Florida Senate - 2023                              CS for SB 212
       
       
        
       By the Appropriations Committee on Education; and Senators
       Collins, Avila, Burgess, Calatayud, Harrell, and Book
       
       
       
       
       602-02564-23                                           2023212c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to emergency response mapping data;
    3         amending s. 1013.13, F.S.; creating the School Mapping
    4         Data Grant Program within the Department of Education;
    5         authorizing each school district to apply for funds to
    6         provide mapping data for public school buildings;
    7         authorizing a school district to use the funds to
    8         procure a vendor; requiring the entity that produces
    9         the data to provide the data to certain entities;
   10         specifying requirements for the data; providing an
   11         effective date.
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   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   14  
   15         Section 1. Present subsection (2) of section 1013.13,
   16  Florida Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (3), and a new
   17  subsection (2) is added to that section, to read:
   18         1013.13 Coordination of school safety information;
   19  construction design documents.—
   20         (2) In order to facilitate efficient emergency response,
   21  the School Mapping Data Grant Program is created within the
   22  Department of Education. Each school district, in consultation
   23  with the sheriff’s office having jurisdiction, may apply to
   24  receive funds from the program to provide school mapping data
   25  for every public school building in the district. The school
   26  district shall use the funds to satisfy all or some of the
   27  requirements of this section, which may include procuring a
   28  vendor to do so. The entity producing the data is responsible
   29  for providing the data to the applicable county and district
   30  school boards and to the appropriate local, state, and federal
   31  public safety agencies for use in response to emergencies.
   32         (a)School mapping data must be provided in an electronic
   33  or a digital format to assist first responders in responding to
   34  emergencies at schools.
   35         (b) The school mapping data provided must:
   36         1.Be compatible with software platforms used by local,
   37  state, and federal public safety agencies that provide emergency
   38  services to the specific school for which the data is provided
   39  without requiring such agencies to purchase additional software
   40  or requiring a fee to view or access the data;
   41         2. Be compatible with security software platforms in use by
   42  the specific school for which the data is provided without
   43  requiring the local law enforcement agencies or school districts
   44  to purchase additional software or requiring a fee to view or
   45  access the data;
   46         3. Be in a printable format and, if requested in addition
   47  to paragraph (a), be in a digital file format that can be
   48  integrated into interactive mobile platforms in use;
   49         4. Be verified for accuracy by a walk-through of school
   50  buildings and grounds;
   51         5. Be oriented true north;
   52         6. Be overlaid on current aerial imagery;
   53         7. Contain site-specific labeling that matches the
   54  structure of school buildings, including room labels, hallway
   55  names, and external door or stairwell numbers and locations of
   56  hazards, critical utility locations, key boxes, automated
   57  external defibrillators, and trauma kits;
   58         8. Contain site-specific labeling that matches the school
   59  grounds, including parking areas, athletic fields, surrounding
   60  roads, and neighboring properties; and
   61         9. Be overlaid with gridded x/y coordinates.
   62         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.