Amendment
Requires governmental entity that authorizes its code inspectors to use body cameras to establish certain policies & procedures; establishes certain requirements for such governmental entities; prohibits code inspectors or persons acting under direction of special magistrate or code enforcement board from intercepting certain communications.
Citing this act as the "Judicial Efficiency and Transparency (JET) Act"; requiring each clerk of the circuit court to prepare an annual performance report with specified information regarding each circuit and county court judge; requiring such reports to be posted by a certain date on specified websites; authorizing judges to prepare a specified explanatory statement, etc.
Prohibiting school district employees from using corporal punishment on public school students, etc.
Defines "temporary door locking device"; authorizing temporary door locking devices to be installed at any height; requires Florida Building Commission to incorporate certain standards for temporary door locking devices into Florida Building Code; requires use of temporary door locking devices be integrated into building safety plans, safety drills, & training programs for specified purpose.
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.
Defining the terms "affordable" and "base rent"; prohibiting certain landlords of specified dwelling units from increasing the base rent of a unit during the term of a rental agreement, etc.
Revising licensure requirements for acupuncturists; eliminating certain examination fees; revising requirements for continuing education programs for acupuncturists, etc.
Providing for the registration of physician assistants to engage in practice without physician supervision; providing financial responsibility requirements for registered physician assistants; specifying activities registered physician assistants may engage in without physician supervision; requiring registered physician assistants to provide new patients with specified information either before or during the initial patient encounter, etc.
Authorizing a consumer to report farm equipment that is defective and does not conform to specified warranties to the manufacturer or its authorized service agent during a specified timeframe to allow the manufacturer or its authorized agent to conform such farm equipment to such warranty; requiring the manufacturer or its authorized agent to make such repairs to conform the farm equipment to the warranty upon receipt of such report, etc.
Revising the definition of the terms "governmental agency" and "publicly accessible website"; authorizing a governmental agency to use its own publicly accessible website or the publicly accessible website of the county in which it lies to publish specified advertisements and notices, etc.
Revising the periods during which a county or municipality may enforce school zone speed limits, and the violations for which such enforcement is authorized, through the use of a speed detection system; prohibiting the use of a traffic infraction detector for remote surveillance; requiring district school board authorization and a public hearing process before a school district may place or install, or contract with a vendor to install, operate, and maintain, school bus infraction detection systems; revising the periods for which a county or municipality may authorize a traffic infraction enforcement officer to issue certain uniform traffic citations, etc.
This bill amends Florida's candidate qualification requirements, establishing stricter party affiliation rules for individuals seeking to run for office. The legislation aims to ensure candidates maintain consistent party registration or non-affiliation status for a significant period before qualifying for an election. By imposing a 365-day registration requirement, the bill seeks to prevent last-minute party switching and promote stability in the electoral process.
Defining the term "culpably negligent manner"; providing circumstances under which a community-based care lead agency is not liable in tort for the acts or omissions of its officers or employees; providing that a community-based care lead agency may be held liable in tort for such acts or omissions under certain circumstances; providing that a subcontractor of a community-based care lead agency may be held liable in tort for such acts or omissions under certain circumstances; deleting a provision applying a limitation on certain liability to contracts entered into or renewed after a certain date, etc.
Requiring a landlord to equip certain rental properties with specified water safety features; requiring a public lodging establishment licensed as a vacation rental to equip certain rental units with specified water safety features, etc.
Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to adopt rules and guidelines for nature-based solutions for improving coastal resilience; requiring the department, in consultation with the Division of Insurance Agent and Agency Services of the Department of Financial Services, to conduct a statewide feasibility study regarding the value of nature-based solutions being used for a specified purpose, etc.
Prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from enacting or enforcing any law that restricts or prohibits the use of gasoline-powered farm equipment or gasoline-powered landscape equipment or that distinguishes such equipment from any other equipment under certain circumstances; requiring the Acquisition and Restoration Council to determine whether certain surplused lands are suitable for bona fide agricultural purposes; establishing the Food Animal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program; revising the Florida Forest Service powers, authority, and duties; authorizing the Forest Service to manage the Welaka Training Center; establishing the Farmers Feeding Florida Program for specified purposes; limiting the number of incorporated state fair associations per county; prohibiting the possession, manufacture, sale, importation, distribution, or use of a signal jamming device, etc.
Directing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) license plate; providing for distribution and use of fees collected from the sale of the plate, etc.
Renaming the Online Sting Operations Grant Program created within the Department of Law Enforcement as the Internet Crimes Against Children Grant Program; revising the purpose of the grant program; creating the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Funding Program within the Department of Law Enforcement, etc.
Authorizing the state deferred compensation plan and any deferred compensation plan offered by a county, a municipality, or other political subdivision, or a county constitutional officer, to offer a qualified Roth contribution program; ratifying the actions by the Chief Financial Officer which permitted contributions to a qualified Roth contribution program under the state's deferred compensation plan; providing for retroactive application, etc.
Defining the term "appellate court clerk"; providing an exemption from public records requirements for the personal identifying and location information of current appellate court clerks and the spouses and children of such appellate court clerks; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Establishing the Florida Museum of Black History Board of Directors; providing for the membership of the board; prohibiting specified members of the board from holding state or local elective office while serving on the board; requiring that the board work jointly with the Foundation for the Museum of Black History, Inc., etc.
Deleting the scheduled repeal of an exemption from public meeting requirements for portions of a hearing before the Florida Public Service Commission wherein certain proprietary confidential business information is discussed, etc.
Requiring condominium associations to maintain turnover certificates and annual reports as part of their official records; requiring the board of administration of a condominium association to file with the Division of Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes a turnover certificate within a specified timeframe; requiring the division to create and maintain a searchable electronic database of turnover certificates, etc.
Creating a categorical fund for implementing the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program; creating the educational enrollment stabilization program to provide supplemental state funds to address changes in full-time equivalent student enrollment; renaming the Hope Scholarship Program as the Hope Program; requiring an eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organization to provide a parent with certain information on scholarship programs; requiring an eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organization to create a single application for all educational scholarship programs, etc.
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.