Bills

Public Swimming and Bathing Places; Revises & provides requirements for public swimming & bathing facilities relating to yearly inspections, rule variances, review & revision of rules, sanitation & safety standards, certification, the Public Swimming Pool & Spa Technical Committee, replacing certain equipment, & permit applications.

Diabetes Research; Establishes University of Florida Diabetes Institute within University of Florida College of Medicine.

Florida Employee Health Choices Program; Renaming the “Florida Health Choices Program” as the “Florida Employee Health Choices Program”; revising eligibility and participation requirements for vendors under the program; revising the types of health insurance products that are available for purchase through the program; deleting exemptions from certain requirements of the Florida Insurance Code under the program, etc.

Child Welfare; Providing a rebuttable presumption of detriment to a child under certain circumstances; requiring that certain visitation or contact be supervised by a person who has received certain training; requiring that a shelter hearing take place within a specified period under certain circumstances; requiring that certain children placed in a shelter be referred to a provider of trauma-informed therapeutic se…

Practice of Chiropractic Medicine ; Revises definition of term "practice of chiropractic medicine"; authorizes chiropractic physicians to possess, for emergency purposes only at chiropractic physician's office or place of business, prescription medical oxygen; authorizes chiropractic physicians to order, store, possess, prescribe, & administer, only by means of injection at chiropractic physician’s office, sterile s…

Local Government Finances; Citing this act as the “Local Government Financial Transparency and Accountability Act”; revising the timeframe during which tentative budgets, and the length of time for which final budgets, must be posted on county websites; requiring counties to prepare certain quarterly compensation summaries; revising the length of time for which a public hearing for an amendment to a county budget mu…

Local Government Finances ; Revises the timeframe during which tentative budgets, and the length of time for which final budgets, must be posted on county websites; requires the county to hold a budget workshop for a specified purpose by a certain date; requires the county to post a certain budget reduction exercise or link on its website; requires counties to publish budget development calendars, etc.

Search Warrants; Authorizing a search warrant to be issued to recover a deceased body; revising the time within which certain search warrants must be returned to the court; providing that a judge may authorize a law enforcement officer applying for a search warrant to appear remotely; providing that a judge may authorize a law enforcement officer applying for a search warrant or court order to appear remotely, etc.

Search Warrants; Authorizes search warrant to be issued to recover deceased body; revises time within which certain search warrants must be returned to court; specifies time period within which search warrant issued for certain devices is considered timely executed; specifies that law enforcement agency may review data or information contained in certain devices after specified periods if devices were timely seized;…

Products Liability Actions Under the Florida Pesticide Law; Prohibits pesticide-related products liability action for failure to warn if pesticide's label meets specified conditions.

Rates for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation Coverage; Providing that the limitations on the required annual rate increases for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation coverage do not apply to new policies issued by the corporation on or after a specified date and to subsequent renewals of such policies, etc.

Required Instruction in Cursive Writing; Requiring students in specified grades to receive instruction in cursive writing; requiring students to demonstrate proficiency in cursive writing by the end of a specified grade; defining the term “proficiency in cursive writing”, etc.

Large-scale County Destination Marketing Organizations; Defining the term “large-scale county destination marketing organization”; requiring large-scale county destination marketing organizations to register with the Department of State; requiring a one-to-one match of private to public contributions to fund large-scale county destination marketing organizations, etc.

Pub. Rec. and Meetings/Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Specifies that hearings relating to mental health & substance abuse, respectively, are confidential & closed to public; provides exceptions; exempts certain information from public records requirements; expands public records exemption to include certain petitions & applications; authorizes disclosure of certain confidential & exempt documents to certain serv…

Career and Academic Planning for Middle and High School Students; Requiring district school boards annually to provide students and their parents with certain information relating to career and technical education programs beginning in a specified grade; requiring middle schools to hold a career and academic planning meeting for specified students and their parents; revising the information included in a student’s p…

Career and Academic Planning For Middle and High School Students; Requires district school boards to annually provide students & their parents with certain information relating to career & technical education programs beginning in specified grade; requires middle schools to hold career & academic planning meeting for specified students & their parents; requires certain information to be included in meeting; revises …

Department of Transportation Contractor Liability; Provides that contractor is considered agent of this state in certain circumstances; requires contract documents to indemnify DOT for liability caused by negligence of contractor or its employees.

