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An act relating to school safety; amending s. 30.15, F.S.; requiring sheriffs to assist public postsecondary educational institutions in implementing guardian programs under certain provisions; authorizing public postsecondary educational institutions to participate in the school guardian program; requiring a sheriff to establish a guardian training program or contract with certain other sheriff's offices to do so in certain circumstances; removing provisions relating to certain private school and child care facility guardian programs; amending s. 790.115, F.S.; creating the offense of discharging a weapon or firearm within 1,000 feet of a school; providing an exception; providing that a person arrested for certain offenses must be held in custody until brought before the court for admittance to bail; amending s. 921.0022, F.S.; ranking an offense created by the act on the offense severity ranking chart of the Criminal Punishment Code; amending s. 943.082, F.S.; requiring that postsecondary institutions be made aware of the mobile suspicious activity reporting tool in a specified manner; requiring certain public postsecondary educational institutions to promote the use of such tool; amending s. 1003.25, F.S.; requiring hb757 -04-e2specified educational records for certain students to be transferred to a Florida College System institution or state university under certain circumstances; requiring the State Board of Education and the Board of Governors to adopt rules and regulations, respectively; amending s. 1006.07, F.S.; requiring certain trainings to include specified information relating to school safety; authorizing, in certain circumstances, state universities and Florida College System institutions to share specified records or information that are confidential or exempt from disclosure with specified agencies; creating s. 1006.601, F.S.; providing a short title; defining the term "public postsecondary educational institution"; authorizing such institutions to participate in certain programs; authorizing such institutions to appoint certified school guardians; authorizing specified persons to serve as school guardians; requiring such institutions to adopt specified emergency response plans; requiring such institutions to provide specified training, post specified information, and adopt threat management processes; requiring such institutions to develop policies for specified student, faculty, and staff supports; authorizing the State Board of Education and the Board hb757 -04-e2of Governors to adopt rules and regulations, respectively; reenacting ss. 402.305(19)(a), 843.08, 943.03(16), 1001.212(1) and (4), and 1006.12(3)(a), (4)(a), and (7), F.S., relating to licensing standards for child care facilities, false personation, the Department of Law Enforcement, the Office of Safe Schools, and safe-school officers at each public school, respectively; providing effective dates.

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Alex Rizo (R)*,  Michelle Salzman (R)*,  Linda Chaney (R),  Peggy Gossett-Seidman (R),  Susan L. Valdés (R), 

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Chapter No. 2026-80 (on 05/18/2026)

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