Bills

Unauthorized Aliens; Prohibits unauthorized aliens from receiving certain licensing or certification, financial assistance, & claim reimbursement; requires certain procedures, instruction, & testing to be conducted in English; prohibits alternate language accommodations; requires employers & licensees to verify employment eligibility & citizenship status, respectively, before taking certain actions; provides civil c…

Parkinson’s Disease Registry; Requiring physicians, osteopathic physicians, and advanced practice registered nurses, respectively, to report certain information to the Parkinson’s disease registry; providing limited liability for physicians and advanced practice registered nurses under certain circumstances; revising the membership of the Parkinson’s Disease Research Board; requiring the Institute for Parkinson’s Di…

Experimental Treatments for Terminal Conditions and Life-threatening Rare Diseases; Authorizes licensed physicians to prescribe & eligible facilities to administer experimental treatments; requires approval of specified platform or master protocol by institutional review board; requires DOH to establish & maintain patient registry; requires DOH to annually publish specified report; encourages health insurers & healt…

Practice of Veterinary Medicine; Revising the membership of the Board of Veterinary Medicine; specifying the services a veterinary technician or veterinary technologist must be licensed to perform, under the supervision of a licensed veterinarian; specifying that licensed veterinarians are responsible for all services performed by licensed veterinary technicians or veterinary technologists; specifying the services t…

Veterinary Medicine; Defines "veterinary professional associate"; increases amount of time for which prescriptions based solely on veterinary telehealth evaluation may be issued for certain drugs; revises applicability of certain exemptions; provides requirements for veterinary professional associates to receive certificates of registration from DBPR; requires department to make list of veterinary professional assoc…

Pub. Rec./Experimental Treatments for Terminal Conditions and Life-threatening Rare Diseases; Provides exemption from public records certain information contained in public report published by DOH relating to experimental treatment outcomes & safety signals; provides statement of public necessity.

Penalties for Prostitution and Related Acts; Revising penalties and criminal penalties for certain offenses, etc.

Child Restraint Requirements; Prohibiting a person operating a motorcycle or moped from carrying a child under a certain age, or allowing a child under a certain age to ride on the motorcycle or moped, unless certain requirements are met, etc.

Trust Funds/Creation/Experimental Treatments for Terminal Conditions and Life-threatening Rare Diseases; Creates Experimental Treatment Access Trust Fund for specified purposes; authorizes licensed experimental treatment centers to contribute specified amount to trust fund or provide specified care at no cost; provides for termination of trust fund.

Implementation of the Recommendations of the Blue-Green Algae Task Force; Requiring owners of certain onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems to have the systems periodically inspected beginning on a specified date; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to administer the inspection program and implement program standards, procedures, and requirements; requiring that estimated pollutant load reduc…

Materials Harmful to Minors; Defining the term “harmful to minors”; revising the list of materials used in a classroom which are subject to the objection process by parents or residents, etc.

Technology Education; Providing requirements for general education core courses with a technology component; requiring high school computer science courses to include instruction on artificial intelligence, etc.

State Economic Development Contracts; Provides short title; defines; requires employer to sign agreement with Department of Commerce before becoming eligible for economic development incentive; specifies provisions of agreement; provides applicability; authorizes persons & entities to report suspected violation to department within specified timeframe; requires department to determine whether violation has occurred;…

Computer Science Education and Certification; Provides requirements for general education core courses with technology component; requires high school computer science courses to include instruction on artificial intelligence; requires SBE to establish separate computer science subject area coverages for specified grades & to continue comprehensive K–12 coverage; requires DOE to present recommended competencies for …

Offenses Evidencing Prejudice; Expanding grounds for the reclassification of offenses to include acts based on the gender or gender identity of any person; requiring that the reclassification occur if the offense was based in whole or in part on specified characteristics of any person; replacing the term “mental or physical disability” with the term “disability” and revising the definition; requiring that the reclas…

Offenses Evidencing Prejudice; Expands grounds for reclassification of offenses to include acts based on gender or gender identity of any person; specifies that reclassification must occur if offense was based in whole or in part on specified characteristics of any person; provides that it is essential element of certain offense that defendant perceived, knew, or had reasonable grounds to know or perceive that perso…

Surrendering to Law Enforcement; Citing this act as “Vassallo’s Law”; requiring law enforcement agencies to implement a procedure for interviewing a surrendering person; authorizing a law enforcement officer interviewing a surrendering person to temporarily detain or arrest such person under certain circumstances; requiring a law enforcement officer interviewing a surrendering person to deliver, or have delivered, s…

