Florida 2023 Regular Session All Bills (Page 17)
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Florida 2023 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S1008
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/28/23
Failed
5/5/23
Authorizing the Department of Education to seek input from certain entities for specified purposes relating to instruction in the history of African Americans; requiring the department to annually verify that school districts, charter schools, and specified private schools implement certain instruction relating to the history of the Holocaust and the history of African Americans and providing requirements therefor; requiring certain statewide, standardized assessments to include curricula content from the history of the Holocaust and the history of African Americans, etc.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session
Florida House Bill H0967
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/28/23
Refer
2/28/23
Refer
2/28/23
Refer
4/4/23
Refer
4/4/23
Engrossed
4/26/23
Refer
4/26/23
Engrossed
5/2/23
Enrolled
5/2/23
Passed
6/22/23
Chaptered
6/22/23
Requires AHCA, subject to availability of funds & certain limitations & directions, to provide coverage for continuous glucose monitors for certain Medicaid recipients; provides requirements for Medicaid recipients to continue receiving coverage for their continuous glucose monitors; requires agency to seek federal approval for implementation of act, if needed; requires agency to include rate impact of act in certain rates that become effective on specified date.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0998
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/28/23
Providing rights of chiefs of police; requiring an aggrieved chief of police to provide his or her employing agency with a certain written notice within a specified timeframe; requiring an employing agency to cure an alleged violation within a specified timeframe, etc.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S1004
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/28/23
Prohibiting a district school board from requiring certain students to take a course before taking the high school equivalency examination unless the student failed to earn a passing score on a specified practice test, etc.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S1042
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/28/23
Failed
5/5/23
Requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to prioritize certain applications for the Black Business Loan Program; creating the Ocoee Scholarship Program for specified recipients; directing the Department of Education to administer the program; authorizing the State Board of Education to adopt certain rules, etc.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S1028
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/28/23
Failed
5/5/23
Providing a period of time when a conviction, or any other adjudication, for a crime may not be grounds for denial of licensure as a barber or cosmetologist; requiring the applicable board to approve certain educational program credits offered to inmates in certain institutions or facilities for purposes of satisfying training requirements for licensure as a barber or cosmetologist, etc.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session
Florida House Bill H0999
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/28/23
Refer
2/28/23
Refer
2/28/23
Refer
3/16/23
Refer
4/21/23
Revises powers & duties of BOG; revises academic & research excellence standards for preeminent state research universities; provides requirements for hiring university faculty; provides requirements for employment, promotion, & evaluation processes for state university employees; authorizes state university boards of trustees to review tenure status of faculty members; requires such boards to confirm selection & reappointment of specified personnel; requires state university presidents to annually present specified information to such boards; creates Institute for Risk Management & Insurance Education within College of Business at UCF; revises requirements for general education core courses.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S1038
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/28/23
Failed
5/5/23
Creating the advisory council adjunct to the Department of Corrections; providing for initial appointments to the advisory board by a specified date; providing duties and responsibilities of the council; specifying the council's purpose, etc.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S1034
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/28/23
Failed
5/5/23
Authorizing specified correctional officers to elect to participate in the Deferred Retirement Option Program for an additional 36 months; providing a directive to the Division of Law Revision, etc.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S1012
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/28/23
Creating the pilot program within the Department of Corrections; authorizing inmates at participating facilities to apply to participate in the pilot program; exempting persons who complete the pilot program's requirements from specified background screening requirements for peer specialists, etc.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session
Florida House Bill H0993
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/28/23
Refer
2/28/23
Refer
2/28/23
Failed
5/5/23
Revises available sanctions for any person who is duly summoned to attend court as juror & fails to attend without any sufficient excuse; prohibits court from imposing term of imprisonment on any person who fails to attend as juror without any sufficient excuse & is found in contempt of court unless person is able to obtain legal representation.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S1020
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/28/23
Providing legislative intent; establishing the Florida Space Exploration Monument; providing for administration of the monument by the Department of Management Services; providing for the creation of a design contest and selection committee; requiring the department to develop a plan for the design, placement, and cost of the monument; requiring the plan to be submitted to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date, etc.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session
Florida House Bill H0997
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/28/23
Refer
2/28/23
Failed
5/5/23
Authorizes telehealth provider to prescribe specified controlled substances for treatment of certain health conditions.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S1022
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/28/23
Failed
5/5/23
Prohibiting sexual battery upon a person who is involuntarily or voluntarily mentally incapacitated, etc.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session
Florida House Bill H0991
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/28/23
Refer
2/28/23
Failed
5/5/23
Provides that journalist's privilege does not apply to defamation claims when defendant is professional journalist or media entity; revises provisions concerning venue for certain actions; provides for attorney fees & costs to prevailing plaintiffs in certain actions; specifies certain persons may not be considered public figures; provides certain allegations are defamatory per se; provides statutory damages to prevailing plaintiffs who are subject of such allegations; creates presumption that statement by anonymous source is presumptively false; provides public figure does not need to show actual malice to prevail in defamation action.