Bills

Division of State Fire Marshal; Requiring the Division of State Fire Marshal to accept requirements for training and certification of firefighters from another jurisdiction under certain circumstances; requiring the division to make a specified finding before denying a firefighter certificate; requiring the division to adopt certain rules relating to contaminated personal protective equipment and firefighting gear, …

Foreign Influence; Defines the terms "designated foreign terrorist organization" and "foreign country of concern"; provides penalties for specified persons who solicit or accept anything of value from persons or entities representing a designated foreign terrorist organization or a foreign country of concern; requiring the Commission on Ethics to adopt certain rules by a specified date; authorizes any appropriate ta…

Medical Assistance Eligibility for Working Individuals with Disabilities; Provides definition of term "department"; creates Working People with Disabilities program within AHCA; provides for purpose of program; provides eligibility requirements; provides income & assets requirements for eligibility in program; requires department to provide written notice to eligible adults within specified timeframe; provides requi…

Trustee Settlement and Discharge; Authorizing a trustee to obtain a settlement of his or her accounts and be discharged under certain circumstances; requiring a trustee seeking settlement and discharge to send a trust disclosure document to specified persons; providing that a trustee is discharged upon completion of distributions or transfers if no timely written objections are received and is discharged from all li…

Recess Requirements for Middle School Students; Requires district school boards to provide specified amount of free-play recess each week to students in grades 6 through 8.

Division of State Fire Marshal; Requires Division of State Fire Marshal to accept training & certification of firefighters from another jurisdiction; requires division to make specified finding before denying firefighter certificate; defines "basis certificate"; requires division to adopt certain rules relating to contaminated personal protective equipment & firefighting gear.

Patient-directed Blood Donations; Creating the “Patient-Directed Blood Donation Act”; requiring blood banks to comply with a licensed physician’s order for an autologous or directed blood donation for a named patient, subject to certain conditions; authorizing blood banks and hospitals to charge a reasonable and necessary fee to cover administrative costs; requiring that all autologous and directed donations be coll…

Firearm Hold Agreements; Providing immunity from civil liability for federal firearms licensees operating lawfully in this state for acts or omissions relating to firearm hold agreements under specified circumstances, etc.

Salvage Certificates of Title and Certificates of Destruction; Requires insurance companies or their authorized agents to implement control processes & procedures to ensure adequate identity verification of electronic signatures.

Homestead Tax Exemptions; Provides that repair & maintenance of specified property is not a change, addition, or improvement under certain circumstances; revises interest rate & penalty that applies to property owners who unlawfully received homestead exemption.

Local Land Planning and Development; Requiring each county and municipality, respectively, of a specified size to create and implement a program for the purpose of making development preapplication consultation services available at an applicant's request; limiting such preapplication consultation services to applications for certain permits; authorizing a county or municipality to use a qualified contractor or qual…

Grandparent Visitation; Revising the criteria required for a grandparent of a minor child to petition the court for grandparent visitation; revising the purpose for which the court shall hold a certain preliminary hearing; revising the circumstances in which the court may appoint a guardian ad litem and must refer the matter to family mediation; revising the circumstances in which the court may award reasonable visi…

Repair of Mobility Devices; Creating the “Right to Repair Act for Mobility Devices”; requiring original equipment manufacturers to make available documentation, parts, and tools required for the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of mobility devices and parts for such devices; requiring original equipment manufacturers of mobility devices with electronic security locks to make available any special documentation, par…

Electronic Payments Made to Units of Local Governments; Requires units of local government to accept certain forms of payments; requires such local governments accept payments online.

Special Districts; Repeals provisions relating to special districts & performance measures & standards.

Charlie Kirk Day of Remembrance; Designating October 14 of each year as “Charlie Kirk Day of Remembrance”; authorizing the Governor to issue an annual proclamation, etc.

Crimes Evidencing Prejudice Against Disabled Adults; Requires reclassification of penalty for crime if commission of crime evidences prejudice based on victim being disabled adult.

