Damages Recoverable in Wrongful Death Actions; Citing this act as the “Keith Davis Family Protection Act”; removing a provision that prohibits adult children and parents of adult children from recovering certain damages in medical negligence suits, etc.
Sponsored bills
Panelized Construction; Defining the term “panelized construction”; providing that panelized construction is exempt from state approval but must comply with all local requirements of the governmental agency having jurisdiction at the installation site, etc.
Assessment of Homestead Property; Revising the method of homestead property assessments; requiring that assessments be at the most recent purchase price or, in the case of new construction, the cost of construction; requiring that reassessment be the prior assessed value or a specified calculation; authorizing the Department of Revenue to create a grant program for a certain purpose, etc.
Guaranteed Income Programs; Defining the terms “guaranteed income program” and “local government”; prohibiting a local government from adopting or enforcing a law, an ordinance, a resolution, an order, or a rule that has the purpose or effect of providing for payments under a guaranteed income program; authorizing the Attorney General to send a cease and desist order to a local government that violates specified provisions, etc.
Gaming Control; Providing that the Florida Gaming Control Commission is exempt from specified state contracting provisions; authorizing the commission to acquire land, property, interests, buildings, or other improvements for a specified purpose; deleting specified premises as being prohibited from allowing minors to place bets; prohibiting a person from advertising illegal gambling; deleting a rebuttable presumption that a device, system, or network is a prohibited slot machine or device under certain circumstances, etc.
Florida Museum of Black History; Providing legislative intent; establishing the Florida Museum of Black History Board of Directors; prohibiting specified members of the board from holding state or local elective office while serving on the board; requiring that the board work jointly with the Foundation for the Museum of Black History, Inc., etc.
Florida State Guard; Authorizing leaves of absence for members of the Florida State Guard when they are engaged in certain ordered training; providing a discount on annual entrance passes to state parks for current members of the Florida State Guard; creating and specifying the annual fee for the Florida State Guard gold sportsman’s license for hunting and fishing; creating the Florida State Guard Scholarship Program for a specified purpose, etc.
Study on the Elimination of Property Taxes; Requiring the Office of Economic and Demographic Research to conduct a specified study; requiring the office to submit a report to the Legislature by a specified date, etc.
Interfering with an Officer’s Means of Protection or Communication; Prohibiting a person from depriving certain officers of digital recording devices or restraint devices; prohibiting a person from rendering useless certain officer’s weapons or radios, digital recording devices, or restraint devices, etc.
Anchoring Limitation Areas; Restricting local regulation of vessels outside the marked boundaries of mooring fields in certain counties and areas of critical state concern; designating specified sections of Biscayne Bay in Miami-Dade County as grandfathered-in anchoring limitation areas; increasing the prohibited anchoring and mooring distance of vessels and floating structures near public mooring fields, etc.