Consumer Protection; Authorizes mortgage lenders to transact business from branch offices & remote locations; provides requirement for operating remote locations; provides requirements for organizers of crowd-funding campaigns relating to disasters & crowd-funding platforms; prohibits money services business from cashing corporate checks for payee in excess of workers' compensation policy coverage amounts.
Secondhand Goods; Revises definition of "secondhand goods."
Residential Loan Alternative Agreements; Specifying restrictions on residential loan alternative agreements for the disposition of residential real property; prohibiting a court from enforcing such agreements by certain means; providing that such agreements are void if listing services do not begin within a certain timeframe; specifying penalties and remedies, etc.
Local Government Comprehensive Plans; Providing that the prevailing party in a challenge to a plan or plan amendment is entitled to recover attorney fees and costs; providing that the prevailing party in a challenge to the compliance of a small scale development order is entitled to recover attorney fees and costs, etc.
Elections; Requiring the Secretary of State to provide mandatory formal signature matching training to specified persons; requiring that third-party voter registration organizations provide to the Division of Elections the general election cycle for which they are registering persons to vote, beginning on a certain date; deleting the scheduled repeal of a public records exemption for certain voter registration information from another state or the District of Columbia; requiring a supervisor to adhere to specified procedures before the removal of a registered voter from the statewide voter registration system; defining the term “qualify” for purposes of restrictions on individuals qualifying for public office, etc.
State Board of Administration; Prohibiting the State Board of Administration from paying benefits to a Florida Retirement System investment plan member convicted of specified felonies; authorizing the state board to develop investment products to be offered in the investment plan; revising the types of investments in real property and related personal property which the state board may invest in; requiring the public fund to notify companies it places on the Scrutinized Companies that Boycott Israel List that they may be subject to divestment, etc.
Money Services Businesses; Revises definition of term "control person" for purposes of ch. 560, F.S., relating to money services businesses; defines "governing documents" & "membership interest."
Removal of Unknown Parties in Possession; Revises requirements for service on unknown parties in possession.
Venomous Reptiles; Revises penalty for certain release or escape of nonnative venomous reptiles; provides penalty for specified activities involving venomous reptiles without special permit or license issued by FWCC.
Domestic Violence; Citing this act as "Greyson’s Law"; requiring the court with jurisdiction over the proceeding to consider certain factors in deciding whether shared parental responsibility is detrimental to the child; providing additional conduct regarding domestic violence which the court must consider when ordering a parenting plan; providing an additional factor that the court must consider in determining whether a petitioner of a domestic violence injunction is in imminent danger, etc.
Solicitation of Minors to Commit Lewd or Lascivious Act; Prohibits person 24 years of age or older from soliciting person 16 or 17 years of age in writing to commit lewd or lascivious act.
911 Public Safety Telecommunicator Certifications; Increases timeframe within which inactive 911 public safety telecommunicator certificate may be reactivated before it permanently expires; removes process by which certificateholder may voluntarily place his or her certificate in inactive status; prohibits DOH from requiring certificateholders to pay fee or to make election to place their certificates in inactive status, beginning on specified date; requires that certain fees paid by certificateholder before specified date be credited toward any future renewal fees required to be paid by certificateholder.
