Specialty License Plates/Orlando United; Directing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop an Orlando United license plate; providing for distribution and use of fees collected from the sale of the plate, etc.
Sponsored bills
Withholding Funds from the Return of Cash Bonds; Requiring a clerk of the court to withhold from the return of a cash bond posted by a criminal defendant on his or her own behalf, rather than to withhold from the return of a cash bond posted on behalf of the criminal defendant by a person other than a bail bond agent, sufficient funds to pay specified unpaid costs, fees, and penalties, etc.
Discrimination in Labor and Employment; Creating the “Senator Helen Gordon Davis Fair Pay Protection Act”; prohibiting an employer from providing less favorable employment opportunities to employees based on their sex; providing exceptions; prohibiting an employer from engaging in certain activities relating to wages and benefits, etc.
Taxation of Fees for the Use of Real Property; Specifying tax rates for certain businesses on rental or license fees for the use of real property during a specified tax year; specifying the types of personal property not subject to the tax, etc.
Cultural and Historical Grant Programs; Requiring the annual appropriation of a specified amount to the Division of Arts and Culture to fund grants to acquire, renovate, or construct cultural facilities; requiring an annual appropriation of a specified amount to the Historical Preservation Grant Program to fund grants to assist with the preservation of historic properties, etc.
Private Schools; Revising requirements that private schools participating in certain educational scholarship programs must meet; revising parent and student responsibilities for participating in the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program; revising school district obligations under the Hope Scholarship Program; requiring certain private schools to be graded according to specified rules; requiring private schools to comply with the State Requirements for Educational Facilities of the Florida Building Code, etc.
Implementation of the Recommendations of the Blue-Green Algae Task Force; Requiring owners of certain onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems to have the systems periodically inspected, beginning on a specified date; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to administer the inspection program; requiring new or revised basin management action plans to include a list that identifies and prioritizes certain spatially focused projects, etc.
Batterers’ Intervention Programs; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to certify and monitor specified batterers’ intervention programs; requiring programs to have certain safety measures in place; providing requirements for program orientation and weekly group sessions; authorizing the department to reject or suspend certification of a program for failure to comply with the requirements, etc.
Required Instruction in the History of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; Requiring the history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to be included in specified instruction, etc.
Military Corpsmen and Medics of Florida (MCMF) Program; Creating the MCMF Program Office of Veterans Advocacy within the Department of Health; requiring the MCMF Program, through the Department of Economic Opportunity, to assist certain veterans and their spouses with specified tasks; requiring Florida Is for Veterans, Inc., to collaborate with specified entities to implement the MCMF Program, etc.