Alarm System Contractors; Provides that advertisements for alarm system contracting do not have to include contractor's registration or certification number; authorizes contractor to begin repairing specified fire alarm system under certain conditions; provides that repaired fire alarm system is not compliant with applicable codes & standards until certain conditions are met.
Community Associations; Prohibiting insurance policies from providing specified rights of subrogation under certain circumstances; authorizing a condominium association to extinguish discriminatory restrictions; authorizing the board of administration of an association to take certain actions relating to electric vehicle charging stations and natural gas fuel stations; authorizing parties to initiate presuit mediation under certain circumstances; revising the allowable uses of certain escrow funds withdrawn by developers; authorizing certain developers to include reserves in the budget, etc.
Resource Information for Individuals with Disabilities; Requiring the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to provide specified information to persons applying for certain waiver services; requiring the agency to provide a certain disclosure statement along with such information; requiring the agency to publish such information and statement on its website and provide such information and statement to certain persons annually, etc.
Child Support; Revising requirements for child support depositories in Title IV-D cases; requiring the depositories to transmit case data through and set up appropriate payment accounts in the Clerk of the Court Child Support Enforcement Collection System upon certain notice from the Department of Revenue; prohibiting the treatment of incarceration as voluntary unemployment for purposes of establishing or modifying child support orders, with exceptions; authorizing the department to include confidential and exempt information in unencrypted electronic mail communications with parents, caregivers, or other authorized persons under certain circumstances, with exceptions, etc.
Credit for Reinsurance; Transferring specified authority and duties relating to credit for reinsurance from the Commissioner of Insurance to the Office of Insurance Regulation; revising the attorney designation requirement in reinsurance agreements with certain assuming insurers under certain circumstances; specifying requirements for assuming insurers and reinsurance agreements; authorizing a ceding insurer or its representative that is subject to rehabilitation, liquidation, or conservation to seek a certain court order; providing construction, etc.
Consumer Protection; Deleting authorization for consumer reporting agencies to charge a fee for reissuing or providing a new unique personal identifier to a consumer; revising a requirement for persons licensed or authorized by the Department of Financial Services or the Office of Insurance Regulation to respond to the department’s Division of Consumer Services regarding consumer complaints; deleting a fee for adjusting firm licenses; authorizing the department to disapprove the use of insurance agency names containing the word “Medicare” or “Medicaid”; revising the timeframes in which an insured or a claimant may cancel a public adjuster’s contract to adjust a claim without penalty or obligation; revising disclosure requirements for certain classes of insurance before being eligible for export under the Surplus Lines Law, etc.
Express Preemption of Fuel Retailers and Related Transportation Infrastructure; Prohibits municipality, county, special district, or political subdivision from taking certain actions to prohibit siting, development, or redevelopment of fuel retailers & related transportation infrastructure & from requiring fuel retailers to install or invest in particular fueling infrastructure.
Community Association Assessment Notices; Requiring condominium associations to maintain specified affirmative acknowledgments as official records of the association; revising timeframes for foreclosure judgments; requiring condominium associations to deliver certain invoices for assessments or statements of account to unit owners in a specified manner; requiring cooperative associations to maintain specified affirmative acknowledgments as official records of the association, etc.
OGSR/Office of Insurance Regulation; Adding the Office of Insurance Consumer Advocate to the list of entities to which the Office of Insurance Regulation may disclose confidential and exempt information; removing the scheduled repeal of an exemption from public records requirements for certain proprietary business information and information that is confidential and held by the Office of Insurance Regulation, etc.
OGSR/Data Processing Software; Amending a provision relating to an exemption from public records requirements for certain data processing software obtained by an agency under a licensing agreement that prohibits its disclosure and which software is a trade secret and agency-produced data processing software that is sensitive; removing the public record exemption for certain trade secret information; removing the scheduled repeal of the exemption, etc.
Limitation of Liability for Voluntary Engineering or Architectural Services; Defining the term “structures specialist”; exempting engineers, architects, and structures specialists from liability for certain voluntary engineering or architectural services under certain circumstances, etc.
Marina Evacuations; Prohibits vessels under specified weight from remaining in certain marinas that have been deemed unsuitable for refuge during hurricane after issuance of hurricane watch; requires marina owner, operator, employee, or agent to remove specified vessels; provides that such owner, operator, employee, or agent may charge vessel owner reasonable fee for such removal & may not be held liable for any damages as result of such removal; provides that owners or operators of certain vessels may be subject to fine that deepwater seaport issuing evacuation order may impose & collect.
