Apalachicola Bay Area of Critical State Concern; Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to expend certain funds for the purpose of entering into financial assistance agreements with the City of Apalachicola for specified surface water and groundwater quality improvement projects within the Apalachicola Bay Area of Critical State Concern; providing for expiration of the authorization, etc.
Law Enforcement Operations; Revising the powers, duties, and obligations of a sheriff; requiring that there be an elected sheriff in each county; requiring the sheriff to provide contracted police services for certain municipalities for a specified timeframe; authorizing certain persons to file a petition with the Division of Administrative Hearings, rather than an appeal by petition to the Administration Commission, if the tentative budget of a municipal law enforcement agency contains a reduction greater than a specified percentage, etc.
Custody and Supervision of Specified Offenders; Excluding certain offenders from eligibility to receive basic gain-time; excluding certain offenders from eligibility to receive incentive gain-time; excluding certain offenders from eligibility for specified reductions to a term of supervision; requiring a court to impose additional conditions of supervision on specified offenders, etc.
OGSR/School Safety Mobile Suspicious Activity Reporting Tool; Expands exemptions from public records requirements for identity of reporting party & any information received through mobile suspicious activity reporting tool to include such information held by DOE; provides for retroactivity of exemption; provides for future legislative review & repeal; provides statements of public necessity.
Education; Revising which students may be given an enrollment preference by charter schools; specifying training and reporting requirements for charter school sponsors; requiring the State Board of Education to adopt rules to implement a standard monitoring tool; revising how a district school board calculates certain teachers’ shares of funds from the Florida Teachers Classroom Supply Assistance Program, etc.
Property Insurance; Adding wind uplift prevention to a list of fixtures or construction techniques for which a residential property insurance rate filing must include actuarially reasonable rate differentials or appropriate deductible reductions; revising rate change limitations for specified policies written by the Citizens Property Insurance Corporation; authorizing the corporation to adopt policy forms that provide for the resolution of certain disputes in proceedings before the Division of Administrative Hearings; requiring the Office of Insurance Regulation to conduct a wind-loss mitigation study in consultation with the Department of Business and Professional Regulation and the Florida Building Commission or competitively procure the study, etc. APPROPRIATION: $750,000
Nitazene Derivatives; Lists certain nitazene derivatives in schedule I of schedule of controlled substances.
Special Persons Registry; Citing this act as the “Protect Our Loved Ones Act"; authorizing local law enforcement agencies to develop and maintain a database, to be known as the “Special Persons Registry,” for a specified purpose; authorizing local law enforcement agencies to provide relevant information from the registry to law enforcement officers under certain circumstances, etc.
Flooding and Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Studies; Revising the purposes for which the Department of Environmental Protection may provide grants under the Resilient Florida Grant Program to counties or municipalities; authorizing the department to provide such grants to water management districts for a specified purpose; requiring state-financed constructors to take specified actions before commencing construction of potentially at-risk structures or infrastructure beginning on a specified date; authorizing the department to bring civil actions, seek injunctive relief, recover certain funds, and enforce specified requirements, etc.
Use of Phosphogypsum; Authorizing the Department of Transportation to undertake demonstration projects using phosphogypsum in road construction aggregate material to determine its feasibility as a paving material; requiring the department to conduct a study on the suitability of using phosphogypsum as a construction aggregate material; prohibiting phosphogypsum from being regulated as solid waste if used in accordance with an allowed use under specified federal regulations and approvals, etc.
Registration Fees for Malt Beverage Brands and Labels; Providing that the annual registration fee is required only if labels or brands are sold to a distributor; specifying that no other registration fee is authorized, etc.
Pub. Rec./Broadband Opportunity Program/DEO; Provides exemption from public records requirements for information relating to communications services locations, project proposals, & challenges submitted to & held by DEO under Broadband Opportunity Program or pursuant to federal broadband access grant program implemented by DEO; provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemption; provides statement of public necessity.
