Florida First Production Partnership Pilot Program; Creating the program within the Department of Economic Opportunity; requiring that film, television, and digital media projects being produced in this state meet specified criteria to be eligible for rebates; requiring the Commissioner of Film and Entertainment to set application windows; requiring the Florida Film and Entertainment Advisory Council to determine a score for each qualified project using specified criteria; requiring certified projects to allow certain persons to visit the production site upon request of the commissioner and after providing the commissioner with reasonable notice; providing for liability and imposing civil penalties for an applicant that submits fraudulent information, etc. APPROPRIATION: $80,000,000
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Everglades Protection Area; Requiring that comprehensive plans and plan amendments that apply to certain lands within or near the Everglades Protection Area follow the state coordinated review process; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection, in consultation with specified entities, to make certain determinations for such plans and amendments, to provide written determinations to the local government and specified entities within a specified timeframe, and to coordinate with the local government and specified entities on certain planning strategies and mitigation measures; authorizing site-specific text changes for small-scale future land use map amendments; requiring local governments whose boundaries include any portion of the Everglades Protection Area to transmit copies of adopted small-scale development amendments to the state land planning agency within a specified timeframe, etc.
Required Instruction in the History of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; Requiring that the history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders be taught in the public schools; requiring that instructional materials used in teaching this subject area include specified information, etc.
Damages Recoverable in Wrongful Death Actions; Removing a provision that prohibits adult children and parents of adult children from recovering certain damages in medical negligence suits, etc.
Special Risk Class Retirement Date; Revising the definition of “normal retirement date”; decreasing the age and years of service needed to reach the normal retirement date for certain members; authorizing certain members of the Special Risk Class to apply to participate in the Deferred Retirement Option Program within a specified time period; providing a declaration of important state interest, etc.
Dental Services for Indigent Veterans; Establishing the Veterans Dental Care Grant Program within the Department of Veterans’ Affairs; requiring the department to contract with a direct-support organization to administer the program; requiring the department to use a specified standard for determining indigency, etc.
Dosage Form Animal Health Products; Defining the term “dosage formula animal product”; providing an exception from guaranteed analysis requirements for products sold solely as dosage form animal products; providing labeling requirements for dosage form animal products, etc.
Homeowners’ Right to Display and Store Items; Authorizing homeowners to display no more than a certain number of specified flags regardless of certain prohibitions in the governing documents of the homeowners’ association; prohibiting homeowners’ associations from restricting parcel owners or tenants from displaying items on a parcel which are not visible from the parcel’s frontage; prohibiting certain homeowners’ association documents from precluding property owners from displaying a certain number of specified flags, etc.
Secondhand Dealers; Revising the definition of “secondhand goods” to exclude certain items, etc.
Use of Phosphogypsum; Authorizing the Department of Transportation to undertake demonstration projects using phosphogypsum in road construction aggregate material to determine its feasibility as a paving material; requiring the department to conduct a study on the suitability of using phosphogypsum as a construction aggregate material; prohibiting phosphogypsum from being regulated as solid waste if used in accordance with an allowed use under specified federal regulations and approvals, etc.