Acceptance of Cash Payments by Businesses; Requiring certain businesses to accept cash payments for certain transactions; prohibiting such businesses from charging a fee or placing conditions on acceptance of such cash payments; providing penalties for violations of the act, etc.
Toxic Mold Protections; Citing this act as the “Toxic Mold Protections Act”; requiring commercial and industrial real property landlords to provide certain written disclosures to tenants under certain circumstances; creating the Toxic Mold Protection Advisory Council adjunct to the Department of Health; requiring the department to develop and adopt, in consultation with the advisory council, permissible exposure limits to molds for indoor environments; requiring the department to develop and adopt, in consultation with the advisory council, standards for assessing the health threat from exposure to molds in indoor environments; providing for enforcement of the permissible exposure limits to molds, the mold assessment standards, and certain disclosure requirements, etc.
State Contracting; Requiring an agency subject to ch. 287, F.S., to require any vendor awarded a competitively solicited contract for commodities or contractual services to use certified minority, woman-owned, or veteran-owned business enterprises as subcontractors or subvendors for at least a specified minimum percentage of the contract value; requiring the Office of Supplier Diversity to commission a disparity study to review and evaluate the use of minority, woman-owned, and veteran-owned business enterprises within this state by a specified date, etc. APPROPRIATION: $500,000
Domestic Abuser Registration; Requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to post a publicly accessible registry on its website of persons convicted of domestic abuse offenses; providing requirements for the registry; requiring the clerk of the court in each county to forward certain notices of conviction for domestic abuse offenses to the department within a specified time; requiring the maintenance of specified information for certain time periods, etc.
Certificates of Completion; Providing that students awarded a certificate of completion are eligible to enroll in workforce education programs; providing that students awarded a certificate of completion are eligible to enroll in workforce education programs; requiring charter technical career centers to identify such programs; requiring that students be advised of specified educational options before being awarded a certificate of completion, etc.
Endangered and Threatened Species; Directing the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to protect certain endangered or threatened species, regardless of the status of their federal classification; prohibiting the commission from considering certain costs when designating a species as endangered or threatened; directing the department, in consultation with the Endangered Plant Advisory Council, to protect certain endangered or threatened species, regardless of the status of their federal classification; prohibiting the department from considering certain costs when designating a species as endangered or threatened, etc.
Release of Adoption Information; Revising requirements related to the disclosure of certain adoption-related records without a court order; deleting the ability for certain adoption-related records to be disclosed without a court order; deleting a required fee for certain services and expenses; authorizing a court to break the seal of specified birth records upon the request of the person whose birth is the subject of such records under certain circumstances, etc.
Healthy Food Financing Initiative Program; Revising requirements for the administration of and participation in the Healthy Food Financing Initiative program; providing program eligibility requirements for nonprofit organizations and revising eligibility requirements for community development financial institutions; revising requirements for program applicants and projects; requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to review the program and collected data and provide the Legislature with a specified report, etc.
Drug Paraphernalia; Removing testing equipment from the definition of “drug paraphernalia”, etc.
School Nutrition Program Requirements; Requiring district school boards to provide the parent or guardian of a student who is eligible for free or reduced-priced meals with information on the Florida Kidcare program, etc.
