Sen. Shev Jones

Comprehensive Review Study of the Central and Southern Florida Project; Requiring the South Florida Water Management District to prepare and submit a consolidated annual report regarding the status of a specified study to the Office of Economic and Demographic Research, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Governor, and the Legislature by a specified date, etc.

Criminal Justice; Deleting provisions relating to allowing specified elected officials to file an appeal to the Administration Commission if the governing body of a municipality makes a specified reduction to the operating budget of the municipal law enforcement agency; revising the prohibition on obstructing traffic by standing on the street, highway, or road; deleting provisions providing that a municipality has a duty to allow the municipal law enforcement agency to respond to a riot or an unlawful assembly in a specified manner based on specified circumstances; deleting a criminal penalty for an assault committed in furtherance of a riot or an aggravated riot, etc.

Genetic Counseling; Creating the “Genetic Counseling Workforce Act”; providing licensure, licensure renewal, and continuing education requirements; requiring the Department of Health to adopt by rule continuing education requirements; prohibiting the licensing of a genetic counselor from being contingent on his or her participation in counseling that conflicts with his or her deeply held moral or religious beliefs; revising the definition of the term “health care practitioner” to include licensed genetic counselors, etc. APPROPRIATION: $45,964

Licenses to Carry Concealed Weapons or Firearms; Reducing the term and fee of a license to carry a concealed weapon or firearm; specifying that experience with a firearm through military service in the United States Armed Forces meets the requirement of demonstrating competence with a firearm; requiring the retention of fingerprints in specified systems; requiring a licensee, upon each renewal, to provide proof of completion of a firearms training or safety course or class meeting specified requirements, etc.

Renaming Transportation Facilities; Revising the names of specified transportation facilities; directing the Department of Transportation to take all steps necessary within budgeted funds to implement the renaming; providing for certain approvals by affected municipalities and Miami-Dade County before new road signage is installed on specified transportation facilities; prohibiting persons or entities affected by the name changes from being required to update state driver licenses and identification cards, state and local licenses, permits, registration, and similar authorizations until expiration or in the normal course of renewal or replacement, etc.

Postsecondary Graduation Achievement Housing Scholarship Program; Establishing the Postsecondary Graduation Achievement Housing Scholarship Program; requiring the Department of Education to administer the program; providing for funding; authorizing scholarships to be prorated under certain circumstances; providing requirements for the use of scholarship funds; authorizing the State Board of Education to adopt rules, etc.

Certified Copy of Documents Required for Restoration of Voting Rights; Requiring the clerk of the circuit court to provide certain documents needed to restore voting rights to certain persons without charge; requiring the clerk of the circuit court to provide certain documents to a person pursing restoration of voting rights without charge or delay, etc.

Sunshine Scholarship Program; Establishing the Sunshine Scholarship Program for specified purposes; requiring the Department of Education to administer the program; requiring certain financial aid to be credited to a student’s tuition and fees before award of a Sunshine Scholarship; requiring a student who receives a program scholarship and completes his or her program of study or disenrolls from an eligible postsecondary institution to reside and work within this state for a certain period of time unless a specified exception applies, etc.

Candidate Qualifying and Campaign Expenditures; Prohibiting a person from qualifying as a candidate for state, district, county, or municipal office in certain circumstances; providing requirements for the check with which a candidate’s qualifying fee is paid; providing requirements for the notice a filing officer is required to provide to a candidate in certain circumstances; prohibiting a person who owes a certain fine from qualifying as a candidate for election to office until such fine is paid; prohibiting a person under investigation by the Commission on Ethics from qualifying as a candidate for election in certain circumstances, etc.

Costs of Incarceration; Providing that only offenders convicted of capital or life felonies are liable for a liquidated damage amount for incarceration and other correctional costs; removing provisions specifying a fixed daily amount for an offender’s liability for incarceration costs and other correctional costs for offenders convicted of certain offenses, etc.