Rep. Rachel Plakon

Driving and Boating Offenses; Provides enhanced penalties for DUI & BUI manslaughter & vehicular & vessel homicide if person has prior conviction for specified offenses; requires that a person be told that his or her failure to submit to lawful test of breath or urine subsequent to a DUI arrest is either a second degree misdemeanor or a first degree misdemeanor; creates a criminal penalty for a first refusal to submit to a breath or urine test subsequent to a DUI arrest; ranks offenses on offense severity ranking chart of Criminal Punishment Code.

Firefighter Health and Safety ; Requires Division of State Fire Marshal within DFS to adopt certain rules; requires division to assist in decreasing frequency of fatalities; requires division to adopt rules relating to education on chemical hazards or toxic substances & mental health best practices.

Restrictions on Firearms and Ammunition During Emergencies; Repeals provisions relating to specified automatic restrictions on firearms & ammunition during certain declared emergencies.

Sexual Images; Prohibits person from possessing with intent to promote specified depictions including lewd or lascivious image; prohibits person from soliciting, possessing, controlling, or intentionally viewing depiction including lewd or lascivious image; provides criteria that may be used to evidence actual or simulated lewd exhibition of genitals; prohibits person from soliciting depiction including child pornography; prohibits person from willfully generating an altered sexual depiction of an identifiable person, without consent; prohibits person from soliciting an altered sexual depiction of an identifiable person without consent; prohibits person from possessing with intent to maliciously promote altered sexual depiction of identifiable person without consent.

Legal Tender; Revising the sales and use tax exemption for certain coin or currency; specifying that a person who claims the sales tax exemption bears the burden for determining whether the gold coin or silver coin meets a specified definition; providing a presumption regarding the purity requirements of gold coin and silver coin, etc.

Court-appointed Psychologists; Requires party to seek disqualification of court-appointed psychologist before filing an administrative complaint against psychologist; provides for disqualification motions; revises provisions for award of costs & attorney fees in supplemental actions against court-appointed psychologists.

Department of Law Enforcement; Repeals provisions relating to Florida Violent Crime & Drug Control Council & Violent Crime Investigative Emergency & Drug Control Strategy Implementation Account, respectively; changes name of Crimes Against Children Criminal Profiling Program to Child Exploitation & Crimes Against Children Program & expands scope of program; revises membership of Domestic Security Oversight Council; revises requirements for report by Chief of Domestic Security; increases maximum that may be spent for veterinary care of retired police dogs.

State Land Management; Requiring public hearings for all updated conservation and nonconservation land management plans; requiring the Division of State Lands of the Department of Environmental Protection to make available to the public, within a specified timeframe, electronic copies of land management plans for parcels of a certain size and for parcels located in state parks; revising the duties of the Division of Recreation and Parks of the Department of Environmental Protection; specifying requirements for the management of parks and recreational areas held by the state; requiring the division to comply with specified provisions when granting certain privileges, leases, concessions, and permits; authorizing the division to acquire, install, or permit the installation or operation at state parks of campsites and cabins that meet certain requirements; prohibiting the division from authorizing certain uses or construction activities within a state park; prohibiting the division from installing or permitting the installation of any lodging establishment within the boundaries of a state park; requiring that individual management plans for parcels located within state parks be developed with input from an advisory group; requiring that the advisory group's required public hearings be noticed to the public within a specified timeframe, etc.

Maddy summaryHB 85, titled "Hazardous Walking Conditions," revises the criteria used to determine what constitutes a hazardous walking condition for public school students. This bill directly affects public school students by potentially altering the conditions under which they might be eligible for transportation services due to unsafe walking routes. The official abstract does not specify the new or revised criteria that would be implemented.

Bonuses for Employees of Property Appraisers; Authorizes specified property appraisers to budget for & pay specified bonuses to employees, pending specified approval.