Sen. Lori Berman

Operating Vehicles and Vessels Under the Influence; Revising conditions under which a person commits the offense of driving under the influence or boating under the influence, respectively; revising a condition that must be met before a person arrested for driving under the influence or boating under the influence, respectively, may be released from custody; defining the term “impairing substance”; adding specified grounds for issuance of a search warrant, etc.

Purchase or Acquisition of Real Property and Strategic Assets by the People’s Republic of China; Prohibiting the People’s Republic of China from purchasing or acquiring certain real property and strategic assets in this state, etc.

Human Trafficking; Prohibiting facilitating or enabling the receiving of persons into any place, structure, building, or conveyance for the purpose of prostitution, lewdness, or assignation; prohibiting knowingly engaging in specified activities for the purpose of prostitution and thereby benefitting financially or receiving anything of value; providing increased criminal penalties for specified prohibited acts relating to lewdness, assignation, or prostitution, etc.

Safe Waterways Act; Citing this act as the “Safe Waterways Act”; requiring, rather than authorizing, the Department of Health to adopt and enforce certain rules; directing the department to require closure of beach waters and public bathing places under certain circumstances; including public bathing places in an existing preemption of authority to the state pertaining to the issuance of such health advisories and an existing notification requirement; providing that municipalities and counties are responsible for maintaining the health advisory signs around affected beach waters and public bathing places that they own; requiring the department to establish a public statewide interagency database for a specified purpose, etc.

Medicaid Eligibility for Young Adults; Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration, in consultation with the Commission on Mental Health and Substance Abuse, to conduct a study for a specified purpose; providing requirements for the study; providing duties for the agency based on the findings in the study; requiring the agency to submit a report of the findings and its recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date, etc.

State University Student Fee Waivers; Requiring state universities to waive specified fees for graduate students who meet a specified full-time equivalent appointment requirement, etc.

State Renewable Energy Goals; Prohibiting the drilling or exploration for, or production of, oil, gas, or other petroleum products; prohibiting permitting and construction of certain structures intended to drill or explore for, or produce or transport, oil, gas, or other petroleum products; requiring that all electricity used in the state be generated by renewable energy by a specified date; requiring statewide net zero carbon emissions by a specified date; creating the Renewable Energy Workforce Development Advisory Committee in the Office of Energy within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, etc.

Caregiving Youth; Creating the Florida Caregiving Youth Task Force within the Department of Health for a specified purpose; providing for membership, meetings, and duties of the task force; defining the terms “caregiving youth” and “household member”; requiring the Department of Education to establish a training program for school personnel related to caregiving youth for a specified purpose, etc.

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders; Revising the definition of the term “developmental disability” to include fetal alcohol spectrum disorders; defining the term “fetal alcohol spectrum disorders”, etc.

Specialty License Plates/Paddling in Florida; Directing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop a Paddling in Florida license plate; providing for distribution and use of fees collected from the sale of the plate, etc.