Public Records and Meetings/Competitive Solicitations; Revising the applicability of public records and public meetings exemptions, respectively, relating to competitive solicitations; providing an exemption from public records requirements for sealed bids, proposals, or replies received and publicly announced by the Department of Transportation pursuant to competitive solicitations for certain contracts; providing an exemption from public meetings requirements for portions of meetings at which negotiations with, oral presentations of, or questions answered by a vendor taking part in a competitive solicitation of the department occur and portions of team meetings at which negotiation strategies are discussed; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing statements of public necessity, etc.
Infrastructure and Resiliency; Granting the Department of Environmental Protection the exclusive authority to execute coastal resiliency projects through public-private partnerships; authorizing the department to take certain actions to encourage investment from the private sector in coastal resiliency projects, etc.
Homeowners’ Association Ombudsman; Creating the Office of the Homeowners’ Association Ombudsman within the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation; providing that the ombudsman serves at the pleasure of the Governor; prohibiting the ombudsman and officers and full-time employees of the office from holding certain positions, engaging in certain activities, or receiving certain remuneration; providing for the administration of an election monitoring process, etc.
Official Actions of Local Governments; Prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from funding or promoting or taking official action as it relates to diversity, equity, and inclusion; providing that a county commissioner, a member of the governing body of a municipality, or any other county or municipal official who violates certain provisions commits misfeasance or malfeasance in office; requiring potential recipients of county and municipal contracts and grants to make a certain certification to the county or municipality before being awarded such contract or grant, etc.
The bill HB 6029 repeals existing provisions related to performance measures and standards for special districts. It does not create new requirements but removes current statutory language governing how these local government entities must track or report on their operations. The bill directly affects special districts (such as water, fire, or sanitation authorities) that previously operated under these specific reporting rules. Since the abstract only states the repeal without describing the repealed content, no specific mechanisms or policy changes beyond the repeal itself can be detailed.
Condominium Structural Integrity Reserve Studies; Defining the term “structural integrity reserve study”; requiring condominium associations that govern a building of a specified height to conduct a structural integrity reserve study for a specified purpose; providing that condominium associations that govern a building that does not meet such specified height requirement are not required to conduct a structural integrity reserve study, etc.
Local Government Salaries and Benefits; Requiring the use of the county population on a specified date to calculate the group rate element of the salary formula applicable to county commissioners of noncharter counties beginning on a specified date; providing procedures for calculating salary adjustments for members of boards of county commissioners of certain counties; requiring a referendum for the governing body of a municipality to increase the salary, retirement benefits, or other compensation paid to its members, etc.
Jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission Relating to Water and Wastewater Systems; Revises types of nonprofit organizations that are exempt from commission jurisdiction; provides procedure for commission to determine whether organization is qualifying nonprofit organization exempt from commission jurisdiction; provides standards for making such determinations; authorizes organization to petition commission to regain qualifying nonprofit organization status; requires specified waiting period before certain organizations may petition to regain qualifying nonprofit organization status; requires commission to adopt rules
Revenue Administration; Revising provisions related to taxes & assessments including terminology, powers of governing bodies, administration, property appraisers, valuation, agricultural land, millage, state lands, delinquencies, collection, and interest.
State Renewable Energy Goals; Revising the definitions of the terms “biomass” and “renewable energy”; prohibiting the drilling or exploration for, or production of, oil, gas, or other petroleum products in certain locations; prohibiting the permitting and construction of certain structures intended for the drilling or exploration for, or production or transport of, oil, gas, or other petroleum products in certain locations; providing for statewide net zero carbon emissions by a specified date; directing the Office of Energy within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, in consultation with other state agencies, Florida College System institutions and state universities, public utilities, and other private and public entities, to develop a unified statewide plan to generate the state’s electricity from renewable energy and reduce the state’s carbon emissions by specified dates, etc.
Grants for Low-income Senior Citizen Condominium Unit Owners; Requiring the Florida Housing Finance Corporation to establish by rule requirements for a specified grant; providing the maximum amount for such grant, etc.
Manatee County; Requires the clerk of the circuit court & comptroller to provide certain services for certain historic museums & parks; authorizes clerk to provide certain funding.
