Sen. Lauren Book

Military Corpsmen and Medics of Florida (MCMF) Program; Creating the MCMF Program Office of Veterans Advocacy within the Department of Health; requiring the MCMF Program, through the Department of Economic Opportunity, to assist certain veterans and their spouses with specified tasks; requiring Florida Is for Veterans, Inc., to collaborate with specified entities to implement the MCMF Program, etc.

Tax Exemption for Diapers and Incontinence Products; Exempting the sale for human use of diapers, incontinence undergarments, incontinence pads, or incontinence liners from the sales and use tax, etc.

Children and Young Adults in Out-of-home Care; Specifying the rights of, rather than goals for, children and young adults in out-of-home care; providing the roles and responsibilities of the Department of Children and Families, community-based care lead agencies, and other agency staff; designating a children’s ombudsman as an autonomous entity within the department; requiring the ombudsman, in consultation with the department and other specified entities and by a specified date, to develop standardized information explaining the rights of children and young adults placed in out-of-home care, etc.

Required Instruction in Public Schools; Requiring members of the instructional staff of public schools to provide instruction on social media literacy; defining the term “social media”; requiring district school boards to make social media literacy instructional material available online, etc.

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.

Victims of Reform School Abuse; Citing this act as the “Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Abuse Victim Certification Act”; defining the term “victim of Florida reform school abuse”; requiring a person seeking certification under this act to apply to the Department of State by a specified date; requiring the department to certify an applicant as a victim of Florida reform school abuse if the department determines his application meets the requirements of this act; requiring the department to submit a list of all certified victims to the Legislature by a specified date, etc.

Public Records/Autopsy Reports of Minors; Citing this act as the “Rex and Brody Reinhart Act”; creating an exemption from public records requirements for autopsy reports of minors whose deaths were related to acts of domestic violence; requiring that certain surviving parents of a minor child whose death was related to domestic violence be given notice of petitions to view or copy the minor child’s autopsy report and of the opportunity to be present and heard at the related hearings under certain circumstances; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Employment Protections; Authorizing parental leave for state employees in the Career Service System who have a stillborn child; prohibiting a public employer or an employment agency from engaging in certain activities relating to wages and salary; prohibiting an employer from engaging in certain activities relating to wages and salary; authorizing an employer to confirm a prospective employee’s wage or salary history under certain conditions, etc.

Death Benefits; Requiring the employer of a full-time law enforcement, correctional, or correctional probation officer to extend paid health insurance benefits to the officer’s surviving spouse and each of the officer’s dependent children if the officer dies in the line of duty as a result of exposure to a pandemic disease that is the subject of a public health emergency; providing retroactive application, etc.

Statutes of Limitations; Eliminating the statute of limitations period for civil actions for certain sexual offenses; providing applicability; superseding specified requirements for actions against the state or its subdivisions, etc.