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
Ethics Requirements for Officers and Employees of Special Tax Districts; Specifies that conduct by certain public officers & employees is deemed conflict of interest; requires ethics training for elected local officers of independent special districts; specifies requirements for such training.
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.
Assault or Battery on Hospital Personnel; Provides for reclassification of certain offenses committed against hospital personnel while engaged in performance of their duties.
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
High School Equivalency Diplomas; Prohibits district school board from requiring certain students to take course before taking high school equivalency examination unless student failed to earn passing score on specified practice test.
Individual Education Plans; Requires IEPs for certain students to contain information on legal rights & responsibilities that transfer to students at age 18; requires information to include ways in which student may provide informed consent to allow his or her parent to continue to participate in educational decisions.
Menstrual Hygiene Products in Public Schools; Authorizing school districts to make menstrual hygiene products available, at no charge, in schools within the district and at certain locations within such schools; specifying requirements for the menstrual hygiene products and the dispensers of such products; requiring participating schools to notify students of the availability and locations of such products; encouraging school districts to partner with specified organizations to supply and maintain such menstrual hygiene products, 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.
