Bills

Cardiac Services Providers; Revising requirements for licensure of Level I and Level II adult cardiovascular programs; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to update specified rules as new applicable industry standards and guidelines are published, etc.

Ad Valorem Tax Exemption for Disabled Veterans; Removes limitation on value of tax exemption that surviving spouse could transfer to new residence; revises when specified tax exemption is considered to be granted.

Child Pornography Terminology; Replaces the term "child pornography" with the term "child sexual abuse material"; provides legislative intent and applicability, etc.

Carryforward Funding of Certain Managing Entities; Revising the duties of the Department of Children and Families; revising the criteria for the department’s comprehensive review of certain managing entities; requiring a managing entity to ensure maximum subcontract utilization of current year allocated funds within its network, etc.

Felony Battery; Provides enhanced criminal penalties for persons who commit subsequent battery after having prior conviction for resisting officer with violence.

Offenses Evidencing Prejudice; Requiring the reclassification of offenses evidencing prejudice based on the political ideology of the victim, etc.

Offenses Evidencing Prejudice; Requires reclassification of offenses evidencing prejudice based on political ideology of victim; provides penalties.

Security for Nominees and Officers-elect to the Offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor; Requires FDLE to provide certain nominees & officers-elect with protective security detail for specified time period.

Felony Battery; Revising the definition of “prison releasee reoffender” to include a defendant who commits or attempts to commit battery on a law enforcement officer which results in bodily injury; providing enhanced criminal penalties for persons who commit a second or subsequent battery after having a prior conviction for resisting an officer with violence, etc.

Postsurgical Recovery Homes; Creating the "Postsurgical Recovery Home Safety Act"; providing licensure requirements to operate a postsurgical recovery home; requiring inspections before issuing a license and annually thereafter; prohibiting operating or advertising a postsurgical recovery home without a license; prohibiting a postsurgical recovery home from providing patient care without meeting certain staffing req…

Carrying Weapons and Firearms; Prohibiting a person from carrying a weapon or firearm into certain locations; providing criminal penalties, etc.

Carrying Weapons and Firearms; Prohibits person from carrying weapon or firearm into certain locations; provides criminal penalty.

Administration of Medications; Authorizes pharmacist to administer certain medications.

Connecting to Care Act; Citing this act as the "Connecting to Care Act"; authorizing a pharmacist to administer certain medications under certain circumstances, etc.

Community Rehabilitation Programs; Provides minimum standards community rehabilitation program must meet to qualify to enter into cooperative agreements with Division of Blind Services to provide certain services; authorizes director of division to temporarily waive certain requirements for certain purposes; provides that community rehabilitation programs that meet specified requirements are considered priority serv…

Developmental Disabilities; Revises definition of term "developmental disability"; defines "Tatton-Brown-Rahman syndrome ."

Batterers’ Intervention Program Activities; Authorizing batterers’ intervention programs to offer supplemental faith-based activities, etc.

Parole; Requiring the Florida Commission on Offender Review to provide a specified statistical analysis to the Legislature; requiring the Department of Corrections to provide specified information to the commission; requiring the commission to review specified information in certain circumstances, etc.

School Attendance Immunizations; Revising the communicable diseases for which immunization is required for school attendance, etc.

Agency for Persons with Disabilities ; Revises definition of term "developmental disability"; defines "Tatton-Brown-Rahman syndrome"; requires level 2 employment screening for all employees of residential facilities & adult day training programs; requires agency to contract with state university to develop & administer certain surveys; provides requirements for such surveys; requires state university to submit certa…

Community Rehabilitation Programs; Providing minimum requirements a community rehabilitation program must meet to qualify to enter into a cooperative agreement with the Division of Blind Services to provide certain services; providing that a community rehabilitation program that meets specified requirements is considered a priority service provider for purposes of program funding; requiring the Florida Association o…

Use of Campaign Funds for Campaign-related Child Care Expenses; Authorizing a candidate to use funds on deposit in his or her campaign account to pay for campaign-related child care expenses under specified conditions; requiring a candidate to maintain specified records for a specified timeframe and provide such records to the Division of Elections upon request; requiring a candidate to disclose the use of campaign …

Use of Campaign Funds for Campaign-related Child Care Expenses; Defines "campaign-related child care expenses" & "eligible child care provider"; authorizes candidate to use funds on deposit in his or her campaign account to pay for campaign-related child care expenses under specified conditions; requires candidate to maintain specified records for specified timeframe & provide such records to Division of Elections u…

Corporal Punishment; Prohibiting school district employees from using corporal punishment on public school students, etc.

Pub. Rec./Law Enforcement Officers Actively Engaged in Official Duty; Authorizes certain law enforcement officers to decline to accept or process public records requests; provides requirements for such officers; provides penalty.

Online Media Transparency; Creating the "Online Media Transparency Act"; requiring certain content creators to clearly and conspicuously disclose any sponsorship within any related media content; providing that failure to disclose a sponsorship constitutes an unfair or deceptive act or practice; requiring a content creator who receives sponsorship from a foreign principal of a foreign country to file a certain discl…

Administrative Efficiency in Public Schools; Exempting district school boards from requirements for adopting certain rules; deleting a requirement for a district school board to employ an internal auditor in certain circumstances; revising requirements relating to district school board attendance policies for Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Programs; prohibiting a school from being required to use a certain para…

Property Damage Caused by Limestone Mining Operations; Providing that certain property owners who have sustained property damage as a result of limestone mining operations have a right to file a claim for compensation; providing requirements for such claims; requiring the Division of Administrative Hearings to adjudicate specified claims, etc. APPROPRIATION: Indeterminate

Regulation of Auxiliary Containers; Preempts regulation of auxiliary containers to state; authorizes rules, regulations, & ordinances restricting use of glass auxiliary containers within boundaries of public beach or state park; authorizes Division of Recreation & Parks to regulate auxiliary containers within state parks.

