Rep. Christine Hunschofsky

Advertisements for Representation Services; Prohibits notaries public from using specified terms to describe themselves; creates civil cause of action for declaratory or injunctive relief & to recover damages & attorney fees & costs; requires certain businesses or persons offering immigration services to make specified disclosure; creates civil cause of action for declaratory or injunctive relief & to recover damages & attorney fees & costs.

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.

Licensure of Family Foster Homes ; Requires DCF to adopt rules to streamline licensure application process for licensed foster parents who relocate within this state; requires such rules to include priority review of applications, expedited home studies & background checks, & recognition of prior foster parent training coursework.

Maddy summaryHB 809 exempts individuals employed as school social workers from specific educator certification requirements. This means that these professionals would not need to meet certain teaching credentials typically mandated for other educators.

Prearranged Transportation Services; Prohibits impersonation of transportation network company driver; provides criminal penalties; provides that services purchased from transportation network company are not considered privately owned or operated bus transit systems; authorizes Commission for Transportation Disadvantaged to expend funds to contract with alternative providers; provides requirements for such alternative providers; revises definition of term "transportation service provider"; requires transportation service providers to provide certain drivers with access to certain training materials.

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Services; Revises who may file certificate of death or fetal death; revises definition of "primary or attending practitioner"; revises who may note corrected information on permanent certificate of death or fetal death.

Safety of Students; Revises provisions relating to Chris Hixon, Coach Aaron Feis, and Coach Scott Beigel Guardian Program, school safety requirements, & safe-school officer requirements.

Mental Health; Expands programs & diversion initiatives supported by implementation or expansion grants to include training for 911 public safety telecommunicators & emergency medical technicians for certain purposes & to include veterans treatment court programs; exempts certain fiscally constrained counties from local match requirements for specified grants; encourages communities to apply for specified grants to establish pretrial felony mental health diversion programs; provides model process for such mental health diversion programs; authorizes specified entities to collaborate to establish certain policies & procedures & to develop certain consent form; requires mental health evaluations & following of all recommendations as conditions of probation for specified defendants; creates Florida Behavioral Health Care Data Repository within Northwest Regional Data Center; requires data center to develop specified plan & submit annual report.

Third-party Reservation Platforms; Prohibits reservation at public food service establishment from being listed, advertised, promoted, or sold through third-party reservation platform; provides exception; authorizes Division of Hotels & Restaurants of DBPR to impose civil penalty not to exceed specified amount for violation of this act or of division rule; provides that such violations shall accrue on daily basis for certain establishments.