Rep. Kim Berfield

Criminal Offenses Against Law Enforcement Officers and Other Personnel; Revises prohibition on use or threatened use of force to resist arrest or detention; provides for enhanced punishment for manslaughter when committed against specified officers; revises provisions concerning assault or battery upon specified officers & other personnel; revises provision concerning resisting, obstructing, or opposing specified officers or legally authorized persons; increases level on offense severity ranking chart for committing battery on law enforcement officers & other specified personnel.

Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County 80th Anniversary; Congratulating Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County on the occasion of its 80th anniversary.

Maddy summaryHB 567 revises Florida's continuing education requirements for podiatrists who prescribe controlled substances. It mandates that these practitioners complete at least 2 hours of continuing education focused on the safe and effective prescribing of controlled substances every two years, in addition to the existing 40-hour biennial requirement. The bill directly affects podiatrists registered with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and authorized to prescribe controlled substances. The change takes effect July 1, 2026, and aligns Florida's requirements with federal prescribing standards for these medical professionals.

Local Housing Assistance Plans; Authorizes county or eligible municipality to expend certain funds on lot rental assistance for mobile home owners for specified time period; requires counties & eligible municipalities to develop certain strategies in their local housing assistance plans; provides that lot rental assistance is approved home ownership activity for certain purposes; authorizes certain funds to be provided to mobile home owners for rehabilitation & emergency repairs; removes prohibition that only certain percentage of funds may be used for manufactured housing.

Firefighter Cancer Benefits; Requires former employer to provide death benefits to certain beneficiaries for specified time period; provides finding & declaration of important state interest.

Campaign Communications; Prohibits campaign-related telephone calls & text messages to specified voters; requires candidates & other persons or organizations to cease immediately all communications with certain voters; authorizes voter to bring certain action in court of competent jurisdiction.

Medicaid Oversight; Establishes Joint Legislative Committee on Medicaid Oversight within Office of Auditor; specifies duties; requires Auditor General & AHCA to enter into data sharing agreement; requires Auditor General to assist committee; provides that committee must be given access to certain records, papers, & documents; authorizes committee to compel testimony & evidence; provides that certain joint rules of Legislature apply to committee; requires agency to provide report of specified information to committee.

Family Empowerment Scholarship Program; Requires private schools participating in Family Empowerment Scholarship Program to provide specified information in writing to parents before student enrollment in school.

Relief/Max Giannikos/City of Clearwater; Provides appropriation to compensate Max Giannikos for injuries sustained resulting from City of Clearwater's negligence. CLAIM: Indeterminate

Timeshare Plan Management ; Revises applicability for provisions governing conflicts of interest between community association managers or community association management firms & certain persons with financial interest in such associations; removes provision requiring managing entities that perform community association management to comply with certain provisions related to community association management firms; requires timeshare management firms & individuals employed by timeshare management firms to discharge their duties in good faith; exempts such firms & individuals from liability for monetary damages; requires board of administration of timeshare condominium to meet once per year; requires disclosure of certain information annually to certain persons if timeshare management firm or owners' association provides goods & services through specified entities; specifies manner in which such disclosure must be made.