Florida Senate - 2024                                    SB 1396
       
       
        
       By Senator Gruters
       
       
       
       
       
       22-01116A-24                                          20241396__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to security for Jewish day schools and
    3         preschools; creating s. 1001.2921, F.S.; subject to
    4         and consistent with funds appropriated from the
    5         General Appropriations Act, requiring the Department
    6         of Education to establish a program to provide funds
    7         to full-time Jewish day schools and preschools for
    8         specified security purposes; providing authorized uses
    9         for specified funds; authorizing the State Board of
   10         Education to adopt rules; providing an effective date.
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   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         Section 1. Section 1001.2921, Florida Statutes, is created
   15  to read:
   16         1001.2921 Security funding for Jewish day schools and
   17  preschools.—
   18         (1) As authorized by and consistent with funds appropriated
   19  in the General Appropriations Act, the Department of Education
   20  shall establish a program to provide funds to make full-time
   21  Jewish day schools and preschools in this state secure with
   22  professional security hardening, as needed, to better secure
   23  facilities of such schools and preschools and to protect their
   24  students. Based on a risk assessment by a law enforcement agency
   25  or a private security company, recurring funds must be used for
   26  any of the following:
   27         (a) The purchase and installation of security cameras,
   28  perimeter lighting, perimeter fencing, and shatter-resistant
   29  glass for windows.
   30         (b) Hiring or contracting with security personnel who are
   31  licensed and regulated by the state and insured.
   32         (c) Expenses relating to transportation to minimize
   33  security exposure of staff, parents, and students.
   34         (d) Other nonhardening security measures, including, but
   35  not limited to, providing professional detection, prevention,
   36  and security services to such schools and preschools.
   37         (2) The State Board of Education may adopt rules to
   38  administer this section.
   39         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.