Sen. Rosalind Osgood

Student Use of Social Media Platforms; Requiring members of the instructional staff of public schools to provide instruction on the social, emotional, and physical effects of social media to students in specified grades; requiring that district school board codes of student conduct include a prohibition against students using wireless communications devices during instructional time and authorization for teachers to withhold a student’s device, with an exception for use at the direction of the teacher; requiring each school district to prohibit and prevent students from accessing social media platforms through the use of Internet access provided by the school district, etc.

High School Equivalency Diplomas; Prohibiting a district school board from requiring certain students to take a course before taking the high school equivalency examination unless the student failed to earn a passing score on a specified practice test, etc.

Housing; Citing this act as the "Live Local Act"; deleting the authority of local governments to adopt or maintain laws, ordinances, rules, or other measures that would have the effect of imposing controls on rents; providing an exemption from ad valorem taxation for land that meets certain criteria; authorizing local governments to adopt ordinances to provide an ad valorem tax exemption for portions of property used to provide affordable housing meeting certain requirements; suspending, for a specified period, the General Revenue Fund service charge on documentary stamp tax collections; authorizing the Governor, under the Florida Job Growth Grant Fund, to approve state or local public infrastructure projects to facilitate the development or construction of affordable housing, etc. APPROPRIATION: $711,000,000

Deposing Victims of Certain Offenses; Prohibiting the deposing of an individual who, at the time of the request for the deposition, is 17 years of age or younger and has been a victim of human trafficking or specified sexual offenses; providing exceptions; requiring a court to issue a protective order for the victim if the court approves a deposition of the victim; requiring that a subpoena or other notice of the deposition given to the victim include specified information; prohibiting certain self-represented defendants from directly deposing a victim, etc.