Sen. Bill Montford

Medical Use of Marijuana in Schools; Authorizing a qualified patient to designate more than one caregiver to assist with the qualified patient’s medical use of marijuana under certain circumstances; authorizing a county-designated caregiver to register as a caregiver for more than one qualified patient under certain circumstances; providing a procedure for a parent of a student who is a qualified patient to request that marijuana be administered to the student during the school day; requiring that a caregiver or a county-designated caregiver administering marijuana to the student do so in the area the school principal designates, etc.

Water Testing for Pollution; Authorizing specified persons or businesses that suspect contamination of their private water systems, multifamily water systems, or certain public water systems to request that the Department of Health or its agents test such source for pollution, under certain circumstances; requiring such testing to be done within a specified timeframe and follow certain procedures; revising the specified purposes that funds in a County Health Department Trust Fund may be used for to include the costs and expenditures related to certain water testing provisions, etc.

Pay-for-success Contracts; Authorizing a state agency to enter into a pay-for-success contract with a private entity under certain conditions, subject to an appropriation and specified language in the General Appropriations Act; authorizing cancellation of the contract under specified circumstances; specifying services and programs eligible for funding under the contract; prohibiting a private entity from viewing or receiving certain information that is otherwise confidential and exempt from public records requirements, etc.

Broadband Internet Service; Requiring the Department of Management Services to develop geographic information system maps in collaboration with specified entities and consistent with certain federal reporting standards by a specified date; specifying required contents of the maps; requiring the department to annually update such maps and establish a mechanism to receive and verify public input related to broadband Internet service, etc.

Relief of Shuler Limited Partnership/Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Providing for the relief of Shuler Limited Partnership by the Florida Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, formerly known as the Division of Forestry, and the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund; providing for an appropriation to compensate Shuler Limited Partnership for costs and fees and for damages sustained to 835 acres of its timber as a result of the negligence, negligence per se, and gross negligence of employees of the Florida Forest Service and their violation of ch. 590, F.S., etc. CLAIM WITH APPROPRIATION: $670,493

Rural Communities; Designating the “Florida Rural Jobs and Business Recovery Act”; requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to accept applications for approval as growth funds in a specified manner; prohibiting the department from approving more than a certain amount of investment authority or investor contributions; providing requirements for certified growth funds; granting a credit against state premium tax liability for specified investors; prohibiting growth funds that have exited the program from making certain distributions or paying certain fees under certain circumstances, etc.

Land Acquisition Trust Fund; Requiring that certain funds distributed into the Land Acquisition Trust Fund be used for conservation and management projects in certain counties; providing the types of projects for which the Department of Environmental Protection may use such funds, etc.

Transportation Facility Designations/J.D. Turner Highway; Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in specified counties; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.

District Millage Elections; Iincreasing the maximum number of years for which a specified millage may be levied, etc.

Statewide Emergency Shelter Task Force; Establishing the task force adjunct to the Department of Management Services; specifying the task force’s purpose; providing for the membership of the task force; providing requirements and restrictions for members of the task force; requiring the task force to report recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date, etc.