Sen. Lauren Book

Commission on Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Creating the Commission on Mental Health and Substance Abuse adjunct to the Department of Children and Families; requiring the department to provide administrative and staff support services to the commission; providing for future review and repeal unless saved by the Legislature through reenactment, etc.

Tax Exemption for Diapers and Incontinence Products; Exempting the sale for human use of diapers, incontinence undergarments, incontinence pads, or incontinence liners from the sales and use tax, etc.

Racing Motor Vehicles; Revising prohibitions on persons driving motor vehicles in any race, speed competition or contest, drag race or acceleration contest, test of physical endurance, or exhibition of speed, a stunt, agility, or acceleration or for other specified purposes on any highway, roadway, or parking lot; prohibiting a person from coordinating via social media any such race, competition, contest, test, or exhibition; prohibiting persons from operating a vehicle in a manner that would constitute participation in an organized ride, etc.

Child Welfare; Specifying the rights of children and young adults in out-of-home care; requiring the Florida Children’s Ombudsman to serve as an autonomous entity within the department for certain purposes; requiring that a case plan be developed in a face-to-face conference with a caregiver of a child under certain circumstances; providing additional requirements for the licensure and operation of family foster homes, residential child-caring agencies, and child-placing agencies, etc.

Gay and Transgender Panic Legal Defenses; Citing this act as the “Gay and Transgender Panic Legal Defense Prohibition Act”; prohibiting individuals from using a nonviolent sexual advance or specified perceptions or beliefs about another individual as a defense to a criminal offense, to excuse or justify the conduct of the individual who commits a criminal offense, or to mitigate the severity of a criminal offense, etc.

Statute of Limitations for Sexual Offenses; Eliminating the statute of limitations period for civil actions for certain sexual offenses, etc.

Immunization Standards for Child Care Facilities; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to include in licensure standards for child care facilities a minimum percentage of children enrolled in a facility who must have received immunizations, etc.

Donor Human Milk Bank Services; Defining the term “donor human milk bank”; requiring the Department of Health to establish certain standards for the regulation of donor human milk banks; requiring donor human milk banks to comply with certain standards; requiring the department to adopt rules, etc.

Firearms; Authorizing a law enforcement officer acting in accordance with certain provisions to serve and execute a certain court order on any day and at any time; authorizing a law enforcement officer acting in accordance with certain provisions to use reasonable physical force to gain entry to the premises or any dwelling located on such premises and to take custody of the person who is the subject of such court order; authorizing a law enforcement officer taking custody of the person who is the subject of such court order to seize and hold the person’s firearms or ammunition or license to carry a concealed weapon or firearm under certain circumstances; authorizing a court to remove the right to purchase, own, sell, or possess firearms or ammunition or to possess a license to carry concealed weapons or firearms of a person found to be incapacitated, etc.

Parental Leave for State Employees; Authorizing parental leave for career service employees who have a stillborn child, etc.