Specialty License Plates/Inter Miami CF; Directing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop an Inter Miami CF specialty license plate; providing for distribution and use of fees collected from the sale of the license plate, etc.
Individual Freedom; Providing that subjecting any individual, as a condition of employment, membership, certification, licensing, credentialing, or passing an examination, to training, instruction, or any other required activity that espouses, promotes, advances, inculcates, or compels such individual to believe specified concepts constitutes discrimination based on race, color, sex, or national origin; revising the requirements for required instruction on health education; prohibiting instructional materials reviewers from recommending instructional materials that contain any matter that contradicts certain principles, etc.
Educational Scholarship Program Funding; Revising the Department of Education’s obligation to cross-check the list of Family Empowerment Scholarship Program students with public school enrollment lists; requiring the department to adjust payments to eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations and recalculate the Florida Education Finance Program (FEFP) allocation for school districts upon completion of the cross-check; requiring the department to recalculate the FEFP allocation for school districts upon completion of the cross-check for Hope Scholarship Program students, etc.
Towing Vehicles; Prohibiting investigating agencies from releasing motor vehicles towed to an agency’s storage facility until certain proof of payment is presented to the agency; specifying that investigating agencies that do not obtain proof of payment must pay certain charges within a specified timeframe; revising the timeframe required for sending notices of lien; prohibiting towing companies from releasing vehicles owned by rental car companies, which are towed under certain circumstances, to the person who rented the vehicle unless the rental car company appoints the person as its agent, etc.
Protection of Victims and Witnesses; Revising the standard for orders to protect certain testifying victims and witnesses; prohibiting depositions of certain victims and witnesses in certain proceedings without a showing of good cause; revising factors to be considered by a court in a motion seeking to protect a victim or witness; requiring the court to appoint a guardian ad litem or other advocate for the deponent under certain circumstances; creating the Statewide Data Repository for Anonymous Human Trafficking Data at the University of South Florida, etc.
Late or Delinquent Medical Account Reporting; Citing this act as the “Florida Consumer Medical Reporting Protection Act”; requiring consumer reporting agencies to provide a specified grace period before reporting late or delinquent medical accounts; prohibiting consumer reporting agencies from including late or delinquent medical accounts in consumer credit score calculations for a certain period after such accounts are reported, etc.
Fees/Pet Store License; Requiring an initial or renewal pet store license application to be accompanied by a specified nonrefundable license fee per licensed location; requiring the moneys collected from such license fees to be deposited into the Department of Business and Professional Regulation’s Professional Regulation Trust Fund, etc.
Licensure Requirements For land Surveyors And Mappers; Authorizing an exiled professional to substitute a specified lawful practice of the profession for the education requirement of the examination; revising education requirements for licensure to include an applicant who has received an associate degree under certain circumstances; requiring such education to be from an accredited college or university; providing that specified experience entitles an applicant to take the licensure examination for licensure as a land surveyor or mapper; providing that an applicant who holds a valid license from another state, jurisdiction, or territory, and has certain experience in the practice of surveying and mapping may take the licensure examination to practice as a land surveyor or mapper in this state, etc.
School District Levies; Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to authorize the Legislature, by general law, to provide for the use of revenue from school district levies for the educational benefit of students who are not attending full time a school or program operated by the district school board, etc.
Pet Protection; Creating the "Florida Pet Protection Act"; requiring the licensure of retail pet stores; limiting the sources from which retail pet stores may acquire household pets for specified purposes; requiring the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to conduct periodic inspections of retail pet stores and to audit sales records; requiring the department to deny a retail pet store license under certain circumstances; prohibiting county and municipal ordinances and regulations from prohibiting or regulating the breeding, purchase, or sale of certain working dogs, etc.
