Food and Hemp Products; Providing that a marijuana testing laboratory may acquire hemp and hemp extract only from certain businesses; revising requirements for the sale and distribution of hemp extract; prohibiting businesses or food establishments from possessing hemp or hemp extract products that are attractive to children; prohibiting a business permitted to sell hemp or hemp extract from being located in certain areas; providing a penalty for hemp extract possessed, manufactured, delivered, held, offered for sale, distributed, or sold by certain entities in violation of specified provisions, etc. APPROPRIATION: $2,000,000
Individualized Investigational Treatments for Life-threatening or Severely Debilitating Illnesses; Authorizing eligible patients to request and receive individualized investigational treatment if they meet specified conditions; authorizing eligible facilities and certain manufacturers to provide individualized investigational treatments to eligible patients; providing that an eligible patient’s heirs are not liable for any outstanding debt related to the patient’s use of an individualized investigational treatment; prohibiting officials, employees, and agents of the state from blocking or attempting to block an eligible patient’s access to individualized investigational treatment, etc.
Pub. Rec. and Meetings/Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact; Provides public records & meetings exemptions relating to Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact & its committees; provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemptions; provides statements of public necessity.
Smoking in Public Places; Revising the definition of the terms “smoking” and “vape” or “vaping”; prohibiting smoking in public places in this state, with exceptions; revising requirements for customs smoking rooms to prohibit smoking and vaping of marijuana products at any time, etc.
Tax Exemptions for Surviving Spouses of Quadriplegics; Authorizing the surviving spouses of certain quadriplegics to carry over a certain tax exemption in certain circumstances; authorizing the Department of Revenue to adopt emergency rules, etc.
Prohibition of Guaranteed Income Programs; Prohibits local government from adopting or enforcing certain regulations relating to guaranteed income programs; provides powers & duties of Attorney General.
Trust Fund/Creation/Emergency Residential Property Insurance Assistance Trust Funds/DFS; Creates Emergency Residential Property Insurance Assistance Trust Fund within DFS; provides purpose, funding, & administration of trust fund; provides eligibility for trust fund; provides for future review & termination or re-creation of trust fund.
Adverse Personnel Actions Against Employees; Prohibits agencies & independent contractors from taking specified actions against employees for disclosing certain information to Commission on Ethics; requires that information disclosed include specified violations or alleged violations; requires disclosure of specified information to commission; provides that specified provisions protect employees & persons who submit written complaints to commission or provide information to investigator during investigation of complaint; authorizes certain employees or applicants for employment to file complaints in accordance with specified provisions; authorizes such employees or applicants to pursue specified administrative remedy or civil action within specified timeframe; authorizes local public employees to file complaint with appropriate local governmental authority; provides requirements for administrative procedures created by local governmental authorities; authorizes such employee to bring civil actions in court of competent jurisdiction; requires specified relief; provides that it is affirmative defense to certain actions that adverse action was predicated on grounds other than exercising of certain protected rights.
Registration of Agents and Organizations Associated with Foreign Countries of Concern; Requiring agents of foreign countries of concern and foreign-supported political organizations to register with the Division of Elections within a specified timeframe; requiring the registration of an agent of a foreign country of concern be signed under oath; requiring the division to create registration forms; providing requirements for such forms; requiring periodic updates by agents and organizations, etc.
Nursing Education Programs ; Revises application requirements for nursing education program approval; authorizes Board of Nursing to revoke program's approval; revises requirements for annual reports program directors of approved programs are required to submit to board; provides for revocation of program's approval & discipline of its program director; revises remediation procedures; removes provision authorizing board to extend program's probationary status; authorizes agents of DOH to conduct onsite evaluations & inspections; authorizes DOH to collect evidence as part of such evaluations & inspections; removes provision authorizing approved nursing education programs to request extension to meet board's accreditation requirements.
Broward County; Provides nonapplicability of provisions on alcoholic beverage-related actions & activities to special alcoholic beverage licenses issued for premises that are located within identified areas of Broward County; provides nonapplicability of such provisions to actions & activities of other alcoholic entities in relation to special alcoholic beverage licenses & premises; defines specified areas of county to which such provisions do not apply.
Public Records/Crime Stoppers Organizations; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for specified personal identifying and location information of employees of crime stoppers organizations and the board members and volunteers of such crime stoppers organizations; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing for retroactive application; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
