Sen. Danny Burgess

Controlled Substances; Providing criminal penalties; providing for a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment if a person sells, manufactures, or delivers or possesses with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver specified substances or mixtures, and such substance or mixture has at least one specified attribute; providing enhanced criminal penalties; providing for a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment if a person commits specified prohibited acts relating to controlled substances or mixtures, and such substance or mixture has at least one specified attribute, etc.

Public Records/Special Persons Registry; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for all records, data, information, correspondence, and communications relating to and submitted in connection with the enrollment of persons in the Special Persons Registry maintained by local law enforcement agencies; prohibiting law enforcement agencies, county emergency management agencies, and local fire departments from further disclosing confidential and exempt information; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Victims of Crime; Prohibiting the deposition of specified victims in a criminal action, absent a showing of good cause; providing for factors to be considered concerning such motions; requiring that a victim be notified that he or she has the right to be informed of specified information if contacted by certain persons acting on behalf of a defendant in a criminal proceeding, etc.

Emergency Response Mapping Data; Creating the School Mapping Data Grant Program within the Department of Education; authorizing each school district to apply for funds to provide mapping data for public school buildings; authorizing a school district to use the funds to procure a vendor; requiring the entity that produces the data to provide the data to certain entities, etc.

Florida Atlantic University Men’s Basketball Team; Recognizing and celebrating the incredible accomplishments of the Florida Atlantic University men’s basketball team and the university’s commitment to both academic and athletic excellence, creating a collegiate brand that is nationally renowned, etc.

Student Use of Social Media Platforms; Requiring members of the instructional staff of public schools to provide instruction on the social, emotional, and physical effects of social media to students in specified grades; requiring that district school board codes of student conduct include a prohibition against students using wireless communications devices during instructional time and authorization for teachers to withhold a student’s device, with an exception for use at the direction of the teacher; requiring each school district to prohibit and prevent students from accessing social media platforms through the use of Internet access provided by the school district, etc.

State Park Campsite Reservations; Requiring the Division of Recreation and Parks of the Department of Environmental Protection to allow residents and nonresidents to make state park cabin and campsite reservations within specified timeframes; requiring Florida residents to provide information from their Florida driver license or identification card for certain reservations made in advance, etc.

Care for Retired Police Dogs; Citing this act as the "Care for Retired Police Dogs Program Act"; creating the Care for Retired Police Dogs Program within the Department of Law Enforcement; requiring the department to contract with a nonprofit corporation to administer and manage the program; specifying requirements for the disbursement of funds for the veterinary care of eligible retired police dogs, etc. APPROPRIATION: Indeterminate

Educator Certification Pathways for Veterans; Authorizing the Department of Education to issue a temporary certificate to specified military servicemembers who meet certain criteria; requiring a teacher mentorship for specified military servicemembers who hold a temporary certificate; specifying the duration and issuance of a temporary certificate for specified military servicemembers, etc.

United States Space Force; Revising the definition of the term “uniformed service” to include the United States Space Force; revising the Armed Forces officers authorized to take or administer specified oaths, affidavits, or acknowledgements to include United States Space Force officers; revising the military service branches for which any county or state official who is called to active service may receive a leave of absence; updating military base names; adding post exchanges operated by the United States Space Force to those that are exempt from paying tax on cigarettes sold; revising the armed forces uniforms that are protected from imitation to include uniforms of the United States Space Force, etc.