Ad Valorem Tax Exemption for Disabled Veterans; Revising a limitation on the amount of a tax exemption that a surviving spouse may transfer to a new residence, etc.

Tourist Development Tax; Revising the percentage of tourist development tax revenues that must be spent to promote and advertise tourism in order for any tourist development tax revenues to be used for a specified purpose, etc.

Affordable Housing; Revises definitions of certain land use categories for which certain residential development may be authorized to exclude farms & farm operations & uses associated therewith; revises definition of term "industrial use" to exclude certain facilities.

Rates for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation Coverage; Provides that limitations on required annual rate increases for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation coverage do not apply to new policies issued by corporation on or after specified date & to subsequent renewals of such policies; provides exception.

Tourist Development Tax; Authorizing the use of proceeds from the tourist development tax to fund public safety improvements, affordable housing, and workforce housing, etc.

Tourist Development Taxes; Deleting a provision requiring that a specified percentage of all tourist development tax revenues be used to promote and advertise tourism, etc.

Family Court Report Cards; Requiring the Office of the State Courts Administrator to prepare and publish on its website an annual family court report card for each family court judge in each judicial circuit; requiring the office to maintain a publicly accessible online database of the report cards and to submit an annual summary to the Legislature; prohibiting the report cards from containing certain personal ident…

Special Elections; Requiring, rather than authorizing, the Governor to call a special primary election and a special election under a certain circumstance; requiring the Governor to fix the dates of a special election within a specified timeframe after the vacancy occurs; authorizing qualified electors to file a petition in the circuit court seeking judicial determination of an election date under specified conditio…

Property Insurance Claims; Establishes mandatory procedure for resolution of disputed property insurance claims; requires insurers to notify policyholders of mandatory procedure; requires DFS to prepare consumer information pamphlet to be provided to policyholders; authorizes policyholder or insurer to file petition with Division of Administrative Hearings to resolve certain claims; specifies that parties to claim m…

Resolution of Disputed Property Insurance Claims; Requires parties in property insurance claim dispute to participate in mediation; provides that mediation is condition precedent to commencing litigation; provides that parties may mutually agree to conduct mediation by teleconference or other electronic means; requires all insureds, or their representatives, to attend mediation; revises & specifies duties relating t…

Diabetes Research; Establishing the University of Florida Diabetes Institute within the University of Florida College of Medicine; authorizing the institute to administer statewide pilot programs; requiring the institute to maintain a secure repository for deidentified data; authorizing the institute to share deidentified data under certain conditions; authorizing the institute to convene a consortium, etc.

School Safety Equipment; Revising the purpose of specified grants awarded by the Office of Safe Schools; requiring private schools and public schools, including charter schools, respectively, to have specified safety equipment on each campus of the school; requiring the Department of Education, in coordination with the Department of Law Enforcement, to establish minimum specifications for such equipment; authorizing…

Autonomous Practice by a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist; Revising requirements for clinical privileges for certain certified registered nurse anesthetists; authorizing certain certified registered nurse anesthetists to perform specified acts under certain circumstances; authorizing certain autonomous advanced practice registered nurses to perform specified acts as part of their autonomous practice, etc.

Termination of a Rental Agreement by a Victim of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, or Stalking; Prohibiting a landlord from terminating a rental agreement or evicting a tenant because the tenant or the tenant’s minor child is a victim of actual or threatened domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, or stalking; authorizing a victim of such actual or threatened violence or stalking to t…

Termination of Rental Agreement by Victim of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, or Stalking; Prohibits landlord from evicting tenant or terminating rental agreement because tenant or tenant's minor child is victim of actual or threatened domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, or stalking; specifies that rental agreement may not contain certain provisions; authorizes victim of such act…

Student Support Services for K-12 Schools; Authorizes district school boards to recommend, endorse, or refer students to organizations providing specified student support services; provides requirements for district school boards, district school superintendent, schools, & organizations providing such services; provides requirements relating to Level 2 background screenings for specified persons.

