Sen. Alexis Calatayud

Human Trafficking; Revising definitions and defining terms; revising criminal penalties to include fines of certain amounts for violations of specified offenses; requiring the Department of Education and Department of Health, in conjunction with the Statewide Council on Human Trafficking, to establish an awareness training program and community partnership on human trafficking, sex trafficking, labor trafficking, and child trafficking; requiring each state attorney to ensure prosecutors receive certain mandatory semiannual educational training, etc.

HIV Infection Prevention Drugs; Authorizing licensed pharmacists to screen for HIV exposure and order and dispense HIV infection prevention drugs in accordance with a certain written supervisory protocol or statewide drug therapy protocol; requiring pharmacists to be certified by the Board of Pharmacy before ordering and dispensing HIV infection prevention drugs; requiring the board, in consultation with the Board of Medicine, the Board of Osteopathic Medicine, and the Department of Health, to develop a certain statewide drug therapy protocol, etc.

Florida School for Competitive Academics; Revising the components of the delivery of public education within the Florida Early Learning-20 education system to include the Florida School for Competitive Academics; providing for the establishment of the Florida School for Competitive Academics; requiring the Auditor General to conduct audits of the school's accounts and records; exempting the school from specified requirements in the Florida Early Learning-20 Education Code, etc.

Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking; Specifying the authorized uses of funds from the Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking, etc.

Upgrades to Education Facilities as Emergency Shelters; Exempting costs not exceeding a specified sum associated with certain upgrades to education facilities from being included in certain cost per student station calculations; specifying eligible upgrades; requiring costs associated with certain upgrades to be consistent with prevailing market costs in the area in which the education facility is located, etc.

Student Outcomes; Revising the responsibilities of the Just Read, Florida! Office; providing that a charter school application must include certain reading instructional strategies; providing that district school board instructional materials must include certain reading instructional strategies; revising requirements for an individualized progress monitoring plan; requiring a school district to evaluate the students at the end of each grading period for a mathematics deficiency; revising training requirements for reading coaches, classroom teachers, and school administrators to include certain instructional strategies, etc.

Florida Kidcare Program Eligibility; Increasing the income eligibility threshold for coverage under the Medikids program component; increasing the income eligibility threshold for coverage under the Florida Kidcare program; requiring an applicant seeking coverage under the program to provide certain documentation if eligibility cannot be verified using reliable data sources; requiring that premiums for certain enrollees under the Florida Kidcare program be based on a tiered system of uniform premiums, etc.

Flooding and Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Studies; Revising the purposes for which the Department of Environmental Protection may provide grants under the Resilient Florida Grant Program to counties or municipalities; authorizing the department to provide such grants to water management districts for a specified purpose; requiring state-financed constructors to take specified actions before commencing construction of potentially at-risk structures or infrastructure beginning on a specified date; authorizing the department to bring civil actions, seek injunctive relief, recover certain funds, and enforce specified requirements, etc.

Multiple-employer Welfare Arrangements; Revising eligibility requirements for a bona fide group to qualify as a multiple-employer welfare arrangement, etc.

Fees in Lieu of Security Deposits; Authorizing a landlord to offer a tenant the option to pay a fee in lieu of a security deposit; requiring the landlord to notify the tenant of certain unpaid fees and costs within a specified time after the conclusion of the tenancy; requiring a written agreement signed by the landlord, or the landlord’s agent, and the tenant if the tenant decides to pay a fee in lieu of the security deposit; specifying that certain fees, insurance products, and surety bonds are not security deposits; prohibiting a landlord from approving or denying an application for occupancy based on a prospective tenant’s choice to pay a fee in lieu of a security deposit, etc.