Bills

Parental Rights of Qualified Patients; Prohibits court from denying or restricting certain parental rights based solely on parent's status as qualified patient for purposes of medical marijuana use; prohibits presumption of neglect or child endangerment based solely on parent's status as qualified patient for purposes of medical marijuana use.

Preemption to the State; Prohibits counties, municipalities, & special districts, respectively, from substantially burdening free exercise of religion by adopting or enforcing certain ordinances, regulations, resolutions, rules, or other policies; prohibits local enforcement agency from denying issuance of certificate of occupancy to owner of residential or commercial property based on noncompliance with Florida-fri…

Victims of Violence; Citing this act as the “Survivor Safety Act”; creating a rebuttable presumption that persons who use force in accordance with specified provisions against a known abuser act with a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily harm; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement, in consultation with specified persons, to develop, implement, and mandate an evidence-based, trauma-inform…

Speech and Debate Education; Creating the Florida Speech and Debate Hall of Fame; designating Florida Speech and Debate Week annually in February; establishing the Florida Debate Initiative, Inc., (FDI) as a statewide speech and debate organization that performs certain functions in support of the Florida Civics and Debate Initiative (FCDI) in the Department of Education; requiring the Board of Governors of the Stat…

Speech and Debate Education; Designates Florida Speech & Debate Week annually in February; subject to legislative appropriation, establishing Florida Debate Initiative, Inc., (FDI) as statewide speech & debate organization that performs certain functions in support of Florida Civics & Debate Initiative (FCDI) in DOE; provides duties of FDI & FCDI.

Gubernatorial Transition; Requires Governor to designate transition liaison within EOG within specified timeframe; provides duties of transition liaison; requires head of each state agency to designate agency transition liaison within specified timeframe; provides duties of agency transition liaisons; requires DMS & each state agency to provide certain temporary office facilities to certain persons during transition…

Victims of Violence; Creates rebuttable presumption that persons who use force in accordance with specified provisions against known abuser act with reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily harm; specifies when rebuttable presumption applies; requires court to instruct jury regarding existence of rebuttable presumption & shift in burden of proof if rebuttable presumption applies; authorizes court t…

Disclosure of Public Servants’ Personal Information; Authorizing certain public employees and officials to provide a written notice to a data broker to prevent disclosure of specified personal data concerning themselves and related persons; prohibiting a data broker from disclosing or redisclosing certain data after receipt of such notice; authorizing data brokers to provide e-mail addresses for receipt of such noti…

Medical Debt; Defining the terms “medical debt collector” and “medical debt creditor”; prohibiting medical debt creditors and medical debt collectors from engaging in specified activities to collect medical debt; specifying limitations on the amount of interest a debtor may be charged for medical debt; providing that certain debtors may not be charged any interest or late fees on their medical debt, etc.

Tributaries of the St. Johns River; Citing this act as the "Northeast Florida Rivers, Springs, and Community Investment Act"; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection, by a specified date, to hire a project lead to oversee the implementation of the act; requiring the department to develop, by a specified date, a project plan for the restoration of the Ocklawaha River; providing that the project plan is a…

Tributaries of the St. Johns River; Requires DEP to hire project lead to oversee implementation of act, to develop project plan for restoration of Ocklawaha River, & to develop specified outdoor recreation plan; creates Northeast Florida River & Springs Recreation & Economic Development Advisory Council; requires Department of Commerce to develop specified economic development program for Marion & Putnam Counties.

Medicaid Dental Pilot Program for Persons with Disabilities; Defining the term “persons with disabilities”; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to establish and operate a Medicaid dental pilot program in a specified region to provide enhanced dental services to persons with disabilities; specifying dental services covered by the pilot program; requiring the agency to reimburse dental providers under …

Battery Collection and Disposal; Repeals provisions relating to battery requirements for consumers, manufacturers, & sellers; prohibits producers or retailers from selling, offering, or distributing any battery or battery containing product unless certain conditions are met; provides requirements for battery stewardship organizations regarding collection & disposal of batteries & battery containing products; require…

Home Health Services; Requiring nurse registries to provide a written disclosure to clients at intake and annually thereafter; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to adopt rules; prohibiting nurse registries from using specified terms in their business names, advertising, websites, and promotional materials; providing that registered homemakers and companions are subject to initial and periodic inspe…

