Education; Requiring the Office of Reimagining Education and Career Help to develop certain criteria and display public information; providing a tax credit for eligible businesses that employ an apprentice or preapprentice under certain conditions; authorizing specified employers to apply to the Department of Financial Services for reimbursement of workers’ compensation premiums paid for students participating in work-based learning opportunities; encouraging the district school board to adopt policies and procedures to consult with certain entities to determine how to expose students to industries, businesses, and careers; providing admissions policies for career centers that offer certain science degree programs; revising requirements for the Florida Pathways to Career Opportunities Grant Program, etc. APPROPRIATION: $102,000,000
Sponsored bills
Hunting and Fishing; Proposing the creation of Section 28 of Article I of the State Constitution to preserve forever fishing, hunting, and the taking of fish and wildlife, including by the use of traditional methods, as a public right and preferred means of managing and controlling fish and wildlife and providing construction regarding such right, etc.
Electronic Monitoring Devices in Long-term Care Facilities; Defining the terms “electronic monitoring device” and “representative”; authorizing a resident, or his or her representative, of a nursing home facility or assisted living facility, respectively, to authorize the installation and use of an electronic monitoring device in the resident’s room if specified conditions are met; prohibiting facilities from denying admission to a person or discharging a resident or otherwise discriminating or retaliating against a resident for the decision to install and use such electronic monitoring device in the resident’s room; providing a criminal penalty for unlawfully obstructing, tampering with, or destroying an electronic monitoring device or a recording made by such device, etc.
Intercollegiate Athlete Compensation and Rights; Revising requirements for athlete agents representing intercollegiate athletes for certain purposes; deleting requirements regarding the compensation that intercollegiate athletes may receive; deleting certain requirements for postsecondary educational institutions whose intercollegiate athletes seek to earn compensation or to have professional representation; requiring a postsecondary educational institution to conduct at least two financial literacy, life skills, and entrepreneurship workshops under certain conditions, etc.
Administration of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly; Deleting the definition of the term “department”; revising the definition of the term “participant”; deleting provisions requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to consult with the Department of Elderly Affairs regarding administration of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE); requiring the agency to execute certain agreements or contracts with PACE organizations, etc.
Interchange Fees on Taxes; Prohibiting issuers, payment card networks, acquirer banks, and processors from receiving or charging merchants interchange fees on the tax amounts of electronic payment transactions if the merchant provides certain information in a specified manner; requiring an issuer to credit a merchant the amount of interchange fees on taxes within a certain timeframe if the merchant meets certain conditions; prohibiting specified actions relating to electronic payment transaction data by certain entities, etc.
Tax Exemption for Diapers and Incontinence Products; Exempting the sale for human use of diapers, incontinence undergarments, incontinence pads, and incontinence liners from the sales and use tax, etc.
Charter School Capital Outlay Funding; Revising charter school eligibility requirements; providing school district requirements for the distribution of capital outlay funds to eligible charter schools; requiring that any purchase, lease-purchase, or lease be at the appraised value, etc.
Collateral Protection Insurance; Defining terms; specifying requirements for collateral protection insurance policy terms; providing for the calculation of collateral protection insurance coverages and premiums; specifying prohibited practices by insurers and insurance agents relating to collateral protection insurance; specifying requirements for the filing of policy forms and rates, etc.
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Revising requirements for applicants for a Class “K” license; revising the circumstances under which the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs may waive firearms training requirements; revising requirements relating to registration fees for certain charitable organizations, sponsors, and parent organizations; revising the definitions of the terms “Category I liquefied petroleum gas dealer” and “Category V LP gas installer”; providing criminal penalties for certain actions relating to retail fuel theft, etc.