Law Clerks for Circuit Court Judges; Providing for a law clerk for each circuit court judge; specifying a base salary, etc.
Civil Liability for the Wrongful Death of an Unborn Child; Revising the definition of the term “survivors” to include the parents of an unborn child; defining the term “unborn child”; prohibiting a right of action against the mother for the wrongful death of an unborn child; authorizing parents of an unborn child to recover certain damages, etc.
Interest on Trust Accounts; Requiring the Chief Financial Officer to set the rate of interest payable by eligible institutions on interest on trust accounts quarterly, effective on specified dates; providing that the percentage yield of such rate may not exceed a specified threshold; requiring the Chief Financial Officer to inform Funding Florida Legal Aid of the rate established for the quarter; requiring that such institutions submit to Funding Florida Legal Aid a certain form promulgated by The Florida Bar, etc.
Pregnancy Support Services; Establishing the Florida State Maternity Housing Grant Program within the Department of Children and Families for a specified purpose; providing specifications for sources of, and limitations on, funding for the program; requiring the State Office of Homelessness administering the grant funds to rank grant applicants competitively and give preference to certain grant applicants; specifying eligibility criteria for lead agencies applying for grants under the program, etc.
Prostitution and Related Acts; Prohibiting adults from offering to commit, committing, or engaging in prostitution, lewdness, or assignation; providing criminal penalties; prohibiting the owning, establishing, maintaining, operating, using, letting, or renting of a building, residence, place, or structure, in whole or in part, or a trailer or any other conveyance, with knowledge or reckless disregard that it will be used for the purpose of commercial sex; prohibiting the receiving, or offering or agreeing to receive, a person into a building, residence, place, or structure, or a trailer or any other conveyance, for the purpose of commercial sexual activity or to allow a person to remain there for such purpose, etc.
Insurance Claims; Citing this act as the “Transparency in Recoveries Act”; requiring the Office of Insurance Regulation to consider funds recovered under specified provisions in reviewing rates; requiring insurers to report funds recovered under specified provisions, etc.
Financial Strength of Property Insurers; Defining the terms “financial strength rating” and “independent ratings agency”; revising the requirements of a certain report prepared by the Office of Insurance Regulation of the Financial Services Commission, 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
Early Learning; Requiring that at least one staff person receive in-person cardiopulmonary resuscitation training; providing that private prekindergarten provider or public school curricula may not use a certain coordinated screening and progress monitoring program or other specified methods for direct student instruction; revising requirements with respect to performance metric methodology and the assignment of designations under the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program; revising the percentage of funds that an early learning coalition may retain and expend, etc.
Social Media Use for Minors; Requiring social media platforms to prohibit certain minors from creating new accounts, to terminate certain accounts and provide additional options for termination of such accounts, and to use reasonable age verification methods to verify the ages of account holders; authorizing the Department of Legal Affairs to bring actions for violations under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, etc.
