; Encouraging a school resource officer to be placed at each public school in the district; authorizing a part-time law enforcement officer to be a school resource officer or school safety officer; providing requirements for the funding of certain school resource officers’ and school safety officers’ salaries, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1692 Relating to School Garden Programs Torres, Jr.

School Garden Programs; Requiring the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, to annually provide certain information relating to school garden programs to school districts, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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SB 1708 Relating to School Attendance Campbell

School Attendance; Providing that compulsory school attendance laws apply to children ages 6 to 18 years; requiring parental notice of forfeiture of benefits received from a state financial assistance program upon a request for termination of school enrollment; requiring students to attend school until the age of 18 years; removing discretionary authority of a district school board to allow a student to take a high school equivalency examination after reaching a specified age, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1710 Relating to Education Stargel

Education; Designating the month of September as “American Founders’ Month”; revising the duties of the Just Read, Florida! Office to include developing and providing access to certain resources for elementary schools; requiring postsecondary students to demonstrate civic literacy, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1714 Relating to Early Learning Rouson

Early Learning; Revising provisions relating to removal of a provider from eligibility to deliver the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program or receive certain funding under certain circumstances; requiring each coalition to establish child eligibility criteria based on local community needs for participation in the school readiness program; revising a provision relating to revocation of a provider’s eligibility to deliver the school readiness program or receive certain funding under certain circumstances, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1724 Relating to District Millage Elections Montford

District Millage Elections; Extending the amount of time that a district school board may levy an approved ad valorem tax millage, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1732 Relating to Postsecondary Education Tuition and Fees Rodriguez (J)

Postsecondary Education Tuition and Fees; Providing that certain individuals may not be denied classification as residents for tuition purposes if certain criteria are met; providing that out-of-state fees for certain individuals who are undocumented for federal immigration purposes shall be waived if certain criteria are met, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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SB 1738 Relating to Career Education Powell

Career Education; Authorizing the Commissioner of Education to establish an advisory committee to review and evaluate career education program standards, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1742 Relating to Texting While Driving Rodriguez (J)

Texting While Driving; Revising penalties for violations of the Florida Ban on Texting While Driving Law; providing enhanced penalties for such violations when committed in a school zone or school crossing; requiring each law enforcement agency in this state to adopt policies to prohibit the practice of racial profiling in the enforcement of this section, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

SB 1758 Relating to Medical Use of Marijuana Grimsley

Medical Use of Marijuana; Authorizing physicians to issue physician certifications to specified patients for the provision of marijuana and marijuana delivery devices; reducing the number of hours of coursework required of physicians who issue physician certifications; requiring the Department of Health to register on the compassionate use registry a caregiver and to issue him or her a caregiver identification card if the caregiver meets certain requirements, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law

SB 1762 Relating to Joint Rules of the Florida Legislature Benacquisto

Joint Rules of the Florida Legislature; Amending Joint Rule 2 of the Joint Rules of the Florida Legislature for the 2016-2018 term relating to budget conference committee rules, etc.

HB 2003 Relating to Volusia Schools STEM/Blended Learning Santiago

Volusia Schools STEM/Blended Learning: Provides an appropriation for the Volusia Schools STEM/Blended Learning. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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HB 2153 Relating to United Way of Florida - Financial Literacy and Prosperity Program Santiago

United Way of Florida - Financial Literacy and Prosperity Program: Provides an appropriation for the United Way of Florida - Financial Literacy and Prosperity Program. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 2753 Relating to Performing Arts Auditorium at Zelda Glazer 6-12 Diaz (J)

Performing Arts Auditorium at Zelda Glazer 6-12: Provides an appropriation for the Performing Arts Auditorium at Zelda Glazer 6-12. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 3279 Relating to After School Program Scholarship Hardemon

After School Program Scholarship: Provides an appropriation for the After School Program Scholarship. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 4091 Relating to Sparsity Funding for Hernando County School District Ingoglia

Sparsity Funding for Hernando County School District: Provides an appropriation for the Sparsity Funding for Hernando County School District. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 6001 Relating to Concealed Weapons and Firearms Raburn

Concealed Weapons and Firearms: Revises areas of an airport where person is prohibited from openly carrying handgun or from carrying concealed weapon or firearm. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 6005 Relating to Licenses to Carry Concealed Weapons or Firearms Plakon

Licenses to Carry Concealed Weapons or Firearms: Removes provision prohibiting concealed carry licensees from openly carrying handgun or carrying concealed weapon or firearm into college or university facility. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

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HB 6015 Relating to High School Graduation Requirements Massullo, Jr.

High School Graduation Requirements: Removes requirement that student participating in interscholastic sport pass competency test on personal fitness to satisfy physical education credit requirement for high school graduation. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 6017 Relating to Florida Center for the Partnerships for Arts Integrated Teaching Gruters

Florida Center for the Partnerships for Arts Integrated Teaching: Deletes future expiration of provisions creating Florida Center for the Partnerships for Arts Integrated Teaching. Effective Date: June 30, 2017

HB 6023 Relating to Sports Development Avila

Sports Development: Repeals provision relating to state funding for sports facility development by unit of local government, or by certified beneficiary or other applicant, on property owned by local government. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 6039 Relating to Licenses to Carry Concealed Weapons or Firearms Plakon

Licenses to Carry Concealed Weapons or Firearms: Deletes provisions prohibiting concealed carry licensees from openly carrying handgun or carrying concealed weapon or firearm into specified public meetings or into career centers. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

SB 7000 Relating to Florida Building Commission Community Affairs

Florida Building Commission; Requiring the commission to use the most recent published edition of the Florida Building Code as the foundation code; requiring the commission to review, rather than update, the Florida Building Code every years; deleting a provision that specifies how long amendments or modifications to the foundation code remain effective, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017

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HB 7001 Relating to State Officers Post-service Personal Representation Prohibitions Public Integrity & Ethics Committee

State Officers Post-service Personal Representation Prohibitions: Proposes amendment to State Constitution prohibiting legislators & statewide elected officers from personally representing another person or entity for compensation before any state government body or state agency except judicial tribunals for six years following vacation of office; provides that prohibition applies to individuals who were members of legislature or who were statewide elected officers at any time after November 8, 2016.

