Applicability of Valued Policy Law to Surplus Lines Insurers; Requiring surplus lines insurers to comply with the valued policy law under certain circumstances; defining the term “insurer” to include surplus lines insurers for the purpose of the valued policy law, etc.
Redemption Rights and Deeds in Lieu of Foreclosure; Citing this act as the “Redemption Procedures Improvement Act”; providing that a defendant, a property owner, or a holder of a subordinate interest in real property may cure a defendant’s indebtedness to prevent the sale of such real property; providing that the right of redemption by an owner of real property subject to redemption is not waivable; authorizing the transfer of a lien claimed to encumber real or personal property by certain persons; prohibiting a mortgagee or its designee from acquiring interest, right to legal title, or right of possession to a mortgagee’s property, etc.
Claims for Adverse Reactions to Vaccines and Drugs Under the Medicare, Medicaid, and Medically Needy Programs; Citing this act as "Cody’s Law: Florida No Vaccine-Injured Patient Left Behind"; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to expedite the review and payment process for claims related to adverse reactions to vaccines, immunizing agents, and emergency countermeasure drugs under the Medicare, Medicaid, and Medicaid medically needy programs; requiring the agency to publish certain information on its website, etc.
Elections; Requiring the Department of State to adopt rules relating to the security of certain voting procedures; authorizing political action committees and political committees to have poll watchers in polling rooms and early voting areas; requiring that a certain audit be conducted after each election; requiring a person requesting a vote-by-mail ballot to provide and attest to an allowed reason for such request; requiring a supervisor of elections to verify a certificate signature, a voter certificate envelope, and ballot material in a specified manner, etc.
Requirements of Lenders of Money; Citing this act as the “Default Interest Transparency Act”; requiring lenders of money or the agents, officers, or other representatives of such lenders to provide a dated receipt under certain circumstances; requiring lenders of money or the agents, officers, or other representatives of such lenders to give a specified notice to the borrower and all obligors of the loan within a specified timeframe; requiring the assignor of a mortgage loan to provide, within a specified timeframe, a copy of the loan history statement to a borrower or obligor upon request, etc.
Criminal Offenses; Revising the definitions of the terms “harass,” “course of conduct,” and “cyberstalk”; providing criminal penalties for persons who willfully or maliciously harass or cyberstalk specified justice system personnel; revising the elements of an offense constituting aggravated stalking; authorizing courts to issue a warrant for a defendant’s arrest under specified circumstances, etc.
Elections; Requiring that certain instructions be prominently displayed on certain websites; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to provide to certain individuals an opportunity to register to vote or update voter registration records; requiring a third-party voter registration organization to provide a certain affirmation to the Division of Elections; requiring a supervisor of elections to verify an elector’s eligibility status using all available data sources in certain circumstances, etc.
Community Associations; Creating the Condominium and Homeowners’ Association Economic Crime, Fraud, and Corruption Investigation Pilot Program within the Department of Legal Affairs; authorizing the department to contract with a private entity to achieve the program’s purpose; requiring that the pilot program be funded from the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes Trust Fund; requiring the division to monitor condominium associations’ compliance with requirements relating to maintenance of certain insurance or fidelity bonding of certain persons, etc.
Nature-based Methods for Improving Coastal Resilience; Specifying that the Florida Flood Hub for Applied Research and Innovation is established within the University of South Florida, rather than within the University of South Florida College of Marine Science; requiring the hub to develop design guidelines and standards for optimal combinations of green and gray infrastructure and to model the effects of conceptual designs of certain green and gray infrastructure; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to adopt rules for nature-based methods for coastal resilience, etc. APPROPRIATION: $250,000
Boating Safety; Requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to issue original, renewal, or replacement identification cards with a lifetime boating safety identification card symbol to applicants if certain conditions are met; providing increased criminal penalties for the reckless operation of a vessel which causes serious bodily injury to another; revising the conditions that compose the offense of, and penalties for, boating under the influence (BUI); revising the definition of the term “vessel homicide” to include the killing of an unborn child by causing injury to the mother by operation of a vessel in a reckless manner under certain circumstances, etc.
