Beverage Law; Authorizes contract brewers to transfer malt beverages to contracting brewers' facilities; provides that title to malt beverages remains with contract brewer until malt beverages are removed from licensed premises; requires licensed manufacturers that wish to engage in contract brewing to notify division; requires such licensed manufacturers to make full & complete report to division by certain date; requires that entity seeking to become host brewer or guest brewer for alternating proprietorship brewing first qualify as brewer with National Revenue Center; requires that guest brewer's malt beverages be separate & identifiable from malt beverages of all other tenants at host brewer's licensed premises; requires guest brewer to make full & complete report of specified information to division; provides that title to malt beverages remains with guest brewer; prohibits manufacturers or vendors from engaging in contract brewing or alternating proprietorship brewing.
Penalties For Late-filed Disclosures or Statements of Financial Interests; Prohibits assessment of fine for reporting person's first late filing of disclosure or statement of financial interests if certain conditions are met.
Workers’ Compensation Insurance; Authorizes insurer to use excess rates for specified percentage of its workers' compensation insurance policies; specifies workers' compensation policies that are excluded from such percentage; removes provisions relating to exclusion of specified commercial insurance policies from percentage of policies that are subject to excess rates; revises composition of board of directors of Florida Workers' Compensation Insurance Guaranty Association, Incorporated.
Optional Retirement Programs for Public Postsecondary Employees; Revises contribution amounts & how contributions are paid for specified optional retirement programs.
Advanced Wastewater Treatment; Requires certain sewage disposal facilities to submit specified reports to DEP; requires DEP, in consultation with water management districts & sewage disposal facilities, to submit specified reports to Governor & Legislature & post such reports on its website.
Prosecution of Defendants; Specifies that it is defense to prosecution under any law that defendant, as result of mental disease or defect, lacked culpable mental state required as element of crime charged; specifies that mental disease or defect is not otherwise defense to prosecution under any law; removes affirmative defense to criminal prosecution that, at time of commission of acts constituting offense, defendant was insane; revises mitigating circumstance under which departure from lowest permissible sentence is reasonably justified; authorizes incorporation into convicted defendant's criminal sentence certain specialized treatment for mental health disease or defects; specifies that certain provisions do not prevent sentencing court from considering defendant's mental disease or defect when imposing sentence within permissible sentencing range.
Right Turns at Intersections Using Traffic Infraction Detectors; Prohibits certain right turns at intersections using traffic infraction detectors; requires certain signage at such intersections.
Elections During Emergencies; Requires that elections, in event of emergency, be conducted in accordance with specified provisions & carried out in certain manner; authorizes supervisors of elections to request approval from Secretary of State to take specified actions under specified conditions; requires that supervisors submit all such requests at once, to extent practicable; authorizes submission of revised or additional requests; requires secretary to approve or deny requests within specified timeframe; requires secretary to consider specified factors; provides that requests are deemed approved under specified conditions; requires secretary to publish approvals & denials on DOS's website; etc.
My Safe Florida Home Program; Revises requirements of inspections provided through specified program; revises requirements to receive grant through specified program; revises what such grants may be used for; revises requirements of certain report.
Coconut Grove Playhouse, Miami-Dade County; Requires Miami-Dade County to transfer existing property interest in Coconut Grove Playhouse to Town of Bay Harbor Islands; provides duties of town.
Special Risk Class; Revises Special Risk Class member criteria to include members employed as certain prosecutors & special investigators; provides years of creditable service for full retirement eligibility.
HB 1271 revises Florida law to define "extraordinary collection actions" (like selling debt or filing lawsuits) and explicitly lists "prohibited collection actions" for medical debt. It bans healthcare providers and debt collectors from threatening arrest, garnishing wages, seizing bank accounts, reporting debt to credit bureaus, or denying care due to unpaid bills. The bill requires medical debt buyers to follow specific rules, including returning debt to providers if patients qualify for financial assistance. This directly affects patients with medical debt and healthcare facilities collecting payments, taking effect July 1, 2026.
