Residential Tenancies; Preempting the regulation of residential tenancies and the landlord-tenant relationship to the state; specifying that the act supersedes certain local regulations; revising how much notice is required to terminate certain tenancies; requiring a landlord to provide advance written notice of rent increases under certain circumstances, etc.
Clerks of Court; Revising the collections requirements of a clerk of court when a party petitions for a dissolution of marriage; revising the collections requirements of a clerk of court in probate matters; revising the collections requirements of a clerk of court in trial and appellate proceedings; revising the collections requirements of a clerk of court as it relates to fines, fees, service charges, and costs remitted to the state, etc.
Parenting Plans; Creating a presumption that equal time-sharing is in the best interests of the child, with exceptions; establishing the manner by which such presumption may be rebutted; requiring the court to evaluate certain factors and make specific written findings of fact under certain circumstances, etc.
Relief/Molly Parker/Department of Transportation; Provides for relief of Molly Parker; provides appropriation to compensate estate for Ms. Parker's death as result of negligence of DOT; provides limitation on compensation & payment of attorney fees; provides legislative intent regarding waiver of certain liens. CLAIM WITH APPROPRIATION: $5,950,000
Victim Compensation Claims; Authorizing the Department of Legal Affairs to issue waivers of any claim filing deadlines for specified victim claims for compensation upon a showing that a delay in filing the application occurred because of a delay in the testing of, or delay in the DNA profile matching from, a sexual assault forensic examination kit or biological material collected as evidence related to a sexual offense, etc.
Public Safety Emergency Communications Systems; Requiring a licensed contractor to submit a certain design if an interior radio coverage and signal strength assessment of a new building determines a two-way radio communications enhancement system installation is required; requiring new and existing buildings to meet certain minimum radio signal strength requirements, except under certain circumstances; exempting certain installations of two-way radio communications enhancement systems from prohibitions against the installation or transportation of certain radio equipment, etc.
Enforcement of School Zone Speed Limits; Authorizing a county or municipality to enforce the speed limit in a school zone at specified periods through the use of a speed detection system; authorizing a county or municipality to place or install, or contract with a vendor to place or install, a speed detection system in a school zone; specifying conditions for the placement or installation of speed detection systems; requiring a county or municipality that installs a speed detection system to provide certain notice to the public; requiring a law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over a county or municipality conducting a school zone speed detection system program to use certain funds to administer the School Crossing Guard Recruitment and Retention Program, etc.
Relief/Leonard Cure/State of Florida; Provides for relief of Leonard Cure; provides appropriation to compensate him for being wrongfully incarcerated for 16 years; directs CFO to draw warrant payable directly to Mr. Cure; requires CFO to pay directed funds without requiring Mr. Cure sign liability release; provides for waiver of certain tuition & fees; prohibits funds awarded under act to Mr. Cure from being used for attorney or lobbying fees. CLAIM WITH APPROPRIATION: $817,000
Department of Elderly Affairs; Revises individuals who may not be appointed as ombudsmen under State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program; revises exemptions from level 2 background screening requirements; revises continuing education requirements for professional guardians; requires office to notify complainant within specified timeframe after determining complaint against professional guardian is not legally sufficient; reducing timeframe within which office must complete & provide its initial investigative findings & recommendations to professional guardian who is subject of investigation & to complainant; requires clerks of court to report to office within specified timeframe after court imposes sanctions on professional guardian.
Relief/Maria Garcia/Pinellas County School Board; Provides appropriation to Maria Garcia as compensation for injuries resulting from negligence of employee of Pinellas County School Board; provides legislative intent regarding waiver of certain liens; provides limitation on compensation & payment of attorney fees. CLAIM: $2,800,000
Relief/Estate of Jason Sanchez/Miami-Dade County; Provides for relief of Estate of Jason Sanchez by Miami-Dade County; provides for appropriation to compensate Estate of Jason Sanchez for injuries & damages sustained by Jason Sanchez & his survivors as result of negligence of Miami-Dade County employee; provides limitation on compensation & payment of attorney & lobbying fees. CLAIM: $950,000
Judgment Liens; Citing this act as the "Judgment Lien Improvement Act"; specifying that payment intangibles, accounts, and the proceeds thereof are subject to judgment liens; providing that certain judgment creditors are subject to specified priority of conflicting rights of a secured party; providing construction relating to the effect of liens existing before a specified date on payment intangibles and accounts and the proceeds thereof; requiring a court, under certain circumstances, to order the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to note certain liens on the certificate of title of certain motor vehicles or vessels and in the department’s records, etc.
