Sen. Joe Gruters

Preemption of Local Government Wage Mandates; Creating the "Wage Mandate Preemption Act"; deleting the definition of the term “employer contracting to provide goods or services for the political subdivision”; revising prohibitions relating to political subdivisions enacting, maintaining, or enforcing wage mandates in an amount greater than the state or federal minimum wage; specifying that any wage mandate that conflicts with such prohibitions is void, etc.

Patient-specific Drug Coverage Transparency; Authorizing patients to request, and requiring ordering or prescribing health care providers to provide, real-time, patient-specific information regarding prescription drug benefits, coverage, and costs for a specified purpose; authorizing health care providers to provide such information to patients regardless of whether a request is made; requiring insurers to provide specified information to health care providers, etc.

Local Government Land Development Actions; Specifying the authority of a county or municipality, respectively, to make additional comments on an application for approval of a development permit or development order; requiring local governments to adopt residential infill development standards by a specified date; specifying guidelines local governments must use in developing residential infill development standards; prohibiting a local government from approving applications with many deficiencies; requiring local governments to amend their development regulations and comprehensive plans to incorporate residential infill developments as a zoning classification and incorporate them as an appropriate land use classification, etc.

Offers and Sales of Securities; Excluding certain securities offers and sales by specified persons from the exemption from specified registration requirements; revising requirements for securities offers and sales that are exempt transactions under specified laws; revising the information and documents that the Office of Financial Regulation may require for securities registration; revising circumstances under which the office may revoke or suspend securities registrations; deleting issuers of securities from the list of persons that may not offer for sale or sell securities without being registered; requiring finders to maintain certain books and records, etc.

Cannabis Regulation; Revising the course and examination requirements for qualified physicians and medical directors; prohibiting the Department of Health from renewing the license of a medical marijuana treatment center under certain circumstances; revising advertising requirements for medical marijuana treatment centers to prohibit radio and television advertising; prohibiting certified medical marijuana testing laboratories and specified individuals from having economic interest in or financial relationships with medical marijuana treatment centers, etc.

Public Records/Election Workers; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for the personal identifying and location information of current election workers, and the names and personal identifying and location information of the spouses and children of such workers; providing for retroactive application; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Outstanding Florida Springs; Designating additional springs as Outstanding Florida Springs, etc.

Recall of County Officers and Commissioners; Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution to authorize the Legislature to provide by general law for the recall of county officers and commissioners, etc.

District School Boards; Revising the salaries of district school board members; requiring elementary schools, district school boards, and the Department of Education to post in certain formats on their websites specified information relating to instructional materials and other materials; revising requirements for the department relating to the development of training programs for the selection of materials used in schools and library media centers, etc.

Restrictions on Firearms and Ammunition During Emergencies; Repealing a provision relating to specified automatic restrictions on firearms and ammunition during certain declared emergencies, etc.