Rep. Dana Trabulsy

Veterans' Services and Recognition; Creates Division of Long-term Care within DVA; revises qualifications for county & city veteran service officers; creates "Veterans' Adult Day Health Care of Florida Act"; provides for appointment, qualifications, duties, & responsibilities of program operator; establishes nondiscrimination policy; provides program admittance eligibility & priority; provides for audits, inspections, & operational standards; designates "Veterans Week."

Pub. Rec. and Meetings/Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact; Provides exemptions from public meetings & records requirements for Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact Commission & its executive committee; provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemptions; provides statements of public necessity.

Interstate Education Compacts; Creates Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact for the purpose of authorizing teachers licensed in one member state to become licensed in another member state; provides requirements for such compact; & revises cross-references in Interstate compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.

Benefits, Training, and Employment for Veterans and Their Spouses; Requires analysis of VETS Program; revises duties of DVA & Florida Is For Veterans, Inc., to include assistance to veterans' spouses; revises purpose & duties of VETS Program to include assistance to veterans' spouses; requires Florida Is For Veterans, Inc., to assist veterans or their spouses in accessing employment & licensure in health care professions; requires DOH to waive certain fees for veterans & their spouses; requires appropriate board or DOH to expedite health care licensure applications submitted by veterans; establishes Office of Veteran Licensure Services; provides appropriations & authorizes positions. APPROPRIATION: $399,565

Solicitation of Minors to Commit Lewd or Lascivious Act; Prohibits person 24 years of age or older from soliciting person 16 or 17 years of age in writing to commit lewd or lascivious act.

911 Public Safety Telecommunicator Certifications; Increases timeframe within which inactive 911 public safety telecommunicator certificate may be reactivated before it permanently expires; removes process by which certificateholder may voluntarily place his or her certificate in inactive status; prohibits DOH from requiring certificateholders to pay fee or to make election to place their certificates in inactive status, beginning on specified date; requires that certain fees paid by certificateholder before specified date be credited toward any future renewal fees required to be paid by certificateholder.

K-12 Education; Removes specified reduction calculation for certain school district funding for school districts that fail to meet certain class size requirements; provides that certain dependent children of active duty military personnel must be enrolled in certain programs; & authorizes certain students of military personnel to enroll in any school within state.

Student Outcomes; Revises provisions relating to instructional materials, programs & strategies, reading interventions & programs, New Worlds Reading Scholarship Accounts, specified FEFP funding, & students with educational deficiencies. APPROPRIATION: $158,000,000

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.

Residency of Local Elected Officials; Prohibiting changes to county commissioner district boundaries during a specified timeframe; prohibiting the consideration of the residential addresses of certain persons during the district-drawing process for boards of county commissioners, etc.