Recycling of Covered Electronic Devices; Establishes statewide Covered Electronic Device Recovery Program within DEP; authorizes DEP to use specified funds to administer program; specifies requirements for statewide plan for recycling of covered electronic devices; requires counties to submit specified plan for disposal of covered electronic devices by specified date; requires owners or operators of certain facilities to begin disposing of such facilities' covered electronic devices in permitted reclamation facility beginning on specified date; prohibits any person from disposing of covered electronic devices except at permitted reclamation facility beginning on specified dates; provides civil penalties; authorizes such penalties to be waived under certain conditions.
Sponsored bills
HIV Infection Prevention Drugs; Authorizes certain licensed pharmacists to screen for HIV exposure & order & dispense HIV infection prevention drugs in accordance with certain written supervisory protocol or statewide drug therapy protocol; requires Board of Pharmacy, in consultation with Board of Medicine & Board of Osteopathic Medicine, to adopt rules & develop certain statewide drug therapy protocol.
Flood Damage Prevention; Provides specified maximum voluntary freeboard requirements for new construction & substantial improvements to existing construction; prohibits voluntary freeboard from being used in calculation of maximum allowable height for certain construction; authorizes local governments to adopt by ordinance minimum freeboard requirement or maximum voluntary freeboard that exceeds minimum requirements; requires Florida Building Commission to adopt by rule minimum freeboard requirements & to incorporate such requirements into next edition of FBC; requires commission to review freeboard requirements every 5 years.
Organ Donation; Requires DOH to adopt rules to streamline medical testing & transfer medical records for certain entities within specified time frame.
Newborn Hearing Screenings; Defines term "congenital cytomegalovirus test"; revises newborn hearing screening requirements to require that all newborns, rather than only those who fail the initial newborn hearing screening, be tested for congenital cytomegalovirus.
Fines and Fees; Authorizes clerk of court to accept monthly installment payments for administrative processing charge; revises methods by which clerk may accept payments for fees, charges, costs & fines; provides requirements for payment plan; authorizes court to modify payment plan or reduce, waive, or convert to community service outstanding fees, costs, or fines; prohibits clerk from sending incarcerated individual's account to collection agency or suspending incarcerated individual's driver license; revises offenses that would lead to suspension of driver license upon failure to comply with court directives.
Preemption of the Regulation of Vacation Rentals; Provides local laws, ordinances, or regulations requiring vacation rental owners or operators to provide local government with certain contact information are not prohibited or preempted to state.
Licensed Counseling for First Responders; Requires employing agency of first responder to pay for certain licensed counseling for first responders; requires such counseling to be completed within specified timeframe; prohibits employing agency from requiring first responder to use leave for such counseling; authorizes first responder to select licensed mental health professional; prohibits payment by employing agency for such counseling from creating presumption of compensable occupational disease.
Vessel Owner and Operation Requirements; Revises anchoring limitation areas in certain sections of Biscayne Bay in Miami-Dade County; revises timeframe during which person may anchor vessel in anchoring limitation area within which such anchoring would otherwise be unlawful; requires law enforcement officers to conduct national criminal background checks for vessel owners who are issued citations for specified violations.
Flood Disclosures for Real Property Sales; Requires seller of real property to disclose in writing certain flood information to prospective purchaser before executing contract for sale of property.