Sen. Annette Taddeo

Online Voter Registration of Students in Public High School; Requiring each public high school to provide to certain students a voter registration presentation that demonstrates the steps required to register to vote online and offers an opportunity for certain students to register or preregister to vote using the online voter registration system Internet website; requiring the Division of Elections to prepare certain materials and make such materials readily available to each public high school; prohibiting a teacher from requiring, pressuring, or otherwise incentivizing a student to take certain actions, etc.

Coverage for Hearing Aids for Children; Requiring certain individual health insurance policies to provide coverage for hearing aids for certain children 18 years of age or younger under certain circumstances; requiring certain individual health maintenance organization contracts to provide coverage for hearing aids for certain children 18 years of age or younger under certain circumstances; specifying certain coverage requirements; providing an exception, etc.

Elections; Requiring the Secretary of State to be elected rather than appointed; requiring applicants registering to vote to designate a party affiliation or affirmatively select “No Party Affiliation”; providing that a person who meets certain requirements may register to vote at an early voting site or at his or her polling place and immediately thereafter cast a ballot; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to provide the opportunity to preregister to vote to certain individuals; removing a requirement that a third-party voter registration organization provide certain notice to an applicant; establishing General Election Day as a paid holiday, etc.

Prohibited Employer Retaliation Related to COVID-19; Prohibiting an employer from taking retaliatory action against an employee who takes a leave of absence to quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 and provides proof of the positive test to the employer; authorizing an employee to use sick leave for such quarantine if sick leave is available to the employee, etc.

Heat Illness Prevention; Providing responsibilities for certain employers and employees; providing an exception; requiring employers to provide annual training for employees and supervisors; requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, in conjunction with the Department of Health, to adopt specified rules, etc.

Drinking Water in Public Schools; Subject to legislative appropriation, requiring district boards to coordinate with district school boards to identify certain schools and to provide funding to those schools by a specified date; requiring school districts, as applicable, to install filters that meet certain specifications on drinking water sources; requiring school districts, as applicable, to post signage on certain water sources and requiring school districts to publish specified information on school district websites, etc. APPROPRIATION: $3,000,000

Enforcement of School Zone Speed Limits; Authorizing counties and municipalities to enforce speed limits on certain road areas and at specified periods through the use of speed detection systems; authorizing counties and municipalities to install, or contract with a vendor to install, speed detection systems; requiring counties and municipalities that install speed detection systems to provide certain notice to the public; authorizing counties and municipalities to authorize traffic infraction enforcement officers to issue traffic citations for certain violations, etc.

School Readiness Program; Requiring early learning coalitions to adopt a payment rate schedule rather than a payment schedule; requiring early learning coalitions to reimburse contracted school readiness program providers the minimum payment rate; revising the required contents of early learning coalition plans; directing the Division of Early Learning within the Department of Education to amend its Child Care and Development Fund Plan to identify certain personnel as essential workers for a specified purpose, etc.

Everglades Protection Area; Requiring comprehensive plans and plan amendments that apply to certain lands within or near the Everglades Protection Area to follow the state coordinated review process; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection, in consultation with specified entities, to make certain determinations for such plans and amendments, to provide written determinations to the local government and specified entities within a specified timeframe, and to coordinate with the local government and specified entities on certain planning strategies and mitigation measures; authorizing site-specific text changes for small scale future land use map amendments; prohibiting the adoption of small scale development amendments for properties located within or near the Everglades Protection Area, etc.

State Medicaid Plan; Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution to require amendment of the state Medicaid plan to provide Medicaid coverage to persons under age 65 who have an income equal to or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level, etc.