Sen. Randolph Bracy

Lodging Standards; Citing this act as "Miya’s Law"; requiring landlords of nontransient or transient apartments to require employees to undergo background screenings as a condition of employment; revising what constitutes reasonable notice for repairs of dwelling units; requiring public lodging establishments licensed as nontransient or transient apartments to take certain actions relating to employee background screenings and keys for dwelling units; prohibiting an operator of a public lodging establishment from offering an hourly rate for an accommodation, etc.

Children with Developmental Delays; Revising the definition of the term “exceptional student” to include additional students with developmental delays, etc.

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.

Prohibited Discrimination Based on Hairstyle; Citing this act as the "Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act" or "CROWN Act"; prohibiting discrimination based on protected hairstyle in the K-20 public education system; defining the terms “race” and “protective hairstyles” for purposes of antidiscrimination requirements for private schools participating in the state school choice scholarship program, etc.

Student Access to Internet Connections and Technology; Establishing the Digital Inclusion Technology Development Initiative; providing the purpose and goal of the initiative; providing for funding; requiring the initiative to submit an annual report by a specified date to the Governor, the Legislature, and the Commissioner of Education; establishing the Initiative Educational Technology Advisory Council, etc. APPROPRIATION: Indeterminate

B.K. Roberts Hall at Florida State University; Repealing chapter 73-370, Laws of Florida, relating to the designation of a Florida State University facility; rescinding the designation of B.K. Roberts Hall at Florida State University, etc.

Public Records/Expunged Criminal History Records; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for specified expunged criminal history records; providing exceptions; providing criminal penalties; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Statewide Police Misconduct Registry; Requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to establish by a certain date and maintain a statewide police misconduct registry; specifying information that the registry must contain on all state and local law enforcement officers; requiring the head of each state and local law enforcement agency to periodically submit specified information to the department beginning on a specified date; requiring the department to publish the information on its website by a specified date, etc.

Prosecuting Children as Adults; Deleting provisions under which a state attorney must either request a court to transfer and certify children of certain ages who commit specified crimes for prosecution as adults or provide written reasons to the court for not making such a request, or must proceed under certain provisions; revising the circumstances under which a state attorney may file an information in cases that involve children of certain ages who commit certain crimes; providing that children 14 years of age or older, rather than children of any age, who are charged with certain offenses are subject to court jurisdiction until an indictment is returned; authorizing, rather than requiring, a child to be sentenced as an adult if the child is found to have committed an offense punishable by death or life imprisonment, etc.

Background Screening; Prohibiting certain entities that contract for inmate labor from excluding certain persons from consideration for employment or from disqualifying certain persons from employment; specifying conditions that constitute exclusion from consideration for employment; prohibiting an entity from inquiring into or considering an applicant’s criminal history before the applicant has received a conditional offer of employment; prohibiting an entity from considering specified information in connection with an application for employment; requiring an entity to consider specified factors when determining whether an applicant may be disqualified from employment, etc.