Sen. Lauren Book

Benefits, Training, and Employment for Veterans and their Spouses; Requiring the Economic Development Programs Evaluation to include a periodic analysis of the Veterans Employment and Training Services Program; revising the duties of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and Florida Is For Veterans, Inc., respectively, to include the provision of certain assistance to veterans’ spouses; requiring the Department of Health to waive certain fees for veterans and their spouses under certain circumstances; establishing the Office of Veteran Licensure Services within the Division of Medical Quality Assurance, etc. APPROPRIATION: $399,565

Assault or Battery on Hospital Personnel; Providing enhanced criminal penalties for persons who knowingly commit assault or battery upon hospital personnel, etc.

Animals Working with Law Enforcement Officers; Prohibiting the knowing and willful resistance to, obstruction of, or opposition to a police canine or police horse under certain circumstances; increasing criminal penalties for persons who actually and intentionally maliciously touch, strike, or cause bodily harm to a police canine, fire canine, SAR canine, or police horse, etc.

Custody and Supervision of Specified Offenders; Excluding certain offenders from eligibility to receive basic gain-time; excluding certain offenders from eligibility to receive incentive gain-time; excluding certain offenders from eligibility for specified reductions to a term of supervision; requiring a court to impose additional conditions of supervision on specified offenders, etc.

Education and Training for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Forms of Dementia; Designating the “Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Forms of Dementia Education and Training Act”; requiring the Department of Elderly Affairs to offer certain education about Alzheimer’s disease and related forms of dementia to the general public; providing minimum requirements for the training; authorizing persons to satisfy the training requirements of this act using training curricula approved before the effective date of this act until the department adopts rules for training curricula guidelines, etc.

Juvenile Court Proceedings; Authorizing individuals to appear at or attend dependency proceedings relating to children through audio or audio-video communication technology, except under certain circumstances; requiring parties in certain proceedings to provide their primary e-mail addresses to the court; requiring that court notices for shelter placement hearings held through audio or audio-video communication technology include certain information; specifying how parties to certain hearings involving children may consent to service or notice by e-mail, etc.

Restoration of Osborne Reef; Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to submit a status report on the Osborne Reef cleanup and tire removal project to the Legislature by a specified date; requiring the department to develop a restoration plan for the reef by a specified date; providing requirements for the restoration plan; requiring the department to submit a report to the Legislature upon completion of the plan; providing requirements for the report, etc.

Emergency Response Mapping Data; Creating the School Mapping Data Grant Program within the Department of Education; authorizing each school district to apply for funds to provide mapping data for public school buildings; authorizing a school district to use the funds to procure a vendor; requiring the entity that produces the data to provide the data to certain entities, etc.

Florida Atlantic University Men’s Basketball Team; Recognizing and celebrating the incredible accomplishments of the Florida Atlantic University men’s basketball team and the university’s commitment to both academic and athletic excellence, creating a collegiate brand that is nationally renowned, etc.

Capital Sexual Battery; Revising how certain capital felonies are punished; requiring a court to conduct a separate sentencing proceeding to determine whether a defendant should be sentenced to death or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole upon the defendant’s conviction or adjudication of guilt for a capital felony; requiring a recommendation to the court of a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole if fewer than eight jurors determine that the defendant should be sentenced to death; requiring the court to impose the jury’s recommended sentence if the recommendation is for a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, etc.