Rep. Jim Mooney

Florida Red Tide Mitigation and Technology Development Initiative; Requires initiative to develop certain deployment technologies & approaches & submit report to DEP, FWCC, DACS, & specified state agencies; requires DEP to submit evaluation regarding technologies & approaches to Mote Marine Laboratory within specified time period & amend regulatory or permitting processes & expedite regulatory reviews; removes expiration of date of initiative.

School Chaplains; Authorizes school districts & charter schools to adopt policy to allow volunteer school chaplains; requires district school boards & charter school governing boards to assign specified duties to such volunteer school chaplains; requires volunteer school chaplains to meet certain background screening requirements; requires school districts and charter schools to publish specified information under certain circumstances.

Student Achievement; Creating the Music-based Supplemental Content to Accelerate Learner Engagement and Success (mSCALES) Pilot Program within the Department of Education; providing the purpose of the pilot program; providing requirements for the pilot program; providing eligibility; etc.

Cybersecurity; Exempts state chief technology officer from career service; revises purposes for which Florida Digital Service is established; requires state CIO, in consultation with Secretary of Management Services, to designate state chief technology officer; authorizes chairs of certain legislative committees or subcommittees to attend exempt portions of meetings of Florida Cybersecurity Advisory Council if authorized by President of Senate or Speaker of House of Representatives, as applicable; requires state agency & local government to report ransomware & cybersecurity incidents; requires Cybersecurity Operations Center to provide notifications & reports; requires DMS to preserve data & provide aid in certain circumstances; requires DLE to coordinate incident responses; revises membership of Florida Cybersecurity Advisory Council; revises mission & goals of Florida Center for Cybersecurity.

Florida Retirement System; Authorizing certain retirees to be reemployed after terminating employment; prohibiting such retirees from receiving both a salary from the employer and retirement benefits for a specified period after his or her retirement; removing provisions authorizing the reemployment of certain law enforcement officers as school resource officers; revising employer contribution rates to the Florida Retirement System, etc.

Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day; Designates Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day, which occurs on fourth Thursday in March, as legal holiday.

Purple Alert; Requires local law enforcement agencies to develop policies for local activation of Purple Alert for certain missing adults; specifies requirements; specifies duties of FDLE's Missing Endangered Persons Information Clearinghouse in event of state Purple Alert; specifies conditions under which local law enforcement agency may request clearinghouse to open case.

Department of Corrections; Provides additional authority for law enforcement officers of office of inspector general concerning department & contractor-operated correctional facilities; provides that correctional privatization contracts are not exempt from state contracting provisions unless otherwise specified; replaces term "private correctional facility" with "contractor-operated correctional facility."

Child Exploitation Offenses; Creating the offense of harmful communication to a minor; ranking the offense on the offense severity ranking chart of the Criminal Punishment Code; etc.

Coverage for Skin Cancer Screenings; Requires DMS to require contracted state group health insurance plans to provide coverage & payment for annual skin cancer screenings performed by specified persons without imposing any cost-sharing requirement; specifies requirement for & restriction on payments for such screenings.