Support for the State of Israel; Expressing the Florida Senate’s unwavering support for the State of Israel, etc.
Medical Negligence; Revising the limits on noneconomic damages for personal injury or wrongful death arising from medical negligence; deleting a provision that prohibits adult children and parents of adult children from recovering certain damages in medical negligence suits; requiring that medical malpractice insurer rate filings reflect certain changes in costs and expenses; requiring the Office of Insurance Regulation to consider such changes in its review of rate filings, etc.
Motor Vehicle Insurance; Repealing provisions which comprise the Florida Motor Vehicle No-Fault Law; revising the motor vehicle insurance coverages that an applicant must show to register certain vehicles with the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; revising minimum liability coverage requirements for motor vehicle owners or operators; revising authorized methods for meeting such requirements; revising financial responsibility requirements for owners or lessees of for-hire passenger transportation vehicles; revising the minimum net worth requirements to qualify certain persons as self-insurers, etc. APPROPRIATION: $83,651
Reemployment of Retirees in the Florida Retirement System; Allowing a retiree to be reemployed by an employer participating in the Florida Retirement System and to receive compensation from that employer and retirement benefits after meeting the definition of termination; establishing contributions rates necessary to fund a new retirement benefit, etc.
Employment of Minors; Removing certain employment restrictions for minors 16 and 17 years of age; revising the age at which certain employment restrictions apply; authorizing the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to grant waivers of certain employment restrictions; specifying applicable penalties for noncompliant employers, etc.
Wrecker Operators; Requiring counties and municipalities, respectively, to establish maximum rates for the storage of electric vehicles or alternative fuel motor vehicles in a wrecker operator’s storage facilities; authorizing such maximum rates to exceed a specified rate; requiring a person, an entity, an office, or an agency that orders a vehicle to be stored at a wrecker operator’s facility to take possession of the vehicle within a specified timeframe; authorizing a wrecker operator to charge certain fees under certain circumstances, etc.
Public Records/Servicemembers; Defining the terms “identification and location information” and “servicemember”; providing an exemption from public records requirements for identification and location information of servicemembers and the spouses and dependents of servicemembers; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Builder Warranties; Requiring a builder to provide certain warranties for a newly constructed home for a specified period; requiring the builder to comply with the warranty requirement even if the newly constructed home is sold or transferred; requiring the builder to remedy at the builder’s expense certain defects and work damaged; requiring the builder to restore any work damaged in certain circumstances, etc.
Music-based Supplemental Content to Accelerate Learner Engagement and Success Pilot Program; Creating the pilot program within the Department of Education; providing requirements for the pilot program; providing funding requirements, subject to legislative appropriation; requiring the College of Education at the University of Florida to evaluate the pilot program’s effectiveness and annually share its findings with the Department of Education and the Legislature, etc.
Florida Veterans’ History Program; Defining the term “veteran”; creating the Florida Veterans’ History Program within the Division of Arts and Culture of the Department of State as a Florida Folklife Program; requiring the division’s folklorists to seek out and identify certain veterans; authorizing the division to contract with a third-party vendor for a specified purpose, etc. APPROPRIATION: $91,207
