Sen. Kevin J. Rader

Insurance Guaranty Associations; Authorizing certain guaranty association employees to adjust losses for the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association if certain conditions are met; redefining the term “net direct written premiums” as “direct written premiums” and revising the definition of that term; deleting a calculation of initial estimated assessments levied by the Office of Insurance Regulation on insurers in the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association; deleting a calculation of initial estimated assessments levied by the office on insurers in the Florida Workers’ Compensation Insurance Guaranty Association, etc.

Customer Service Standards for State Agencies; Requiring departments within the executive branch of state government to implement certain measures with respect to telephone calls placed by customers, etc.

Instructional Personnel Salaries; Citing this act as the "Florida Teacher Fair Pay Act"; providing legislative intent that the Florida Education Finance Program be funded at a level that ensures a certain minimum annual starting salary for instructional personnel; specifying a statewide minimum salary for all instructional personnel for the 2020-2021 fiscal year; requiring the Department of Education to annually calculate an adjusted statewide minimum annual starting salary, etc.

Specialty License Plates/Florida State Beekeepers Association; Directing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop a Florida State Beekeepers Association license plate, etc.

Holocaust Education in Public Schools; Citing this act as the "Holocaust Education Act of 2020"; requiring charter school instructional personnel to teach specified topics; requiring certain private school instructional personnel to teach specified topics; revising the requirements for instructional content relating to the Holocaust that members of public school instructional staff are required to teach; requiring the Department of Education to coordinate with school districts to appoint Holocaust curriculum coordinators, etc.

Health Education; Expanding the required instruction in grades 9 through 12 to include a breast cancer and prostate cancer awareness component, etc.

Prohibition of Plastic Carryout Bags and Straws; Prohibiting a store or food service business from providing to a customer a carryout bag made of plastic film; prohibiting a food service business from selling or providing to a customer a single-use plastic straw, etc.

Income Inequality Impact Statements; Requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to prepare an income inequality impact statement for proposed legislation upon the request of a member of the Legislature; specifying requirements for the impact statement, etc.

Fees/Florida State Beekeepers Association License Plate; Creating a fee for a certain specialty license plate, etc.

Income Inequality; Citing this act as the “Income Inequality Study Act”; requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to conduct a study to identify the legislative actions and funding necessary to achieve specified goals in reducing income inequality, etc.