Sen. Alexis Calatayud

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.

Public Nuisances; Prohibiting a person from intentionally dumping onto private property litter that evidences religious or ethnic animus toward an owner or invitee of such property; providing criminal penalties; prohibiting a person from willfully and maliciously harassing, threatening, or intimidating another person based on the person’s wearing or displaying of any indicia relating to any religious or ethnic heritage; removing a minimum damage requirement for a violation, etc.

Student Use of Social Media Platforms; Requiring members of the instructional staff of public schools to provide instruction on the social, emotional, and physical effects of social media to students in specified grades; requiring that district school board codes of student conduct include a prohibition against students using wireless communications devices during instructional time and authorization for teachers to withhold a student’s device, with an exception for use at the direction of the teacher; requiring each school district to prohibit and prevent students from accessing social media platforms through the use of Internet access provided by the school district, etc.

K-12 Teachers; Authorizing the Office of Inspector General within the Department of Education to investigate allegations and reports of suspected violations of certain persons’ rights; establishing the Dual Enrollment Educator Scholarship Program; establishing the Teacher Apprenticeship Program; providing an additional means of demonstrating mastery of subject area knowledge, etc.

Housing; Citing this act as the "Live Local Act"; deleting the authority of local governments to adopt or maintain laws, ordinances, rules, or other measures that would have the effect of imposing controls on rents; providing an exemption from ad valorem taxation for land that meets certain criteria; authorizing local governments to adopt ordinances to provide an ad valorem tax exemption for portions of property used to provide affordable housing meeting certain requirements; suspending, for a specified period, the General Revenue Fund service charge on documentary stamp tax collections; authorizing the Governor, under the Florida Job Growth Grant Fund, to approve state or local public infrastructure projects to facilitate the development or construction of affordable housing, etc. APPROPRIATION: $711,000,000

Reading Strategies; Requiring that certain reading instructional and intervention programs exclude specified programs; requiring that certain instructional materials exclude specified materials; revising a requirement pertaining to school districts’ comprehensive reading plans; requiring that certain teacher training exclude specified training, etc.