Local Government Land Regulation; Requiring counties to specify minimum information necessary for certain applications; revising timeframes for processing applications for approval of development permits or development orders; prohibiting a school district from collecting, charging, or imposing certain fees unless they meet certain requirements; specifying certain purposes for which local governments may use certain fees to carry out activities relating to obtaining or finalizing a building permit; requiring municipalities to specify minimum information necessary for certain applications, etc.
HB 669 prohibits local governments (such as cities or counties) from requiring a minimum credit rating for certain municipal bonds they issue. This bill directly affects local governments that finance public projects through bond sales. The key provision removes a requirement that had forced these entities to seek bonds rated above a specific level before selling them to investors. The change simplifies bond issuance for local governments by eliminating this specific rating hurdle. (3 sentences)
Law Enforcement Officers and Other Personnel; Authorizes first responder amputees to continue to serve as first responders; creates Florida Medal of Valor & Florida Blue/Red Heart Medal; prohibits use of motor vehicle kill switches; requires mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for attempted murder in first degree committed against specified justice system personnel; prohibits depriving specified officers of digital recording devices or restraint devices, rendering them useless, or otherwise preventing officer from defending himself or herself or summoning assistance; revises requirements for reporting of missing persons information; creates Critical Infrastructure Mapping Grant Program within FDLE; specifies requirements for testing inmates for infectious diseases.
Home Health Aide for Medically Fragile Children Program; Providing requirements for the annual assessment of the home health aide for medically fragile children program; revising the utilization cap of a Medicaid fee schedule; requiring a home health aide for medically fragile children who works more than 40 hours per week to provide specified justification; requiring the agency to seek federal approval and implement federal waivers and state plan amendments for specified purposes, etc.
My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program; Limits participation in My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program to certain structures & buildings on condominium property; prohibits condominium association from applying for hurricane mitigation inspection or mitigation grant under pilot program unless certain association property or condominium property is established as common element & association has complied with specified requirements; revises approval requirements to receive mitigation grant; removes amount of grant funding for certain projects; revises improvements for which mitigation grant may be used; requires improvements to be identified in final hurricane mitigation inspection in order for association to receive grant funds; requires grant funds to be awarded for mitigation improvement that will result in mitigation credit, discount, or other rate differential; requires mitigation improvements to be made to all openings.
Condominium and Cooperative Associations; Prohibits a person whose community association manager license is revoked from having an indirect or direct ownership interest in, or being an employee, a partner, an officer, a director, or a trustee of, a community association management firm for a specified timeframe; requires a licensee to create and maintain an online licensure account with the Department of Business and Professional Regulation; requires a community association manager to identify on his or her online licensure account certain information; requires a licensee to provide specific information on his or her online licensure account; requires that such information be updated within a specified timeframe; requires a community association management firm to identify on its online licensure account the community association managers it employs to provide community association management services.
Regulation of Presidential Libraries; Preempting to the state all regulatory authority over the establishment, maintenance, activities, and operations of presidential libraries; defining the term “presidential library”; prohibiting counties, municipalities, or other political subdivisions from enacting or enforcing any ordinance, resolution, rule, or other measure regarding presidential libraries unless authorized by federal law, etc.
Affordable Housing; Authorizing the board of county commissioners and the governing board of a municipality, respectively, to approve the development of housing that is affordable, including mixed-use residential, on any parcel owned by religious institutions; requiring counties and municipalities to authorize multifamily and mixed-use residential as allowable uses in portions of flexibly zoned areas under certain circumstances; prohibiting counties and municipalities from requiring that more than a specified percentage of a mixed-use residential project be used for certain purposes; providing that it is the policy of the state to support housing for certain employees and to allow developers in receipt of certain tax credits and funds to create a specified preference for housing certain employees, etc.
State Courts System; Revising the availability of judges to require at least one circuit judge in each circuit to be available for hearings with limited notice; revising the duty of the Florida Clerks of Court Operations Corporation to provide an annual budget request to be pursuant to specified provisions; deleting the per diem cap for arbitrators who participate in court-ordered, nonbinding arbitration; authorizing judges to authenticate a jurat, or certificate of proof or acknowledgment, by affixing their signature and printing their name, title, and court, etc.
General Permits for Distributed Wastewater Treatment Systems; Authorizing the Secretary of Environmental Protection to grant a general permit for the replacement of an existing onsite sewage treatment and disposal system with a distributed wastewater treatment system under certain circumstances; providing for the installation of distributed wastewater treatment units to proceed without any further action by the Department of Environmental Protection if a permittee submits a notification to the department at least a specified number of days before installation, etc.
Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Inc.; Requiring the board of directors of the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Inc., rather than the Board of Governors, to authorize the creation of a subsidiary of the corporation; revising the composition of the board of directors of the corporation; authorizing subsidiaries of the corporation to enter into certain affiliation agreements, etc.
Trusts; Revising how an authorized trustee may exercise the power to invade principal as an authorized trustee administering a trust; providing that property devised to or from a revocable trust which is devised, given, or distributed to a donee by a settlor during the settlor’s lifetime is treated as a satisfaction of devise to that donee if certain criteria are met; providing that homestead property transferred by one or both settlor spouses to a community property trust will not be treated as a change of ownership for the purposes of reassessing the property, etc.
