Access to Veterans Treatment Court Programs; Deleting a provision requiring that a defendant seeking to participate in a veterans treatment court program submit an application to the state attorney; deleting a provision requiring that the state attorney review each application and determine whether the defendant meets certain eligibility requirements; authorizing the sentencing court, for offenses committed after a specified date, to place defendants into a postadjudicatory veterans treatment court program under certain circumstances; authorizing offenders charged with certain offenses to participate in the veterans treatment court program under certain circumstances, etc.
Mental Health Services for First Responders; Requiring the Division of State Fire Marshal to develop and implement a statewide behavioral health access program to provide certain mental wellness services and resources to first responders; providing training requirements for licensed professional counselors, etc.
Alcohol Consumption; Requiring the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to consider a vendor’s use of an electronic identification scanner in mitigation of certain administrative penalties; requiring state and local law enforcement agencies to refer to the division all relevant reports of investigations and arrests concerning drivers under the influence of alcohol whose crashes contributed to serious bodily injury or death, etc.
Access to Historic Cemeteries; Requiring the state to have an easement on certain land owned by a private owner for ingress and egress to maintain the cemetery and conduct research and noninvasive searches relating to the Historic Cemeteries Program; providing that such ingress and egress be at reasonable times, in a reasonable manner, and after the owner is provided with reasonable notice, etc.
Local Option Taxes; Requiring that specified taxes be renewed or reenacted by an ordinance in a specified manner; requiring that specified taxes have an expiration date and are subject to approval in a specified manner; requiring that specified taxes be reenacted by an ordinance in a specified manner; requiring that specified taxes be renewed or continued by an ordinance in a specified manner, etc.
Autism Spectrum Disorder Training for Law Enforcement Officers; Requiring the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission, rather than the Department of Law Enforcement, to establish an employment training component relating to individuals with autism spectrum disorder; providing requirements for training law enforcement officers on interacting with individuals with autism spectrum disorder; requiring the commission to adopt specified rules requiring such training as part of basic recruit training and as part of the required instruction for continued employment and appointment as law enforcement officers, etc.
Heavy Equipment Rental Recovery Fee; Authorizing a heavy equipment rental dealer to charge and collect a specified recovery fee; prohibiting the recovery fee from being charged to certain entities; prohibiting a recovery fee from being included in any taxable sales price, etc.
Smart Living Course; Citing this act as the “Smart Living Curriculum Act”; requiring students in grade 8 to take the Smart Living Course for promotion to high school beginning in a specified school year; requiring that a curriculum known as “Smart Living” be included in required instruction as two stand-alone courses beginning in a specified school year; revising the number of credits certain students must earn to be awarded a standard high school diploma beginning in a specified year, etc.
Virtual Instruction; Authorizing students to enroll in virtual programs through private schools using Family Empowerment Scholarship and Florida Tax Credit Scholarship awards, respectively; authorizing public schools to operate hybrid models of education while maintaining student enrollment, etc.
Guardianship of Property; Requiring guardians of the property to file quarterly, rather than annual, accounting reports by specified dates; requiring guardians of the property to file quarterly, rather than annual, accounting reports; authorizing certain guardians to file each monthly statement of the ward’s account from the ward’s financial institution for the preceding quarter; requiring the court to appoint an appraiser to appraise the ward’s property, etc.
Election of County Commissioners and Superintendents of Schools; Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to require the membership composition of a board of county commissioners to be based on county population as provided by general law, to require county commissioners to be elected by the qualified electors who reside in the same county commission district as the commissioner, and to require the superintendent of schools to be elected, etc.
Activities of Special Districts; Authorizing certain special districts to jointly enter into, participate in, establish, or control specified joint relationships or collaborations if a certain determination is made by such districts; authorizing such districts to exercise such powers regardless of certain consequences as a result of exercising such power, etc.
