Victims of Domestic Violence and Dating Violence; Requires Division of Telecommunications within DMS to consult with certain entities to conduct feasibility study regarding specified alert system; provides requirements for such alert system; requires division to report to Legislature results of feasibility study by specified date; revises legislative findings to include victims of dating violence; defines "dating violence"; authorizes victims of dating violence to apply to participate in Attorney General's address confidentiality program.
Storage of Handguns in Private Conveyances and Vessels; Provides requirements for storage of handguns in private conveyances & vessels; requires law enforcement agencies to engage in specified promotional campaign; requires counties to adopt specified ordinances concerning parents of children who have been found to have stolen handgun from conveyances or vessels.
Veterans Rental Assistance Grant Program; Creates Veterans' Rental Assistance Grant Program; authorizes Florida Housing Finance Corporation to provide certain grants to eligible applicants for specified purpose; provides eligibility requirements for program.
Immigration; Revising the duties and responsibilities of the Office of Economic Accountability and Transparency within the Department of Commerce; revising penalties, including suspension and revocation of certain licenses and the imposition of fines, for violating provisions related to employing unauthorized aliens; revising the definition of the term “employee”; requiring that all private employers, rather than only those employing a specified number or more of employees, use the E-Verify system to verify a new employee’s employment eligibility, etc.
Criminal Offenses; Provides criminal penalties for persons who willfully or maliciously harass or cyberstalk specified justice system personnel; revises elements of an offense constituting aggravated stalking; revises conditions under which court may issue warrant for defendant's arrest.
Criminal Offenses Against Law Enforcement Officers and Other Personnel; Citing this act as the “Officer Jason Raynor Act”; revising a prohibition on the use or threatened use of force to resist arrest or detention; defining the term “acting in good faith”; providing for enhanced punishment for manslaughter when committed against specified officers; revising provisions concerning assault or battery upon specified officers and other personnel, etc.
Gambling; Prohibiting certain employment for a specified timeframe before or during a person’s service with the commission; authorizing certain organizations, before purchasing, installing, or operating a game or machine on its premises and if in doubt about whether such machine meets the definition of an amusement machine, to petition the commission for a specified declaratory statement on whether the operation of such game or machine is authorized or prohibited; prohibiting betting on athletic contests with knowledge that the results are prearranged or predetermined; providing that a cardroom operator may limit the playing of any game to persons 21 years of age or older; prohibiting trafficking in slot machines, devices, or parts thereof, etc.
Criminal Offenses; Revising the definitions of the terms “harass,” “course of conduct,” and “cyberstalk”; providing criminal penalties for persons who willfully or maliciously harass or cyberstalk specified justice system personnel; revising the elements of an offense constituting aggravated stalking; authorizing courts to issue a warrant for a defendant’s arrest under specified circumstances, etc.
Gambling; Revises policy & reporting requirements for slot machine gaming licensure; prohibits betting on athletic contests with knowledge that results are prearranged or predetermined; prohibits false personation of personnel of Florida Gaming Control Commission; revises criminal penalties for numerous offenses; prohibits trafficking in slot machines or parts; prohibits transportation of specified numbers of persons or persons of certain ages for purpose of facilitating illegal gambling; prohibits certain offenses related to Internet gambling; prohibits specified gambling or gaming advertisements; provides construction; preempts to state regulation of gaming, gambling, lotteries, or any activities described in specified provisions.
First Responders; Providing that funds in the First Responders Trust Fund may be used for grants to support first responder mental health; renaming the Emergency Medical Services Trust Fund as the First Responders Trust Fund, etc.
Food and Hemp Products; Providing conditions for the manufacture, delivery, hold, offer for sale, distribution, or sale of hemp extract; prohibiting the unpermitted, street, or festival sale of hemp extract; prohibiting businesses and food establishments from possessing hemp or hemp extract products that are attractive to children; prohibiting businesses and food establishments permitted to sell hemp or hemp extract from being located in specified areas, etc. APPROPRIATION: $2,000,000
Election Dates for Municipal Office; Requiring that elections for municipal offices be held on the same date as the general election; preempting to the state the authority to establish election dates for municipal elections; requiring that municipal recall elections be held concurrently with municipal elections under certain conditions; repealing provisions relating to change of dates for cause in municipal elections, etc.
