Rep. Taylor Yarkosky

Relief/Julia Perez/St. Johns County Sheriff's Office; Provides for relief of Julia Perez by the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office; provides for appropriation of funds to compensate Julia Perez for personal injuries & damages sustained as result of negligence of employee of St. Johns County Sheriff's Office; provides legislative intent for waiver of certain lien interests; provides limitation on compensation & payment of attorney fees. CLAIM: $6,300,000

Maddy summaryThis bill designates a specific stretch of State Road A1A in twelve Florida counties as the "Jimmy Buffett Memorial Highway." To mark this change, the state Department of Transportation is required to install appropriate signage along the road by August 30, 2024. The legislation applies only to the named highway and does not alter any existing traffic rules or funding allocations.

Specialty License Plates; Exempts collegiate license plates from certain discontinuation & presale voucher requirements for specialty license plates; requires DHSMV to reauthorize previously discontinued collegiate license plates; renames & revises words appearing on certain plates; directs DHSMV to develop specified plates; provides for distribution & use of fees collected from sale of plates.

Maddy summaryThis bill creates a new section in Florida law that officially defines the term "antisemitism" using the working definition adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2016. The legislation provides specific contemporary examples of antisemitism, such as denying the Holocaust, holding Jewish people collectively responsible for actions by Israel, or applying double standards to the State of Israel compared to other nations. It explicitly states that criticizing Israel in a manner similar to how other countries are criticized does not count as antisemitism under this definition. The law aims to help monitor and report hate crimes while ensuring it does not infringe on First Amendment rights or conflict with existing antidiscrimination laws.

Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Revises written notice requirements relating to filing petitions for involuntary services; revises requirements relating to voluntary admissions to facility for examination & treatment, ordering person for involuntary services & treatment, petitions for involuntary service, appointment of counsel, & continuances of hearings; revises actions that constitute unlawful activities relating to assessment & treatment & court actions relating to involuntary assessments. APPROPRIATION: $50,000,000

Safe Exchange of Minor Children; Provides requirements for parenting plan relating to exchange of child; requires court to order parties to parenting plan to exchange child at neutral safe exchange location or supervised visitation program; requires sheriffs to designate areas as neutral safe exchange locations; provides immunity from liability; revises forms for injunctions for protection against domestic violence; requires court-ordered injunctions for protection against domestic violence to designate locations for exchange of child of parties.

Juvenile Justice; Revises penalties for minors committing firearms violations; redesignates civil citation programs as delinquency citation programs; requires child on probation for felony firearm offense who is taken into custody be placed in secure detention; requires specified sanctions for certain children adjudicated for firearms offenses; requires DJJ to create graduated response matrix to hold youths accountable for probation & conditional release terms; authorizes exception to revocation or suspension of driving privileges in certain circumstances; requires DJJ to establish specified class for firearms offenders; revises provisions concerning introduction of contraband into DJJ facilities.

Juvenile Justice; Authorizes DJJ employees & contracted providers to possess & administer opioid antagonists; provides immunity from liability for administration; replacing term "gender-specific" with "sex-specific"; eliminates minimum-risk nonresidential restrictiveness level; redesignates "nonsecure residential restrictiveness level" as "moderate-risk residential level"; revises provisions concerning transitioning child to & from secure detention care & supervised release detention care.

Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day; Designates Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day, which occurs on fourth Thursday in March, as legal holiday.

Voter Registration Applications; providing an exception to a requirement that certain voter registration applicants must be registered without party affiliation; requiring the department to provide an applicant with a certain receipt; requiring the department to ensure that information technology processes and updates do not alter certain information without written consent; etc.