HB 7003 Relating to State Officer Post-service Lobbying Restrictions Public Integrity & Ethics Committee

State Officer Post-service Lobbying Restrictions: Prohibits legislators & statewide elected officers from personally representing another person or entity for compensation before any state government body or state agency except judicial tribunals for specified time period following vacation of office; deletes prohibition on former legislator from acting as lobbyist before an executive branch agency, agency official, or employee for specified period following vacation of office; provides applicability. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 7005 Relating to Economic Programs Careers & Competition Subcommittee

Economic Programs: Repeals specified programs; transfers duties, records, pending issues, rules, & unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, & other public funds relating to certain programs to DEO; provides transitional provisions for terminated programs; provides for transfer of certain funds to General Revenue Fund; requires DEO to pay outstanding debts & obligations of certain trust funds & CFO to close out & remove such trust funds from state accounting systems. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

HB 7015 Relating to Florida Statutes/General Rules & Policy Committee

Florida Statutes/General: Deletes provisions that have expired, become obsolete, had their effect, served their purpose, or been impliedly repealed or superseded; replaces incorrect cross-references & citations; corrects grammatical, typographical, & like errors; removes inconsistencies, redundancies, & unnecessary repetition in statutes; improves clarity of statutes & facilitates their correct interpretation; confirms restoration of provisions unintentionally omitted from republication in acts of Legislature during amendatory process & removes gender-specific references applicable to human beings from Florida Statutes without substantive change in legal effect. Effective Date: on the 60th day after adjournment sine die

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HB 7017 Relating to Florida Statutes / Non-current Repeals or Expiration Rules & Policy Committee

Florida Statutes / Non-current Repeals or Expiration: Repeals specified provisions that have become inoperative by noncurrent repeal or expiration & may be omitted from 2016 Florida Statutes only through reviser's bill duly enacted by Legislature; conforms provisions. Effective Date: on the 60th day after adjournment sine die

HB 7019 Relating to Florida Statutes/Rulemaking Repeals Rules & Policy Committee

Florida Statutes/Rulemaking Repeals: Conforms Florida Statutes to directive of Legislature in s. 9, ch. 2012-116, LOF, codified as s. 11.242(5)(j), F.S., to prepare reviser's bill to omit all statutes & laws, or parts thereof, which grant duplicative, redundant, or unused rulemaking authority. Effective Date: on the 60th day after adjournment sine die

SB 7022 Relating to State-administered Retirement Systems Governmental Oversight and Accountability

State-administered Retirement Systems; Revising required employer retirement contribution rates for each membership class and subclass of the Florida Retirement System, etc.Effective Date: 7/1/2017

HB 7023 Relating to Trust Funds/Creation/Local Government Lobbyist Registration Trust Fund Public Integrity & Ethics Committee

Trust Funds/Creation/Local Government Lobbyist Registration Trust Fund: Creates Local Government Lobbyist Registration Trust Fund within Commission on Ethics; provides for purpose of trust fund & source of funds; provides exemption from service charges; provides for future legislative review & termination or re-creation of trust fund; provides contingent effective date. Effective Date: on the same date that HB 7021 or similar legislation takes effect

HB 7027 Relating to Federal Education Funding Education Committee

Federal Education Funding: Urges Congress to establish block grant funding for Title I funds & IDEA Part B funds & discontinue federal education mandates requiring certain actions in order to maintain federal funding eligibility. Effective Date: Not Specified

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HB 7037 Relating to Gaming Tourism & Gaming Control Subcommittee

Gaming: Authorizes & directs Governor, in cooperation with Seminole Tribe of Florida, to execute new compact in certain form; requires Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering to revoke permit to conduct pari-mutuel wagering for permitholder that fails to make specified payments or obtain operating license; prohibits division from issuing license to conduct or authorize slot machine gaming after specified date; prohibits specified cardroom games. Effective Date: July 1, 2017

PIE1 Relating to State Officers Post-service Lobbying Prohibitions Public Integrity & Ethics Committee

PCB PIE 17-01 State Officers Post-service Lobbying Prohibitions (DRAFT)

PIE2 Relating to State Officers Post-service Lobbying Prohibitions Public Integrity & Ethics Committee

PCB PIE 17-02 State Officers Post-service Lobbying Prohibitions

PIE3 Relating to Local Government Ethics Reform Public Integrity & Ethics Committee

PCB PIE 17-03 Local Government Ethics Reform (DRAFT)

CCS1 Relating to Economic Programs Careers & Competition Subcommittee

PCB CCS 17-01 -- Economic Programs

PIE4 Relating to Local Government Lobbyist Registration Trust Fund Public Integrity & Ethics Committee

PCB PIE 17-04 -- Local Government Lobbyist Registration Trust Fund

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HQS1 Relating to Health Care Access Health Quality Subcommittee

PCB HQS 17-01 -- Health Care Access

PKQ1 Relating to Civic Literacy PreK-12 Quality Subcommittee

PCB PKQ 17-01 -- Civic Literacy

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