Elections; Requires DOS to adopt rules relating to election security; requires DOS to create certain manuals; authorizes PACs & political committees to have poll watchers; authorizes designate watchers for absentee vote processing locations; provides requirements for printed ballots & voter certificate envelopes; requires retention of materials; requires audits; provides requirements for transportation & chain of custody for ballots; revises storage, identification, and signature verification requirements; provides requirements for absentee vote processing workers; revises county canvassing board composition; authorizes removal from office of supervisor of elections; revises requirements for recounts; provides criminal penalties.
Special Risk Class of Florida Retirement System; Authorizes employees enrolled in Special Risk Class to make election from investment plan to pension plan within certain timeframe, subject to certain conditions.
Swimming Pool and Spa Contractors; Revises the definitions of commercial & residential pool/spa contractors & swimming pool/spa servicing contractor; specifies maximum recovery amount for certain claims relating to certain contracts; specifies total aggregate cap for certain licensees relating to certain contracts.
Required Life Skills Instruction; Revises required instruction in Life skills that build confidence, support mental & emotional health, & enable students to overcome challenges to include career readiness, financial literacy, & home economics.
Parole; Reinstates parole for offenders who solely committed certain nonviolent felony offenses.
Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Awareness and Assistance Training Program; Creates Mental Health & Substance Use Disorder Awareness & Assistance Training Program; requires DCF to establish program; provides program requirements; requires DCF to select coordinating agency; provides requirements for such coordinating agency; requires coordinating agency to submit reports to DCF.
Pub. Rec./Medical Examiners; Provides exemption from public records requirements for personal identifying & location information of current or former medical examiners & names & personal identifying & location information of spouses & children of such medical examiners; provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemption; provides for retroactive application; provides statement of public necessity.
Mass Shootings and Acts of Terrorism; Revises prohibition on making threats to conduct mass shooting or act of terrorism to include audio & video telephones; prohibits planning to conduct mass shooting or an act of terrorism; specifies what constitutes plan to conduct mass shooting or an act of terrorism.
Agritourism; Prohibits local governments from adopting ordinances, regulations, rules, or policies that require certificates of use for certain agricultural lands, facilities, & venues or limit certain activities associated with agritourism; provides for termination, expiration, extension, & renewal of specified local government ordinances, rules, & measures.
Nursing Education Programs; Revises application requirements for nursing education programs; requires, rather than authorizes, certain degree requirements to be documented in specified manner; requires each program director to submit annual report & written remediation plan to Board of Nursing; requires board to deny application under certain circumstances; authorizes board to revoke approval of specified existing programs; requires board to terminate program under certain circumstances; authorizes certain DOH agents & employees to conduct onsite evaluations & inspections; authorizes DOH to collect evidence; revises rulemaking authority; removes provisions authorizing extension of program's probationary status.
Early Voting Sites; Providing that supervisor of elections may designate additional early voting sites in certain areas.
Alternative Fuel Fleet Vehicle Rebates; Renames natural gas fuel fleet vehicle rebate program within DACS as alternative fuel fleet vehicle rebate program; provides eligibility under program for electric & hybrid motor vehicles; specifies dates for vehicle operation & annual assessments & reports.
