Implementing the 2025-2026 General Appropriations Act; Requiring a carry forward spending plan to commit certain excess reserve balances to specified projects in a specified manner; revising the duties of the Institute for Freedom in the Americas at Miami Dade College; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit a budget amendment to realign Medicaid funding for specified purposes, subject to certain limitations; extending for 1 fiscal year the exemption of certain rules pertaining to the medical use of marijuana from certain rulemaking requirements; revising the Quality Incentive Program payment pool percentage for the reimbursement of Medicaid providers, etc.
Collective Bargaining; Providing for the resolution of certain collective bargaining issues at impasse between the State of Florida and the certified representatives of the bargaining units of state employees; providing for all other mandatory collective bargaining issues at impasse which are not addressed by the act or the General Appropriations Act to be resolved consistent with personnel rules and by otherwise maintaining the status quo, etc.
Judges; Increasing the number of circuit judges in certain judicial circuits; increasing the number of county court judges in certain counties; increasing the number of judges on the Sixth District Court of Appeal; providing for the reduction in the number of judges on the Second District Court of Appeal under specified conditions, etc.
SB 7022 revises the required employer contribution rates for different employee groups within Florida's Retirement System. It adjusts how much public employers must pay into retirement funds based on specific membership classes and subclasses, such as different job types or service categories. The bill directly affects Florida state and local government employers who participate in the Florida Retirement System. This change modifies the financial obligations employers have toward employee retirement benefits without altering eligibility or benefit amounts.
Prekindergarten Through Grade 12 Education; Requiring a third-party administrator to transfer a specified amount of money from a loan fund to the Schools of Hope program under certain conditions, beginning on a specified date; revising requirements for the establishment of a school of hope; requiring that CAPE digital tool certificates be made available to all public elementary grades students, but not middle grades students; revising requirements for the recalculation of the Florida Education Finance Program allocations, etc.
State-funded Property Reinsurance Programs; Decreases authorized cumulative transfers from General Revenue Fund to SBA for Reinsurance to Assist Policyholders program to reimburse certain insurers for insured losses caused by hurricanes; removes Florida Optional Reinsurance Assistance program.
Debt Reduction; Revises information required to be included in specified report; creates Debt Reduction Program within SBA for specified purpose; provides requirements for use of certain funds by Division of Bond Finance; requires CFO to transfer certain funds to SBA by specified date each fiscal year; requires any unexpended funds to revert to General Revenue Fund by specified date.
Appropriations; Providing moneys for the annual period beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026, and supplemental appropriations for the period ending June 30, 2025, to pay salaries, and other expenses, capital outlay - buildings, and other improvements, and for other specified purposes of the various agencies of state government, etc. APPROPRIATION: $115,137,650,858
Administrative Procedures; Requiring agencies to publish a notice of rule development within a specified timeframe; requiring a certain number of days between a notice of rule development and notice of proposed rule; requiring that certain rules be withdrawn if not ratified within the legislative session immediately following the filing for adoption; providing that if a proposed rule is not ratified within a specified timeframe, the emergency rule expires; providing that a proposal for a lower cost regulatory alternative submitted after a notice of change is made in good faith only if the proposal contains certain statements, etc.
Young Adult Housing Support; Requiring each Florida College System institution and state university to develop plans for prioritizing the placement of certain students; requiring the Department of Children and Families, community-based care lead agencies, and housing authorities to take any action required by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to administer the federal Foster Youth to Independence initiative and other federal programs and vouchers; requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA) to conduct a study of the barriers to housing faced by young adults who are homeless or were formerly in foster care, etc.
Compensation of Victims of Wrongful Incarceration; Deleting the definition of the term “violent felony”; expanding the period during which a petition for compensation for wrongful incarceration may be filed; providing that a wrongfully incarcerated person is not eligible for compensation for any period of incarceration during which the person was concurrently serving a sentence for a conviction of another felony for which such person was lawfully incarcerated; revising provisions concerning the offset of civil judgments in favor of claimants against awards, etc.
Public Records/Congressional Members and Public Officers; Providing exemptions from public records requirements for the partial home addresses and telephone numbers of current congressional members and public officers and their spouses and adult children and the names, home addresses, telephone numbers, and dates of birth of, and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by, the minor children of such congressional members and public officers; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
