Private Provider Building Inspection Services; Revises membership of Florida Building Code Administrators & Inspectors Board & Florida Building Commission; revises provisions relating to building code inspection services provided by private provider & private provider firms, including agreement requirements, permit fees, administrative fees, responsibilities of private providers, permitting & inspection documents & reports, timeframes for issuing permits, authority of local building official, notices of incomplete forms, duly authorized representatives, authority of private providers acting as local building official, emergency inspection services, creation of certain forms, systems of registration, audits, immunity, civil causes of action, posting of permits on specified websites, & adoption of a uniformed permitting system.
Private Provider Building Inspection Services; Requiring that the Florida Building Code Administrators and Inspectors Board include a specified number of members who are private providers or who are employed by private provider firms; requiring that the Florida Building Commission include a specified number of members who are private providers or who are employed by private provider firms; requiring that building code inspection services provided by a private provider be the subject of an agreement, rather than a written contract, between the provider or provider’s firm and the fee owner or fee owner’s contractor, etc.
Ownership of Single-family Residential Property by Business Entities; Defining the terms “business entity” and “single-family residential property”; prohibiting certain business entities from purchasing, acquiring, or otherwise obtaining certain property and subsequently leasing or renting such property; specifying that certain sellers are not liable for certain violations, etc.
Toll Exemptions for Purple Heart Medal Recipients; Revising eligibility for toll exemptions to include operators displaying a Purple Heart special license plate or a Purple Heart special motorcycle license plate, etc.
Ownership of Single-family Residential Property by Business Entities; Prohibits certain business entities from purchasing, acquiring, or otherwise obtaining certain property & subsequently leasing or renting such property; specifies that certain sellers are not liable for certain violations; authorizes Attorney General to bring civil action; provides remedies.
Osceola County; Provides additional career service position; provides promotional procedures; revises membership of career service appeals board; revises board responsibilities.
Elections and State-issued Identification; Revises requirements for the uniform statewide voter registration application; requires DOS & SOE verify certain information relating to citizenship status; requires certain voter registration applicants provide certain identification before voting; requires DHSMV to provide voter registration records to certain individuals; requires certain electors be given provisional ballots; requires certain licenses and ID cards denote individual noncitizens; revises certain instructions & certificates.
Toll Discounts for Veteran-owned Businesses; Providing a discount for certain veteran-owned businesses on payment of tolls for the use of toll facilities under a pilot program established by the Department of Transportation; providing eligibility requirements for the pilot program; requiring the Florida Turnpike Enterprise in coordination with the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and the Department of Management Services to administer the pilot program, etc.
Procurement Compliance; Authorizing the Department of Management Services to grant governmental entities access to electronic systems for specified purposes; authorizing governmental entities to use certain information to determine compliance with provisions prohibiting contracting with entities of foreign countries of concern, etc.
Cybersecurity Risks from Unmanned Aircraft Systems; Requiring the Florida Cybersecurity Advisory Council to meet quarterly to assess specified risks and provide certain recommendations, etc.
Criminal Justice; Providing criminal penalties for persons who commit any act that causes, tends to cause, encourages, or contributes to a child committing offenses of specified severities; providing criminal penalties for an adult who causes or entices a minor to commit, or in the presence of a minor commits, a specified violation of law relating to animal cruelty, etc.
Hurricane Mitigation Grants and Insurers' Regulations; Specifies that hurricane mitigation grants funded through My Safe Florida Home Program may be awarded only under certain circumstances; requires DFS to require that certain mitigation improvements be made as condition of reimbursing homeowner approved for grant; increases surpluses required for certain insurers applying for their original certificates of authority & maintaining their certificates of authority; specifies prohibitions for persons who were officers or directors of insolvent insurer, officers or directors of managing general agent of insolvent insurer, attorneys in fact of insolvent reciprocal insurer, or officers or directors of attorney in fact of insolvent reciprocal insurer; requires OIR to prohibit insurers or reciprocal insurers from paying any compensation to certain persons for certain violations until violations are remedied; requires that insurers' final decisions to deny claims or portions of claims be made by qualified human professionals.