Discrimination in Education; Requires each district school board, Florida College System institution, & state university to designate Title VI coordinator; provides requirements for such coordinators; & establishes process for complaints relating to violations of Title VI of Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Law Enforcement and Immigration Officer Identifying Information and Face Coverings; Requires covered immigration officers to wear specified visible identification during public immigration enforcement functions; provides requirements for such visible identification; prohibits covered immigration officers from wearing face coverings that impair visibility of identifying information or obscure covered immigration offi…

Pricing Based on Collection of Consumer Information; Declares unlawful any act or practice of surveillance pricing; provides exceptions; requires certain individuals who advertise, promote, label, or publish statement, display, image, offer, or announcement of surveillance pricing to include specified clear & conspicuous disclosure with such statement, display, image, offer, or announcement; provides for penalties; …

Patriotic Displays at Public Schools; Requiring, subject to legislative appropriation, each district school board to adopt rules to require the display of portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln at each public school in the district; requiring the Department of Education to select the portraits and make them available to each school district, etc.

Patriotic Displays at Public Schools; Requires, subject to legislative appropriation, each district school board to adopt rules to require display of portraits of George Washington & Abraham Lincoln at each public school in district; & requires DOE to select portraits & make them available to each school district.

School Zone and Pedestrian Safety; Requires that design & construction plans for installation of crosswalks in school zones or on certain streets, roads, or highways include certain traffic control devices.

Corporal Punishment; Prohibits school district employees from using corporal punishment on public school students.

Adoption and Display of Flags by Governmental Entities; Prohibiting a governmental entity from displaying, placing, or causing to be placed certain flags on real property; providing a penalty; specifying flags a governmental entity may display on such property; prohibiting a local government from adopting certain ordinances or regulations relating to the flag of the local government, etc.

Adoption and Display of Flags by Governmental Entities; Prohibits governmental entity from displaying, placing, or causing to be placed certain flags on real property; specifies flags governmental entity may display on such property; provides requirements for governmental entity that displays flag of United States; prohibits local government from adopting certain ordinances or regulations relating to flag of local g…

Public Adjuster Contracts; Authorizes certain persons to rescind contract for public adjuster services; clarifies acts that may subject public adjuster or public adjuster apprentice to discipline.

Dependent Children; Provides additional situations in which rebuttable presumption of detriment is created; requires certain guardians ad litem & attorneys ad litem to have special training in parricide; requires certain persons to provide to court & certain agencies & persons access to certain records of child; requires visitation or other contact to be supervised by person who has special training in parricide; re…

Public Adjuster Contracts; Authorizing certain persons to rescind a contract for public adjuster services; clarifying the acts that may subject a public adjuster or public adjuster apprentice to discipline; authorizing certain persons to rescind a contract for public adjuster services, etc.

Oaths of School Personnel; Requiring specified persons employed as members of school personnel to take a specified oath before entering upon the duties of a member of the school personnel; requiring persons employed in an administrative or instructional capacity at a Florida College System institution or state university to take a specified oath before entering upon the duties of a person employed in an administrati…

Transportation Network Company, Driver, and Vehicle Owner Insurance; Revising automobile insurance requirements for transportation network companies, transportation network company drivers, and transportation network company vehicle owners, etc.

Air-conditioning and Mechanical Contractors; Revises definitions of terms "class A air-conditioning contractor" & "mechanical contractor" to include additional services that such contractors may perform.

Transportation Network Company, Driver, and Vehicle Owner Insurance; Revises automobile insurance requirements for transportation network companies, TNC drivers, & TNC vehicle owners.

Landlord Obligations and Construction Contracting; Requires landlords to provide & maintain specified cooling equipment for tenants; requires landlord to repair or replace such cooling equipment within specified timeframe; provides construction; provides exceptions; provides applicability; revises definitions of terms "class A air-conditioning contractor" & "mechanical contractor" to include additional services that…

Assessment of Property Used for Residential Purposes; Defining the term “changes or improvements made to improve the property’s resistance to wind damage”; prohibiting the consideration of the increase in just value of a property which is attributable to changes or improvements made to improve the property’s resistance to wind damage in determinations of the assessed value of certain property, etc.

Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Prohibits counties & municipalities from enacting or enforcing any law that restricts or prohibits use of gasoline-powered farm equipment or gasoline-powered landscape equipment or that distinguishes such equipment from any other equipment; requires Acquisition & Restoration Council to determine whether certain surplused lands are suitable for bona fide agricultural p…

Evidence in Civil Actions Relating to Firearms; Providing that the absence of certain mechanisms or features may not be used as evidence of a defective product design, negligence, a duty to warn, strict liability, or evidence to support similar claims, etc.

Placement of Child in Certified Domestic Violence Center; Provides that certified domestic violence center may be considered placement priority for child; provides that DCF does not have to provide home study to court if placing child in certified domestic violence center; authorizes court to place child & his or her proposed legal custodian in certified domestic violence center; provides that placement of minor in …