Funding Court Technology; Authorizing clerks of court to fund improvements to court technology from filing fees, service charges, court costs, and fines; revising the distribution of a civil penalty, etc.
Transportation Facility Designations/Jimmy Buffett Highway; Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in specified counties; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers by a specified date, etc.
Mortgage Brokering; Authorizing the Financial Services Commission to adopt rules prescribing criteria and processes for determining whether an organization is a bona fide nonprofit organization for a specified purpose; providing exemptions from regulation under ch. 494, F.S., for bona fide nonprofit organizations and certain employees of a bona fide nonprofit organization that meet specified criteria; requiring the Office of Financial Regulation to make a specified determination, etc.
Duties and Prohibited Acts Associated with Death; Authorizing that a report regarding specified deaths and circumstances be made to a certain law enforcement agency in addition to the district medical examiner; increasing the criminal penalty for persons who fail or refuse to report a death or who refuse to make available certain information with the intent to conceal the death or alter the evidence and circumstances surrounding the death, etc.
Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program; Establishing the Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program within the Department of Legal Affairs; requiring the department to accept and process applications for the payment of compensation claims under the program; requiring the department to provide specified notice of the program; requiring the department, subject to the appropriation of funds for that purpose, to pay a specified compensation amount to approved applicants, etc. APPROPRIATION: $20,000,000
Provision of Homeowners’ Association Rules and Covenants; Requiring an association to provide copies of the association’s rules and covenants to every member before a specified date, and every new member thereafter; authorizing an association to post a complete copy of the association’s rules and covenants, or a direct link thereto, on the homepage of the association’s website under certain circumstances; requiring an association to provide specified notice to its members, etc.
Professional Licensing Requirements for Barbers and Cosmetologists; Providing a period of time when a conviction, or any other adjudication, for a crime may not be grounds for denial of licensure as a barber or cosmetologist; providing an exception; requiring the applicable board to approve certain educational program credits offered to inmates in certain institutions or facilities for purposes of satisfying training requirements for licensure as a barber or cosmetologist, etc.
Florida Seal of Fine Arts Program; Establishing the program within the Department of Education; providing the purpose of the program; specifying eligibility requirements for the awarding of the Seal of Fine Arts; defining the term “work of art”; requiring the Commissioner of Education and school districts to perform specified duties to administer the program, etc.
Support for the State of Israel; Expressing support for the State of Israel and condemning the attacks and hateful actions by the Hamas terrorist group, etc.
Blood Clot and Pulmonary Embolism Policy Workgroup; Citing this act as the “Emily Adkins Prevention Act”; requiring the Secretary of Health Care Administration, in conjunction with the State Surgeon General, to establish a blood clot and pulmonary embolism policy workgroup; requiring the secretary to submit a final report to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date, etc.
