FL H1131

Creates section 1013.101 of Florida Statutes to establish policy for shared use agreements allowing public access to school playground facilities outside school hours to reduce obesity, diabetes, and chronic diseases.

Requires the Department of Education to provide technical assistance to school districts including individualized support, a shared use technical assistance toolkit, and a publicly accessible online database of shared use resources and agreements.

Establishes a 7-member Shared Use Task Force within the Department of Education to identify barriers to creating shared use agreements and recommend solutions, with members from school districts, public health departments, community-based programs in high-need communities, and recreational organizations.

Task Force must elect a chair and vice chair from different member categories, meet by teleconference when possible, and submit findings and recommendations to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House by June 30, 2018, after which the task force expires.

Act takes effect July 1, 2017.