Sen. Darryl Rouson

Certified Peer Specialist Gateway Pilot Program; Creating the pilot program within the Department of Corrections; authorizing inmates at participating facilities to apply to participate in the pilot program; exempting persons who complete the pilot program’s requirements from specified background screening requirements for peer specialists, etc.

Judgment Liens; Citing this act as the "Judgment Lien Improvement Act"; specifying that payment intangibles, accounts, and the proceeds thereof are subject to judgment liens; providing that certain judgment creditors are subject to specified priority of conflicting rights of a secured party; providing construction relating to the effect of liens existing before a specified date on payment intangibles and accounts and the proceeds thereof; requiring a court, under certain circumstances, to order the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to note certain liens on the certificate of title of certain motor vehicles or vessels and in the department’s records, etc.

Florida Atlantic University Men’s Basketball Team; Recognizing and celebrating the incredible accomplishments of the Florida Atlantic University men’s basketball team and the university’s commitment to both academic and athletic excellence, creating a collegiate brand that is nationally renowned, etc.

Housing; Citing this act as the "Live Local Act"; deleting the authority of local governments to adopt or maintain laws, ordinances, rules, or other measures that would have the effect of imposing controls on rents; providing an exemption from ad valorem taxation for land that meets certain criteria; authorizing local governments to adopt ordinances to provide an ad valorem tax exemption for portions of property used to provide affordable housing meeting certain requirements; suspending, for a specified period, the General Revenue Fund service charge on documentary stamp tax collections; authorizing the Governor, under the Florida Job Growth Grant Fund, to approve state or local public infrastructure projects to facilitate the development or construction of affordable housing, etc. APPROPRIATION: $711,000,000

Black History Month in Florida; Recognizing February 2023 as “Black History Month” in Florida, etc.

Relief of Donna Catalano by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Providing for the relief of Donna Catalano by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; providing an appropriation to compensate Donna Catalano for injuries and damages sustained as a result of the negligence of Donald Gerard Burthe, an employee of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; providing a limitation on the payment of certain fees, costs, and other expenses, etc. CLAIM WITH APPROPRIATION: $3,175,000

Grease Waste Removal and Disposal; Requiring grease waste haulers to dispose of grease waste at disposal facilities; prohibiting grease waste haulers from returning grease waste and graywater to grease interceptors and traps and from disposing of grease waste at locations other than disposal facilities; requiring haulers to document grease waste removal and disposal with service manifests; requiring inspecting entities to verify certain contracts and service manifests; authorizing local governments to regulate grease waste removal and disposal, etc.

Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Authorizing emergency contact information to be released to certain entities; revising the conditions under which a patient’s communication with persons outside of a receiving facility may be restricted; requiring a receiving facility to notify specified emergency contacts of individuals who are being involuntarily held for examination; requiring receiving facilities to document that an option to authorize the release of specified information has been provided, within a specified timeframe, to individuals admitted on a voluntary basis; requiring that reports issued by law enforcement officers when delivering a person to a receiving facility contain certain information related to emergency contacts, etc.

Drug-related Overdose Prevention; Revising the purpose of specified provisions relating to the prescribing, ordering, and dispensing of emergency opioid antagonists to certain persons by authorized health care practitioners; providing certain authorized persons immunity from civil or criminal liability for administering emergency opioid antagonists under certain circumstances; revising requirements for a certain health awareness campaign; requiring hospital emergency departments and urgent care centers to report incidents involving a suspected or actual overdose to the Department of Health under certain circumstances, etc.

Financial Literacy Instruction in Public Schools; Citing this act as the “Dorothy L. Hukill Financial Literacy Act”; revising the requirements regarding financial literacy for the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards; revising the required credits for a standard high school diploma to include one-half credit of instruction in personal financial literacy and money management and seven and one-half, rather than eight, credits in electives; modifying the requirements for the award of a standard high school diploma for Academically Challenging Curriculum to Enhance Learning options, etc.