Rep. Anthony Rodriguez

Service of Process; Requiring employers to facilitate service of process by making employees available to accept service; providing criminal penalties for employers who fail to facilitate such service; requiring persons in charge of private mailboxes, virtual offices, and executive offices or mini suites to confirm whether a person to be served maintains a private mailbox, a virtual office, or an executive office or mini suite at that location; authorizing service on the registered agents of limited liability companies and corporations, respectively, and other specified persons at any hour at a residence or private mailbox, etc.

United States-produced Iron and Steel in Public Works Projects; Requires governmental entities to include requirement in certain contracts that certain iron & steel products must be produced in United States; authorizes use of foreign-produced iron & steel materials in certain circumstances.

Architect Education Minority Assistance Program; Creating the program within the Department of Business and Professional Regulation; requiring the Architect Education Minority Assistance Advisory Council to assist the Board of Architecture and Interior Design with administering the program; providing funding requirements for scholarships provided under the program; capping the amount of funds that the department may spend annually on the program; prohibiting a person or his or her agent from knowingly filing documents with the board which contain false information or material misstatements of fact, etc.

Enforcement of School Zone Speed Limits; Authorizing counties and municipalities to enforce speed limits on certain road areas and at specified periods through the use of speed detection systems; authorizing counties and municipalities to install, or contract with a vendor to install, speed detection systems; requiring counties and municipalities that install speed detection systems to provide certain notice to the public; authorizing counties and municipalities to authorize traffic infraction enforcement officers to issue traffic citations for certain violations, etc.

Transportation Facility Designations/Arturo Diaz Artiles Plaza; Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in a specified county; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.

Specialty License Plates/Safe Haven for Newborns; Directing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop a Safe Haven for Newborns license plate; providing for distribution and use of fees collected from the sale of the plate, etc.

Water Resources Management; Authorizing the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund to grant easements on sovereignty submerged lands for specified mitigation banks under certain conditions; exempting certain docks on recorded easements from certain permit and verification requirements; requiring authorization for certain docks to use submerged lands upon approval of the board; providing that the compliance of certain structures associated with a dock on a parcel of land with certain provisions creates a presumption of compliance with certain environmental impact requirements, etc.

Taxation; Providing for the eligibility for abatement of ad valorem taxes and non-ad valorem assessments for residential improvements destroyed following certain events; requiring property appraisers to provide specified statements to tax collectors; prohibiting property appraisers and tax collectors from issuing specified notices for parcels meeting certain requirements; requiring property appraisers to notify taxpayers of the abatement of taxes and non-ad valorem assessments under certain circumstances; requiring value adjustment boards to dismiss petitions under certain circumstances, etc.

Tax Exemption; Revising the value of property subject to an ad valorem tax exemption, etc.

Civil Actions by Victims of Human Trafficking; Authorizing a victim of human trafficking to bring a civil action against specified persons or entities; specifying that a victim of human trafficking who prevails in such an action is entitled to recover specified damages, penalties, fees, expenses, and costs; providing that there is no statute of limitation for such civil actions, etc.