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S0200 - Educator Certification
Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the Department of Education to develop and establish a method for a person holding a professional educator certificate to place a professional certificate in inactive status while the person teaches at a nonaccredited school, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1032 - Transportation
Transportation, Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development, Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Revising provisions requiring a person approaching a railroad-highway grade crossing to stop within a certain distance from the nearest rail; revising the membership of the Center for Urban Transportation Research advisory board; revising the membership of the Implementing Solutions from Transportation Research and Evaluating Emerging Technologies (I-STREET) Living Lab advisory board; prohibiting the designation of additional metropolitan planning organizations (M.P.O.'s) after a specified date except in certain urbanized areas, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1396 - Security for Jewish Day Schools and Preschools
Joe Gruters, Clay Yarborough
Last updated 9 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Subject to and consistent with funds appropriated from the General Appropriations Act, requiring the Department of Education to establish a program to provide funds to full-time Jewish day schools and preschools for specified security purposes, etc.
STATUS
Introduced
S1394 - Community Mobile Support Teams
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, Joe Gruters, Lauren Frances Book
Last updated 7 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Department of Children and Families to contract with managing entities for community mobile support teams to place certain crisis counselors within local law enforcement agencies to conduct follow-up contacts with certain persons; providing requirements for crisis counselors, community mobile support teams, and certain community mental health centers, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1548 - Energy
Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Prohibiting the Department of Transportation from assigning or transferring its permitting rights across transportation rights-of-way operated by the department to certain third parties under certain circumstances; requiring the Public Service Commission to approve targeted storm reserve amounts for public utilities; requiring the Department of Commerce to expand categorical eligibility for the low-income home energy assistance program to include individuals who are enrolled in certain federal disability programs; requiring the Public Service Commission to conduct or cause to be conducted a feasibility study on the use of small modular nuclear reactors in this state; defining the term "small modular nuclear reactor" or "reactor", etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1168 - Forms of Identification
Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Expanding the list of acceptable forms of identification for certain voter registration applicants to include United States passport cards, identification cards issued by a federally recognized tribal nation or Indian tribe, and United States Merchant Mariner Credentials; requiring that driver licenses issued to drivers denote certain individuals as noncitizens, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1830 - Cardinal Mooney Catholic High School Cougars' Football Championship
Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Celebrating the Cardinal Mooney Catholic High School Cougars' 2023 Class 1S state football championship, etc.
STATUS
Passed
S0068 - Social Work Licensure Compact
Ana Maria Rodriguez, Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Creating the Social Work Licensure Compact; specifying requirements for state participation in the compact; requiring member states to designate the categories of social work licensure which are eligible for issuance of a multistate license in such states; establishing the Social Work Licensure Compact Commission; providing for commission enforcement of the compact, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1820 - New College Day
Joe Gruters
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Designating February 7, 2024, as "New College Day" in Florida, etc.
STATUS
Passed
S1758 - Individuals with Disabilities
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, Fiscal Policy, Jason T. Brodeur
Last updated 6 months ago
39 Co-Sponsors
Revising provisions related to programs and services provided by the Agency for Persons with Disabilities; requiring the agency, within available resources, to offer voluntary participation care navigation services to clients and their caregivers at specified times; requiring the agency to develop and implement an online application process; revising which types of clients are eligible for an individual support plan; clarifying the timeframe within which a family or individual support plan must be developed, etc.
STATUS
Passed
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Senator from Florida district SD-022
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Florida Senate
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