Medicaid Dental Pilot Program; Requires AHCA to establish & operate 3-year Medicaid dental pilot program in Region B of Statewide Medicaid Managed Care program for persons with disabilities; provides eligibility criteria; specifies covered benefits; provides reimbursement requirements; requires managed care participation; directs AHCA to seek federal approval; requires AHCA to collect specified data & submit report …

State Group Insurance Program Coverage for Obesity Treatment; Requiring the Department of Management Services to provide coverage for specified strategies for the evidence-based treatment and management of obesity and related conditions for state group health insurance plan policies issued on or after a specified date; prohibiting coverage criteria for weight management medications from being more restrictive than t…

Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances; Citing this act as the “Joe Casello Act”; prohibiting, beginning on a specified date, certain use and the sale, purchase, or distribution of aqueous film-forming foam in this state; prohibiting, beginning on a specified date, the possession and use of aqueous film-forming foam in this state; requiring certain public entities disposing of domestic wastewater biosolids an…

Required Instruction in Cursive Writing; Requires students in specified grades to receive instruction in cursive writing; provides requirements for such instruction; requires students to demonstrate proficiency in cursive writing by end of specified grade; defines "proficiency in cursive writing".

Education; Revises provisions relating to K-12 expenditures, school districts, charter schools, lab schools, epinephrine use in public & private schools, school attendance, VPK program, school readiness program, early learning coalitions, Gold Seal Quality Program, required instruction, comprehensive mathematics instruction, parental consent to opt out of specified instruction, certain education funding, instructio…

Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances; Prohibits, beginning on specified date, certain use & sale, purchase, or distribution of aqueous film-forming foam; requires, beginning on specified date, certain entities to submit aqueous film-forming foam inventories & disposal plans to DEP; prohibits, beginning on specified date, possession & use of aqueous film-forming foam; authorizes DEP to administer certain gra…

Antisemitism Task Force; Creating the Antisemitism Task Force adjunct to the Office of Civil Rights within the Department of Legal Affairs for a specified purpose; requiring the department to provide administrative and staff support to the task force; requiring the task force to meet quarterly; requiring the task force to annually submit a report and policy recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature by a sp…

Antisemitism Task Force; Creates Antisemitism Task Force within Office of Civil Rights of DLA for specified purpose; requires department to provide administrative & staff support to task force; provides for appointment & terms of members; provides for per diem & travel expenses; provides membership & duties of task force; requires report to Governor & Legislature by specified date; provides for future review & repea…

Utilities ; Requires municipalities that operate utility services to allow other municipalities & property owners outside its municipal boundaries to connect with & use its utility services under specified conditions; prohibits municipalities that operate utility services from denying such services based on specified criteria; requires municipalities to make certain determinations; provides for appeal of such determ…

Provision of Municipal Utility Service to Owners Outside the Municipal Limits; Prohibiting a municipal utility from declining to extend service to properties outside its corporate limits under certain circumstances; requiring a municipal utility to expand its service to an owner who makes such a request under certain circumstances, subject to the utility’s service requirements; requiring the municipal utility to mak…

Research and Development Tax Credit; Increasing the combined total amount of tax credits which may be granted to business enterprises under the research and development tax credit, etc.

Research and Development Tax Credit; Increases combined total amount of credits which may be granted to business enterprises during any calendar year.

Funding for Body Cameras; Revises definition of “infrastructure” to include body cameras in certain circumstances.

Services During a State of Emergency; Authorizes DMS to enter into state term contracts for specified services; authorizes individuals to work in specified positions if they meet certain requirements.

Gubernatorial Transition; Requiring the Governor to designate a transition liaison within the Executive Office of the Governor within a specified timeframe; requiring the head of each state agency to designate an agency transition liaison within a specified timeframe; requiring the Department of Management Services and each state agency to provide certain temporary office facilities to certain persons during the tra…

Melbourne-Tillman Water Control District, Brevard County; Revises stormwater management user fees & annual adjustments for residential, agricultural, and commercial parcels of land.

Final Disposition, Funeral, and Cemetery Services ; Revises provisions relating to solicitations of sales of final disposition, funeral, & cemetery services by licensees of such services; cemetery land requirements; licensure of specified positions relating to final disposition, funeral, & cemetery services; disposal of human remains; & requirements for notices to purchasers & legally authorized persons of unfulfill…

Transportation; Requiring the Department of Transportation and any impacted local government to increase the minimum perception-reaction time for steady yellow signals at certain intersections by a specified amount of time; authorizing enforcement of restrictive school zone speed limits through the use of speed detection systems under certain conditions; revising provisions relating to the placement and installation…

Small Employer Health Carrier Reinsurance Program; Removes provisions relating to creation of Florida Small Employer Carrier Reinsurance Program.

