HOPE Mission Center (Helping Our People Everyday); Provides an appropriation for the HOPE Mission Center (Helping Our People Everyday). APPROPRIATION: $100,000
LHANC - Rainbow Intergenerational Child Learning Center; Provides an appropriation for the LHANC - Rainbow Intergenerational Child Learning Center. APPROPRIATION: $250,000
Youth at Risk Program; Provides an appropriation for the Youth at Risk Program. APPROPRIATION: $275,000
Miramar Parkway LED Streetlight Improvements; Provides an appropriation for the Miramar Parkway LED Streetlight Improvements. APPROPRIATION: $150,000
STEM Teacher Pilot Program; Provides an appropriation for the STEM Teacher Pilot Program. APPROPRIATION: $1,000,000
Insolvent Insurers; Provides required factors to be used in determination & fixing of rates for premiums paid to insolvent insurers for specified coverages; authorizes insurers to elect not to recoup advance assessments paid to Florida Insurance Guaranty Association, Incorporated; provides calculations of insurers' assets under specified circumstances; revises provisions relating to payments of assessments & insurers' reconciliation reports to association; requires insurers to pay assessments to association, rather than to collect such assessments; specifies payments that certain insurers must make to association; requires insurers to treat insureds' failure to pay surcharges, rather than recoupment charges, as failure to pay premiums; provides that insurers are liable for surcharges & are not liable for uncollectible surcharges; removes requirement that insurers treat insureds' failure to pay emergency assessments as failure to pay premiums; revises provisions relating to insurers' collection of surcharges & payments of assessments to Florida Workers' Compensation Insurance Guaranty Association, Incorporated.
"Victims of Communism Day"; Requires Governor to proclaim November 7 of each year as "Victims of Communism Day"; requires day to be observed in public schools & by public exercise; requires day other than November 7 to be observed by public schools under specified circumstance; requires high school students to receive specified instruction; requires SBE to adopt specified revised social studies standards.
Reducing Fetal and Infant Mortality; Revises purpose & requirements for Comprehensive Statewide Tobacco Education & Use Prevention Program; requires DOH to contract with local healthy start coalitions for creation of fetal & infant mortality review committees; prohibits physician from performing abortion if gestational age of fetus is determined to be more than specified number of weeks; provides exception; requires directors of certain medical facilities & certain physicians to submit monthly report to AHCA electronically; requires hospitals participate in minimum number of quality improvement initiatives. APPROPRIATION: $1,602,000
Law Enforcement ; Authorizes a sheriff to transfer funds between specified categories and code levels after his or her budget is approved; revises salary minimums for county sheriffs; provides for adoption benefits for law enforcements officers; creates Florida Law Enforcement Recruitment Bonus Payment Program; provides exemption from certain law enforcement officer training requirements for military veterans; provides requirements for skills training for law enforcement officers relating to officer health & safety; makes children of law enforcement officers eligible for Family Empowerment Scholarships; encourages school districts to establish public safety telecommunication training programs & offer law enforcement explorer programs; requires Board of Governors & State Board of Education to create process that enables eligible law enforcement officers or former officers to earn credit for college-level training & education acquired while serving an officer; creates Florida Law Enforcement Academy Scholarship Program; provides for reimbursement for out-of-state & special operations forces law enforcement equivalency training.
Additional Homestead Property Tax Exemption for Specified Critical Public Service Workforce; Proposes amendment to State Constitution to authorize Legislature, for all levies other than school district levies, to grant additional homestead property tax exemption on $50,000 of assessed value of homestead property owned by classroom teachers, law enforcement officers, correctional officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, child welfare services professionals, active duty members of United States Armed Forces, & Florida National Guard members.
