Sen. Shev Jones

Task Force on Workforce Housing for Teachers and Expansion of Schools; Creating the task force adjunct to the Department of Economic Opportunity; defining the term “workforce housing”; requiring state agencies to assist and cooperate with the task force; encouraging local governments to assist and cooperate with the task force, etc.

Energy Transition Task Force; Creating the task force adjunct to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for a specified purpose; providing for the membership and duties of the task force; requiring the department to provide staffing and administrative support to the task force; requiring the task force to submit a report to certain officials by a specified date; providing for expiration of the task force, etc.

Black Maternal Health Week; Recognizing April 11 — 17, 2023, as “Black Maternal Health Week” in Florida to bring attention to the maternal health crisis in the black community and the importance of reducing maternal mortality and morbidity among black women in this state, etc.

Programs and Services for Young Adults with Developmental Disabilities; Creating the Transition Success Network for a specified purpose; providing duties for the Agency for Persons with Disabilities and certain divisions of the Department of Education; requiring a member of the network to participate, upon request, in individual education plan meetings for students with disabilities, etc.

FAMU Day; Recognizing April 13, 2023, as “FAMU Day” in Florida, etc.

Public Records/Requesting Specified Leave Relating to a Homicide; Providing a public records exemption for certain personal identifying information, records, and time sheets submitted to an agency by an employee requesting specified leave relating to a homicide; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Healthy Food Financing Initiative Program; Revising requirements for the administration of and participation in the Healthy Food Financing Initiative program; providing program eligibility requirements for nonprofit organizations and revising eligibility requirements for community development financial institutions; requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to review the program and collected data after a specified timeframe and provide the Legislature with a specified report; specifying that program funding is subject to and provided from certain appropriations, etc.

Instructions on Emergency First Aid for Choking; Requiring a poster containing specified information relating to choking to be placed in public school cafeterias; providing requirements for the placement of such posters, etc.

Pregnant Women in Custody; Citing this act as “Ava’s Law”; requiring that every female who is arrested and not released on bond within 72 hours after arrest be administered a pregnancy test within a specified timeframe, upon her request; defining the term “pregnant woman”; authorizing a sentencing court to stay the beginning of the period of incarceration for up to a certain amount of time for a pregnant woman convicted of any offense; requiring that, within 10 days after the end of the stay and the commencement of the woman’s incarceration, she be offered and receive, upon her request, a specified assessment and services, etc.

Insurance; Providing for the election of the Commissioner of Insurance Regulation; prohibiting the commissioner from engaging in certain activities or employment for a specified period after leaving office; revising homeowners’ eligibility criteria for mitigation grants under the My Safe Florida Home Program; prohibiting property insurers from claiming insolvency under specified circumstances; prohibiting property insurers from using certain defenses for claims denials, etc. APPROPRIATION: $300,000,000