Rep. Angie Nixon

Trust Fund/Creation/Emergency Residential Property Insurance Assistance Trust Funds/DFS; Creates Emergency Residential Property Insurance Assistance Trust Fund within DFS; provides purpose, funding, & administration of trust fund; provides eligibility for trust fund; provides for future review & termination or re-creation of trust fund.

Reproductive Health Care; Provides that individuals have specified reproductive rights; prohibits local government from regulating individual's reproductive freedom.

Maddy summaryHB 1623, the "Early Education Workforce Support Pilot Program," would have provided free child care at licensed facilities for the children of early education workers in two Florida counties with the highest workforce shortages. Eligible workers (employed 20+ hours/week at licensed child care centers) could access free full- or part-time care for children under kindergarten age, with funding covering tuition directly to providers. The program, set to run for two years (2025-2027), required verification of employment and residency, and mandated a report to the legislature on outcomes like workforce retention. However, the bill was indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration in June 2025, effectively halting its progress.

Coverage of Dental Services under the Medicaid Program; Revises adult dental services that are paid by AHCA as optional Medicaid services; requires agency to reimburse Medicaid providers at specified rate for covered adult dental services; requires agency to seek federal approval; requires agency to implement statewide Medicaid prepaid dental health program for children & adults; provides requirements for benefits under program.

Availability of Marijuana for Adult Use; Provides requirements for cultivation, processing, retail, or transportation license of MMTC; authorizes department to adopt by rule additional requirements for permitting of cultivation, processing, dispensing, & storage facilities to ensure sanitary, safe, & secure cultivation, processing, dispensing, storage, & sale of marijuana; authorizes certain persons to purchase certain amounts of marijuana products, marijuana in form for smoking, & marijuana delivery devices; authorizes DACS to adopt rules regulating cultivation of marijuana by members of public for private use, including use of cooperative model for cultivation; provides retroactive application of certain convictions; authorizes certain persons to petition court to expunge criminal history record for specified convictions.

Elections; Revising provisions related to elections including elected positions, administration of election law & investigation of violations, voters rights, voter registration, vote-by-mail, ballot types, and Election Day holiday.

Division of Labor Standards; Creates Division of Labor Standards for specified purposes; designates division as state Agency for Workforce Innovation for purposes of implementing s. 24, Art. X of State Constitution; revises provisions relating to state minimum wage including, protected rights, prohibition on certain contracts, process for filing complaint, statute of limitations during investigation, liability & recordkeeping; creates the Division of Labor Standards Community Advisory Board; provides for membership, meetings & duties of board; requires annual report.

Civil Remedy for Parental Abduction; Provides civil cause of action if child is unlawfully abducted from parent for specified amount of time; provides standard of proof & specified damages; authorizes reasonable attorney fees & costs for either party; provides when specified timeframe begins; provides affirmative defenses; requires specified court division to preside over such cause of action; provides statute of limitations; tolling such statute of limitations.

Education; Revises provisions relating to certain trainings & instruction, school district procedures & requirements relating to parental notification, classroom instruction, instructional materials, school personnel training, BOG reviews, state university performance-based incentives, required instruction, DEI program, & general education core courses; repeals provisions relating to personal titles; & revises provisions relating to educator preparation.

Mental Health; Expands programs & diversion initiatives supported by implementation or expansion grants to include training for 911 public safety telecommunicators & emergency medical technicians for certain purposes & to include veterans treatment court programs; exempts certain fiscally constrained counties from local match requirements for specified grants; encourages communities to apply for specified grants to establish pretrial felony mental health diversion programs; provides model process for such mental health diversion programs; authorizes specified entities to collaborate to establish certain policies & procedures & to develop certain consent form; requires mental health evaluations & following of all recommendations as conditions of probation for specified defendants; creates Florida Behavioral Health Care Data Repository within Northwest Regional Data Center; requires data center to develop specified plan & submit annual report.