Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program; Establishes Dozier School for Boys & Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program within DLA; requires DLA to provide specified notice & accept & process applications for payment of compensation claims; requires DLA to pay specified compensation amount to approved applicants; limits compensation applicant may receive; authorizes Commissioner of Education to award standard high school diploma to specified persons. APPROPRIATION: $20,000,000
Sponsored bills
Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day; Designates Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day, which occurs on fourth Thursday in March, as legal holiday.
Online Protections for Minors; Requiring social media platforms to prohibit certain minors from creating new accounts; requiring social media platforms to terminate certain accounts and provide additional options for termination of such accounts; providing conditions under which social media platforms are required to prohibit certain minors from entering into contracts to become account holders; authorizing the Department of Legal Affairs to bring actions under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act for knowing or reckless violations; authorizing the department to issue and enforce civil investigative demands under certain circumstances, etc.
Use or Threatened Use of Force; Removes provisions stating that persons who use or threaten to use force, other than deadly force, do not have duty to retreat before using or threatening to use such force in defense of persons or property; prohibits use of deadly force by person who knows that he or she can avoid using deadly force with complete safety by retreating; removes provisions stating that person using or threatening to use deadly force does not have duty to retreat & has right to stand his or her ground; repeals provisions relating to immunity from criminal prosecution & civil action for justifiable use or threatened use of force.
Mental Health Education and Training; Requires all persons working in roles involving direct interaction with youth to undergo mental health education & training; provides requirements for education & training; requires DCF to establish & maintain dedicated spaces easily accessible to youth for dissemination of information & resources related to mental health; provides that department, in collaboration with relative agencies, is responsible for implementation & enforcement.
Risk Protection Orders; Requires law enforcement officers taking custody of person for involuntary examination to seize firearms & ammunition from that person if certain criteria are met; requires law enforcement officers to request voluntary surrender of person's firearms or ammunition not already seized by law enforcement; requires law enforcement officers to petition court for risk protection order under certain circumstances after taking custody of person for involuntary examination.
Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program; Revises student eligibility criteria for specified awards within Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program.
Termination of Pregnancies; Clarifies that certain penalties relating to unlawful termination of pregnancy do not apply to pregnant woman who terminates pregnancy.
Possession or Use of a Firearm in a Sensitive Location; Defines "sensitive location"; prohibits possession or use of firearm in sensitive location; provides exceptions.
Anaphylaxis in Public Schools; Requires DOE to publish on its website each district school board's anaphylaxis policy; requires each district school board to adopt anaphylaxis policy; provides requirements for such policy & specified training.