Elections; Provides & revises provisions relating to signature matching training, third-party voter registration organizations, public records exemption, voter information cards, voter registration records maintenance activities, duty of officials to furnish certain information, candidate oath, ballots, signature verification, vote-by-mail ballots, vote-by-mail ballot requests, canvass of vote-by-mail ballots, Elections Canvassing Commission, presidential electors, write-in candidates, political party office candidate qualifying, Office of Election Crimes, prosecution of election crimes, certain notices, reporting schedules, & voter guides; provides criminal penalties & fines.
Florida Retirement System; Authorizing employers to establish post-employment volunteer programs to allow retirees to provide certain services during a specified timeframe; requiring such programs to meet specified criteria, etc.
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Revising requirements for applicants for a Class “K” license; revising the circumstances under which the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs may waive firearms training requirements; revising requirements relating to registration fees for certain charitable organizations, sponsors, and parent organizations; revising the definitions of the terms “Category I liquefied petroleum gas dealer” and “Category V LP gas installer”; providing criminal penalties for certain actions relating to retail fuel theft, etc.
Relief/Jamiyah Mitchell/South Broward Hospital District; Provides for relief of Jamiyah Mitchell, Latricia Mitchell, & Jerald Mitchell by South Broward Hospital District; provides appropriation to compensate Jamiyah Mitchell for injuries & damages sustained as result of negligence of South Broward Hospital District; provides limitation on payment of compensation & attorney fees, lobbying fees, & other similar expenses. CLAIM: $795,000
Solicitation of Minors to Commit Lewd or Lascivious Acts; Prohibiting a person 24 years of age or older from soliciting a person 16 or 17 years of age in writing to commit a lewd or lascivious act, etc.
Department of Financial Services; Revising powers and duties of the department’s Division of Investigative and Forensic Services; authorizing, rather than requiring, a judge of compensation claims to order an injured employee’s evaluation by an expert medical advisor under certain circumstances; revising eligibility requirements for the board of directors of the Florida Self-Insurers Guaranty Association, Incorporated; deleting the authority of designated examination centers to take fingerprints of applicants for a license as an agent, customer representative, adjuster, service representative, or reinsurance intermediary; authorizing certain persons to obtain a limited license to sell only policies of life insurance covering the expense of a prearrangement for funeral services or merchandise; adding grounds for discretionary disciplinary actions taken by the department against a title insurance agent or agency; authorizing the department in receivership proceedings to take certain actions as a domiciliary receiver, etc.
Fees in Lieu of Security Deposits; Authorizing a landlord to offer a tenant the option to pay a fee in lieu of a security deposit; requiring the landlord to notify the tenant of certain unpaid fees and costs within a specified time after the conclusion of the tenancy; requiring a written agreement signed by the landlord, or the landlord’s agent, and the tenant if the tenant decides to pay a fee in lieu of the security deposit; specifying that certain fees, insurance products, and surety bonds are not security deposits; prohibiting a landlord from approving or denying an application for occupancy based on a prospective tenant’s choice to pay a fee in lieu of a security deposit, etc.
My Safe Florida Home Program; Providing that licensed, rather than certified, inspectors are to provide hurricane mitigation inspections on site-built, single-family, residential properties that have been granted a homestead exemption; revising the hurricane mitigation inspectors that may be selected by the Department of Financial Services to provide hurricane mitigation inspections; revising the criteria for mitigation grant eligibility for homeowners; revising the improvements for eligible homes for which mitigation grants may be used; deleting a provision authorizing low-income homeowners to use grant funds for specified purposes, etc.
Relief/Ricardo Medrano-Arzate and Eva Chavez-Medrano/Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office; Provides for relief of Ricardo Medrano-Arzate & Eva Chavez-Medrano, as personal representatives of Hilda Medrano, by the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office; provides for appropriation of funds to pay Ricardo Medrano-Arzate & Eva Chavez-Medrano for damages awarded in connection with death of their daughter as result of negligence of Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office; provides limitation on payment of compensation, attorney, lobbying fees, & costs. CLAIM: $1,200,000
Relief/Robert Earl DuBoise/State of Florida; Provides for relief of Robert Earl DuBoise for being wrongfully incarcerated for almost 37 years; directs CFO to draw warrant payable directly to Mr. DuBoise; provides for waiver of tuition & fees; declares Legislature does not waive certain defenses or increase state's limits of liability; prohibits funds awarded from being used or paid for specified attorney or lobbying fees; prohibits Mr. DuBoise from submitting compensation application under certain provisions upon his receipt of payment; provides that certain benefits are vacated upon specified findings. APPROPRIATION: $1,850,000
Preemption Over Utility Service Restrictions; Prohibiting certain local governmental entities, subject to specified exceptions, from enacting or enforcing a resolution, an ordinance, a rule, a code, or a policy or from taking any action that restricts or prohibits or has the effect of restricting or prohibiting the use of appliances; revising an exception to preemption, etc.
Truth in Legal Advertising; Specifying prohibited practices relating to advertisements for legal services; requiring persons and entities that issue advertisements to solicit certain clients to include specified information and statements in such advertisements; providing that the person or entity that issues an advertisement is solely responsible for ensuring its compliance with specified provisions; prohibiting the use, obtaining, sale, transfer, or disclosure of a consumer’s protected health information for a specified purpose without written authorization, etc.
