The Florida Senate

HB 1211: Public Safety

GENERAL BILL by Alvarez, D.

Public Safety; Includes additional personnel in provisions relating to peer support for first responders; prohibits discrimination in employment of first responders; provides that prohibited discrimination may be inferred solely from disparate impact of employment decisions or practices on members of group; establishes Counterterrorism/Counterintelligence Unit within FDLE; requires consolidation of certain 911 dispatch systems in counties under sheriff; permits sheriffs to opt out of such consolidation; provides requirements for consolidated systems; requires FDLE to negotiate & establish preferred price list for certain equipment; requires 911 call center to dispatch unit closest to emergency regardless of jurisdiction; requires agency to sign certain memorandum of understanding by specified date; revises requirements for reporting of missing persons information; requires certain basic skills training in resilience for law enforcement officers; creates Florida Medal of Valor & Florida Blue/Red Heart Medal; requires FDLE to study viability, necessity, & possibility of creating hurricane-hardened public safety operations centers; creates Florida Department of Public Safety Consolidation Task Force within FDLE for specified purpose; provides for membership; requires task force to prepare & submit report to certain persons by specified date; requires task force to establish Florida Department of Public Safety.