Rep. Kim Daniels

Property Owners' Right to Install, Display, and Store Items; Authorizes condominium unit owners to display certain flags on Patriot Day; authorizes homeowners to display certain number of specified flags regardless of certain prohibitions in governing documents of homeowners' association; defines "first responder flag"; prohibits homeowners' associations from restricting parcel owners & their tenants from installing, displaying, or storing items on parcels; provides exceptions; prohibits certain homeowners' association documents from precluding property owners from displaying certain number of specified flags; requires that such flags be displayed in specified manner.

Education; Requiring school districts to annually review and confirm that specified information is accurate and up to date; creating the Year-round School Pilot Program for a period of 4 school years beginning with a specified school year; requiring the Commission for Independent Education to annually prepare an accountability report by a specified date; providing requirements for searches of students’ personal belongings; requiring dual enrollment courses to be age and developmentally appropriate; authorizing students to use a combination of volunteer service hours and paid work hours to meet certain program eligibility requirements; providing an appropriation, etc. APPROPRIATION: $6,800,000

Veterans' Preference for Promotion; Requires state & political subdivisions to give veterans' preference in employment promotion; authorizes waiver of postsecondary educational requirements; requires DVA to adopt rules to ensure veterans' preference in promotion; requires numerically based selection process to be used to determine qualifications for promotion; requires preference in promotion in positions for which numerically based selection process is not used; provides for investigation & administrative hearing of complaint regarding veterans' promotion preference; provides that military retirement on basis of longevity does not disqualify person from veterans' promotion preference.

Educator Certifications; Revises provisions relating to educator certifications.

Valuation of Timeshare Units; Specifies methodology by which certain timeshare units must be valued in certain tax appeals; provides that methodology meets constitutional mandate for just valuation.

State University Auxiliary Enterprises; Requires BOG to establish uniform reporting requirements for state university auxiliary enterprises; & provides state university responsibilities relating to auxiliary enterprises.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities Matching Endowment Scholarship Program; Establishes Historically Black Colleges & Universities Matching Endowment Scholarship Program within DOE; provides requirements for such program.

Transportation Facility Designations; Designates Coach Gwendolyn Maxwell Bridge to Ribault in Duval County; directs DOT to erect suitable markers.

Student Elopement; Requires public schools to create School Staff Assistance for Emergencies (SAFE) Team & school elopement plan; provides for membership & responsibilities of team; provides requirements for plan; requires team to create student-specific elopement quick reference guides for certain students; & provides requirements for such guides; requires public schools to annually submit their plans to district school board.

State Recognition of Indian Tribes and Bands; Provides for state recognition of specified Indian tribes & bands.