Surrendering to Law Enforcement; Requires law enforcement agency to implement procedure for interviewing person who attempts to be taken into custody by such agency for violation of criminal law when no warrant for such person's arrest has been issued; specifies that such procedure shall include certain actions; authorizes temporary detention in certain circumstances; authorizes warrantless arrest in certain circums…

Advanced Nuclear Reactors; Granting the Florida Public Service Commission the sole authority to regulate advanced nuclear reactors in this state; requiring the commission, the Department of Health, and the Department of Environmental Protection to jointly establish criteria for the certification of laboratories that perform analysis on nuclear materials for certain purposes; revising the criteria the commission must…

Family Court Report Cards; Requires Office of State Courts Administrator to establish pilot program beginning on specified date; provides appropriation; requires office to prepare & publish on its website annual family court report card of each judge who presides over family law proceedings in each judicial circuit beginning on specified date; requires office to maintain publicly accessible online database of report…

Notice Requirements for Certain Employers to their Employees; Providing that certain employers, employment agencies, and labor organizations comply with providing their employees or members certain information by posting notice of such information on the Internet in a manner that is accessible to such employees or members, etc.

Right Turns at Intersections Using Traffic Infraction Detectors; Prohibiting certain right turns at intersections using traffic infraction detectors; requiring certain signage at such intersections, etc.

Charter Schools; Authorizes state universities & Florida College System institutions to sponsor job engine charter schools; & requires specified tax funds be provided to sponsor of job engine charter school annually.

Charter Schools; Authorizing Florida College System institutions and state universities to sponsor job engine charter schools; requiring that specified tax funds be provided annually to the sponsor of a job engine charter school, etc.

Artificial Intelligence; Prohibits governmental entities from extending or renewing contract with specified entities; prohibits governmental entities from taking certain actions relating to contracting for AI technology, software, or products unless certain requirements are met; prohibits governmental entities from entering into contracts for AI technology, software, or products under certain conditions; provides ri…

Employer Immunity from Civil Liability; Providing employers with immunity from civil liability for actions taken against a current or prospective employee under certain circumstances, etc.

Litigation Financing Consumer Protection; Citing this act as the “Litigation Investment Safeguards and Transparency Act”; authorizing courts to consider the existence of a litigation financing agreement under certain circumstances; prohibiting specified acts by litigation financiers; requiring certain parties to a legal proceeding, or their counsels of record, which have entered into a litigation financing agreement…

Litigation Financing; Requires courts to consider potential conflicts of interest that may arise from existence of litigation financing agreement in specified circumstances; prohibits specified acts by litigation financiers; requires certain parties that enter into specified litigation financing agreements to serve specified notice; provides requirements for such notices; provides that certain information is not req…

Employer Immunity from Civil Liability; Provides employers with immunity from civil liability for adverse personnel actions taken against employee or job applicant.

Local Business Tax Receipts; Requires persons applying for or renewing local business tax receipt to practice or engage in or manage any business or occupation that conducts certain transactions to exhibit active license or authorization from Office of Foreign Assets Control of United States Department of Treasury; specifies that online renewals may meet such requirement by electronic certification by applicant.

Local Business Tax Receipts; Requiring persons applying for or renewing a local business tax receipt to practice or engage in or manage any business or occupation that conducts certain transactions to exhibit an active license or authorization from the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury, etc.

Insurers’ Financial Transactions; Requiring certain insurers to annually provide specified information to the Office of Insurance Regulation; requiring the office to contract annually with a specified entity to conduct a review of certain transactions; prohibiting an insurer from engaging in certain transactions with affiliates; prohibiting an insurer from declaring or paying dividends to shareholders or issuing exe…

Towing Disabled Vehicles; Requiring a law enforcement officer to provide the driver of a vehicle impounded under certain circumstances with certain information; authorizing the driver of a vehicle disabled under certain circumstances to take certain action; requiring a law enforcement officer and wrecker operator to provide specified information to the driver of a vehicle disabled under certain circumstances, etc.

