Sen. Shev Jones

Sentencing for Controlled Substance Offenses; Providing for sentencing or resentencing for persons who committed certain violations that involve trafficking in hydrocodone, codeine, or oxycodone before specified dates; providing for retroactive application of provisions; requiring resentencing for persons who committed such violations before a specified date and are serving mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment; requiring the Department of Corrections to notify certain persons of their eligibility to request sentence review hearings, 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 a specified portion of the contract value; requiring a vendor to identify subcontractors or subvendors when bidding for such a contract; requiring the vendor to report certain information regarding subcontractors or subvendors upon performance or completion of the contract, etc.

Residential Tenancies; Prohibiting a landlord from refusing to enter into a rental agreement with a prospective tenant under certain circumstances related to COVID-19, etc.

Distribution of Residual or Undistributable Funds in Civil Matters; Authorizing courts to apply the doctrine of cy pres in certain circumstances; providing for distribution of funds subject to cy pres distribution, etc.

State Nutrition Assistance Reimbursement Program; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to develop and implement a nutrition assistance reimbursement program to reimburse community-based nonprofit organizations and nonprofit religious organizations providing certain enrollment assistance services; requiring the department to determine eligibility criteria and application procedures for the program; requiring the submission of an application on a form prescribed by the department for reimbursement under the program; requiring the department to establish a funding mechanism to support the authorization of reimbursements under the program; requiring the department to adopt rules, etc.

Pregnant Women in Custody; Citing this act as the "Protecting the Dignity of Women and Infants Act"; requiring that every female who is arrested and not released on bond within 72 hours after arrest be administered a pregnancy test within a specified timeframe, upon her request; requiring that each municipal or county detention facility notify each arrested female upon booking of her right to request a pregnancy test; requiring that, if a pregnant woman is convicted of a crime and sentenced to incarceration of any length, the sentencing judge provide the pregnant woman the opportunity to defer the imposed sentence until a certain time after delivery, etc.

Insurance Adjusters; Adding a designation that exempts applicants for licensure as an all-lines adjuster from an examination requirement, etc.

Legal Holidays; Removing the designations of the birthdays of Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis and Confederate Memorial Day as legal holidays, etc.

Employee Protections; Providing that individuals who voluntarily leave work for specified reasons are not disqualified from reemployment benefits; prohibiting the employment record of an employer from being charged for benefits paid to individuals who voluntarily leave work as a result of specified circumstances related to a homicide or individuals who are a witness, or have an immediate family member who is a witness, to certain crimes; increasing the amount of leave an employer must allow an employee to take if the employee or a family or household member of the employee is the victim of domestic violence or sexual violence; revising the specified reasons for which an employee may take such leave, etc.

Crime and ViolenceTask Force; Creating the Urban Core Crime and Violence Task Force within the Department of Law Enforcement; providing for membership, duties, and meetings of the task force; requiring state agencies to provide assistance when requested; authorizing the task force to receive exempt or confidential and exempt information and specifying that the information maintains such status; requiring the task force to submit a report to the Governor and Legislature by a specified date; providing for expiration of the task force, etc.