School Meals; Requiring public schools and nonprofit private schools participating in certain federal programs to provide students, at no cost, a printed meal application or an explanation and instructions on how to apply; requiring schools to complete and file an application for free or reduced-price meals on a student’s behalf under certain circumstances; requiring school district liaisons for homeless children to coordinate with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to ensure that homeless students in public schools receive free and reduced-price meals; providing duties for public and nonprofit private schools which apply regardless of a student’s ability to pay for meals or whether the student owes money for previous meals, etc.
Sponsored bills
Upgrades to Education Facilities as Emergency Shelters; Exempting costs of less than $2 million associated with certain upgrades to education facilities from being included in certain cost per student station calculations; requiring costs associated with certain upgrades to be consistent with prevailing market costs in the area where the education facility is located, etc.
Fairness in Women’s Sports Act; Citing this act as the “Let Kids Play Act”; repealing provisions relating to the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, etc.
Education in Public Schools Concerning Human Sexuality; Deleting criteria for instruction in acquired immune deficiency syndrome, sexually transmitted diseases, and health education in schools; creating the "Florida Healthy Adolescent Act"; requiring certain public schools that provide information or offer programs to students relating to human sexuality to provide information or offer programs that meet specified criteria; requiring public schools to make a certain curriculum available to parents and guardians upon request; authorizing students to be excused from certain portions of a specified program under certain circumstances, etc.
Drinking Water In Public Schools; Requiring each school district to install a specified number of water bottle filling stations with certified point-of-use filters installed to remove lead; requiring each school district to identify all drinking water sources, install a barcode on each source, and install filters that meet certain specifications on all such sources; requiring that the filters be replaced or maintained in a specified manner; requiring each school district to post certain signage on certain water sources and to publish specified information on the school district’s website, etc.
Inmate Confinement; Prohibiting the use of solitary confinement; prohibiting the use of restrictive confinement for noncompliance, punishment, or harassment or in retaliation for an inmate’s conduct; prohibiting youths, young adults, and inmates who have specified medical needs from being placed in restrictive confinement except under specified circumstances; providing that an inmate is entitled to a review of his or her placement in restrictive confinement within a specified timeframe by a specified staff committee, etc.
Tourist Development Taxes; Removing a provision requiring a specified percentage of all tourist development tax revenues to be used to promote and advertise tourism, etc.
Emergency Management; Authorizing the Legislature, by concurrent resolution, to declare a state of emergency if certain conditions exist; requiring the Governor to comply with specified provisions of ch. 252, F.S., upon a legislatively declared state of emergency; providing that the state of emergency continues for a specified timeframe if specified conditions exist; providing a limit on the duration of the state of emergency unless renewed by the Legislature, etc.
Farming Operations; Revising the definitions of the terms “farm operation” and “nuisance” for purposes of the Florida Right to Farm Act, etc.
Correctional Privatization; Transferring the duties of the Department of Management Services concerning private correctional facilities to the Department of Corrections by a type two transfer; prohibiting an agency from entering into or renewing a contract with private correctional services after a specified date, etc.