Sen. Shev Jones

Leave for Family or Household Members of Homicide Victims; Requiring employers to authorize employees to request and take up to a specified number of days of leave from work under certain circumstances; requiring employees taking such leave to provide advance notice and documentation to employers; requiring private employers to keep information relating to such leave confidential; providing a remedy for violations of specified provisions, etc.

Community Violence Task Force; Creating the task force within the Department of Law Enforcement; requiring state agencies to provide assistance when requested; authorizing the task force to receive exempt or confidential and exempt information and specifying that the information maintains such status; providing for expiration of the task force, etc.

Compulsory School Attendance; Revising the required age for compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years of age; deleting a requirement that a student’s parent sign a declaration of intent to terminate school enrollment; deleting a requirement that the school district notify a student’s parent upon receipt of such declaration, etc.

Medicaid Buy-in Program; Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to establish and implement a Medicaid buy-in program for certain individuals with disabilities; providing requirements for the program; requiring the agency to seek federal waiver approval or submit any state plan amendments necessary to implement the program by a specified date; requiring the agency to implement the program upon receiving federal approval, etc.

Public Records/Family or Household Members of Homicide Victims; Providing a public records exemption for certain personal identifying information, records, and timesheets submitted to an agency by an employee who is requesting specified leave relating to a homicide; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Architect Education Minority Assistance Program; Creating the program within the Department of Business and Professional Regulation; requiring the Architect Education Minority Assistance Advisory Council to assist the Board of Architecture and Interior Design with administering the program; providing funding requirements for scholarships provided under the program; capping the amount of funds that the department may spend annually on the program; prohibiting a person or his or her agent from knowingly filing documents with the board which contain false information or material misstatements of fact, etc.

Driver License Suspensions; Deleting provisions requiring driver license suspensions for specified reasons; revising requirements and procedures for reinstating driver licenses of certain persons; deleting a requirement for a clerk of court to send a specified notice to certain persons; deleting the authority for a clerk of court to collect certain delinquency fees; revising requirements and procedures for the reinstatement of driver licenses suspended for specified reasons, etc.

Sales Tax Holiday for ENERGY STAR and WaterSense Products; Providing a sales tax exemption for certain ENERGY STAR and WaterSense products during a specified timeframe; defining terms; authorizing the Department of Revenue to adopt emergency rules, etc.

Conversion Therapy; Prohibiting the Department of Health, the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Elderly Affairs, the Department of Corrections, and the Department of Education from using state or federal funds for specified purposes; creating the Florida Coordinating Council on Conversion Therapy within the Department of Health for a specified purpose; requiring the Department of Health, the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Elderly Affairs, the Department of Corrections, and the Department of Education to annually publish on their websites educational information on conversion therapy developed by the coordinating council, etc.

Dementia-related Staff Training; Creating the “Florida Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Training and Education Act”; requiring the Department of Elderly Affairs to offer certain dementia-related education to the public; requiring the department or its designee to make a record of the completion of the training; providing that an employee does not have to repeat such training after changing employment to another covered provider; authorizing the department or its designee to approve training providers and curricula and maintain a list of approved providers, etc.