Driving Over the Speed Limit; Providing that any person who drives any vehicle at or above a specified speed commits reckless driving; revising the threshold above the posted speed limit at which a person in violation of certain provisions must be cited for a moving violation, etc.
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Nursing Home Financial Reporting; Specifying that the audited actual experience of a nursing home or its home office is the actual financial experience for purposes of annual financial reporting to the Agency for Health Care Administration, etc.
Road Construction; Creating the Rural Roads Initiative Pilot Program within the Department of Transportation; providing the purpose of the pilot program; authorizing the Governor to reallocate funds under certain circumstances; revising the amount of a construction contract for which a contractor must first be certified by the department in order to bid on such contract, etc. APPROPRIATION: $20,000,000
Delegation of Medication Administration; Requiring licensed nurse registries to ensure specified requirements are met if they allow registered nurses to delegate certain tasks to certified nursing assistants or home health aides; authorizing registered nurses to delegate to certified nursing assistants and home health aides the administration of certain medications to nurse registry patients and patients in county detention facilities under certain circumstances; authorizing certified nursing assistants to administer certain medication to nurse registry patients and patients in county detention facilities under certain circumstances, etc.
Public Records/County and City Attorneys; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for the personal identifying and location information of current and former county attorneys, deputy county attorneys, assistant county attorneys, city attorneys, deputy city attorneys, and assistant city attorneys, and the names and personal identifying and location information of the spouses and children of such attorneys; providing applicability; providing for retroactive application; providing for future legislative review and repeal; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Homeowners’ Association Ombudsman; Creating the Office of the Homeowners’ Association Ombudsman within the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation; directing the Governor to appoint an ombudsman; requiring the ombudsman to be an attorney admitted to practice before the Florida Supreme Court; prohibiting the ombudsman and officers and full-time employees of the office from holding certain positions, engaging in certain activities, or receiving certain remuneration; providing for the administration of an election monitoring process, etc.
Vacation Rentals; Requiring advertising platforms to collect and remit taxes for certain transactions; revising the regulated activities of public lodging establishments and public food service establishments preempted to the state to include licensing; expanding the authority of local laws, ordinances, or regulations to include requiring vacation rentals to register with local vacation rental registration programs; authorizing local governments to adopt vacation rental registration programs and impose fines for failure to register; requiring advertising platforms to require that persons placing advertisements for vacation rentals include certain information in the advertisements and attest to certain information, etc.
Disability Claims Coordinators; Defining the terms “department” and “disability claims coordinator”; authorizing counties to request the Department of Health to assign disability claims coordinators to their respective county health departments; providing that the counties are responsible for such coordinators’ employment terms, duty assignments, and salaries and benefits; requiring the department to designate at least five employees to provide administrative support to, and facilitate the exchange of information between, counties, county health departments, and disability claims coordinators, etc.
Land Acquisition Trust Fund; Providing an annual appropriation to the Department of Environmental Protection to implement the Heartland Headwaters Protection and Sustainability Act; requiring the funds to be used and distributed for specified purposes, etc. APPROPRIATION: Indeterminate
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.