Sen. Tina Polsky

Restoration of Voting Rights; Requiring the Florida Commission on Offender Review to develop and maintain a database containing certain information for a certain purpose; requiring certain governmental entities to provide certain information to the commission monthly; requiring the Department of Management Services, acting through the Florida Digital Service, to provide certain technical assistance to the commission; requiring the commission to make the database available to the public on an Internet website by a certain date, etc.

Resolution of Disputed Property Insurance Claims; Requiring, rather than authorizing, parties in a property insurance claim dispute to participate in mediation; providing that mediation is a condition precedent to commencing litigation; requiring all insureds, or their representatives, to personally attend the mediation; requiring the policyholder to provide the insurer with any information and certain documents within a specified timeframe after mediation is invoked, etc. APPROPRIATION: $1,000,000

Protection of Parental Rights; Prohibiting a court from denying or restricting certain parental rights based solely on a parent’s status as a qualified patient for purposes of medical marijuana use; prohibiting the presumption of neglect or child endangerment based solely on a parent’s status as a qualified patient for purposes of medical marijuana use, etc.

Official State Bird; Requiring the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to develop and conduct a certain survey; requiring the commission to provide the survey and certain website information to specified persons during a specified timeframe; requiring that the survey include specified bird species; requiring the commission to submit the results of the survey to the Legislature by a specified date, etc.

Exceptions to the Limitation on Termination of Pregnancies; Revising the definition of the term “fatal fetal abnormality”; providing that one physician, rather than two physicians, must make specified medical determinations for purposes of specified medical exceptions to the limitation on termination of pregnancies; revising the criteria of a specified medical exception, etc.

Campaign Finance; Defining the term “state agency”; prohibiting state agencies from using state funds to advocate for or against any matter that is the subject of a constitutional amendment or revision, etc.

Preemption of Firearms and Ammunition; Repealing a provision relating to the preemption of the field of regulation of firearms and ammunition to the Legislature, to the exclusion of local jurisdictions, etc.

Cyberintimidation by Publication; Providing increased criminal penalties for persons who electronically publish another person’s personal identification information with the intent to, or with the intent that a third party will use the information to, incite violence or commit a crime against the person or threaten or harass the person; authorizing a person whose personal identification information is electronically published in violation of certain provisions to initiate a civil action against the perpetrator to obtain all appropriate relief, etc.

Maddy summarySB 256, titled "Sale or Transfer of Ammunition" and citing "Jaime's Law," requires state-run background checks for all ammunition sales and transfers between individuals. It directly affects ammunition sellers, private sellers, and buyers who purchase or receive ammunition. The bill mandates that these transactions must undergo a background check through the state's existing system before completion. This creates a new requirement for ammunition transactions, similar to firearm purchase checks, but applies specifically to ammunition.

Protections for Public Employees Who Use Medical Marijuana as Qualified Patients; Prohibiting a public employer from taking adverse personnel action against an employee or a job applicant for his or her use of medical marijuana if the employee or job applicant is a qualified patient; requiring a public employer to provide written notice of an employee’s or a job applicant’s right to explain or contest a positive marijuana test result within a specified timeframe; providing a cause of action and damages, etc.