Heat Illness Prevention; Providing responsibilities of certain employers and employees; requiring certain employers to provide annual training for employees and supervisors; requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, in conjunction with the Department of Health, to adopt specified rules, etc.
Marriage Equality; Repealing a provision relating to marriages between persons of the same sex; removing a prohibition on the recognition of same-sex marriages entered into in any jurisdiction; removing a prohibition on the state and its agencies and subdivisions from giving effect to a public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any jurisdiction respecting a same-sex marriage or relationship or a claim arising from such marriage or relationship, etc.
Sensory Deprivation Tanks; Exempting sensory deprivation tanks from regulation by the Department of Health as public pools, etc.
Workforce Retention; Citing this act as the "Florida Jobs Retention Act of 2020"; requiring certain employers that intend to relocate out of state or cease operation to notify the Department of Business and Professional Regulation within a specified period; providing a civil penalty; providing that such employers are ineligible for state grants, loans, or tax benefits for a specified period; requiring the head of each state agency to ensure that certain services are performed by state contractors within the state, etc.
Education Accountability; Requiring that an application and charter for a charter high school indicate that the school will administer the same assessment for high school graduation purposes as the local school district; revising the requirements for a standard high school diploma; deleting a provision authorizing the Commissioner of Education to establish a schedule for the development and administration of additional statewide, standardized EOC assessments; providing requirements for the implementation and reporting of results of nationally recognized high school assessments, etc.
Personal Watercraft; Providing requirements for persons operating, riding on, and being towed behind personal watercraft; increasing the age requirement for operation of a personal watercraft; prohibiting the owner of, or a person having charge of or control over, any leased, hired, or rented personal watercraft from authorizing or knowingly allowing the watercraft to be operated by certain persons; requiring companies that provide personal watercraft for lease, hire, or rent to maintain specified liability insurance coverage, etc.
Posttraumatic Stress Injury Awareness Day/Month; Recognizing June 27, 2020, and each June 27 thereafter, as “Posttraumatic Stress Injury Awareness Day” and each June as “Posttraumatic Stress Injury Awareness Month” in Florida, etc.
Fees/Petition for Nonbinding Arbitration; Requiring that certain fees relating to nonbinding arbitration be paid to the Department of Business and Professional Regulation; requiring the prevailing party in nonbinding arbitration to recover certain costs and fees, etc.
Utility Construction Contracting Services; Prohibiting public utilities or electric utilities from engaging in construction contracting services, from providing affiliates or utility contractors with certain products or services related to construction contracting, and from using or allowing affiliates or utility contractors to use certain identifying information related to the utility to engage in construction contracting services, etc.
Homeowners’ Associations Dispute Resolution; Citing this act as the "Homeowner Protection and Empowerment Act"; revising the form required for a written demand to participate in presuit mediation; requiring nonbinding arbitration in certain homeowners’ association disputes; requiring that a judicial proceeding be initiated within a specified timeframe after the entry of an arbitrator’s final decision; authorizing parties in certain disputes to either file a dispute in court or elect to enter into binding or nonbinding arbitration, etc.
