Ad Valorem Tax; Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to provide an ad valorem homestead property tax exemption to veteran recipients of certain medals and their surviving spouses, and to provide an effective date, etc.
Career Offenders; Requiring that all licenses for the operation of motor vehicles or identification cards issued or reissued by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to persons designated as career offenders subject to registration under specified provisions have a specified marking on the front of the cards; revising the definitions of the terms “permanent residence” and “temporary residence”; providing a timeframe under which certain career offenders are required to register with the Department of Corrections and provide specified information, etc.
Fleeing or Attempting to Elude a Law Enforcement Officer; Providing mandatory minimum sentences for violations; providing for pretrial diversion for first-time offenders, etc.
Ad Valorem Tax Exemption for Veteran Recipients of Certain Medals; Providing an ad valorem tax exemption on homestead property for certain veterans who have received certain medals; providing that such exemptions carry over to the benefit of surviving spouses under specified conditions; specifying requirements if a property appraiser denies such application; authorizing an applicant to apply for the exemption before receiving certain documentation from the Federal Government, etc.
Dangerous Dogs; Citing this act as as the “Pam Rock Act”; requiring certain dog owners to securely confine their dogs in a proper enclosure; defining the term “department”; requiring, rather than authorizing, that dogs subject to certain dangerous dog investigations be confiscated, impounded, and held; requiring animal control authorities to provide certain information to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and to destroy certain dogs; requiring the department to create and maintain a statewide Dangerous Dog Registry, etc.
Ad Valorem Taxation Exemptions; Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to authorize the Legislature, by general law, to exempt certain tangible personal property from ad valorem taxation, etc.
Litigation Financing; Citing this act as the "Litigation Investment Safeguards and Transparency Act"; requiring a court’s consideration of potential conflicts of interest which may arise from the existence of a litigation financing agreement in specified circumstances; prohibiting specified acts by litigation financiers; requiring certain disclosures related to litigation financing agreements and the involvement of foreign persons, foreign principals, or sovereign wealth funds; requiring the indemnification of specified fees, costs, and sanctions by a litigation financier in specified circumstances, etc.
Exemptions from Products Liability Actions; Specifying circumstances under which products liability actions may not be brought against distributors, dealers, or applicators of pesticides, etc.
Surplus Lands; Requiring the Acquisition and Restoration Council to make certain determinations for lands surplused by a local governmental entity; prohibiting future development rights from being attached to certain local governmental entity surplus lands; prohibiting the attachment of future development rights for certain surplus lands; authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to surplus certain state-owned conservation lands, etc.
Dental Therapy; Authorizing Medicaid to reimburse for dental services provided in a mobile dental unit that is owned by, operated by, or contracted with a health access setting or another similar setting or program; authorizing a dental therapist under the general supervision of a dentist to administer local anesthesia and operate an X-ray machine, expose dental X-ray films, and interpret or read such films if specified requirements are met; providing application requirements and examination and licensure qualifications for dental therapists, etc.
