Boating Safety; Revises & provides penalties for vessel collisions, accidents, casualties, reckless operation, & providing false information in specified reports; revises requirements for operating certain vessels; requires person convicted of certain noncriminal infractions to pay fine; provides minimum mandatory prison term for BUI manslaughter.
Parole; Requires Florida Commission on Offender Review to provide specified statistical analysis to Legislature; requires DOC to provide specified information to commission; requires commission to review specified information in certain circumstances.
Florida Institute for Pediatric Rare Diseases; Establishes Florida Institute for Pediatric Rare Diseases within FSU College of Medicine; & provides goals of institute; establishes Sunshine Genetics Pilot Program & Sunshine Genetics Consortium.
Pub. Rec./ Municipal Clerks And Staff; Provides public records exemption for home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, & photographs of municipal clerks & their staff, names, home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, & places of employment of spouses & children of municipal clerks & their staff, & names & locations of schools & day care facilities attended by children of municipal clerks & their staff; provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemptions; provides statement of public necessity.
Crimes Evidencing Prejudice; Expands grounds for reclassification of crimes to include acts of prejudice based on gender of victim; specifies that reclassification occurs if crime was based in whole or in part on actual or perceived characteristics of victim; provides for reclassification of crime if it was based in whole or in part on actual or perceived mental or physical disability of victim.
Maddy summaryHB 4019 revises the process by which the Central Broward Water Control District in Broward County may impose taxes. The bill changes the method for calculating or collecting district taxes but does not specify the exact nature of the revision in the provided abstract. It directly affects property taxpayers within the Central Broward Water Control District's jurisdiction. The abstract provides no details on specific mechanisms or policy changes beyond the general revision of tax levy procedures.
Cyberintimidation by Publication; Requires that specified information has been electronically published without consent in order to constitute violation; removes requirement that an offender intend that person be placed in reasonable fear of bodily harm when making threat or harassing person; increases criminal penalty for violation; creates civil cause of action; requires clear & convincing standard of evidence in such actions.
Specific Medical Diagnoses in Child Protective Investigations; Provides exception to requirement that DCF immediately forward certain allegations to law enforcement agency; requires child protective investigator to inform subject of investigation of certain duty; requires Child Protection Teams to consult with licensed physician or APRN when evaluating certain reports; authorizes, under certain circumstance, parent or legal custodian from whom child was removed to request specified examinations of child; requires that certain examinations be paid for by parent or legal custodian making request or as otherwise covered by insurance or Medicaid.
Activities of Special Districts; Authorizes certain special districts to jointly enter into, participate in, establish, or control specified joint relationships or collaborations if certain determination is made by such districts; authorizes such districts to exercise such powers regardless of certain consequences as result of exercising such power.
Pub. Rec/Appellate Court Clerks; Provides exemption from public records requirements for personal identifying & location information of current appellate court clerks & spouses & children of such appellate court clerks; provides for future legislative review & repeal; provides for retroactive application.
