Sen. Rosalind Osgood

Maddy summarySB 720 prevents Florida students from losing their in-state tuition residency status solely due to incarceration in state or federal correctional facilities. This applies to all students enrolled in Florida public colleges, universities, or career centers covered by Florida Statute 1009.21. The bill amends the statute to explicitly state that incarceration cannot be the basis for changing a student's resident classification for tuition purposes, ensuring continued access to lower tuition rates for those who were residents before incarceration. The law takes effect July 1, 2026.

Powers of Neighborhood Improvement Districts; Authorizing a neighborhood improvement district to plan, finance, or complete structural safety or building compliance improvements if approved by a majority vote of the district’s residents or by a certain advisory council, etc.

Compensation of the Descendants of Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, and Ernest Thomas; Providing that certain facts are found and declared to be true; providing that a sum is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of State for specified relief; requiring that a specified percentage of such relief be provided to certain individuals and estates; providing that specified persons are ineligible for further compensation, etc. APPROPRIATION: $4,000,000

Student Mental Health; Requiring the State Board of Education to adopt rules to enforce maximum class size restrictions; requiring that a school district’s plan for its mental health assistance program include contracts or interagency agreements that provide for one licensed mental health therapist per school; requiring that such plan include policies and procedures ensuring that every classroom has a corner for students to regulate emotional control and that teachers assign homework that is purposeful and assigned with consideration of students’ time outside the classroom, etc.

Comprehensive Health Care for Residents; Creating the “Florida Health Plan”; authorizing the Florida Health Board to establish certain financial arrangements with other states and foreign countries under certain circumstances; prohibiting cost-sharing requirements from being imposed on enrollees; providing that defaults, underpayments, and late payments of certain obligations result in certain remedies and penalties; providing for eligible health care providers to participate in the plan; creating the Office of Health Quality and Planning, etc.

Condominium Structural Integrity Reserve Studies; Defining the term “structural integrity reserve study”; requiring condominium associations that govern a building of a specified height to conduct a structural integrity reserve study for a specified purpose; providing that condominium associations that govern a building that does not meet such specified height requirement are not required to conduct a structural integrity reserve study; authorizing certain condominium associations to elect, by a majority vote of their members, to waive or reduce reserve contributions; providing construction, etc.

Education on Abusive Head Trauma; Requiring the Department of Health to adopt evidence-based parent education materials that describe the dangers of abusive head trauma, including shaken baby syndrome; specifying requirements for the distribution of the parent education materials, including a statewide public education campaign; requiring the department to implement a multi-year phase-in plan for the distribution of the parent education materials, etc.

Parity for Nonnursing Services Under Long-term Managed Care Plans; Beginning on a specified date, requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to reimburse nonnursing services provided by licensed providers at the same rate or higher than the rate it reimburses unlicensed providers for such services under the Medicaid long-term managed care program; requiring the agency annually to adjust the rate for licensed providers, etc.

Maddy summarySB 406 prohibits carrying weapons or firearms in specific locations, including schools (elementary/secondary and college facilities), courthouses, police stations, polling places, government meetings, and certain areas of bars. It creates new criminal penalties for violations, classifying them as second-degree misdemeanors, while allowing firearms in vehicles for lawful purposes and in airport terminals when encased for shipment. The bill aligns with existing concealed carry license rules by explicitly listing prohibited locations, such as college campuses (unless the person is a student/employee with a non-lethal weapon) and polling places. It does not change general concealed carry requirements but adds these location restrictions to Florida law.

Hunger-Free Campus Pilot Program; Citing this act as the "Hunger-Free Campus Act"; establishing, subject to legislative appropriation, the pilot program within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for a specified period; requiring the Commissioner of Agriculture to identify the three state universities or Florida College System institutions with the highest percentage of Pell Grant-eligible students for participation in the pilot program; providing requirements for participating universities and institutions, etc.