Florida Senate - 2020                                    SB 1368
       
       
        
       By Senator Book
       
       
       
       
       
       32-00129G-20                                          20201368__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to human trafficking prevention;
    3         amending s. 488.01, F.S.; requiring certain commercial
    4         driver schools to offer as part of their curriculum
    5         either a human trafficking prevention course
    6         administered by the Department of Law Enforcement or
    7         by a certain organization or certain industry-specific
    8         training; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement
    9         to adopt rules by a specified date to develop and
   10         implement the human trafficking prevention course;
   11         amending s. 1012.45, F.S.; requiring that a specified
   12         amount of time in a school bus driver training program
   13         provided by a district school board be allocated to
   14         certain industry-specific training; providing an
   15         effective date.
   16          
   17  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   18  
   19         Section 1. Section 488.01, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   20  read:
   21         488.01 License to engage in business of operating a driver
   22  school required.—
   23         (1) The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
   24  shall oversee and license all commercial driver schools except
   25  truck driving schools. All commercial truck driving schools
   26  shall be required to be licensed pursuant to chapter 1005, and
   27  additionally, shall be subject to subsection (2) and the
   28  provisions of ss. 488.04 and 488.05. No person, group,
   29  organization, institution, business entity, or corporate entity
   30  may engage in the business of operating a driver school without
   31  first obtaining a license therefor from the Department of
   32  Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles pursuant to this chapter or
   33  from the Commission for Independent Education pursuant to
   34  chapter 1005.
   35         (2) Except for commercial driver schools or curriculum
   36  offered only for school bus drivers, all publicly funded
   37  commercial driver schools, including all commercial truck
   38  driving schools, must offer as part of their curriculum either
   39  of the following:
   40         (a) A human trafficking prevention course administered by
   41  the Department of Law Enforcement or by an organization that is
   42  approved by the Department of Law Enforcement to present such a
   43  course. The Department of Law Enforcement shall adopt rules to
   44  develop and implement the human trafficking prevention course by
   45  January 1, 2021.
   46         (b) Industry-specific training on the recognition,
   47  prevention, and reporting of human trafficking.
   48         Section 2. Subsection (4) of section 1012.45, Florida
   49  Statutes, is amended to read:
   50         1012.45 School bus drivers; requirements and duties.—
   51         (4) Each district school board may provide a school bus
   52  driver training program and may make this program available to
   53  private school bus drivers by contract. If a district school
   54  board provides a school bus driver training program, 40 minutes
   55  of the program must be allocated to industry-specific training
   56  on the recognition, prevention, and reporting of human
   57  trafficking.
   58         Section 3. This act shall take effect October 1, 2020.