Transportation Facility Designations/98 Points of Light Road; Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in a specified county; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.
Environmental Management; Providing for water quality enhancement areas; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to establish water quality enhancement service areas; requiring the department and water management districts to authorize the sale and use of enhancement credits to governmental entities to address certain adverse water quality impacts and to meet certain water quality requirements; revising the conditions that a developer or homebuilder must certify it meets as part of its application for development approval or amendment of a development order, etc.
Insolvent Insurers; Revising a prohibition against certain insolvent insurers’ former officers or directors serving as officers or directors of an insurer or having direct or indirect control over certain selection or appointment of officers or directors, to allow such activities unless the Office of Insurance Regulation enters a specified order; providing required factors to be used in the determination and fixing of rates for premiums paid to insolvent insurers for specified coverages; authorizing insurers remitting assessments to the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association, Incorporated, to elect not to recoup advances; revising a requirement for information regarding assessment percentages which must be specified by the Office of Insurance Regulation in orders levying assessments, etc.
Charter School Charters; Requiring a request for a consolidation of multiple charters to be approved or denied within a specified timeframe; requiring a charter school sponsor to provide to the charter school specified information relating to a denial of a request for a consolidation within a certain timeframe; providing for the automatic renewal of a charter under certain circumstances, etc.
Florida Citrus; Citing this act as the "Citrus Recovery Act"; revising the membership of the Florida Citrus Commission; increasing the number of citrus districts in this state and revising the counties that comprise each district; requiring certain entities to provide reports on citrus production research to the commission at specified intervals and upon request of the commission; requiring that new varieties of citrus fruit produced from research or studies funded by state funds be made exclusively available for licensing and commercialization to the Department of Citrus or its designee for a specified timeframe, etc.
Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund; Creating the Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund within the Executive Office of the Governor; providing for the deposit and use of funds; providing for future review and termination of the fund, etc.
Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund; Authorizing the Legislative Budget Commission to convene to transfer or appropriate certain funds to the Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund; authorizing the Governor to transfer and expend moneys from the Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund; authorizing the Governor to request that additional funds be transferred or appropriated to the Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund, subject to approval by the Legislative Budget Commission, under specified conditions, etc.
Recognizing Veteran Suicide; Urging Congress to recognize the epidemic of suicide among veterans and to fully fund suicide prevention efforts of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, etc.
Public Records/Employer COVID-19 Vaccination Policies; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for employee complaints alleging a private employer’s violation of state law regarding employer COVID-19 vaccination policies or practices and all information held by the Department of Legal Affairs pursuant to an active investigation of such complaints; specifying information that remains confidential and exempt after an investigation is completed or ceases to be active; providing for future repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
COVID-19 Mandates; Prohibiting private employers from imposing a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for employees unless certain individual exemptions are made available; specifying conditions for claiming exemptions; requiring the Department of Health to notify a noncompliant private employer and allow such employer the opportunity to cure a violation; prohibiting educational institutions and elected or appointed local officials from imposing COVID-19 vaccination mandates on students; prohibiting educational institutions and governmental entities from imposing COVID-19 vaccination mandates for any employees; prohibiting district school boards, district school superintendents, elected or appointed local officials, and district school board employees from mandating facial coverings or restricting certain activities for students based on quarantine policies unless certain conditions are met, etc. APPROPRIATION: $5,000,000
