Sen. Kristen Arrington

Statewide, Standardized Assessments; Requiring the Department of Education to develop versions of statewide, standardized assessments and specified portions of the statewide, standardized coordinated screening and progress monitoring system in certain languages by a specified date; requiring the department to establish criteria for the use of such assessments and portions of the system; authorizing parents to prohibit the use of such assessments and portions of the system in certain languages, etc.

Maddy summaryThis bill increases the maximum value of the property tax exemption available to disabled ex-servicemembers who are former military service members. It directly affects eligible disabled veterans by allowing them to claim a larger tax reduction on their primary residence. The key provision raises the exemption cap from $10,000 to $25,000 annually. This is a concrete policy change that reduces property tax liability for qualifying disabled veterans without altering eligibility requirements.

Public Records/County Administrators and City Managers; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for the personal identifying and location information of current county administrators, deputy county administrators, assistant county administrators, city managers, deputy city managers, and assistant city managers, and their spouses and children; providing for future legislative review and repeal; providing for retroactive application; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Required Life Skills Instruction; Revising the required instruction in specified life skills to include career readiness, financial literacy, and home economics, etc.

Student Elopement; Requiring public schools to create a school staff assistance for emergencies (SAFE) team and a school elopement plan; requiring the SAFE team to create student-specific elopement quick reference guides for certain students; requiring public schools to annually provide their plans to the district school board, etc.

Exceptions to the Limitation on Termination of Pregnancies; Revising the definition of the term “fatal fetal abnormality”; providing that one physician, rather than two physicians, must make specified medical determinations for purposes of specified medical exceptions to the limitation on termination of pregnancies; revising the criteria of a specified medical exception, etc.

Instructional Hours for the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program; Revising the instructional hours required to be delivered in the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program for school-year and summer programs, etc.

Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program; Requiring public high schools to establish a Bright Futures Scholarship mentorship program for students, etc.

Specialty License Plates/Florida Wildflower; Increasing the annual use fee for the Florida Wildflower license plate and providing a discount for owners purchasing the plate for more than a specified number of vehicles, etc.

Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote; Requiring a statewide popular election for President and Vice President of the United States; establishing a procedure for appointing presidential electors in member states; providing that the agreement becomes effective upon the occurrence of specified actions, etc.