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Senator Bracy has sponsored over 25 Bills to help families in Florida

FL S0236 – Children with Developmental Delays

Revising the definition of the term “exceptional student” to include additional students with developmental delays, etc.

04/08/2022: Chapter No. 2022-24

FL S1054 – Financial Literacy Instruction in Public Schools

Citing this act as the “Dorothy L. Hukill Financial Literacy Act”; revising the requirements regarding financial literacy for the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards; revising the required credits for a standard high school diploma to include…

03/22/2022: Chapter No. 2022-17

FL S1948 – Transportation Facility Designations/Jason Dwayne Campbell Road

Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in a specified county; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.

03/14/2022: Died in Transportation

FL S0946 – Entertainment Industry

Creating the Targeted High Wage Production Program within the Department of Economic Opportunity under the supervision of the Commissioner of Film and Entertainment; requiring that film, television, and digital media projects being produced…

03/14/2022: Died in Finance and Tax

FL S1492 – Prosecuting Children as Adults

Deleting provisions under which a state attorney must either request a court to transfer and certify children of certain ages who commit specified crimes for prosecution as adults or provide written reasons to the court for not making such a…

03/14/2022: Died in Judiciary

FL S1500 – Special Days of Observance

Designating “Emancipation Day” to officially commemorate the freeing of enslaved African Americans in Florida; authorizing the Governor to issue an annual proclamation honoring the significance of Emancipation Day; specifying that Juneteenth…

03/14/2022: Died in Education

FL S1608 – Prohibited Discrimination Based on Hairstyle

Citing this act as the “Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act” or “CROWN Act”; prohibiting discrimination based on protected hairstyle in the K-20 public education system; defining the terms “race” and “protective hairstyles”…

03/14/2022: Died in Community Affairs

FL S1862 – Background Screening

Prohibiting certain entities that contract for inmate labor from excluding certain persons from consideration for employment or from disqualifying certain persons from employment; specifying conditions that constitute exclusion from consideration…

03/14/2022: Died in Criminal Justice

FL S1488 – Expunction of Criminal History Records Relating to Certain Cannabis Offenses

Providing for eligibility for expunction; requiring a petitioner to obtain a certificate of eligibility for expunction from the Department of Law Enforcement; requiring the department to issue a certificate of eligibility for expunction if a…

03/14/2022: Died in Judiciary

FL S0400 – Guidance Services for Academic and Career Planning

Requiring district school boards to inform students and parents of certain acceleration, academic, and career planning options; requiring certain information to be included in such notification; requiring a personalized academic and career plan…

03/14/2022: Died in Commerce and Tourism

FL S1174 – Statewide Council on Prosecutorial Misconduct

Creating the Statewide Council on Prosecutorial Misconduct within the Department of Legal Affairs; providing for the council’s membership, organization, support, and duties; requiring the council to submit an annual report to the Governor, the…

03/14/2022: Died in Criminal Justice

FL S1220 – Fees/Batterers’ Intervention Programs

Requiring the Department of Children and Families to assess and collect an annual certification fee from batterers’ intervention programs; requiring certain persons attending certified batterers’ intervention programs to pay a fee for each program…

03/14/2022: Died in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs

FL S1410 – Specialty License Plates/Down Syndrome Awareness

Directing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop a Down Syndrome Awareness license plate; providing for distribution and use of fees collected from the sale of the plate, etc.

03/14/2022: Died in Transportation

FL S1484 – Reemployment Assistance

Increasing the maximum weekly and yearly benefit amounts for reemployment assistance; increasing the duration of such benefits, etc.

03/14/2022: Died in Commerce and Tourism

FL S1486 – Gain-time

Revising a principle of the Criminal Punishment Code relating to a prisoner’s required minimum term of imprisonment; revising the incentive gain-time that the Department of Corrections may grant a prisoner; providing exceptions, etc.

03/14/2022: Died in Judiciary

FL S0306 – Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

Revising the definition of the term “developmental disability” to include fetal alcohol spectrum disorders; defining the term “fetal alcohol spectrum disorders”; requiring the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to allow certain individuals…

03/14/2022: Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services

FL S1616 – Student Access to Internet Connections and Technology

Establishing the Digital Inclusion Technology Development Initiative; providing the purpose and goal of the initiative; providing for funding; requiring the initiative to submit an annual report by a specified date to the Governor, the Legislature,…

03/14/2022: Died in Education

FL S1730 – Groveland Four Business Loans and Scholarships

Requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to prioritize certain applications for the Black Business Loan Program; creating the Groveland Four Scholarship Program for specified recipients; directing the Department of Education to administer…

03/14/2022: Died in Commerce and Tourism

FL S1732 – Landlord Liability

Specifying that a cause of action does not arise against a landlord, or a manager or an agent of a landlord, solely for renting to a tenant with a criminal record; providing exceptions, etc.

03/14/2022: Died in Judiciary

FL S1188 – Community Violence Intervention and Prevention

Establishing the Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Grant Program within the Department of Children and Families; providing for the awarding of grants, subject to legislative appropriation; requiring the department to prioritize…

03/14/2022: Died in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs