Department of Environmental Protection; Transfers powers, duties, functions, records, personnel, property, pending issues & existing contracts, administrative authority, administrative rules, & unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, & other funds of Office of Energy within DACS to DEP; repeals provisions relating to the Office of Energy.
Citizen Initiative; Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution to revise threshold requirements for the number of petitions signed by electors needed in order for a citizen initiative to amend or revise the State Constitution to be placed on the ballot, etc.
Solar Schools; Authorizing a public educational customer to enter into a contract for the installation, maintenance, or operation of a renewable energy source device on property owned or controlled by the public educational customer; providing that shared solar facilities may participate in an electric utility’s net metering program; prohibiting costs associated with certain solar energy systems from being included in certain cost per student station limitations, etc.
Communications Services Tax; Revising legislative intent regarding local communications services tax rates; revising downward the tax rate on the retail sale of communications services; deleting a provision that specifies where proceeds of a communications services tax must be deposited and disbursed; requiring dealers to collect and remit local communications services taxes under certain conditions; authorizing the Legislature to appropriate moneys to offset specified direct reductions of the local communications services tax by certain counties and municipalities, etc.
Legislation by Initiative; Proposes amendment to the State Constitution to allow proposal & approval of laws by initiative without legislative or gubernatorial approval; prescribes requirements for such initiatives; requires extraordinary vote of Legislature to amend or repeal laws approved by voters; provides for Supreme Court review of initiative petitions; & requires ballot statements for such initiatives to include statement of economic impact.
Community Associations; Providing that certain associations may represent, prosecute, or defend owners in certain proceedings; providing unit or parcel owners options for defending a tax suit; authorizing the Division of Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes to adopt rules, etc.
Coordinated Specialty Care Programs; Defines term "coordinated specialty care program"; revises application criteria for Criminal Justice, Mental Health, & Substance Abuse Reinvestment Grant Program to include support for coordinated specialty care programs; requires DCF to include specified information regarding such programs in its annual assessment of behavioral health services; provides that coordinated system of care includes coordinated specialty care programs; requires such programs to submit certain data to department.
Department of Business and Professional Regulation; Requiring that certain reports relating to the transportation or possession of cigarettes be filed with the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco through the division's electronic data submission system; renaming the Florida State Boxing Commission as the Florida Athletic Commission; authorizing a condominium association to extinguish discriminatory restrictions, etc.
Department of Financial Services; Specifies powers & duties of Division of Public Assistance Fraud; prohibits individual working for entity covered by State Risk Management Trust Fund from engaging in retaliatory conduct against sexual harassment victim; revises provisions relating membership of Board of Funeral, Cemetery, & Consumer Services; provides for disqualification of applicants for licensure under ch. 497, F.S., upon conviction of certain offenses; prohibits persons from engaging in certain activities requiring licensure without holding required licenses; prohibits certain actions to influence firesafety inspector; provides persons serving as volunteer firefighters may serve as regular or permanent firefighter for limited period; prohibits false personation of certain personnel; provides investigations component of DFS is criminal justice agency.
Community Associations; Providing that certain discriminatory restrictions are extinguished and severed from recorded title transactions; requiring associations to maintain official records in a specified manner; authorizing condominium associations to extinguish discriminatory restrictions; revising how developers may use certain withdrawn escrow funds; revising where the principal office of the Office of the Condominium Ombudsman must be maintained; revising provisions relating to a quorum and voting rights for members remotely participating in meetings, etc.
Constitution Revision Commission; Repeals references to Constitution Revision Commission, powers of chair, & assistance by state & local agencies.
Limitation on Terms of Office for Members of a District School Board; Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to limit the terms of office for a member of a district school board.
