Sen. Danny Burgess

School Safety; Revising the Chris Hixon, Coach Aaron Feis, and Coach Scott Beigel Guardian Program to include child care facilities; requiring a sheriff to establish a guardian program under certain circumstances; revising firearm requirements for school guardians and school security guards; requiring the Office of Safe Schools to convene a workgroup of specified entities; requiring specified school safety requirements to be implemented during specified time periods, etc.

Maddy summarySenate Resolution 646 (SR 646) is a resolution that honors and recognizes the victims of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. It serves to acknowledge the experiences and sacrifices of those affected.

Educator Preparation; Requiring the Department of Education to establish a workgroup to update and revise the Florida Educator Accomplished Practices; requiring the department to submit workgroup findings to the Governor and the Legislature by a certain date; establishing guidelines for teacher preparation program uniform core curricula, etc.

Education; Specifying sufficient notice and prior warning for immediate arrest and prosecution for school bus trespassing; authorizing a private school in a county that meets certain criteria to construct new facilities on certain property; requiring a charter school sponsor to use a standard monitoring tool to monitor and review a charter school; authorizing a student in a full-time virtual instruction program to participate on an interscholastic athletic team at a public school in the school district in which the student resides or to develop an agreement to participate at a private school; requiring the Commissioner of Education to coordinate with school districts selected by the department to implement a policy for a specified school year prohibiting the use of cell phones while on school grounds or engaged in certain activities off school grounds, etc.

Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program; Revising eligibility requirements for a student who earns a high school diploma from a non-Florida school under certain circumstances; revising student eligibility requirements for the Florida Academic Scholars award to include earning an Advanced Placement Capstone designation from the College Board, etc.

Actions for Recovery of Damages for Wrongful Death; Deleting a provision prohibiting the recovery of certain damages by specified parties related to the decedent in wrongful death proceedings, etc.

Legal Tender; Requiring the Department of Financial Services to contract with an appropriate vendor to conduct a specified study and submit a report to the Legislature by a specified date; prohibiting the vendor from having certain relationships; requiring, by a specified date, the department to provide proposed statutory and administrative rule language if certain conditions are met, etc.

Disability History and Awareness Instruction; Citing this act as the "Evin B. Hartsell Act"; requiring the Department of Education to develop specified curricula; authorizing the department to consult with the Evin B. Hartsell Foundation to further develop such curricula, etc.

Cardiac Emergencies; Revising requirements for instruction on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of an automated external defibrillator; requiring each public school to develop a cardiac emergency response plan (CERP); requiring public schools, including charter schools, to have at least one operational automated external defibrillator on school grounds by a specified date, etc.

Arrest and Detention of Individuals with Significant Medical Conditions; Defining the term “person with a significant medical condition”; providing that a law enforcement officer may use his or her discretion in determining whether to make an immediate arrest of such person, etc.