Coconut Grove Playhouse, Miami-Dade County; Requires Miami-Dade County to transfer existing property interest in Coconut Grove Playhouse to Town of Bay Harbor Islands; provides duties of town.

Use of Artificial Intelligence by State Agencies; Requiring the Florida Digital Service to conduct a certain study, etc.

Pub. Rec./Private Investigators; Provides exemption from public record requirements for personal identifying & location information of current & former private investigators licensed by DACS & spouses & children of such private investigators; provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemption; provides statement of public necessity.

Commercial Driving Schools; Authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to enter into interagency agreements with tax collectors for a specified purpose; specifying that such an interagency agreement is a delegation of authority of the department to the tax collector; providing that such an interagency agreement may include, but need not be limited to, certain grants of authority, etc.

Mobile Opportunity by Interstate Licensure Endorsement Act; Revising the list of persons ineligible for a license by endorsement under the act, etc.

Licensure by Endorsement to Practice Dentistry and Dental Hygiene; Prohibits specified persons from being licensed through Mobile Opportunity by Interstate Licensure Endorsement Act.

Reports of Child Abuse, Abandonment, or Neglect; Requires central abuse hotline to electronically transfer certain reports to appropriate county sheriff's office or local law enforcement agency; requires certain persons to report certain knowledge or suspicion to central abuse hotline; requires central abuse hotline to accept certain reports & immediately notify DCF to ensure that onsite protective investigation is …

Medicaid Provider Networks; Requiring Medicaid managed care plans and providers to negotiate mutually acceptable rates, methods, and terms of payment for purposes of Medicaid reimbursements; requiring plans to pay dentists at certain rates; specifying additional requirements for the provider network contracts under the statewide managed care program, etc.

Blue Ribbon Projects; Requiring that a development project meet certain requirements to qualify as a blue ribbon project; providing maximum residential density and nonresidential intensity permitted within the development area of a blue ribbon project; requiring a blue ribbon project to have a blue ribbon plan; requiring a project to receive dollar-for-dollar credits from a local government under certain circumstanc…

School Teacher Training and Mentoring Program; Establishes School Teacher Training & Mentoring Program within DOE; provides DOE, teacher mentor, & mentee requirements; & authorizes award of stipends.

Emergency Residential Property Insurance Assistance Trust Fund/Department of Financial Services; Creating the Emergency Residential Property Insurance Assistance Trust Fund within the Department of Financial Services; providing eligibility for financial assistance from the trust fund; providing for funding and administration of the trust fund; providing for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust f…

Storage of Handguns in Private Conveyances and Vessels; Provides requirements for storage of handguns in private conveyances & vessels; requires law enforcement agencies to engage in specified promotional campaign; provides that certain firearms education, safety, & training courses shall include instruction on requirements for storage of handguns in private conveyances & vessels; revises required warnings for trans…

Blue Ribbon Projects ; Requires that development project meet certain requirements to qualify as blue ribbon project; requires blue ribbon project to have blue ribbon plan; requires project to receive dollar-for-dollar credits from local government; provides that certain easements or property must be granted without charge; requires landowner to apply to local government for approval of plan; provides local governme…

Protection from Surgical Smoke; Defining the terms “smoke evacuation system” and “surgical smoke”; requiring hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers, by a specified date, to adopt and implement policies to prevent patients and personnel from being exposed to harmful surgical smoke, etc.

Access to Medicaid Providers; Requires AHCA to include specified requirements in its contracts with Medicaid managed care plans; defines "outside of regular business hours."

Medicaid Providers; Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to include specified requirements in its contracts with Medicaid managed care plans; defining the term “outside of regular business hours”, etc.

Impact of Perimenopause and Menopause on Women's Health; Requires DOH to establish perimenopause & menopause policy workgroup; provides requirements for workgroup; requires department, in collaboration with others, to develop & make publicly available information relating to perimenopause & menopause; provides requirements for such information.