Federal Approval for Community Health Workers as Medicaid Providers; Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to seek federal approval by a specified date to enroll and recognize community health workers as Medicaid providers and to use certain funds and means to secure financing for the workers’ services, etc.
Specialty License Plates/Florida Wildflower; Increasing the annual use fee for the Florida Wildflower license plate and providing a discount for owners purchasing the plate for more than a specified number of vehicles, etc.
Local Government Official Salaries; Revises base salary used to calculate compensation of clerk of circuit court & county comptroller, supervisor of elections, & property appraiser, respectively.
Residential Property Insurers; Requiring homeowner’s policy insurers to give specified notifications to policyholders; requiring that such notice be mailed and, under certain circumstances, e-mailed; specifying exceptions to notification requirements, etc.
Insurance Solutions Advisory Council; Creating the advisory council within the Office of Insurance Regulation of the Financial Services Commission for specified purposes; providing for membership and meetings of the advisory council; requiring the office to provide the advisory council with staffing and administrative assistance; requiring the advisory council to submit a specified report annually, etc.
Crimes Evidencing Prejudice; Expanding grounds for the reclassification of crimes to include acts based on the gender or gender identity of any person; specifying that the reclassification must occur if the crime was based in whole or in part on specified characteristics of any person; specifying that the reclassification of a certain crime must occur if the crime was based in whole or in part on a disability of any person, etc.
Animal Cruelty; Prohibiting a person from confining an animal in an unattended motor vehicle under certain circumstances; providing criminal penalties, etc.
SB 580 would allow members of the state legislature (state senators and representatives) to legally perform marriage ceremonies, expanding the current list of authorized officiants. This directly affects legislators, enabling them to solemnize marriages as part of their official duties. The key provision amends existing law to explicitly include legislators among those permitted to officiate weddings, alongside clergy, judges, and other designated officials. The bill does not change marriage eligibility or requirements for couples.
Criminal Justice; prohibits landlord from asking prospective tenant about criminal record prior to making conditional offer; limits offenses that may be considered after such an offer is made; removes full payment of financial obligations from voting rights restoration requirements; provides for retroactive applicability of sentencing & resentencing of certain persons who committed certain violations before specified date which involved trafficking in certain controlled substances; revises definitions of term "juvenile offender" for purposes of review of sentences of review of juvenile sentences; provides for treatment of concurrent & consecutive sentences; provides for retroactive effect; requires DOC to provide specified data concerning inmates to Legislature for redistricting purposes; specifies how such data shall be used in redistricting; provides that only persons convicted of capital or life felonies are liable for correctional costs in specified liquidated damage amount for incarceration; removes provisions specifying fixed daily amount for an offender's liability for incarceration costs; revises offenses for which juvenile may be direct filed in adult court; requires judicial finding for discretionary direct file of juveniles; provides requirements for judicial findings; provides for return of juveniles to juvenile division at any point during circuit court proceedings.
End-of-life Options ; Establishes procedure to allow adult who has mental capacity & who has terminal condition & who makes fully informed decision that he or she no longer wants to live, to obtain medication to end his or her life; provides requirements for health care providers, health care facilities & DOH.
Abandoned Cemeteries; Requires state to be granted an easement for ingress and egress to abandoned cemeteries on private property for specified purposes.
SB 256, titled "Sale or Transfer of Ammunition" and citing "Jaime's Law," requires state-run background checks for all ammunition sales and transfers between individuals. It directly affects ammunition sellers, private sellers, and buyers who purchase or receive ammunition. The bill mandates that these transactions must undergo a background check through the state's existing system before completion. This creates a new requirement for ammunition transactions, similar to firearm purchase checks, but applies specifically to ammunition.
