Sen. Doug Broxson

Financial Literacy Instruction in Public Schools; Citing this act as the “Dorothy L. Hukill Financial Literacy Act”; revising the requirements regarding financial literacy for the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards; revising the required credits for a standard high school diploma to include one-half credit of instruction in personal financial literacy and money management and seven and one-half, rather than eight, credits in electives; modifying the requirements for the award of a standard high school diploma for Academically Challenging Curriculum to Enhance Learning options, etc.

Reinstatement of Suspended Driver Licenses; Creating the Operation Green Light Pilot Program within the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to assist certain persons in reinstating suspended driver licenses; providing requirements for participation in the program; providing duties of the clerk of the court and the department; requiring execution of a written payment agreement between the clerk of the court and a participant; requiring maintenance of certain records; requiring clerks of the court to submit reports to the department by a specified date, etc.

Motorcycle Specialty License Plate Taxes and Fees/Blue Angels; Establishing taxes and fees for a certain motorcycle specialty license plate, etc.

Virtual Learning; Revising the purpose of the Florida Virtual School to provide for the development and delivery of online distance and blended learning; revising the requirements of a report that the board of trustees of the Florida Virtual School must annually submit to certain entities, beginning with a specified school year; requiring students enrolled in the Florida Virtual School Justice Education Program to take specified examinations and assessments at institutions or facilities operated by, or under the supervision of, the Department of Corrections; requiring the Florida Virtual School to establish the Florida Virtual School Justice Education Program, beginning with a specified school year, etc.

Workforce Education Postsecondary Student Fees; Authorizing district school boards and Florida College System institutions’ boards of trustees, in consultation with certain organizations, to implement a plan for a differential out-of-state fee for specified purposes; requiring school districts and Florida College System institutions to prioritize the enrollment of certain students in specified programs of study, etc.

Military Corpsmen and Medics of Florida (MCMF) Program; Creating the MCMF Program Office of Veterans Advocacy within the Department of Health; requiring the MCMF Program, through the Department of Economic Opportunity, to assist certain veterans and their spouses with specified tasks; requiring Florida Is for Veterans, Inc., to collaborate with specified entities to implement the MCMF Program, etc.

License Plates; Authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to conduct a pilot program to evaluate designs, concepts, and technologies for a digital, rather than an alternative, license plate pilot program; authorizing the department to investigate the feasibility of digital license plate designs, concepts, and technologies that, at a minimum, meet certain prerequisites; providing that an owner of a digital license plate is not subject to penalties for failure to display a validation sticker if certain conditions are met; authorizing the department to allow a registered motor vehicle to be equipped with an approved digital license plate in lieu of a physical license plate by a certain date, etc.

Early Learning Scholarship Program; Establishing the Early Learning Scholarship Program within the Department of Education; providing eligibility criteria for participation in the program; providing for a child’s continued eligibility for a specified period; providing program obligations for eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations and for parents and children; providing requirements for the amount and payment of scholarship funds, subject to appropriation, etc.

Motorcycle Specialty License Plates/Blue Angels; Directing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to create a Blue Angels motorcycle specialty license plate; providing for distribution and use of annual use fees received from the sale of the plate; providing for transfer of the plate to a replacement vehicle under certain circumstances, etc.

Insurance; Redefining the term “covered policy” under the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund in relation to certain collateral protection insurance policies; authorizing any association, trust, or pool created for the purpose of forming a risk management mechanism or providing self-insurance for a public entity to use communications media technology to establish a quorum and conduct public business; authorizing insurers to file certain insurance rating plans based on certain windstorm mitigation construction standards, if certain requirements are met, etc.