Human Trafficking Awareness; Requiring the Department of Education to identify a curriculum regarding human trafficking awareness; specifying required components of the curriculum; authorizing in-person or online training; requiring public schools to require that certain personnel have received certain training, etc.
HB 85, titled "Hazardous Walking Conditions," revises the criteria used to determine what constitutes a hazardous walking condition for public school students. This bill directly affects public school students by potentially altering the conditions under which they might be eligible for transportation services due to unsafe walking routes. The official abstract does not specify the new or revised criteria that would be implemented.
Third-party Reservation Platforms; Citing this act as the “Restaurant Reservation Anti-Piracy Act”; specifying that a third-party reservation platform does not include certain contractual designees; prohibiting a third-party reservation platform from listing, advertising, promoting, selling, or otherwise enabling a reservation at a public food service establishment; authorizing the Division of Hotels and Restaurants of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to impose a civil penalty not to exceed a specified amount for a violation of the act or of a division rule, etc.
School Safety; Revising the Chris Hixon, Coach Aaron Feis, and Coach Scott Beigel Guardian Program to include child care facilities; requiring a sheriff to establish a guardian program under certain circumstances; revising firearm requirements for school guardians and school security guards; requiring the Office of Safe Schools to convene a workgroup of specified entities; requiring specified school safety requirements to be implemented during specified time periods, etc.
Licensure of Family Foster Homes ; Requires DCF to adopt rules to streamline licensure application process for licensed foster parents who relocate within this state; requires such rules to include priority review of applications, expedited home studies & background checks, & recognition of prior foster parent training coursework.
HB 809 exempts individuals employed as school social workers from specific educator certification requirements. This means that these professionals would not need to meet certain teaching credentials typically mandated for other educators.
False Reporting; Provides enhanced criminal penalties for specified violation relating to use of emergency communications services which results in great bodily harm, permanent disfigurement, permanent disability, or death; revises requirements for specified violation relating to continued misuse of emergency communications services; provides that conviction includes determination of guilt regardless of whether adjudication is withheld or plea of nolo contendere is entered; requires courts to order person convicted of violation to pay costs of prosecution & investigation & restitution for certain damages & injuries; requires courts to order person convicted of violation to pay costs of prosecution & investigation & restitution for certain damages & injuries; ranking offenses on offense severity ranking chart of Criminal Punishment Code.
School District Reporting Requirements; Requiring district school boards to adopt a policy temporarily removing instructional personnel under specified circumstances; revising requirements for law enforcement to notify specified entities when an employee is arrested for certain offenses; requiring instructional personnel and administrative personnel to self-report certain arrests or judgments within specified timeframes, etc.
Prearranged Transportation Services; Prohibits impersonation of transportation network company driver; provides criminal penalties; provides that services purchased from transportation network company are not considered privately owned or operated bus transit systems; authorizes Commission for Transportation Disadvantaged to expend funds to contract with alternative providers; provides requirements for such alternative providers; revises definition of term "transportation service provider"; requires transportation service providers to provide certain drivers with access to certain training materials.
Cardiac Emergencies; Requires, rather than authorizing, school districts to provide training in basic first aid to certain students; provides requirements for such training; requires each public school to develop plan for urgent life-saving emergencies (PULSE) for specified purposes; & provides requirements for school, staff, & defibrillator use & storage.
Refund of Overpayments Made by Patients; Requiring health care facility licensees to refund to the patient any overpayment within a specified timeframe; specifying that health care facility licensees who violate certain provisions are subject to administrative fines; requiring health care practitioners to refund to the patient any overpayment within a specified timeframe; revising the list of acts that constitute grounds for disciplinary actions for health care practitioners, etc.
Type 1 Diabetes Early Detection Program; Requiring the Department of Health, in collaboration with school districts throughout this state, to develop informational materials for the early detection of Type 1 diabetes for parents and guardians of certain students; requiring early learning coalitions to notify parents and guardians of the availability of such informational materials, etc.
