Reproductive Health Care; Provides that individuals have specified reproductive rights; prohibits local government from regulating individual's reproductive freedom.
Step-therapy Protocols; Requires AHCA to approve drug products for Medicaid recipients for treatment of serious mental illness without step-therapy prior authorization; directs agency to include rate impacts resulting from act in certain rates that become effective on specified date.
Warehouse Distribution Centers; Requires certain employers to establish & administer safety committee; provides requirements for committee; provides requirements for certain employers relating to quotas, notices, employee protections, recordkeeping, adverse personnel action, enforcement, inspections, & reporting.
Public Records/Judicial Qualifications Commission; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for the personal identifying and location information of current and former employees of the Judicial Qualifications Commission and the personal identifying and location information of the spouses and children of such employees; providing for legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing for retroactive application of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
HB 359 would create a new property tax exemption for specific types of real property, meaning qualifying properties would no longer be subject to property tax payments. The bill establishes this exemption without specifying which properties qualify or who would be directly affected, as the abstract does not detail eligibility criteria. The key mechanism is the removal of property tax obligations for the designated real estate. Without additional details in the provided abstract, the exact scope, qualifying conditions, or affected property owners cannot be determined.
Local Business Taxes ; Revises provisions related to local business taxes including conditions imposed on taxing authorities governing levies, modification of ordinances, reclassification of businesses, prohibitions on revenues over a specified value, and audits.
Student Elopement; Requiring public schools to create a school staff assistance for emergencies (SAFE) team and a school elopement plan; requiring the SAFE team to create student-specific elopement quick reference guides for certain students; requiring public schools to annually provide their plans to the district school board, etc.
Hunger-Free Campus Pilot Program; Citing this act as the "Hunger-Free Campus Act"; establishing the pilot program within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for a specified period; requiring the Commissioner of Agriculture to identify the three state universities or Florida College System institutions with the highest percentage of Pell Grant-eligible students for participation in the pilot program; requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to conduct a study to evaluate food insecurity on the campuses of state universities and Florida College System institutions, etc.
Bail Bonds; Requiring that, upon a court’s entry of an order to revoke pretrial release and order pretrial detention, the clerk of the court discharge any bond previously posted as a condition of pretrial release without further order of the court; deleting the requirement that a surety own certain real estate as a qualification for the release of a person on bail; requiring sureties, other than bail bond agents, to justify their suretyship by attaching to the bond United States currency, a United States postal money order, or a cashier’s check in the amount of the bond; providing that such currency, money order, or cashier’s check may not be used to secure more than one bond; reducing the number of days within which the clerk must furnish specified information to the Department of Financial Services and the Office of Insurance Regulation of the Financial Services Commission and the surety company at its home office, etc.
Tourist Development Tax; Authorizing proceeds of the tourist development tax to be used to fund public safety improvements, affordable housing, and workforce housing, etc.
Exceptions to the Limitation on Termination of Pregnancies; Revising the definition of the term “fatal fetal abnormality”; providing that one physician, rather than two physicians, must make specified medical determinations for purposes of specified medical exceptions to the limitation on termination of pregnancies; revising the criteria of a specified medical exception, etc.
Student Absences; Requiring a student’s primary teacher to report to the principal, or his or her designee, if a student is chronically absent; requiring the State Board of Education to create guidelines relating to student absences, etc.
