Sen. Danny Burgess

Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA); Requiring the FHSAA to allow certain schools and home education cooperatives to maintain full membership in the association or to join by sport; prohibiting the FHSAA from discouraging such school or cooperative from simultaneously maintaining membership in another athletic association; requiring, rather than authorizing, the FHSAA to allow public schools to join other athletic associations, etc.

Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority; Renaming the Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority as the “West Florida Expressway Authority”; providing for the transfer of governance and control, property and legal rights, powers, responsibilities, and obligations from the Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority to the West Florida Expressway Authority; authorizing the authority to construct certain facilities within the expressway system; deleting provisions relating to interest on gasoline tax funds repaid to Hillsborough County; specifying lands and property the authority may acquire, etc.

Social Media Websites; Requiring social media websites to provide individual and business users of the site with notice within a specified timeframe that the website has suspended or disabled the user’s account, etc.

Law Enforcement Officer Training; Authorizing the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission to incorporate instruction on use of force, deescalation techniques, and suicide awareness and prevention techniques into the course curriculum required for law enforcement officers obtaining initial certification; authorizing the commission to adopt rules authorizing each officer to receive instruction on use of force, deescalation techniques, and suicide awareness and prevention techniques as part of required instruction for continued employment or appointment as an officer, etc.

Combating Public Disorder; Authorizing a resident of a municipality to file an appeal to the Administration Commission if the governing body of the municipality makes a specified reduction to the operating budget of a municipal law enforcement agency; creating a cause of action against a municipality for obstructing or interfering with reasonable law enforcement protection during a riot or an unlawful assembly; increasing the offense severity ranking of an aggravated assault for the purposes of the Criminal Punishment Code if committed in furtherance of a riot or an aggravated riot; prohibiting defacing, injuring, or damaging a memorial; prohibiting cyberintimidation by publication, etc.

Public Records/Social Media Platforms; Providing a public records exemption for certain information received in investigations by the Attorney General or a law enforcement agency into social media platform activities; providing a public records exemption for certain information received in investigations by the Department of Legal Affairs or a law enforcement agency into violations by certain social media platforms; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Broadband Internet; Requiring the Florida Office of Broadband’s strategic plan to include short-term and long-term goals for increasing the availability of and access to broadband Internet service in this state; requiring the updated plan to be submitted to the Governor, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the Legislature by a specified date; requiring the office to provide technical and planning assistance related to broadband infrastructure to rural communities, etc. APPROPRIATION: $1,400,000

Workforce Education; Revising the workforce education programs that school district career centers are authorized to conduct, etc.

Impeding, Provoking, or Harassing Law Enforcement Officers; Prohibiting approaching a law enforcement officer or remaining within a specified distance of such officer with specified intent after receiving a warning not to approach, etc.

Disability Claim Coordinators; Authorizing counties to request the Department of Health to assign disability claim coordinators to their respective county health departments; providing that the counties are responsible for such coordinators’ employment terms, duty assignments, and salaries and benefits; requiring the department to certify disability claim coordinators if they meet certain qualifications, etc.