Partisan Elections for Members of District School Boards; Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to require members of a district school board to be elected in a partisan election, etc.
Sponsored bills
Corporate Income Tax; Adopting the 2022 version of the Internal Revenue Code for purposes of the state corporate income tax code; providing for retroactive operation; providing applicability for adjustments taxpayers must make to adjusted federal income with respect to bonus depreciation; revising the adjustments taxpayers must make to adjusted federal income with respect to business interest, etc.
Sovereign Immunity; Increasing the statutory limits on liability for tort claims against the state and its agencies and subdivisions; revising authorizations relating to settlements of claims made or judgments rendered in excess of the sovereign immunity limits; revising exceptions relating to instituting actions on claims against the state or one of its agencies and to the statute of limitations for such claims, etc.
Parents’ Bill of Rights; Creating a cause of action for parents for an infringement of parental rights relating to the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health of their children; providing for declaratory relief, injunctive relief, and the recovery of actual damages; providing for the recovery of reasonable attorney fees and costs; providing that a parent is considered a prevailing party under specified circumstances, etc.
Resiliency Energy Environment Florida Programs; Providing that a property owner may apply to a Resiliency Energy Environment Florida (REEF) program for funding to finance a qualifying improvement and may enter into an assessment financing agreement with a local government; authorizing a local government to enter into an agreement with a program administrator to administer a REEF program on the local government’s behalf; specifying underwriting, financing estimate, disclosure, and confirmation requirements for program administrators relating to residential real property, etc.
Federal Home Loan Banks; Requiring federal home loan banks to repurchase certain stock under certain circumstances; requiring federal home loan banks to provide specified processes and timelines within a specified timeframe; requiring federal home loan banks to provide options for insurer-members to renew or restructure loans under certain circumstances; prohibiting receivers for insurer-members from voiding certain transfers, etc.
Florida Kratom Consumer Protection Act; Creating the "Florida Kratom Consumer Protection Act"; defining the terms “kratom extract,” “kratom product,” and “processor”; prohibiting processors from selling, preparing, distributing, or exposing for sale certain kratom products; prohibiting processors from distributing, selling, or exposing for sale a kratom product to an individual under 21 years of age; providing civil penalties, etc.
Recovery for Wrongful Death; Deleting a prohibition on adult children of certain decedents recovering specified damages, etc.
Capital Investment Tax Credit; Providing a credit against the corporate income tax, the sales and use tax, or a stated combination of the two taxes to a qualifying business that establishes a qualifying project for the creation of intellectual property which meets a certain capital investment threshold; specifying the calculation of the credit; authorizing use of the credit or portions of the credit by the business or members of its affiliated group of corporations; authorizing use of the credit within a certain timeframe, etc.
Fetal and Infant Mortality Reduction; Revising the purpose and requirements for the Comprehensive Statewide Tobacco Education and Use Prevention Program; requiring the Department of Health to contract with local healthy start coalitions for the creation of fetal and infant mortality review committees in all regions of this state; prohibiting a physician from performing a termination of pregnancy if the physician determines the gestational age of a fetus is more than a specified number of weeks, with exceptions; requiring the directors of certain medical facilities and certain physicians to submit a certain report to the Agency for Health Care Administration monthly, etc. APPROPRIATION: $260,000