Cost-of-living Adjustment of Retirement Benefits; Revising how the cost-of-living adjustment of benefits for certain retirees and beneficiaries is calculated; providing a declaration of important state interest, etc.
Elections; Requiring that the Secretary of State be elected rather than appointed and serve a specified term; requiring the Florida Commission on Offender Review to develop and maintain a database for a specified purpose; repealing provisions relating to the Office of Election Crimes and Security; authorizing a person who meets certain requirements to register to vote at an early voting site or at his or her polling place and to immediately thereafter cast a ballot; authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to preregister certain individuals to vote; prohibiting local governments, state agencies, and state officials from implementing or enforcing actions that result in, will result in, or are intended to result in specified disparities or impairments, etc.
Protection from Surgical Smoke; Defining the terms “smoke evacuation system” and “surgical smoke”; requiring hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to, by a specified date, adopt and implement policies requiring the use of smoke evacuation systems during certain surgical procedures, etc.
Tax Exemptions for Disabled Ex-servicemembers; Revising the amount of a certain exemption related to disabled ex-servicemembers, etc.
Cold Case Murders; Citing this act as the “Decker-Backmann Act”; requiring the heads of law enforcement agencies or their designees to review certain cold cases upon receiving a written application from a designated person; providing requirements for such reviews; requiring law enforcement agencies to provide specified training; requiring law enforcement agencies, by a specified date and periodically thereafter, to report certain data to the Global Forensic and Justice Center at Florida International University, etc.
Task Force on Missing and Murdered African-American Women; Creating the task force within the Department of Law Enforcement; requiring the department to provide meeting space and administrative assistance; requiring the task force to examine and report on specified issues; requiring the task force to submit a report containing specified information to certain legislative committees by a specified date, etc. APPROPRIATION: $150,000
Financial Accountability in Publicly Funded Education; Revising requirements for a private school to participate in certain educational scholarship programs; requiring the Department of Education to suspend the payment of funds to participating private schools under certain circumstances; creating the K-12 Education Funding Task Force within the department, etc.
Child Support and Time-sharing Resulting from Unwanted Pregnancies; Providing that the financial obligation of child support may not be terminated in instances where a victim of rape, incest, or human trafficking is unable to receive an abortion for the resulting pregnancy; providing for the automatic termination of paternal rights of the offender; providing for automatic child support orders in such instances; requiring such offenders to repay the state for any expenses incurred in support of the child, etc.
Support for the State of Israel; Expressing the Florida Senate’s unwavering support for the State of Israel, etc.
Florida A&M University Rattlers; Recognizing and honoring the Florida A&M University Rattlers football team for winning the 2023 HBCU National Championship, etc.
