Rep. Anthony Rodriguez

Fees/Specialty License Plates Marketed and Sold by Private Vendors; Requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to establish fees for issuance or renewal of specialty license plates marketed and sold by private vendors; requiring certain portions of a contract with the private vendor to be paid with such fees; requiring certain excess fees to be deposited in the General Revenue Fund, etc.

Public Financing of Potentially At-risk Structures; Providing that coastal building zones are areas at risk due to sea level rise and coastal structures within those areas are potentially at-risk structures; requiring state-financed constructors to include certain flood mitigation strategies in sea level impact projection studies, etc.

Everglades Protection Area; Prohibiting the Department of Environmental Protection from granting permits for the drilling of wells for oil or gas within the Everglades Protection Area; prohibiting the department from issuing permits for or constructing structures intended for the drilling for, or production of, oil, gas, or other petroleum products within the Everglades Protection Area, etc.

Percentage of Elector Votes Required to Approve an Amendment or a Revision; Proposing an amendment to Section 5 of Article XI of the State Constitution to increase the percentage of elector votes required to approve an amendment to or a revision of the State Constitution from 60 percent to 66 and 2/3 percent, except that the repeal of an amendment or revision need only be approved by the same percentage of elector votes as was required at the time of passage of such amendment or revision, etc.

Determinations of Employment Status; Prohibiting certain actions taken during a public health emergency or state of emergency from being the basis of determining in civil proceedings whether an individual is an employee or independent contractor or whether an entity is a joint employer, etc.

Damages Recoverable by Parents of an Adult Child in Medical Negligence Actions; Deleting a provision prohibiting parents of an adult child from recovering damages for mental pain and suffering in a medical negligence suit, etc.

Tax Exemption for Affordable Housing; Authorizes counties & municipalities to adopt ordinances to grant ad valorem tax exemptions to property owners whose properties are used for affordable housing; provides parameters for exemption; specifies procedures in event property is transferred for other purposes or exemption is improperly granted as result of certain acts by property appraiser.

Administration of Vaccines; Authorizing certified pharmacists to order, as well as administer, specified vaccines; deleting the requirement that certified pharmacists administer vaccines or epinephrine using an autoinjector only pursuant to a written protocol with a supervising physician; revising the specified immunizations or vaccines that certified pharmacists, registered interns, and registered pharmacy technicians may order or administer, as applicable; requiring certified pharmacists, registered interns, and registered pharmacy technicians to obtain a certain medical consent form before administering an immunization or a vaccine to a child younger than 18 years of age, etc.

Specialty License Plates Marketed and Sold by Private Vendors; Exempting specialty license plates marketed and sold by private vendors from certain requirements; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to contract with certain private vendors through a competitive bidding process for the right to market and sell specialty license plates; requiring a contract to provide for recovery of certain department costs; prohibiting certain actions by the department with respect to private vendors; authorizing dealer and fleet specialty license plates marketed and sold by a private vendor to be ordered directly from the vendor, etc.

Photographic Enforcement of School Zone Speed Limits; Authorizing counties and municipalities to enforce school speed zones through the use of speed detection systems; authorizing speed detection systems to be installed on state roads when permitted by the Department of Transportation; requiring counties and municipalities that install speed detection systems to notify the public that such systems may be in use and of enforcement of violations; authorizing counties and municipalities to authorize traffic infraction enforcement officers to issue certain traffic citations; requiring a law enforcement agency and its agents that operate a speed detection system to maintain a log of results of the system’s self-tests, etc.