Public Records/State Attorney’s Office and Office of Statewide Prosecution Nonlegal Support Staff; Defining the term “state attorney’s office or Office of Statewide Prosecution nonlegal support staff”; providing an exemption from public records requirements for the personal identifying and location information of current state attorney’s office and Office of Statewide Prosecution nonlegal support staff and the spous…

Pub. Rec./State Attorney and Office of Statewide Prosecution Nonlegal Support Staff; Provides exemption from public records requirements for personal identifying & location information of current state attorney & Office of Statewide Prosecution nonlegal support staff & spouses & children of such nonlegal support staff; provides for legislative review & repeal of exemption; provides for retroactive application of exe…

Gender Identity Employment Practices; Citing this act as the "Freedom of Conscience in the Workplace Act"; specifying an employment policy of this state relating to a person’s sex; providing applicability; prohibiting employees and contractors of certain employers from being required to use certain pronouns or requiring such employers to use a pronoun that does not correspond to the employee’s or contractor’s sex; p…

Waste Facilities; Prohibits local government & DEP from issuing construction permit for certain solid waste disposal & waste-to-energy facilities under certain circumstances.

Melbourne-Tillman Water Control District, Brevard County; Revises district boundaries.

Recording of Instruments Conveying Real Property; Requiring that electronic signatures for certain notarial acts include specified information as a watermark to prevent copying; prohibiting the recording of certain instruments without specified identification; defining the term “valid and unredacted identification document”; authorizing a clerk of the circuit court to return instruments for correction in specified c…

Florida Civil Rights Act; Deleting the requirement that the Florida Commission on Human Relations send certain information to certain persons by registered mail; revising the timeframe when a civil action may be brought for violations of the act; providing that if the commission or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission does not make a determination within a specified timeframe, the complainant may bring a civi…

Health Insurer Accountability; Requires health plan to participate in filed claim dispute; provides penalties for failure to respond to claim; requires AHCA to notify certain entity within specified timeframe when health plan fails to pay provider; requires health plan to pay provider within specified timeframe after agency's order; provides credentialing requirements for managed care plan; requires each managed car…

Universal Free School Breakfast and Lunch Program; Requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, subject to the appropriation of funds by the Legislature, to establish and operate a program to provide universal free school breakfast and lunch meals to all public school students; deleting provisions requiring school districts to implement and charge students for a breakfast program; authorizing schoo…

Ave Maria Stewardship Community District, Collier County; Revises boundaries of district; revises provisions relating to revenue collections & to systems, facilities, & services.

Recording of Instruments Conveying Real Property; Requires electronic signatures for certain notarial acts to include specified information as watermark to prevent copying; r prohibits recording of certain instruments without specified identification; authorizes clerk of circuit court to return instruments for correction in specified circumstances; requires such instruments be returned within specified timeframe.

Guardianship; Requires that order appointing guardian identify persons entitled to certain information upon incapacitated person's death; authorizes that order appointing guardian identify persons entitled to notice if incapacitated person is transferred to medical facility & persons entitled to visit incapacitated person; authorizes guardian to restrict ability of minor ward to maintain certain contacts in certain …

Guardianship; Prohibiting a guardian from restricting the ability of an adult ward to maintain contact with a person except under certain circumstances; requiring a guardian to provide a ward with notice of a change in residential setting under certain circumstances; requiring that an initial guardianship plan identify the persons entitled to certain information, etc.

Central Broward Water Control District, Broward County; Revises maximum rate of ad valorem tax that district may levy; revises manner in which district may levy taxes.

Stalking ; Creates offense of aggravated stalking based on nonconsensual entry upon victim's property or interference with victim's property in course of committing offense of stalking; creates offense of sexually aggravated stalking based on certain sexual conduct in course of committing offense of stalking; ranks offenses created by act on offense severity ranking chart of Criminal Punishment Code; revises definit…

Manatee County Port Authority, Manatee County; Provides that district is independent special district, rather than dependent special district; revises & provides definitions; provides for operation of port authority; provides powers, functions, & duties of port authority; provides for construction & effect.

Recognizing Judea and Samaria; Citing this act as the “Recognizing Judea and Samaria Act”; prohibiting state agencies from using the term “West Bank” in official government materials; prohibiting state agencies from using moneys to create official government materials using such term; requiring instructional materials and library media center collections adopted by certain entities on or after a specified date to re…