Transportation; Requiring the Department of Transportation to increase the minimum perception-reaction time of certain steady yellow signals by a specified amount of time; requiring certain seaports to submit an annual report describing measures taken to support the commercial space launch industry to the chair of the Space Florida board of directors beginning on a specified date; authorizing a private entity to install an automated license plate recognition system for use on certain property for a specified purpose or in connection with controlling or enforcement of access to property; providing that the use of a license plate frame or decorative border device that does not obscure the visibility of certain features is not prohibited; requiring the department to implement a Next-generation Traffic Signal Modernization Grant Program, etc. APPROPRIATION: Indeterminate
Transportation; Transfers Division of FHP & Office of Commercial Vehicle Enforcement from DHSMV to FDLE; requires executive director of DHSMV to be appointed by Governor & subject to confirmation by Senate.
Residential Homes for Medically or Technologically Dependent Children; Provides licensure & application requirements; requires AHCA to require certain background screening for certain persons; requires access to medically complex children's home at reasonable times for certain persons; requires agency to issue provisional license to newly licensed provider for specified timeframe; authorizes agency to issue conditional license for specified timeframe to licensed provider for specified reasons; requires agency to conduct inspections; provides rulemaking authority, procedures, & requirements; provides eligibility requirements to qualify for admission to medically complex children's home; provides uniform firesafety standards, emergency preparedness requirements, & construction standards; provides for denial, suspension, & revocation of license; provides for administrative fines.
SB 1102 amends Florida law to explicitly include body cameras as a qualifying use of infrastructure funding. The bill revises the definition of "infrastructure" under Section 212.055 to add body camera equipment, software, and storage as eligible expenses for local government infrastructure surtax proceeds. This change directly affects law enforcement agencies (police, sheriff's offices) by allowing them to use existing infrastructure tax funds to purchase or maintain body cameras, as referenced in Section 943.1718. The bill does not create new funding but expands the current definition of eligible infrastructure expenditures to cover body camera systems. It remains a procedural adjustment to funding rules, not a new policy requiring voter approval.
Ambulatory Surgical Centers; Specifying requirements for issuance, denial, suspension, and revocation of ambulatory surgical center licenses; requiring each licensed facility to maintain and provide upon request records of all inspection reports pertaining to that facility; prohibiting any person from paying or receiving a commission, bonus, kickback, or rebate or engaging in any split-fee arrangement for referring a patient to a licensed facility; prohibiting a licensed facility from denying, for a specified reason, the applications of certain licensed health care practitioners for staff membership and clinical privileges; requiring licensed facilities to provide for peer review of certain physicians and develop procedures to conduct such reviews, etc.
Child Welfare; Deleting a provision exempting a judge subject to discipline under the State Constitution from criminal prosecution under certain circumstances; authorizing interested parties to file motions requesting emergency hearings to resolve certain custody or visitation disputes; requiring a court to give all parties to an emergency hearing certain notice; revising the definition of the term “domestic violence”; prohibiting the infringement of the right of each parent or legal guardian to lawful custody or visitation without due process and a certain court order, etc.
Unauthorized Aliens; Prohibits unauthorized aliens from receiving certain licensing or certification, financial assistance, & claim reimbursement; requires certain procedures, instruction, & testing to be conducted in English; prohibits alternate language accommodations; requires employers & licensees to verify employment eligibility & citizenship status, respectively, before taking certain actions; provides civil cause of action & criminal penalty; provides penalties; authorizes certain complaints; requires Office of Financial Regulation to conduct random audits; creates rebuttable presumption against unauthorized out-of-state drivers; provides exemptions & standard of proof; provides requirements for law enforcement officers, DHSMV, insurers, & OIR; provides administrative penalties; authorizes private cause of action; prohibits certain financial institutions from accepting certain forms of personal identification.
Minimum Wage Requirements; Citing this act as the “On-the-Job Workforce Training Act”; exempting an employer from state minimum wage requirements for specified employees; authorizing employees to voluntarily opt out of the state minimum wage requirements by signing a waiver; prohibiting an employer from coercing an employee into opting out of the state minimum wage; requiring employers to pay an employee at or above the federal minimum wage, etc.
HJR 1411 proposes a constitutional amendment to prevent property tax increases when a property's actual market value (just valuation) decreases. It directly affects homeowners and property owners whose market value drops year-over-year, prohibiting tax assessors from raising their property tax assessments in such cases. The key mechanism requires that assessments "may not increase if the just value for the property is less than the just value of the property on the preceding January 1." This amendment would apply to all property subject to ad valorem taxation under Florida's current assessment rules, with no changes to existing homestead exemptions or other valuation methods. The bill is currently in committee referral and requires voter approval after legislative passage.
Doula Workforce Development; Establishing the Doula Workforce Development Support Program within the Department of Commerce to provide grants and technical assistance to eligible doula training entities for a specified purpose; requiring the department to prioritize support to high-need regions; specifying authorized uses of the grant funds; requiring the department to submit annual reports to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date, etc. APPROPRIATION: $7,500,000
Ambulatory Surgical Centers; Provides penalty for failure by ambulatory surgical center to timely provide good faith estimate; requires AHCA to notify Division of Law Revision upon adoption of certain federal rules.
Behavioral Health Intervention Services; Authorizing, contingent upon an appropriation, the state Medicaid plan to fund a demonstration pilot program in a specified region for specified purposes; authorizing Medicaid managed assistance providers to offer specified intervention services to certain participants under the pilot program; requiring the state Medicaid plain to consider certain factors when paying certain capitation rates, etc.
