Substance Use Disorder Treatment Services; Creating the Substance Use Disorder Housing Advisory Council; authorizing addiction treatment services to be provided through for-profit providers; providing that the certification of recovery residences that meet specified standards protects certain persons, etc.
Taxes, Fines, and Fees; Deleting a provision allowing the indigent care and trauma center surtax to be levied without a majority vote of electors; restoring provisions relating to the payment of funds collected by a county officer into the State Treasury; eliminating fees for original, renewal, and replacement driver licenses and identification cards, certain driver license endorsements, reinstatement of driver licenses, and certain requests for review or hearing; revising a specified assessment on citrus, etc.
Educator Certification; Requiring the Department of Education to develop and establish a method for a person holding a professional educator certificate to place a professional certificate in inactive status while the person teaches at a nonaccredited school, etc.
Energy; Prohibiting the Department of Transportation from assigning or transferring its permitting rights across transportation rights-of-way operated by the department to certain third parties under certain circumstances; requiring the Public Service Commission to approve targeted storm reserve amounts for public utilities; requiring the Department of Commerce to expand categorical eligibility for the low-income home energy assistance program to include individuals who are enrolled in certain federal disability programs; requiring the Public Service Commission to conduct or cause to be conducted a feasibility study on the use of small modular nuclear reactors in this state; defining the term “small modular nuclear reactor” or “reactor”, etc.
Cardinal Mooney Catholic High School Cougars’ Football Championship; Celebrating the Cardinal Mooney Catholic High School Cougars’ 2023 Class 1S state football championship, etc.
Florida Red Tide Mitigation and Technology Development Initiative; Requiring the initiative to develop recommendations for deployment of certain technologies and approaches and submit a report to the Department of Environmental Protection, the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, and certain state agencies; requiring the department to submit an evaluation regarding the technologies and approaches to Mote Marine Laboratory within a specified time period and amend regulatory or permitting processes and expedite regulatory reviews under certain circumstances, etc.
Transportation; Prohibiting the Department of Transportation from annually committing more than a certain percentage of revenues derived from state fuel taxes and motor vehicle license-related fees to public transit projects; authorizing the Department of Transportation to enter into comprehensive agreements with private entities or the consortia thereof for the building, operation, ownership, or financing of transportation facilities; prohibiting a local governmental entity from adopting certain standards or specifications concerning asphalt pavement material; requiring the department to receive three letters of interest before proceeding with requests for proposals for certain contracts, etc.
Certified Public Accountants; Authorizing certain certified public accountants to apply to the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to place their licenses on retired status; providing that a licensee loses retired status; authorizing a retired licensee to accept certain reimbursements or per diem amounts; prohibiting a retired licensee from offering or rendering certain professional services, etc.
Security for Jewish Day Schools and Preschools; Subject to and consistent with funds appropriated from the General Appropriations Act, requiring the Department of Education to establish a program to provide funds to full-time Jewish day schools and preschools for specified security purposes, 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
