Restoration of Osborne Reef; Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to submit a status report on the Osborne Reef cleanup and tire removal project to the Legislature by a specified date; requiring the department to develop a restoration plan for the reef by a specified date; providing requirements for the restoration plan; requiring the department to submit a report to the Legislature upon completion of the plan; providing requirements for the report, etc.
Pub. Rec./Photographs, Recordings, and Reports of Autopsies of Minor Victims; Creates exemption from public records requirements for photograph or video or audio recording of killing of minor; requires that any viewing, copying, listening to, or other handling of such photograph or video or audio recording be under direct supervision of custodian of record or designee; requires that surviving parents of minor be given notice of petitions to view, copy, or listen to photograph or video or audio recording of killing of minor & opportunity to be present & heard at related hearings; creates exemption from public records requirements for autopsy reports of minors whose deaths were related to acts of domestic violence; requires that any viewing, copying, or other handling of such autopsy reports be under direct supervision of custodian of record or designee; requires that certain surviving parents of minor whose death was related to act of domestic violence be given notice of petitions to view or copy minor's autopsy report & opportunity to be present & heard at related hearings; provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemption.
911 Public Safety Telecommunicator Certifications; Increasing the timeframe within which an inactive 911 public safety telecommunicator certificate may be reactivated before it permanently expires; deleting a process by which a certificateholder may voluntarily place his or her certificate in inactive status; prohibiting the Department of Health from requiring certificateholders to pay a fee or to make an election to place their certificates in inactive status, beginning on a specified date, etc.
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Authorizing farmers whose property meets certain requirements to apply to the Department of Revenue for a Florida farm tax exempt agricultural materials (TEAM) card; authorizing the Department of Revenue to make certain information available to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for the purpose of administering the Florida farm TEAM card; requiring by a specified date all food commodities purchased by certain state entities to be grown or produced in this state under certain circumstances; revising the types of entities required to obtain food permits from the department; requiring bottled water to be processed in conformance with department rule, etc. APPROPRIATION: $143,104
Money Services Businesses; Revising the definition of the term “control person” for purposes of ch. 560, F.S.; defining the terms, etc.
Pretrial Release and Detention; Providing for setting, reduction, and alteration of bail; requiring the Supreme Court to create and periodically update a statewide uniform bail bond schedule for certain offenses; authorizing a court to consider nonmonetary conditions in addition to or in lieu of a monetary amount subject to specified limitations; providing that a person arrested for a dangerous crime may not be granted nonmonetary pretrial release at a first appearance hearing, etc.
Emergency Response Mapping Data; Creating the School Mapping Data Grant Program within the Department of Education; authorizing each school district to apply for funds to provide mapping data for public school buildings; authorizing a school district to use the funds to procure a vendor; requiring the entity that produces the data to provide the data to certain entities, etc.
Broadband Internet Service Providers; Specifying that the poles of rural electric cooperatives that are engaged in the provision of broadband are subject to regulation by the Public Service Commission; authorizing the commission to access the books and records of such cooperatives for specified purposes; providing that such information that contains proprietary confidential business information retains its confidential or exempt status when held by the commission; authorizing rural electric cooperatives to engage in the provision of broadband, etc.
Public Records/Investigators of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for the personal identifying and location information of current or former inspectors or investigators of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the spouses and children of the current or former inspectors or investigators; providing for retroactive application; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Public Nuisances; Prohibiting a person from intentionally dumping onto private property litter that evidences religious or ethnic animus toward an owner or invitee of such property; providing criminal penalties; prohibiting a person from willfully and maliciously harassing, threatening, or intimidating another person based on the person’s wearing or displaying of any indicia relating to any religious or ethnic heritage; removing a minimum damage requirement for a violation, etc.
Electronic Filing of Records with the Department of State; Authorizes DOS to implement password protected system for electronic filing of certain records; provides person using system may be required to verify his or her credentials; authorizes DOS to allow entities to identify authorized account holders; requires DOS to use e-mail addresses as initial authorized account holder & send codes to such e-mail addresses; authorizes DOS to require verification of identities through use of certain methods.
Higher Educational Facilities Financing; Revises provisions relating to Higher Educational Facilities Financing Authority, including terms, meetings, actions, contracts with specified entities, financial agreements & reporting requirements.