State Lotteries; Revises information required to be provided to Department of Lottery by persons who submit bid, proposal, or offer to negotiate contract for major procurement; revises bond amount retailer may be required to post for period within which retailer is required to remit lottery funds to department; authorizes division's sworn law enforcement officers to purchase & present lottery tickets to lottery reta…

Availability of Marijuana for Adult Use; Revising the sales tax exemption for the sale of marijuana and marijuana delivery devices to apply only to purchases by qualified patients and caregivers; revising background screening requirements for caregivers; revising provisions related to the licensure and functions of medical marijuana treatment centers (MMTCs); authorizing MMTCs licensed to cultivate or process mariju…

Home Cultivation of Marijuana; Authorizing certain qualified patients to cultivate up to six flowering cannabis plants for personal consumption and noncommercial purposes; authorizing certain qualified patients to purchase medical marijuana seeds and clones from a licensed medical marijuana treatment center; providing that the personal consumption of cannabis cultivated at a qualified patient’s residence is subject …

Property Insurance Affiliates ; Requires insurers to provide to OIR documentation demonstrating that financial considerations & payments to affiliates are fair & reasonable; requires office to consider certain factors to determine whether such considerations & payments are fair & reasonable; requires compensation arrangements between insurers & affiliates to be structured as fees for service; requires insurers to su…

Education on Congenital Cytomegalovirus; Requires DOH, in consultation with medical experts identified by department, to develop educational materials on congenital cytomegalovirus for distribution to expectant & new parents & caregivers; provides requirements for such educational materials; requires certain hospitals, birth centers, & obstetrics & gynecology physician practices to provide educational materials to s…

State Lotteries; Revising the powers and duties of the Department of the Lottery; revising the information required to be provided to the department by persons who submit a bid, a proposal, or an offer to negotiate a contract for major procurement; authorizing the Division of Security’s sworn law enforcement officers to purchase and present lottery tickets to a lottery retailer to claim a prize under certain circums…

Charter School Funding; Providing local funding sources for certain charter schools; prohibiting a district school board from delaying specified payments to a charter school; providing that certain charter school facilities are exempt from assessments and fees; revising requirements for a charter school to be eligible to receive capital outlay funding, etc.

Deferred Compensation Plans for Public Employees; Authorizes inclusion of automatic enrollment arrangement in government employee's deferred compensation plan; requires that automatic enrollment arrangement be established with default contribution rate; authorizes periodic reenrollment of specified government employees; authorizes periodic resetting of contribution rates for specified government employees; requires …

Deferred Compensation Plans for Public Employees; Citing this act as the "Deferred Compensation Automatic Enrollment Act"; authorizing the inclusion of an automatic enrollment arrangement in a government employee’s deferred compensation plan; requiring that the automatic enrollment arrangement provide employees the ability to make certain elections regarding contributions; requiring that the plan provide for a defau…

My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program; Revising eligibility requirements for participation in the My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program; requiring the Department of Financial Services to adopt rules to verify household income; specifying that condominium property with mixed-income occupancies is eligible to participate in the pilot program under certain circumstances; authorizing financial grants to be used …

THC; Provides that marijuana testing laboratory may acquire hemp & hemp extract only from certain businesses; prohibits marijuana testing laboratory from selling, distributing, or transferring hemp or hemp extract from certain businesses; requires marijuana testing laboratory to separate marijuana received from certain entities from hemp or hemp extract received from certain entities; revises requirements for sale &…

Use of Digital Currency by the Department of Financial Services; Establishes Florida Stablecoin Pilot Program within DFS; authorizes DFS to engage in certain activities, designate one or more payment stablecoins for certain activities, & accept payment stablecoins; requires that certain payment stablecoins meet specified criteria; authorizes program participants to elect to voluntarily participate in program & remit…

Optional Retirement Programs; Requiring that the employer contribution rate for certain optional retirement programs be equal to the employer contribution rate for the Florida Retirement System Investment Plan, etc.

Veterinary Licensure; Deleting the requirement for an applicant for licensure by endorsement to have held a valid active license to practice veterinary medicine in another state, the District of Columbia, or a territory of the United States for a specified amount of time; requiring applicants to hold a valid, active license in good standing to practice veterinary medicine in another state, the District of Columbia, …

Minimum Wage Requirements; Citing this act as the “On-the-Job Workforce Training Act”; exempting an employer from state minimum wage requirements for specified employees; authorizing employees to voluntarily opt out of the state minimum wage requirements by signing a waiver; prohibiting an employer from coercing an employee into opting out of the state minimum wage; requiring employers to pay an employee at or above…

Minimum Wage Requirements; Exempts employer from state minimum wage requirements for specified employees; prohibits certain work-based learning opportunities from lasting longer than specified timeframe; authorizes employees to voluntarily opt out of state minimum wage requirements by signing waiver; prohibits employer from coercing employee into opting out of state minimum wage; provides requirements for waiver to …

Assessment of Property with Decreasing Just Valuation; Prohibits increases in certain assessed valuations if the just value of property has decreased.