Digital Voyeurism; Revising the definition of the term “reasonable expectation of privacy” for purposes relating to the offense of digital voyeurism, etc.

Customer Service Callback Queues; Defines "callback queue"; establishes pilot program to require the Department of Commerce to use a callback queue for returning certain calls; requires calls to be returned in specified manner and timeframe; requires the department to report specified information to the Legislature by a certain date.

Beverage Law; Authorizes contract brewers to transfer malt beverages to contracting brewers' facilities; provides that title to malt beverages remains with contract brewer until malt beverages are removed from licensed premises; requires licensed manufacturers that wish to engage in contract brewing to notify division; requires such licensed manufacturers to make full & complete report to division by certain date; r…

Department of Labor; Creates Department of Labor as new department of state government; provides for secretary of department to be appointed by Governor & confirmed by Senate; authorizes secretary to establish divisions & regional offices of department; provides purpose of department; revises requirements for notifying employees of certain rights; designates Department of Labor as state Agency for Workforce Innovati…

Payment Stablecoin; Revises Florida Control of Money Laundering in Money Services Business Act to include payment stablecoins; requires certain payment stablecoin issuers to comply with certain regulations; prohibits persons from engaging in activity of qualified payment stablecoin issuer without being licensed or exempted from licensure; requires out-of-state state-qualified payment stablecoin issuers to provide sp…

Motor Vehicle Racing Penalties; Increasing penalties for violations of the prohibition against coordinating through social media or otherwise or facilitating a prohibited race, a drag race, a street takeover, stunt driving, a competition, a contest, a test, or an exhibition, etc.

Grandparent Visitation Rights; Authorizes grandparent of minor child to petition court for court-ordered visitation with child in certain circumstances; making technical changes.

Grants for Genetic Counseling Education; Creating the Genetic Counseling Education Enhancement Grant Program within the State University System; requiring the Board of Governors to award grant funds to state universities for specified purposes; requiring the program to reward excellence among genetic counseling programs based on specified criteria; prohibiting such funds from being used for specified purposes, etc.

Advertisement of a Harmful Vaccine; Defining the term “advertise”; providing manufacturer liability under certain circumstances; authorizing an individual to file a cause of action under certain circumstances within a specified timeframe, etc.

Health Care Practitioner Maternal Mental Health Continuing Education Requirements; Provides curriculum requirements relating to maternal mental health for required continuing education hours for licensure renewal; requires board, or DOH if there is no board, to periodically update specified curriculum & accept, as credit toward continuing education requirements, successful completion of such curriculum.

Statute of Limitations Period for Violations Involving Required Reports Concerning Children; Provides that limitations period for offenses concerning specified required reports concerning children does not begin to run until law enforcement agency is made aware of violation.

Local Government Enforcement Actions; Prohibiting certain enforcement actions by counties, municipalities, and special districts, respectively; defining the term “enforcement action”; requiring counties, municipalities, and special districts, respectively, to establish and maintain rules; authorizing filing of legal action and providing legal remedies in certain circumstances, etc.

Sexual Offenses; Replaces term "child pornography" with term "child sexual abuse material"; revises criteria related to reclassification of specified offenses; revises mandatory minimum sentences for certain sexual offenses by persons previously convicted of sexual offenses; increases penalty for employing, authorizing, or inducing child of specified age to engage in sexual performance; prohibits person from employi…

Missing Endangered Persons; Authorizing hospitals to disclose specified information about admitted patients to law enforcement agencies for a specified purpose and under certain circumstances; authorizing hospitals to search and use hospital records of admitted patients to identify potential matches to persons listed as missing on the Missing Endangered Persons Information Clearinghouse, etc.

Immigration, Law Enforcement, and State-issued Identification; Citing this act as the “Florida Economic Prosperity and Immigration Act”; requiring proof of a specified identification number for certain applicants for a driver license; prohibiting the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles from disclosing or making accessible certain photographs and related information to any agency that primarily enforces i…

OGSR/Conviction Integrity Unit Reinvestigation Information; Removes scheduled repeal of exemption from public records requirements for certain conviction integrity unit reinvestigation information.

