Public Employee Collective Bargaining; Provides additional provisions that Public Employees Relations Commission may waive for certain employee organizations; revises requirements for certification, recertification, or decertification of employee organization; removes provisions relating to revocation of certification of employee organization; provides prohibitions on public employers, their agents or representatives, or any person acting on their behalf; authorizes certain actions by public employee upon agreement between public employer & bargaining agent; provides exceptions for certain bargaining units.
Disclosure of Public Servants’ Personal Information; Providing that certain public employees and officials may provide a written notice to a data broker to prevent disclosure of specified personal data concerning themselves and related persons; prohibiting the release of data after receipt of such notice; providing for civil actions against a data broker for failure to comply; providing the standard of fault in such action, etc.
Weapons and Firearms; Citing this act as the “Responsible Gun Ownership Act”; requiring a background check on every sale or other transfer of a firearm; providing criminal penalties; revising requirements for the safe storage of firearms; prohibiting the manufacture, assembly, importing, purchasing, selling, or transferring of any firearm not imprinted with a valid serial number; creating the Veteran’s Firearm Suicide Reduction Task Force, etc.
Applicability of Valued Policy Law to Surplus Lines Insurers; Requiring surplus lines insurers to comply with the valued policy law under certain circumstances; defining the term “insurer” to include surplus lines insurers for the purpose of the valued policy law, etc.
Court Judgment Interest Rates and Insurance Reports and Practices; Revises calculation that CFO performs to set rate of interest payable on judgments or decrees; requires OIR to create specified reports on insurance-related entities & compensation of executive officers for insurers, licensees, & registrants; revises factors office must consider in determining whether insurance rate is excessive, inadequate, or unfairly discriminatory; requires property insurers to send policyholders written estimate of amount of loss; specifies certain requirements for insurers when creating & sending such estimates; prohibits insureds & insurers from waiving such requirements; revises manner in which property insurer must respond to notice to initiate litigation; requires claimant & property insurer to participate in mandatory mediation; requires court to determine attorney fees in specified manner for cases arising from property insurance dispute; requires property insurers to disclose to policyholders dollar amount of credit or premium discount for mandatory binding arbitration endorsement.
Autonomous Practice by a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist; Revising staff membership and clinical privileges for certain certified registered nurse anesthetists; authorizing certain certified registered nurse anesthetists to perform specified acts under certain circumstances; revising practice requirements for autonomous advanced practice registered nurses, etc.
Location of Equipment Owned by Amusement Business Owners; Prohibiting counties and municipalities from enacting certain policies, ordinances, regulations, or other measures that require payment from an amusement business owner for the placement, parking, or storage of equipment for longer than a specified length of time on certain lands classified as agricultural lands, etc.
County Constitutional Officer Budget Processes; Authorizing a supervisor of elections to file a budget appeal to the Administration Commission in a specified manner; requiring the Executive Office of the Governor to conduct a budget hearing in a specified manner and make findings and recommendations to the Administration Commission; authorizing a clerk of the circuit court to file a budget appeal in a specified manner; requiring the Executive Office of the Governor to conduct a budget hearing in a specified manner and make findings and recommendations to the Administration Commission, etc.
Conversion of Hotels Into Residential Housing; Authorizing a tax credit for certain projects; providing the maximum value of such credit; authorizing the Florida Housing Finance Corporation to allocate the tax credit among certain projects; creating the Hotel-to-home Tax Credit Program for a certain purpose, etc.
Electronic Payment of Public Records Fees; Requiring an agency subject to ch. 119, F.S., to provide an electronic option for payment of fees associated with a public records request, etc.
Labor Pool Act; Repeals provisions relating to the Labor Pool Act, including the short title; legislative intent; definitions; exclusions; duties & rights; remedies, damages, & costs; & application, respectively.
Employee Wages and Salary; Prohibits public employer, private employer, or employment agency from engaging in certain activities relating to wages & salary; authorizes public employer, private employer, or employment agency to confirm prospective employee's wage or salary history under certain conditions; requires public employer, private employer, or employment agency to maintain certain records for specified time period; provides administrative, injunctive, & civil relief; provides civil penalties.
