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H0945 - Heat Illness Prevention
Michael A. Gottlieb, Kristen Arrington, Robin Bartleman
Last updated 7 months ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Requires employers to implement outdoor heat exposure safety program that has been approved by specified departments; specifies requirements for safety program; provides responsibilities for employers & employees; requires specified annual training on heat illness & providing requirements for such training; requires DACS, in conjunction with DOH, to adopt specified rules.
STATUS
Failed
H0291 - Weapons and Firearms
Christine Maria Hunschofsky, Kristen Arrington, Robin Bartleman
Last updated 7 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Requires background checks on persons involved in firearm sales or transfers; requires firearm sales or transfers to be conducted through licensed dealer; revises requirements for safe storage of firearms; revises criminal penalties; requires firearms be sold by dealers with trigger locks or gun cases; revises warnings to be posted in gun dealerships; requires certain materials to be given to gun purchasers; prohibits specified acts involving unfinished firearm frames or receivers; prohibits certain activities involving three-dimensional printer or CNC milling machine.
STATUS
Failed
H1271 - Individuals with Disabilities
Health & Human Services Committee, Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee
Last updated 9 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Requires APD to develop & implement electronic application process; requires agency to maintain printable paper application on its website &, upon request, provide printed paper application to an applicant; requires agency to provide applicants with specified information upon receipt of application for services; revises timeframes within which agency must make eligibility determinations for services; lowers age that caregiver must be for individual to be placed in certain preenrollment category.
STATUS
Introduced
H1193 - Financial Accountability in Publicly Funded Education
Kelly Skidmore, Kristen Arrington, Robin Bartleman
Last updated 7 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Revises requirements for private school to participate in certain educational scholarship programs; requires DOE to suspend payment of funds to participating private schools; creates K-12 Education Funding Task Force within DOE; & provides requirements for task force.
STATUS
Failed
H1417 - Funding for Environmental Resource Management
Infrastructure Strategies Committee, Appropriations, James Vernon Buchanan
Last updated 9 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Requires specified Seminole gaming compact revenues be used for land management activities; creates Local Trail Management Grant Program within DEP; authorizes FWCC to enter into wildlife corridor agreements with private landowners; requires Land Management Uniform Accounting Council to submit specified recommendations to Governor & Legislature; revises project prioritization for water quality improvement grant program; requires DEP & SWFMD to coordinate studies with Water School at FGCU & submit reports to Governor & Legislature; provides appropriations.
STATUS
Introduced
H0021 - Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program
Judiciary, Michelle Lynn Salzman, Katherine M. Waldron
Last updated 3 months ago
32 Co-Sponsors
Establishes Dozier School for Boys & Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program within DLA; requires DLA to provide specified notice & accept & process applications for payment of compensation claims; requires DLA to pay specified compensation amount to approved applicants; limits compensation applicant may receive; authorizes Commissioner of Education to award standard high school diploma to specified persons.
STATUS
Passed
H1329 - Veterans
State Affairs, Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee, Mike Redondo
Last updated 3 months ago
43 Co-Sponsors
Revises provisions related to veterans including veterans' history program, Florida Is For Veterans, Inc., Veterans Employment & Training Services Program, grants, workforce training & recruitment, exemption from fees, advisory council on brain & spinal cord injuries, & required instruction on Veterans' Day & Memorial Day.
STATUS
Passed
H1531 - Climate Resilience and Drinking Water Standards
Dotie Joseph, Kristen Arrington, Robin Bartleman
Last updated 7 months ago
17 Co-Sponsors
Requires DEP to establish Blue Communities Program & Blue Communities Fund; establishes advisory board within DEP; provides for membership; establishes Ocean State Climate Adaptation & Resilience Grant Fund within DEP; specifies sources & uses of funding & project eligibility requirements; provides duties of DEP & Florida Oceans & Coastal Council; provides reporting requirements; requires DEP & council to jointly adopt rules; establishes Marine Resources Conservation Account within Marine Resources Conservation Trust Fund to be administered by FWCC; requires DEP, or local county health department designated by DEP, to monitor level of forever chemicals in certain water systems; provides monitoring standards.
STATUS
Failed
H1529 - Medicaid Eligibility for Medical Assistance and Related Services
Dotie Joseph, Kristen Arrington, Hillary Cassel
Last updated 7 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Extends Medicaid eligibility to specified adults.
STATUS
Failed
H0707 - State University Unexpended Funds
Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee, David Silvers, Fentrice Driskell
Last updated 5 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Authorizes state university to retain & report annual reserve balance exceeding specified amount; & authorizes state university's carry forward spending plan to include reserve fund to be used for authorized expenses in subsequent years.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
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Representative from Florida district HD-067
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Florida House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Fentrice Driskell was born in Lakeland, FL and graduated from Lakeland Senior High School in 1994. She earned her Bachelor's degree in History from Harvard University in 1998. In 1999, Driskell received her Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. She worked as an attorney before running for Florida House of Representatives District 63 in 2018. Driskell won the election and took office in 2019.read less
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