OGSR/Conviction Integrity Unit Reinvestigation Information; Amending a provision which provides an exemption from public records requirements for certain conviction integrity unit reinvestigation information; abrogating the scheduled repeal of such exemption, etc.

Health Care Autonomy; Establishes fundamental right to reproductive health care; provides that every individual has fundamental right to make autonomous decisions about individual's own reproductive health; provides that individuals who become pregnant have fundamental right to make certain decisions in exercise of such right; prohibits state from denying or interfering with individual's right to access reproductive…

Terminology Associated with the Florida Housing Finance Corporation; Revising and providing definitions pertaining to the corporation, etc.

Safety Design Standards for Office Surgery Suites; Requires Florida Building Commission & State Fire Marshal to establish safety design standards for certain office surgical suites by specified date; defines "office surgery suite."

Discounted Drug Pricing Study; Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to conduct or contract for a specified study; requiring the agency to provide the results to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date, etc.

Use of Audioconferencing by Community Associations; Defines "audio conference"; revises list of official records that condominium association is required to maintain to include audio conference recordings; revises association meeting requirements & authorizing associations to use audioconferencing, in addition to videoconferencing, or to use both; revises emergency powers of condominium, residential cooperative, & h…

Health Care Practitioner Maternal Mental Health Continuing Education Requirements; Providing curriculum requirements relating to maternal mental health for the required continuing education hours for licensure renewal; requiring a board, or the Department of Health if there is no board, to periodically update specified curriculum and accept the successful completion of such curriculum as credit toward continuing edu…

Biosolids Management; Prohibiting the land application of bulk Class AA biosolids fertilizer and compost products from exceeding the appropriate agronomic rate; requiring the owner or operator of certain land application sites to maintain application records for a specified timeframe and make such records available to the Department of Environmental Protection upon request; requiring the University of Florida Instit…

Immigration; Revising the duties and responsibilities of the Office of Economic Accountability and Transparency within the Department of Commerce; revising penalties, including suspension and revocation of certain licenses and the imposition of fines, for violating provisions related to employing unauthorized aliens; requiring that such fines be deposited into a specified trust fund; requiring that all private emplo…

Schools of Hope; Authorizes mutual management plans for school district facilities used by schools of hope to include provision for school of hope & school district to share specified costs.

Legal Tender; Ratifying specified rules relating to legal tender for the sole and exclusive purpose of satisfying any condition on effectiveness of provisions and repealing provisions relating to legal tender, etc.

Statewide Project for Missing Persons with Special Needs; Revives, readopts, & amends provisions relating to missing persons with special needs statewide project; provides that project is created through centers for autism & related disabilities; provides that participants for project shall be selected based on certain criteria; provides appropriations. APPROPRIATION: $1,000,000

Affordable Housing; Requiring counties and municipalities, respectively, to authorize multifamily and mixed-use residential uses as allowable uses for specified property; providing requirements for certain proposed developments; prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from restricting the height of certain proposed developments through other dimensional means and from requiring certain setbacks or ste…

Professional Licensure Reciprocity for the Practice of Surveying and Mapping; Revising the requirements for applicants eligible to be qualified for licensure by endorsement by the Board of Professional Surveyors and Mappers to include applicants from outside of the state who meet certain requirements; authorizing the board to require and independently evaluate certain documents and information, etc.

Locations of Sheriffs’ Offices; Authorizing sheriffs’ offices to be located at any location in the counties, rather than requiring the offices to be at county seats, etc.

Commencement of Civil Actions; Removes requirement that Florida Commission on Human Relations send certain information to certain persons by registered mail; requires certain civil actions to be commenced within specified periods.

Specialty License Plates/Miami Carol City Senior High School Alumni; Directing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop a Miami Carol City Senior High School Alumni license plate; providing for distribution and use of fees collected from the sale of the plate, etc.