Bills

Foreign Influence; Citing this act as the “Foreign Interference Restriction and Enforcement Act”; prohibiting preplanned adoption agreements unless certain conditions are met; prohibiting specified persons from soliciting or accepting anything of value from a designated foreign terrorist organization, a foreign country of concern, or persons or entities representing such organizations or countries; authorizing any a…

Construction Disruption Assistance; Creates Construction Impact Relief Revolving Loan Program; providing requirements for program; providing reporting requirements for Department of Commerce; provides that COM or any of its officers, employees, agents, or contractors are not liable in any civil action arising out of or relating to specified duties of program; provides that COM is not liable for any damages resulting…

Security for Statewide Constitutional Office Candidates; Requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to provide certain candidates with a protective security detail for a specified time period, etc.

Deferred and Unpaid Taxes; Limits specified tax deferral to properties with just value of $1 million or less; increases minimum value of tax certificate that may be sold at public auction or by electronic sale.

Concurrent Legislative Jurisdiction over United States Military Installations; Accepting concurrent legislative jurisdiction with the United States over delinquency matters on United States military installations if such matters meet certain criteria; establishing circuit court jurisdiction over such matters, etc.

Educator Certifications and Training; Revising the core curricula for certain teacher preparation programs to include training relating to mass casualty incidents; revising the certified educator eligibility criteria to require training in mass casualty incidents; requiring the Department of Education to develop a list of approved trainings relating to mass casualty incidents, etc.

Funding for the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program; Revising the calculation of the base student allocation for the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program; requiring the Division of Early Learning to annually publish and provide to early learning coalitions specified information, etc.

Special Protections in Judicial Proceedings; Authorizes court to require pro se defendant to question certain victims & witnesses through standby counsel at any trial, hearing, or deposition upon specified findings.

Drowning Prevention Education; Requires DOH to develop educational materials on drowning prevention safety measures & safe bathing practices for specified purposes; provides requirements for such materials; requires hospitals, birth centers, & home birth providers to provide educational materials to new parents & caregivers as part of their postpartum education & care; requires childbirth educators to provide inform…

Criteria for Determining Criminal Gang Membership; Revising the definition of the term “criminal gang member”; defining the term “gang-related language”, etc.

Landscape Irrigation; Creating the “Landscape Irrigation Standards and Watering Restrictions Act”; prohibiting a person from taking certain actions regarding a landscape irrigation system unless such person is a licensed irrigation contractor or the property owner; specifying that only a licensed irrigation contractor may connect an irrigation system to a water supply; providing a purpose for landscape irrigation sy…

Educator Certifications and Training; Revises core curricula for certain teacher preparation programs to include training relating to mass casualty incidents; requires certain postsecondary educator preparation institution programs to include training relating to mass casualty incidents; revises certified educator eligibility criteria to require such persons to receive training in mass casualty incidents; requires p…

Condominium Associations; Provides that condominium association's turnover certificate & annual report must be maintained as part of association's official records; requires board of administration of condominium association to file with Division of Condominiums, Timeshares, & Mobile Homes turnover certificate within specified timeframe; requires turnover certificate to include certain information; requires division…

Pub. Rec./Code Inspector Body Cameras; Provides exemption from public records requirements for body camera recordings recorded by code inspector; requires local government to retain body camera recordings for specified timeframe; provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemption; provides statement of public necessity; directs Division of Library & Information Services of DOS to adopt specified retention …

Code Inspector Body Cameras; Requires governmental entity that permits its code inspectors to wear body cameras to establish certain policies & procedures; requires such governmental entity to ensure that certain training occurs, to retain certain data in accordance with public records laws, & to perform periodic review of actual body camera practices; provides that certain provisions relating to interception of wir…

Funding for the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program; Revises calculation of base student allocation for VPK; requires Division of Early Learning to annually publish & provide to early learning coalitions specified information;& authorizes Legislature to provide additional funding for program.

Fees/Homeowners’ Associations; Requiring each homeowners’ association that operates more than two parcels to pay to the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes an annual fee for each residential parcel operated by the association; requiring that the association be assessed a specified penalty of the amount due if the fee is not paid by a specified date; providing that, until the amount due, pl…

Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Initiative ; Requires DOEA to contract for development & implementation of Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Initiative; provides requirements for initiative; provides requirements for type of entity with which department contracts; requires Alzheimer's Disease Advisory Committee to make certain recommendations to department & Legislature annually.

