Education; Deleting references to the Video Cameras in Public School Classrooms Pilot Program; deleting an obsolete definition; authorizing certain parents to submit a written request to the school principal for installation and operation of a video camera in a self-contained classroom; requiring that a video camera be operational within a specified timeframe after approval of a request under the policy; prohibiting a school or school district from concealing the identity of an employee in a video recording, etc.
Official Records of Condominium Associations, Residential Cooperative Associations, and Homeowners’ Associations; Revising the list of official records that a condominium association is required to maintain to include audio conference recordings; revising association meeting requirements and authorizing associations to use audioconferencing, in addition to videoconferencing, or to use both; revising the emergency powers of a condominium association to include the power to conduct meetings and elections via audioconferencing; revising the emergency powers of a residential cooperative association and a homeowners’ association, respectively, to include the power to conduct meetings and elections via audioconferencing, etc.
Motor Vehicles; Requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to establish and maintain a secure online license and registration portal for verifying, recording, and processing the seizure or confiscation of license plates; providing that a disabled veteran may retain a certain license plate designation upon reissuance, renewal, or transfer of the plate; prohibiting a person from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, or affixing to any registration license plate certain covers, films, or overlays that obscure or alter the registration license plate in a specified manner, etc.
Tax Referenda; Defining the term “local government spending analysis”; requiring a local government spending analysis be included on certain referenda, etc.
Trust Funds/Vacancy Relief and Risk Mitigation Trust Fund; Creating the Vacancy Relief and Risk Mitigation Trust Fund within the Florida Housing Finance Corporation for a specified purpose; authorizing any unexpended balance at a specified time to revert and be reappropriated for a certain purpose; providing for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund, etc.
Interstate Podiatric Medical Licensure Compact; Enacts Interstate Podiatric Medical Licensure Compact; provides compact membership & member state licensure requirements; establishes Interstate Podiatric Medical Licensure Compact Commission; provides for purpose, membership, & meetings, of commission; requires member state to establish certain database; provides database information requirements; provides for amendment, withdrawal, & dissolution of the compact.
Assessment of Property with Decreasing Just Valuation; Prohibits increases in certain assessed valuations if the just value of property has decreased.
Department of Financial Services; Establishes Florida Agency for Fiscal Oversight within DFS; provides purpose & duties of agency; requires agency to conduct audit of certain local governments; authorizes agency to request certain information; provides penalties for noncompliance with such request; removes requirement that specified hotline be operated for certain amount of time each day; removes requirement that hotline be advertised in specified manner; requires specified employees to take certain training annually; requires first training be completed by specified deadline; requires certain employees who report information to Florida Agency for Fiscal Accountability be afforded same protection as whistle-blowers; prohibits local governments from executing certain documents with specified provisions; provides that such contracts are void; requires local governments submit certain report to DFS; requires counties to use certain contract tracking system.
Public Records/Data Centers; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for information relating to the plans, intentions, or interest of a person to locate a data center; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Transportation Infrastructure Land Development Regulations; Creating the “Transit-Oriented Development Act” for a specified purpose; requiring the governing body of a county or municipality to adopt an ordinance, and the governing body of a special district to adopt a resolution, establishing specified transit-oriented development (TOD) zones by a certain date; prohibiting a local government from imposing certain regulations in specified TOD zones; encouraging public transit providers and public agencies to develop land within specified TOD zones, etc.
Bingo Games; Defining the term “instant bingo ticket dispenser”; revising the requirements to manufacture, issue, and operate instant bingo tickets; requiring that instant bingo ticket dispensers have certain features, etc.
Activities of Special Districts; Authorizing certain special districts meeting particular criteria to jointly enter into, participate in, establish, and control specified joint relationships or collaborations anywhere within the boundaries of either or all such special districts; establishing state action immunity; authorizing such districts to exercise such powers regardless of certain consequences, etc.
