Florida Senate - 2020                                     SB 942
       
       
        
       By Senator Pizzo
       
       
       
       
       
       38-01055-20                                            2020942__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to implicit bias training; amending s.
    3         943.1716, F.S.; requiring the Criminal Justice
    4         Standards and Training Commission to include specified
    5         implicit bias training in instruction related to
    6         dealing with diverse populations; amending s. 1000.05,
    7         F.S.; requiring the State Board of Education to
    8         develop requirements for training for all K-12
    9         instructional personnel and administrators in
   10         recognizing and overcoming implicit bias; requesting
   11         that the Supreme Court develop training requirements
   12         for judges in recognizing and overcoming implicit
   13         bias; providing an effective date.
   14          
   15  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   17         Section 1. Section 943.1716, Florida Statutes, is amended
   18  to read:
   19         943.1716 Continued employment training relating to diverse
   20  populations.—
   21         (1) The commission shall by rule require that each officer
   22  receive, as part of the 40 hours of required instruction for
   23  continued employment or appointment as an officer, instruction
   24  in the subject of interpersonal skills relating to diverse
   25  populations, with an emphasis on the awareness of cultural
   26  differences.
   27         (2) The training required by this section must include
   28  instruction in recognizing and overcoming implicit bias, which
   29  is the unconscious and often subtle associations made between
   30  groups of people and stereotypes about those groups. This
   31  training must be based on the Fair and Impartial Policing
   32  training program.
   33         Section 2. Present subsection (8) of section 1000.05,
   34  Florida Statutes, is renumbered as subsection (9), and a new
   35  subsection (8) is added to that section, to read:
   36         1000.05 Discrimination against students and employees in
   37  the Florida K-20 public education system prohibited; equality of
   38  access required.—
   39         (8) By July 1, 2021, the State Board of Education shall
   40  develop requirements for training for all public K-12
   41  instructional personnel and administrators in recognizing and
   42  overcoming implicit bias, which is the unconscious and often
   43  subtle associations made between groups of people and
   44  stereotypes about those groups.
   45         Section 3. The Legislature requests that the Supreme Court
   46  adopt rules that require judges to receive training in
   47  recognizing and overcoming implicit bias, which is the
   48  unconscious and often subtle associations made between groups of
   49  people and stereotypes about those groups.
   50         Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.