Bill > S1470

Introduced Session

An act relating to school safety; amending s. 30.15, F.S.; revising the Chris Hixon, Coach Aaron Feis, and Coach Scott Beigel Guardian Program to include child care facilities; requiring a sheriff to establish a guardian program under certain circumstances; requiring certain security guards to meet specified school guardian training and screening requirements; requiring a child care facility or security agency to be responsible for all costs related to the guardian program; prohibiting such costs from exceeding a specified amount; authorizing a sheriff to waive such costs for a child care facility; prohibiting a sheriff from waiving costs for initial training of a school security guard; authorizing a sheriff to certify a person as a school security guard if he or she meets specified criteria; revising firearm requirements for school guardians and school security guards; authorizing a sheriff to issue certificates to school security guards who meet specified requirements; requiring a sheriff to maintain specified documentation; requiring a child care facility or employing security agency to make specified reports; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to maintain specified records; requiring a sheriff to make specified reports of certain school guardian or school security guard trainings; prohibiting a child care facility or employing security agency from operating a school guardian program under certain circumstances; amending s. 402.305, F.S.; authorizing a child care facility to partner with specified entities to establish or assign safe-school officers and participate in the guardian program; requiring a child care facility to pay for the full cost of the guardian program; requiring compliance with specified provisions relating to safe-school officers; providing construction; amending s. 1001.212, F.S.; deleting obsolete language and making editorial changes; requiring the Office of Safe Schools to convene a workgroup of specified entities; requiring the workgroup to make recommendations for the establishment of a Florida Institute of School Safety; requiring the workgroup to submit its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature by a certain date; deleting a requirement for the office to evaluate the methodology for the safe school allocation; amending s. 1006.07, F.S.; requiring the Department of Education, in cooperation with the Department of Management Services, to identify a centralized system for use by all public safety answering point infrastructure, subject to appropriation; providing requirements for the system; requiring each public and charter school to confirm with the district school board that the school’s respective panic alert system is connected to the centralized system; requiring that panic alert systems be integrated with the centralized system; requiring that certain digital maps be integrated with the centralized system; requiring specified school safety requirements to be implemented during specified time periods; revising the requirements for certain gates and campus access points to be open or unlocked; defining the terms “exclusive zone” and “nonexclusive zone”; providing construction; authorizing school classrooms and instructional spaces to use temporary door locks; providing requirements for such locks; providing that certain instructional spaces for career and technical education are exempt from specified requirements under certain circumstances; providing that certain provisions apply to common areas on school campuses; providing exemptions from certain requirements for doors, gates, and campus access points in certain schools; providing requirements for locked barriers between classrooms and open school campuses; requiring certain protocols and policies to be provided to substitute teachers; amending s. 1006.12, F.S.; requiring a sheriff to conduct specified training; requiring that certain reports be submitted to a school security guard’s employing agency; requiring a sheriff’s approval before a school security guard’s employment in a county; requiring the Office of Safe Schools to provide specified information to the Department of Law Enforcement; providing an effective date.

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Danny Burgess (R)*, 

Other Sponsors (1)

Chapter No. 2025-58 (on 05/22/2025)

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