Background Screening; Prohibiting employers from excluding applicants from an initial interview for employment under certain conditions; providing a civil penalty; providing applicability; providing exceptions; requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to enforce the act, etc.
Specialty License Plates/Highwaymen; Directing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop a Highwaymen license plate; providing for distribution and use of fees collected from the sale of the plates, etc.
Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program; Revising student eligibility requirements for initial awards from any of the scholarships under the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program, etc.
Statewide Heart Attack Registry; Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to contract with a private entity to establish and maintain a statewide heart attack registry, subject to a specific appropriation; requiring hospitals to provide certain information to the statewide heart attack registry; requiring the contracted entity to use a nationally recognized platform to collect data, etc.
Prosecuting Children as Adults; Deleting provisions under which a state attorney either must request a court to transfer and certify children of certain ages who commit specified crimes for prosecution as adults or must provide written reasons to the court for not making such a request, or proceed under certain provisions; providing that children 14 years of age or older, rather than children of any age, who are charged with certain offenses are subject to the jurisdiction of the court until an indictment is returned by the grand jury; authorizing, rather than requiring, that a child who is found to have committed specified crimes be sentenced according to certain provisions, etc.
Use of Deadly Force in Defense of a Person; Repealing a provision relating to home protection and the use or threatened use of deadly force, which creates a presumption of fear of death or great bodily harm in certain circumstances and provides that a person has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force in certain circumstances, etc.
Removal of a Student for an Involuntary Examination; Revising the requirements for parental notification prior to removing a student for an involuntary examination, under certain circumstances, etc.
Medical Cannabis Patients; Citing this act as the "Medical Cannabis Patient Protection Act"; specifying that a qualified patient’s medical use of cannabis does not constitute the use of an illicit substance for purposes of medical care; prohibiting a qualified patient’s disqualification from any medical treatment or therapy solely on the basis of his or her medical use of cannabis, etc.
Qualifying Medical Conditions for Medical Use of Marijuana; Adding sickle cell disease to the list of qualifying medical conditions for medical use of marijuana, etc.
Incarcerated Women With Newborn Children; Requiring certain women inmates within the state correctional system who have newborn children to be allowed specified visitation and physical touch privileges with their newborn children; authorizing the Department of Corrections to adopt rules relating to the visiting hours and privileges of certain inmates, etc.
