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.
Sponsored bills
Human Trafficking Awareness; Requiring the Department of Education to identify a curriculum regarding human trafficking awareness; specifying required components of the curriculum; authorizing in-person or online training; requiring public schools to require that certain personnel have received certain training, etc.
Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Trust Funds; Removes provision specifying type of agreement activities for which moneys from Grants & Donations Trust Fund may be used; removes requirement for administration of Nongame Wildlife Trust Fund; authorizes use of trust fund proceeds for law enforcement purposes; authorizes FWCC to enter into certain agreements with private landowners.
Land Use and Development; Requires counties & municipalities, respectively, to meet specified requirements regarding minimum information necessary for certain zoning applications; prohibits school district from collecting, charging, or imposing any alternative fee for concurrency for educational facilities that does not meet certain requirements; specifies certain purposes for which local governments may use certain fees to carry out activities relating to obtaining or finalizing building permit; prohibits imposition or collection of amenity dues except as provided in recreational covenant; prohibits recreational covenant from requiring association to collect amenity dues; requires specified disclosure summary beginning on date certain for contracts for sale of certain parcels; requires any contract or agreement for sale of parcel governed by homeowners’ association & subject to recreational covenant to refer to & incorporate such disclosure after date certain.
Administrative Procedures; Revises provisions relating to rule development, proposed rules, notices, public workshops, publication, timeframes, repromulgation requirements, statements of estimated regulatory costs, public hearings, lower cost regulatory alternatives, incorporation by reference, emergency rules, Florida Administrative Code, Florida Administrative Register, & annual regulatory plans.
Security for Jewish Day Schools and Preschools; Requiring DOE to establish program to provide funds to Jewish day schools & preschools for specified security purposes; provides authorized uses for such funds.
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.
Supported Decisionmaking Authority; Requires court to consider needs & abilities of person with developmental disability when determining whether to appoint guardian advocate; provides requirements for petition to appoint guardian advocate; authorizes agent acting for principal to grant supported decisionmaking agreement; prohibits such agreement from acting as durable power of attorney; provides certain communications shall be recognized as communication of principal; provides requirements for examining committee member when determining incapacitated person's ability to exercise his or her rights.
Pregnancy and Parenting Resources Website; Requires DOH, in consultation with DCF & AHCA, to maintain website that provides pregnancy & parenting resources & provide clear & conspicuous link to such website on official website of respective departments & agency; requires DOH to contract with third party to develop such website by specified date. APPROPRIATION: $466,200
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.