Nonopioid Alternatives; Authorizing certain health care practitioners to provide a specified educational pamphlet to patients in an electronic format, etc.
Business Organizations; Revising requirements relating to inspecting certain records of limited liability companies; revising the circumstances under which shareholders are entitled to appraisal rights and certain payments; entitling corporations to prepay a shareholder if the shareholder makes a demand for payment; revising requirements for proceedings relating to unsettled demands for payment, etc.
Tobacco and Nicotine Products; Revising age limitations relating to mail order, Internet, and remote sales of tobacco products; providing that it is unlawful for persons under 21 years of age to smoke tobacco or vape in, on, or within 1,000 feet of the real property comprising a public or private elementary, middle, or secondary school during specified hours; preempting the establishment of the minimum age for purchasing and possessing, and the regulation for the marketing, sale, or delivery of, tobacco products to the state; requiring proof of age for certain purchases of tobacco products; requiring retail nicotine product dealers to acquire a permit, etc.
Bicycle Operation Regulations; Providing an exception to the requirement that a person operating a bicycle ride upon or astride a seat attached thereto; revising construction relating to electric bicycle regulations, etc.
Broadband Internet Infrastructure; Revising duties of the Florida Office of Broadband; providing an appropriation to the Department of Economic Opportunity for geographic information system broadband mapping; providing for administration of the program; providing requirements for grant awards; requiring the publication of certain information related to grant applications and grant awards on a website; requiring the office to publish specified information annually on its website; establishing a promotional rate and related terms for wireline attachments of broadband facilities to municipal electric utility poles; providing procedures and requirements for receiving the promotional rates; establishing cost responsibility for replacement utility poles in certain circumstances; prohibiting municipal electric utilities from increasing certain fees for pole attachments for a specified period, etc. APPROPRIATION: $1,500,000
Legal Notices; Revising construction as to the satisfaction of publication requirements for legal notices; revising requirements for newspapers that are qualified to publish legal notices; authorizing the Internet publication of specified governmental agency notices on newspaper websites in lieu of print publication if certain requirements are met; requiring the Florida Press Association to seek to ensure equitable access for minority populations to legal notices posted on the statewide legal notice website; requiring the association to publish and maintain certain reports on the statewide legal notice website, etc.
Construction Contracting Regulation Exemption; Exempts from licensure a member of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida or the Seminole Tribe of Florida when constructing specified structures.
Public Defender Duties; Specifies additional circumstances under which a public defender may not be appointed to represent a defendant.
Privileged Communications Made to Crime Stoppers Organizations; Prohibits person from knowingly & willfully attempting to obtain, obtaining, or disclosing privileged communication or protected information; provides exemption from criminal liability for employees, board members, or volunteers of crime stoppers organization in certain circumstances; provides immunity from civil liability for certain actions by specified persons.
Pub. Rec./Economic Development Agencies; Provides exemption from public records requirements for certain information held by economic development agency; provides that such information may be released in aggregated & anonymized format; provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemption; provides statement of public necessity.
OGSR/State-funded Infrastructure Bank; Removes scheduled repeal of exemption from public records requirements for financial information of private entity applicant which DOT requires as part of certain application process.
Student Literacy; Provides & revises requirements relating to improvement of student literacy skills; requires DOE, in consultation with Office of Early Learning, to implement coordinated screening & progress monitoring system for VPK program through grade 8; establishes Reading Achievement Initiative for Scholastic Excellence Program within DOE; revises requirements relating to specified reading instruction allocation; revises requirements for certain instructional personnel & professional development program.
