Middle School and High School Start Times; Providing requirements for middle school and high school start times; requiring such school start times to be implemented by a specified date; providing district school board requirements, etc.
Regional Transportation Planning; Requiring the Department of Transportation, or its consultant, to conduct a study regarding the potential dissolution or transfer of the governance, staff, operations, funding, and facilities of the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority; specifying requirements of the study; requiring the department to submit a report to the Governor and Legislature by a specified date, etc.
Dental Services for Indigent Veterans; Establishing the Veterans Dental Care Grant Program within the Department of Veterans’ Affairs; requiring the department to contract with a direct-support organization to administer the program; requiring the department to use a specified standard for determining indigency, etc.
Chiefs of Police; Providing rights of chiefs of police; requiring an aggrieved chief of police to provide his or her employing agency with a certain written notice within a specified timeframe; requiring an employing agency to cure an alleged violation within a specified timeframe, etc.
Electronic Monitoring of Persons Charged with or Convicted of Offenses Involving Schools or Students; Requiring a court to consider electronic monitoring and location restrictions as conditions of pretrial release for persons charged with certain offenses against schools or students; requiring a court to consider electronic monitoring and location restrictions as conditions of probation or community control for persons charged with certain offenses against schools or students, etc.
Law Enforcement Operations; Revising the powers, duties, and obligations of a sheriff; requiring that there be an elected sheriff in each county; requiring the sheriff to provide contracted police services for certain municipalities for a specified timeframe; authorizing certain persons to file a petition with the Division of Administrative Hearings, rather than an appeal by petition to the Administration Commission, if the tentative budget of a municipal law enforcement agency contains a reduction greater than a specified percentage, etc.
Education; Revising which students may be given an enrollment preference by charter schools; specifying training and reporting requirements for charter school sponsors; requiring the State Board of Education to adopt rules to implement a standard monitoring tool; revising how a district school board calculates certain teachers’ shares of funds from the Florida Teachers Classroom Supply Assistance Program, etc.
Special Persons Registry; Citing this act as the “Protect Our Loved Ones Act"; authorizing local law enforcement agencies to develop and maintain a database, to be known as the “Special Persons Registry,” for a specified purpose; authorizing local law enforcement agencies to provide relevant information from the registry to law enforcement officers under certain circumstances, etc.
Use of Phosphogypsum; Authorizing the Department of Transportation to undertake demonstration projects using phosphogypsum in road construction aggregate material to determine its feasibility as a paving material; requiring the department to conduct a study on the suitability of using phosphogypsum as a construction aggregate material; prohibiting phosphogypsum from being regulated as solid waste if used in accordance with an allowed use under specified federal regulations and approvals, etc.
Registration Fees for Malt Beverage Brands and Labels; Providing that the annual registration fee is required only if labels or brands are sold to a distributor; specifying that no other registration fee is authorized, etc.
