Rep. Linda Chaney

Economic Self-sufficiency; Provides requirements for local workforce development boards; requires DOC to develop certain training; authorizes participation in programs or courses for specified number of hours per week; authorizes DOC to suspend work requirements; requires DCF to administer exit survey; provides requirements for voluntary case management services; requires development of intake & exit surveys & survey results to be disseminated quarterly; creates School Readiness Plus Program within DOE; provides requirements for such program.

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.

Providers of Cardiovascular Services; Requires AHCA to adopt rules that allow Level I Adult Cardiovascular Services program to use certain tools & treatments.

Flood Disclosure in the Sale of Real Property; Requires seller of residential real property to provide specified information to a prospective purchaser; specifies how such information must be disclosed.

Anti-human Trafficking; Extends future repeal date of direct-support organization for Statewide Council on Human Trafficking; revises hotline number to be included in human trafficking awareness signs; requiring adult entertainment establishments to check identification of entertainers.

Department of Environmental Protection; Revises, creates, & repeals various provisions under jurisdiction of DEP relating to aquatic preserves; preservation & regeneration of seagrass; Southeast Florida Coral Reef Ecosystem Conservation Area; use of reclaimed water; Resilient Florida Grant Program; comprehensive statewide flood vulnerability & sea level rise data set & assessment; Statewide Flooding & Sea Level Rise Resilience Plan; regional planning councils & estuary partnerships; transfer of regulation of Onsite Sewage Program from DOH to DEP; domestic wastewater treatment facilities; & basin management action plans.

Permanency for Children; Revises & creates provisions relating to dependent children, including criminal history records checks, removing children from court-ordered placement, evidence required to amend case plans, Guardianship Assistance Program, notice requirements, review of DCF denial of application to adopt, home studies, adoption assistance services, adoption fees & court orders, required reports, advertising adoption services, & photo listing component of statewide adoption exchange.

Clerks of Court; Revises fund into which moneys recovered by state attorneys must be remitted; revises fund into which payments received must be remitted as related to public defenders or regional counsels; revises entity that funds capital collateral regional counsel; revises list of court-related functions that clerks may fund from filing fees, service charges, court costs, & fines; revises fund into which filing fees are to be deposited; revises distribution of administrative fees; creates Clerk of Court Driver License Reinstatement Pilot Program; revises funds into which certain moneys received by state attorneys must be deposited.

Pretrial Detention Hearings; Authorizes court to base an order of pretrial detention solely on hearsay.