Florida Senate - 2025 CS for SB 444 By the Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education; and Senators Avila, Collins, and Yarborough 602-03440-25 2025444c1 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to human trafficking awareness; 3 creating s. 1006.481, F.S.; requiring the Department 4 of Education to identify a curriculum regarding human 5 trafficking awareness; specifying required components 6 of the curriculum; authorizing in-person or online 7 training; requiring public schools to require that 8 certain personnel have received certain training; 9 requiring school employees to acknowledge completion 10 of training; amending s. 1002.33, F.S.; requiring 11 charter schools to comply with requirements for human 12 trafficking awareness training; providing an effective 13 date. 14 15 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 16 17 Section 1. Section 1006.481, Florida Statutes, is created 18 to read: 19 1006.481 Human trafficking awareness training.— 20 (1) No later than December 1, 2025, the Department of 21 Education shall identify a free training curriculum regarding 22 human trafficking awareness, which must include all of the 23 following: 24 (a) The definition of human trafficking and the difference 25 between sex trafficking and labor trafficking. 26 (b) Guidance specific to the public education sector 27 concerning how to identify students who may be victims of human 28 trafficking. 29 (c) Guidance concerning the role of employees of the public 30 school system in reporting and responding to suspected human 31 trafficking. 32 (d) A protocol for reporting suspected human trafficking, 33 which must require that suspicion of human trafficking of a 34 child be reported to the Department of Children and Families or 35 the Florida Human Trafficking Hotline at either entity’s 36 designated telephone number. 37 (2) The training curriculum may be conducted either in 38 person or online. 39 (3) Each public school shall require that all instructional 40 personnel under s. 1012.01(2), administrative personnel under s. 41 1012.01(3)(c), and educational support personnel under s. 42 1012.01(6) who have contact with students must have received 43 training on human trafficking awareness. Each employee must 44 submit to the school an acknowledgment of having received the 45 training, which must be retained by the school. 46 Section 2. Paragraph (b) of subsection (16) of section 47 1002.33, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 48 1002.33 Charter schools.— 49 (16) EXEMPTION FROM STATUTES.— 50 (b) Additionally, a charter school shall be in compliance 51 with the following statutes: 52 1. Section 286.011, relating to public meetings and 53 records, public inspection, and criminal and civil penalties. 54 2. Chapter 119, relating to public records. 55 3. Section 1003.03, relating to the maximum class size, 56 except that the calculation for compliance pursuant to s. 57 1003.03 shall be the average at the school level. 58 4. Section 1012.22(1)(c), relating to compensation and 59 salary schedules. 60 5. Section 1012.33(5), relating to workforce reductions. 61 6. Section 1012.335, relating to contracts with 62 instructional personnel hired on or after July 1, 2011. 63 7. Section 1012.34, relating to the substantive 64 requirements for performance evaluations for instructional 65 personnel and school administrators. 66 8. Section 1006.12, relating to safe-school officers. 67 9. Section 1006.07(7), relating to threat management teams. 68 10. Section 1006.07(9), relating to School Environmental 69 Safety Incident Reporting. 70 11. Section 1006.07(10), relating to reporting of 71 involuntary examinations. 72 12. Section 1006.1493, relating to the Florida Safe Schools 73 Assessment Tool. 74 13. Section 1006.07(6)(d), relating to adopting an active 75 assailant response plan. 76 14. Section 943.082(4)(b), relating to the mobile 77 suspicious activity reporting tool. 78 15. Section 1012.584, relating to youth mental health 79 awareness and assistance training. 80 16. Section 1001.42(4)(f)2., relating to middle school and 81 high school start times. A charter school-in-the-workplace is 82 exempt from this requirement. 83 17. Section 1006.481, relating to training on human 84 trafficking awareness. 85 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.