Rep. Lauren Melo

Interscholastic Activities; Authorizing charter school students and Florida Virtual School full-time students to participate in extracurricular activities at a private school under certain circumstances authorizing charter school students and Florida Virtual School full-time program students to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities at private schools under certain circumstances; authorizing traditional public school students to participate in interscholastic and intrascholastic activities at certain schools; revising the requirements for students to participate in such activities, etc.

Required African-American Instruction; Requires each school district to certify & provide certain evidence to DOE regarding certain instruction; authorizes DOE to seek input from & contract with certain educational organizations for specified purposes; requires each school district to submit implementation plan to Commissioner of Education & post plan on its website; provides requirements for plan; requires commissioner or DOE to provide certain notification; provides timeframe within which school district must submit revisions to its plan; authorizes SBE to take certain actions.

Florida Virtual School; Provides flexibility in administration for specified assessments for FLVS full-time students of military families residing outside this state; provides requirements for such students, FLVS, & DOE.

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.

Issuance of Special Beverage Licenses; Revises requirements for issuing special beverage licenses to certain food service establishments & entities operating certain clubs.

Technology in K-12 Public Schools; Prohibiting the use of certain platforms on district-owned devices and through Internet access provided by the school district; authorizing teachers and other instructional personnel to designate an area for wireless communications during instructional time; requiring public schools to provide instruction on the social, emotional, and physical effects of social media, etc.

Savings and Out-of-pocket Expenses in Health Insurance; Requires certain licensed facilities & physicians to provide specific pricing & cost-obligation information to patients; requires health insurer to apply payment for service that nonpreferred provider provided to insured toward insured's deductible & out-of-pocket maximum as if service had been provided by preferred provider, if specific conditions are met.

Energy Regulation; Requires determinations on building new energy generating facilities to take certain factors into consideration; prohibits local governmental entities from requiring or prohibiting certain building materials, vehicles, or home heating elements; authorizes local governmental entities to adopt bid specifications for public works projects that take energy savings or production into consideration; prohibits adoption or enforcement of certain state & regional programs to regulate greenhouse gas emissions without specific legislative authorization.

Physician Assistants' Prescriptive Authority; Removes requirements that physician assistants may only prescribe or dispense drugs under physician's supervision.

Homestead Tax Exemptions; Revises interest rate & penalty that applies to property owners who unlawfully received homestead exemption; revises criteria under which rental of homestead property is considered abandonment for tax exemption purposes.