Rep. Anthony Rodriguez

Unlawful Employment Practices; Expanding the list of unlawful employment practices to include certain actions against employees and job applicants with medical needs related to pregnancy; requiring employers to provide a written notice of certain rights relating to pregnancy to employees and to post such notice in conspicuous places on the premises; requiring the Florida Commission on Human Relations to develop certain education and outreach programs, etc.

Seagrass Mitigation Banks; Authorizing the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund to authorize leases for seagrass mitigation banks under certain conditions; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to modify specified mitigation banking rules for specified purposes, etc.

Division of Library and Information Services; Removing the date by which the division must submit an annual report regarding the allocation of library funding to the Chief Financial Officer; revising the duties and responsibilities of the division in the administration of the records and information management program; deleting a provision that provides for the title of a record to pass to the division under specified circumstances; removing a limitation on the annual grant amount that the administrative unit of a library cooperative may receive from the state for purposes of sharing library resources, etc.

Carbon Monoxide Alarms; Defining the terms “carbon monoxide alarm” and “generator”; requiring a person providing a generator in a transaction to sell, lease, or rent the generator to also include a carbon monoxide alarm in such transaction and recommend that the buyer, lessee, or renter use the alarm while the generator is in use, etc.

Protection of a Pain-capable Unborn Child from Abortion; Citing this act as the “Florida Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act”; prohibiting the attempted or actual performance or induction of an abortion in certain circumstances; requiring physicians performing or inducing abortions to determine the probable gestational age of the unborn child; beginning on a specified date, requiring certain physicians to report specified information, including specified data, to the Department of Health; requiring courts to rule on the protection of certain identifying information in certain civil and criminal proceedings or actions, etc.

Condominium Fraud Investigation Pilot Program; Creating the pilot program within the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation; requiring complaints submitted to the department which allege condominium fraud or corruption in any of three specified counties to be reviewed by the division; providing powers to the division relating to the pilot program; requiring the division to refer certain cases for prosecution; requiring that the pilot program be funded from the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes Trust Fund, etc.

Transportation Facility Designations/Gustavo Barreiro Way; Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in a specified county; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.

Resiliency Energy Environment Florida (REEF) Program; Specifying that a property owner may apply to a REEF program for certain purposes; providing that costs incurred by the REEF program may be collected as a non-ad valorem assessment; revising the written disclosure statement required to be given by sellers to prospective purchasers when executing a contract for the sale and purchase of certain properties; prohibiting a contractor from engaging in certain practices regarding pricing of qualifying improvements on residential real properties, etc.

Sale of Frozen or Mixed Alcoholic Beverages for Off-premises Consumption; Authorizing certain vendors to sell frozen alcoholic beverages or mixed alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption under certain circumstances, etc.

Child Welfare; Expanding the list of entities that have access to child abuse records; revising the authority of the Department of Children and Families to review reports for the purpose of employment screening; revising requirements for certain employees of residential group homes; requiring assessments to be completed if the total number of children in a family foster home will exceed six, excluding the family’s own children, before placement of a child in a family foster home, etc.