Employment Practices for Family and Medical Leave; Creates "Florida Family & Medical Leave Act"; requires employer to allow employees to take paid family leave to bond with minor child upon child's birth, adoption, or foster care placement; provides requirements, limitations, & duties; provides for civil action & penalties; creates family & medical leave insurance benefits program; provides duties, responsibilities, & limitations of program; prohibits specified employment practices on basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth; provides for leave, maintenance of health coverage, reasonable accommodation & transfer, & return rights for employee who is disabled from pregnancy, childbirth, or medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth.
Sponsored bills
AGAPE Behavioral Health Response following COVID; Provides an appropriation for the AGAPE Behavioral Health Response following COVID. APPROPRIATION: $750,000
Medical Marijuana Retail Facilities; Authorizes licensed medical marijuana retail facilities to dispense marijuana, marijuana delivery devices, & edibles; specifies prohibitions relating to ownership & operation of such facilities; imposes criminal penalties for specified unlicensed activities; authorizes such facilities to access confidential & exempt information in medical marijuana use registry for certain verification purposes.
Health Care for Women in the Criminal Justice System; Authorizes female arrestees to request pregnancy testing; requires testing to be administered by facility medical providers; provides deferred sentences for pregnant women; requires specified postpartum assessments be offered to incarcerated women; requires DOH to collect data relating to women incarcerated in correctional facilities; requires DOH submit annual report to Governor & Legislature.
Use of Epinephrine Auto-injectors on Public K-20 Campuses; Provides that state universities & FCS institutions are considered authorized entities for specified purposes relating to emergency use of epinephrine auto-injectors; requires, rather than authorizes, public schools to purchase or acquire supply of epinephrine auto-injectors for specified purposes; requires such epinephrine auto-injectors be maintained in specified location; requires state universities & FCS institutions to purchase or acquire supply of epinephrine auto-injectors for specified purposes; provides requirements for such supplies of epinephrine auto-injectors; requires state universities & FCS institutions to develop specified protocols; provides liability for use of such epinephrine auto-injectors.
Family and Medical Leave Insurance Benefits Fund; Creates Family & Medical Leave Insurance Benefits Fund under DFS; requires DFS to begin collecting contributions for fund by certain date; provides CFO powers to manage revenues in fund.
Krumpin' 4 Success - Reincarnation: Youth Anti-Violence Prevention and Intervention Program; Provides an appropriation for the Krumpin' 4 Success - Reincarnation: Youth Anti-Violence Prevention and Intervention Program. APPROPRIATION: $504,300
Treating Trauma Now; Provides an appropriation for the Treating Trauma Now. APPROPRIATION: $100,000
Wayman Community Development At-Risk Youth Program; Provides an appropriation for the Wayman Community Development At-Risk Youth Program. APPROPRIATION: $150,000
Department of Labor; Creates Department of Labor; provides structure & purpose of department; revises requirements notifying employees of certain rights; designates department as state Agency for Workforce Innovation for purposes of implementing s. 24, Art. X of State Constitution; revises provisions relating to state minimum wage including, protected rights, rebuttable presumption & burden of proof, prohibition on certain contracts, process for filing complaint for violation of protected rights, department powers, injunctive relief, review of actions issued by department, statute of limitations during investigation, liability, & recordkeeping; creates the DOL Community Advisory Board; requires annual report.