Vessel Safety Flags; Removing the requirement that airboats be equipped with masts or flagpoles bearing certain safety flags; prohibiting the operation and anchoring of vessels without masts or flagpoles bearing certain safety flags under specified conditions, etc.
Digital License Plate Pilot Program; Citing this act as the "License Plate Modernization Act of 2022"; requiring the department to investigate the feasibility and use of certain license plate technologies; creating the Digital License Plate Pilot Program within the department; requiring the department to allow government-owned motor vehicles to be equipped with a digital license plate in lieu of a metal or paper license plate; requiring the department to contract with two or more digital license plate providers, etc.
Transportation Facility Designations/Sergeant First Class Michael C. Aten Memorial Highway; Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in a specified county; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.
Specialty License Plates/Learn to Fly; Directing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop a Learn to Fly license plate; providing for distribution and use of fees collected from the sale of the plate, etc.
Parental Rights in Education; Requiring district school boards to adopt procedures that comport with certain provisions of law for notifying a student’s parent of specified information; requiring such procedures to reinforce the fundamental right of parents to make decisions regarding the upbringing and control of their children in a specified manner; prohibiting a school district from adopting procedures or student support forms that require school district personnel to withhold from a parent specified information or that encourage or have the effect of encouraging a student to withhold from a parent such information; prohibiting a school district from encouraging classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels or in a specified manner, etc.
Display of Flags in Residential Associations; Authorizing unit owners of a condominium to display no more than a certain number of specified flags regardless of certain prohibitions in the governing documents of the condominium association; defining the term “first responder flag”; authorizing homeowners to display specified flags regardless of certain prohibitions in the governing documents of the homeowners’ association; prohibiting certain homeowners’ association documents from precluding property owners from displaying certain flags, etc.
Fees/Professional Structural Engineer Licensing; Authorizing the Board of Professional Engineers to establish fees relating to professional structural engineer licensing; requiring applicants to pay a specified fee to be eligible to receive a professional structural engineer license, etc.
Dementia-related Staff Training; Creating the “Florida Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Training and Education Act”; requiring the Department of Elderly Affairs to offer certain dementia-related education to the public; requiring the department or its designee to make a record of the completion of the training; providing that an employee does not have to repeat such training after changing employment to another covered provider; authorizing the department or its designee to approve training providers and curricula and maintain a list of approved providers, etc.
Bail Bond Agents; Providing that persons who manage bail bond agencies are subject to certain requirements; providing for licensure, rather than temporary licensure, of limited surety agents and professional bail bond agents; specifying requirements for applications for designation as a primary bail bond agent; revising the entities from whom a bail bond agent must receive licensure and appointment before registering as a bail bond agent, etc.
Compulsive and Addictive Gambling Prevention; Establishing the Compulsive and Addictive Gambling Prevention Program within the Florida Gaming Control Commission; requiring the commission to ensure gaming facilities participate in the program by taking certain actions; authorizing the commission to allocate funding for the program from a specified source; requiring the Department of the Lottery to deposit a certain percentage of specified funds into a certain trust fund for the purpose of participation in the program, etc.
