OGSR/Citizens Property Insurance Corporation; Amending a provision which provides an exemption from public records requirements for certain data and information from technology systems owned by, under contract with, or maintained by Citizens Property Insurance Corporation and an exemption from public meetings requirements for portions of meetings which would reveal such data and information; removing the scheduled repeal of the exemptions, etc.
Education; Revising student eligibility and ineligibility requirements for the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program; revising student eligibility and ineligibility requirements for the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program; revising the eligibility criteria and obligations of private schools participating in certain educational scholarship programs; authorizing public schools, including charter schools, to enroll certain students on a part-time basis, etc.
Civil Remedies; Creating a rebuttable presumption that a lodestar fee is a sufficient and reasonable attorney fee in most civil actions; reducing the statute of limitations for negligence actions; providing standards for bad faith actions; providing for the distribution of proceeds when two or more third-party claims arising out of a single occurrence exceed policy limits; providing standards for the admissibility of evidence to prove the cost of damages for medical expenses in certain civil actions; requiring the trier of fact to consider the fault of certain persons who contribute to an injury, etc.
Trust Funds/State Opioid Settlement Trust Fund/Agency for Health Care Administration; Creating the State Opioid Settlement Trust Fund within the Agency for Health Care Administration; providing the purpose of the trust fund; specifying the funding source for the trust fund; providing for the reversion of certain funds to the Department of Financial Services Opioid Settlement Clearing Trust Fund; providing for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund, etc.
Trust Funds/State Opioid Settlement Trust Fund/Department of Health; Creating the State Opioid Settlement Trust Fund within the Department of Health; providing the purpose of the trust fund; specifying the funding source for the trust fund; providing for the reversion of certain funds to the Department of Financial Services Opioid Settlement Clearing Trust Fund; providing for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund, etc.
Trust Funds/State Opioid Settlement Trust Fund/Department of Children and Families; Creating the State Opioid Settlement Trust Fund within the Department of Children and Families; providing the purpose of the trust fund; specifying the funding source for the trust fund; providing for the reversion of certain funds to the Department of Financial Services Opioid Settlement Clearing Trust Fund; providing for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund, etc.
Higher Education Finances; Requiring the Board of Governors to develop regulations for university boards of trustees relating to contracting for the construction of new facilities or for work on existing facilities; authorizing a state university to waive the out-of-state fee for a student who is an intercollegiate athlete receiving a scholarship; revising the list of authorized expenditures that may be included in a carry forward spending plan for state universities and Florida College System institutions, respectively; revising a limitation on compensation for state university employees, etc.
Trust Funds/Opioid Settlement Trust Fund/Department of Law Enforcement; Creating the Opioid Settlement Trust Fund within the Department of Law Enforcement; providing the purpose of the trust fund; providing sources of funds; providing for the reversion of funds in the Opioid Settlement Trust Fund; providing for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund, etc.
Trust Funds/Opioid Settlement Trust Fund/Department of Juvenile Justice; Creating the Opioid Settlement Trust Fund within the Department of Juvenile Justice; providing the purpose of the trust fund; providing sources of funds; providing for the reversion of funds in the Opioid Settlement Trust Fund; providing for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund, etc.
Trust Funds/Opioid Settlement Trust Fund/Department of Corrections; Creating the Opioid Settlement Trust Fund within the Department of Corrections; providing the purpose of the trust fund; providing sources of funds; providing for the reversion of funds in the Opioid Settlement Trust Fund; providing for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund, etc.
Florida Statutes; Adopts Florida Statutes 2023 & designates portions thereof that are to constitute official law of state; provides that Florida Statutes 2023 shall be effective immediately upon publication; provides that general laws enacted during May 23-27, 2022, special session & prior thereto & not included in Florida Statutes 2023 are repealed; provides that general laws enacted during December 12-16, 2022, special session through 2023 regular session are not repealed by this adoption act.
Florida Statutes; Deletes provisions that have expired, have become obsolete, have had their effect, have served their purpose, or have been impliedly repealed or superseded; replaces incorrect cross-references & citations; corrects grammatical, typographical, & like errors; removes inconsistencies, redundancies, & unnecessary repetition in statutes; & improves clarity of statutes & facilitates their correct interpretation.
