Sen. Lauren Book

Domestic Violence Investigations; Citing this act as the “Gabby Petito Act”; requiring law enforcement officers to complete a lethality assessment form when investigating alleged incidents of domestic violence; requiring the department to consult with specified entities on the policies, procedures, and training necessary to implement the use of the form; prohibiting law enforcement officers from using the form if they have not received certain training, etc.

Background Screening Requirements; Specifying additional disqualifying offenses under the background screening requirements for certain persons; expanding certain background screening requirements to apply to all health care practitioners, rather than specified practitioners; prohibiting the Department of Health, beginning on a specified date, from renewing the license of a health care practitioner until he or she complies with the background screening requirements, etc.

Public Records/Recording Notification Service; Providing that certain information submitted to the clerk of the circuit court or property appraiser for the purpose of registering for a recording notification service or a related service is confidential and exempt from public records requirements; providing for retroactive application; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Transportation Facility Designations/Jimmy Buffett Highway; Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in specified counties; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers by a specified date, etc.

Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program; Establishing the Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program within the Department of Legal Affairs; requiring the department to accept and process applications for the payment of compensation claims under the program; requiring the department to provide specified notice of the program; requiring the department, subject to the appropriation of funds for that purpose, to pay a specified compensation amount to approved applicants, etc. APPROPRIATION: $20,000,000

Interpersonal Violence Injunction Petitions; Revising a requirement that petitions for injunction for protection against domestic violence, repeat violence, sexual violence, or dating violence, and stalking, respectively, be verified, rather than sworn to; revising the form for such petitions for injunction to require a person to verify, rather than swear to, certain statements; requiring the clerk of the court to include an injunction in the Driver and Vehicle Information Database, etc.

Verification of Eligibility for Homestead Exemption; Requiring the Department of Revenue to provide a specified form that county property appraisers may use to provide tentative verification of persons’ eligibility for specified exemptions after purchasing homestead property; providing a requirement for such form; providing that certain decisions are not subject to administrative or judicial review, etc.

Digital Voyeurism; Redesignating the offense of “video voyeurism” as “digital voyeurism”; providing reduced criminal penalties for certain violations by persons who are under 19 years of age; redesignating the offense of “video voyeurism dissemination” as “digital voyeurism dissemination”, etc.

Israel Day at the Capitol; Designating February 29, 2024, as “Israel Day at the Capitol”, etc.

Antisemitism; Defining the term “antisemitism”; providing contemporary examples of antisemitism, etc.