Personal Mobility Device Battery Safety Standards; Creating the “Florida E-Scooter and E-Bike Battery Safety Act”; defining the term “personal mobility device”; requiring that certain batteries be certified as meeting a specified ingress protection standard; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to coordinate with local governmental entities for compliance purposes, etc.
Research and Development Tax Credit; Increases combined total amount of credits which may be granted to business enterprises during any calendar year.
Homestead Assessment Limitation; Defining the terms “income” and “senior citizen homesteader”; prohibiting the assessed value of real property used as a homestead by a person who has attained a certain age from exceeding a certain amount if certain conditions are met; requiring property that no longer meets certain eligibility requirements to be reassessed in a specified manner, etc.
Safe Storage of Firearms and Ammunition in Motor Vehicles and Vessels; Defining the terms “motor vehicle,” “trunk,” and “vessel”; requiring persons who store or leave firearms or ammunition in motor vehicles or vessels under their control to keep the firearms or ammunition locked inside specified locations within the motor vehicles or vessels while not in the motor vehicles or vessels; providing criminal penalties, etc.
Gift Certificate Forgery; Providing criminal penalties for persons who falsely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit gift certificates with the intent to injure or defraud a person, etc.
Preemption of Firearms and Ammunition; Repeals provisions preempting the field of regulation of firearms & ammunition to Legislature, to exclusion of local jurisdictions.
HB 6007 repeals the current provisions related to pregnancy support and wellness services. This removes the specific legal requirements and administrative framework that governed these services. The bill does not establish new programs or funding but eliminates the existing statutory structure. As a result, the state will no longer operate under these repealed provisions for pregnancy support services.
Noncriminal Traffic Infractions Causing Vehicle Crashes; Provides specified penalties for certain infractions resulting in crash with another vehicle & requires hearing for such infractions.
Tourist Development Tax; Limiting the total amount of tourist development tax revenues that must be spent annually to promote and advertise tourism in order for any tourist development tax revenues to be used for a specified purpose, etc.
Weapons and Firearms; Citing this act as the “Responsible Gun Ownership Act”; requiring background checks on all persons involved in a firearm sale or other transfer; specifying requirements for firearm sales or transfers through licensed dealers; providing criminal penalties; prohibiting certain actions leading to the manufacture or assembly, sale, importing, purchasing, offering for sale, or transfer of a firearm not imprinted with a valid serial number, etc.
Public Records and Meetings/Social Work Licensure Compact; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for certain information held by the Department of Health or the Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling pursuant to the Social Work Licensure Compact; authorizing the disclosure of such information under certain circumstances; providing an exemption from public meetings requirements for certain meetings or portions of certain meetings of the Social Work Licensure Compact Commission or its executive committee or other committees; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing statements of public necessity, etc.
Siblings Placed in Out-of-home Care; Authorizes sibling who is separated from his or her other siblings to file specified motion; provides standing; requires court to hold hearing, take evidence, & hear arguments if motion for sibling visitation or contact is contested; prohibits court from denying such motion unless certain circumstances exist; requires immediate provision of certain services; authorizes certain parties to appeal court order in specified manner; prohibits court from restricting sibling visitation or contact without need for motion; provides that court retains jurisdiction over dependent child in permanent guardianship for certain purposes relating to sibling visitation or contact; revises required response DCF or community-based care lead agency must provide to prospective adoptive parent; prohibits court from denying postadoption visitation or contact between siblings unless certain circumstances exist; requires immediate provision of certain services; specifying that certain factors must be considered for postadoption visitation or contact between adopted child & certain persons; provides that court retains jurisdiction over adopted child for certain purposes until child is specified age.
