Sen. Ed Hooper

Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Trust Funds; Revising the sources of funds that may be used for specified purposes for the Florida Panther Research and Management Trust Fund; authorizing the commission to invest and reinvest funds and the interest thereof of the Marine Resources Conservation Trust Fund and the Nongame Wildlife Trust Fund, respectively; revising the use of such funds for the marketing of the license plates; authorizing such funds to be used for commission administrative costs, etc.

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute; Increasing, at specified timeframes, the percentage of cigarette tax proceeds paid to the Board of Directors of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute for certain purposes, etc.

Step-therapy Protocols; Revising the circumstances under which step-therapy protocols may not be required; requiring health insurers to grant or deny protocol exemption requests and respond to appeals within specified timeframes; requiring health maintenance organizations to grant or deny protocol exemption requests and respond to appeals within specified timeframes; providing requirements for granting and denying protocol exemption requests, etc.

Residential Swimming Pool Safety; Citing this act as the “The Kacen’s Cause Act.”; requiring a home inspector to include certain information relating to swimming pools in his or her report; requiring that new residential swimming pools meet an additional requirement in order to pass final inspection and receive a certificate of completion; prohibiting a property owner from transferring ownership of a parcel that includes a swimming pool unless certain requirements are met, etc.

Multi-use Corridors of Regional Economic Significance Program; Revising the allocation of certain funds, for specified fiscal years, that result from increased revenues to the State Transportation Trust Fund, etc.

Florida Tourism Marketing; Authorizing the Florida Tourism Industry Marketing Corporation to carry forward unexpended state appropriations into succeeding fiscal years; removing the scheduled repeal of the corporation; removing the scheduled repeal of the Division of Tourism Marketing within Enterprise Florida, Inc., etc.

Fees; Requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to publish notice when electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles make up 5 percent or more of the total number of vehicles registered in this state; providing fees for electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles beginning after the department publishes such notice; requiring that the proceeds of certain fees be deposited into the State Transportation Trust Fund, etc.

Fire Prevention and Control; Authorizing the use of radio communication enhancement systems to comply with minimum radio signal strength requirements; prohibiting the authority having jurisdiction from requiring certain radio communication enhancement systems in apartments or buildings of a certain height; revising the transitory period for compliance; providing an exception to the prohibition against installing or transporting certain radio equipment using law enforcement or fire rescue frequencies, etc.

Hurricane Loss Mitigation Program; Deleting construction relating to Citizens Property Insurance Corporation coverage rates; delaying the future repeal of the Hurricane Loss Mitigation Program, etc.

Firefighters’ Bill of Rights; Expanding the rights of firefighters to include informal inquiries; prohibiting firefighters from being threatened with transfer, dismissal, or disciplinary action during an interrogation, etc.