Doula Support for Healthy Births Pilot Program; Establishing the pilot program in Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach Counties for a specified purpose, subject to a specific appropriation in the General Appropriations Act; requiring the Department of Health, in collaboration with its maternal and child health section, to implement and oversee the pilot program; requiring the department to collaborate with specified …

Right of Medical Conscience of Health Care Providers and Health Care Payors; Authorizing a health care provider or health care payor to commence certain civil actions if the Attorney General does not commence a civil action within a specified timeframe for an alleged violation of the provider’s or payor’s right of medical conscience, etc.

Newborn Screenings; Citing this act as “Mattie’s Law”; requiring that newborns, beginning on a specified date, be screened for biliary atresia; requiring the Department of Health to consult with the Genetics and Newborn Screening Advisory Council before adopting certain rules; requiring hospitals that provide birthing services to screen for biliary atresia in a specified manner, etc.

Doula Support for Healthy Births Pilot Program; Establishes pilot program in Broward, Miami-Dade, & Palm Beach Counties for specified purpose; requires DOH, in collaboration with its maternal & child health section, to implement & oversee pilot program; requires pilot program to target specified populations for enrollment; specifies services that must be provided under pilot program; requires department to collabora…

Domestic Violence Centers; Prohibiting the Department of Children and Families from deeming the results of a home study unfavorable under certain circumstances; prohibiting the removal of a child from certain placement due to the child and his or her custodian or parent temporarily residing in a certified domestic violence center if certain requirements are met; prohibiting a court from making a certain finding sole…

Specialty License Plates; Requiring certain organizations that have an approved specialty license plate to submit within a specified timeframe certain financial information to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; prohibiting specialty license plate annual use fees or interest earned from such fees from being distributed to certain entities; requiring the department to develop an Endless Summer motorc…

Medicaid Provider Networks ; Requires AHCA to establish network adequacy standards for prepaid dental plans; provides requirements for such standards; requires Medicaid managed care plan provider network databases to identify whether providers are accepting new patients; requires prepaid dental plans to to provide specified information on online provider database.

Products Liability Actions Under the Florida Pesticide Law; Prohibiting a pesticide-related products liability action based on a manufacturer’s failure to warn if the pesticide’s label meets specified conditions, etc.

Golf Cart Crossings; Authorizes operation of golf cart for purpose of crossing certain streets & highways under certain conditions; provides penalties.

Public Records/State Retirement Plan/Division of Retirement; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for all records identifying participants in any state retirement plan administered by the Division of Retirement of the Department of Management Services and held by the division or the State Board of Administration; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; deleting provisi…

Unlicensed Practice of Engineering; Provides penalties for persons found to have repeatedly engaged in unlicensed practice of engineering.

Homeowners’ Associations; Creating the Office of the Homeowners’ Association Ombudsman within the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation; specifying the powers and duties of the ombudsman; providing the duties of the division relating to the development, construction, sale, lease, ownership, operation, and management of residential par…

Department of Law Enforcement; Authorizing the Department of Law Enforcement to adopt rules relating to the Florida Medal of Valor and the Florida Blue/Red Heart Medal; specifying the circumstances under which an appointment or reappointment to the Medical Examiners Commission is considered in force; requiring the commission, rather than the Governor, to appoint district medical examiners for each medical examiner d…

Motor Vehicle Insurance; Repealing provisions which comprise the Florida Motor Vehicle No-Fault Law; revising garage liability insurance requirements for recreational vehicle dealer license applicants; revising minimum liability coverage requirements for motor vehicle owners or operators; revising requirements for motor vehicle liability policies relating to coverage, and exclusion from coverage, for certain drivers…

Virtual Learning; Revises purpose of FLVS to provide for development & delivery of blended learning; revises provisions relating to student priority, funding, reporting requirements, & examinations & assessments; provides for establishment of Florida Virtual School Justice Education Program; provides requirements for such program, including students participating in such program and FLVS, DOC, & DOE responsibilities…

Athletics in Public K-12 Schools; Requires FHSAA to adopt bylaws authorizing coach to support welfare of student by using personal funds to provide certain effects to student; requires coach to report such use of personal funds to FHSAA; provides that such use of personal funds is presumed not to be impermissible benefit; provides exceptions & provides specified limitations on amount of personal funds coach may use.

