Sen. Lori Berman

In-person Visitation; Citing this act as the “No Patient Left Alone Act”; requiring certain providers to establish visitation policies and procedures within a specified timeframe; authorizing the resident, client, or patient to designate an essential caregiver; requiring in-person visitation in certain circumstances; authorizing providers to suspend in-person visitation of specific visitors under certain circumstances, etc.

Children with Developmental Delays; Revising the definition of the term “exceptional student” to include additional students with developmental delays, etc.

Financial Literacy Instruction in Public Schools; Citing this act as the “Dorothy L. Hukill Financial Literacy Act”; revising the requirements regarding financial literacy for the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards; revising the required credits for a standard high school diploma to include one-half credit of instruction in personal financial literacy and money management and seven and one-half, rather than eight, credits in electives; modifying the requirements for the award of a standard high school diploma for Academically Challenging Curriculum to Enhance Learning options, etc.

Required Instruction in the History of the Holocaust and the History of African Americans; Requiring the Department of Education to prepare and offer standards and curriculum related to the history of African Americans; requiring the department to annually verify that school districts, charter schools, and specified private schools implement certain instruction relating to the history of the Holocaust and the history of African Americans and providing requirements therefor; requiring district school superintendents, charter school principals, and private school directors or similar administrators to annually provide specified evidence to the department by a certain date; requiring certain statewide, standardized assessments to include curricula content from the history of the Holocaust and the history of African Americans, etc.

Victims of Crimes of Sexual Violence or Sexual Exploitation; Providing that a victim of any crime of sexual violence or sexual exploitation has the right to prevent any person or entity from disclosing or disseminating information or records that might identify him or her as a victim of such crimes; prohibiting a person or an entity in possession of information or records that might identify an individual as a victim of a crime of sexual violence or sexual exploitation from disclosing or disseminating such information or records without first obtaining the express written consent of the victim, etc.

Active Shooter Alert System; Providing for the development and implementation of an active shooter alert system by the Department of Law Enforcement; providing for cooperation by other agencies; designating the executive director of the department as the statewide coordinator of the system; providing requirements for law enforcement agencies requesting activation of the system; providing duties of state agencies concerning the system; limiting participation by the Department of Transportation, etc.

Reproductive Health Care Rights; Creating the “Reproductive Health Care Protections Act”; providing that each person has certain fundamental rights related to reproductive health care; prohibiting a person, the state, a local governmental entity, or any political subdivision of the state from discriminating against, denying, unduly burdening, or interfering with a person’s exercise of such fundamental rights; providing for a civil cause of action and remedies; providing that the recovery limits of sovereign immunity apply, etc.

Specialty License Plates/Ethical Ecotourism ; Directing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop an Ethical Ecotourism license plate; providing for distribution and use of fees collected from the sale of the plate, etc.

Required Instruction in the History of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; Requiring the history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to be included in specified instruction, etc.

Military Corpsmen and Medics of Florida (MCMF) Program; Creating the MCMF Program Office of Veterans Advocacy within the Department of Health; requiring the MCMF Program, through the Department of Economic Opportunity, to assist certain veterans and their spouses with specified tasks; requiring Florida Is for Veterans, Inc., to collaborate with specified entities to implement the MCMF Program, etc.