Florida Museum of Black History; Establishes Florida Museum of Black History Board of Directors; provides for membership of board; requires that appointments to board be made by specified date; prohibits specified members of board from holding state or local elective office while serving on board; provides for filling of vacancies; requires that board work jointly with Foundation for Museum of Black History, Inc.; r…

Construction Regulations; Prohibiting a governmental entity that contracts for a public works project from taking certain actions; requiring the Florida Building Commission to adopt by rule uniform commercial building permit acceptance standards for a specified purpose by a specified date; requiring a local jurisdiction to include a certain reduction in the permit fee on its schedule of fees posted on its website; r…

Coverage by Citizens Property Insurance Corporation; Revises eligibility for coverage of residential structures in certain counties by Citizens Property Insurance Corporation; requires corporation to implement certain rate increases annually in such counties for single policies issued by corporation; provides additional policies issued by corporation which do not require policyholders to purchase flood insurance as …

Foreign and Alien Bail Bond Insurers; Providing duties of certain foreign and alien bail bond insurers relating to reporting bail bond premiums to the Office of Insurance Regulation, keeping records of considerations paid for bail bonds written by the insurers, and disclosing certain information in the financial statements filed with the office, etc.

Mandatory Human Reviews of Insurance Claim Denials ; Authorizes workers' compensation carriers, insurers &HMOs to use artificial intelligence systems & machine learning systems to assist in processing claims; prohibits use of artificial intelligence or machine learning systems as sole basis for determining whether to reduce claim payment or deny claim or portion of claim; requires that decisions to deny claim or por…

Foreign and Alien Bail Bond Insurers; Provides duties of certain foreign & alien bail bond insurers relating to reporting bail bond premiums to OIR, keeping records of considerations paid for bail bonds written by insurers, & disclosing certain information in financial statements filed with office.

Manufacturing; Revising the duties of the Department of Commerce; establishing the Chief Manufacturing Officer among the senior leadership of the department for a specified purpose; creating the Florida Manufacturers’ Workforce Development Grant Program within the department; providing that the grant program is under the direction of the Chief Manufacturing Officer in consultation with the National Institute of Stan…

Newborn Screenings; Requires, beginning on specified date, that newborns to be screened for biliary atresia; requires DOH to consult with Genetics & Newborn Screening Advisory Council before adopting certain rules; requires department, by specified date, to implement certain education campaign relating to biliary atresia.

Residential Utility Disconnections; Prohibiting an electric utility, a public utility, or a water utility from disconnecting service to residential customers for nonpayment of bills or fees under specified circumstances; requiring such utilities to waive reconnection fees and late fees in certain circumstances; prohibiting such utilities from recovering from customers any fee or expense incurred in complying with th…

Local Regulation of Drinking Straws and Stirrers; Prohibiting local governmental entities from enacting any rule, regulation, or ordinance for drinking straws or stirrers which does not meet specified requirements; providing requirements for local governmental entities that elect to enact rules, regulations, or ordinances for drinking straws or stirrers, etc.

Clerks of the Court; Authorizing the cumulative excess of funds to be used in the development of the total combined budgets of the clerks of the court; requiring that a court use certain sale procedures in a foreclosure action; providing that only a clerk of court may conduct a foreclosure sale, etc.

Illegal Gaming; Repealing a provision relating to penalties and violations related to illegal gambling; authorizing a person who is ineligible for employment with the commission to submit a waiver request to the commission asking to be considered eligible for employment if the person possesses certain expertise or experience; revising the standards of conduct for current and former commissioners and employees of the…

Managed Care Plans; Revises Medicaid managed care contract requirements to prohibit managed care plans from reviewing certain prior authorization claims for medical necessity; requires that managed care plans provide coverage for durable medical equipment & complex rehabilitation technology from qualified provider, from within provider network, of enrollee's choosing; requires AHCA to adopt certain rules.

Parking on Public Property; Defining the terms “public property” and “publicly owned buildings or facilities”; requiring local governments to refund owners of vehicles who pay fees to park on specified public property in certain circumstances; prohibiting certain vehicles from being towed or issued a traffic citation for a specified time period after being parked on specified public property; prohibiting local gover…

Violations of Injunctions for Protection Against Domestic Violence; Provides that person commits felony of third degree if such person commits violation of injunction or foreign protection order against victim after having been convicted of any assault, battery, or violation of injunction or foreign protection order against same victim; requires minimum term of imprisonment for such offense.

Hunger-Free Campus Pilot Program; Citing this act as the "Hunger-Free Campus Act"; establishing, subject to legislative appropriation, the pilot program within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for a specified period; requiring the Commissioner of Agriculture to identify the three state universities or Florida College System institutions with the highest percentage of Pell Grant-eligible students f…