Sen. Jason W. B. Pizzo

Public Records/Reports of Animal Cruelty; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for all records containing reports of animal cruelty made by veterinarians, veterinary technicians, and other animal treatment provider employees; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Courtroom Animal Advocates; Providing for appointment of an advocate for the interests of an animal in certain court proceedings, at the discretion of the court; requiring the Animal Law Section of The Florida Bar to maintain a list of attorneys and certified legal interns meeting specified requirements who are eligible to be appointed as such advocates, etc.

Free Trade Agreement/United States and United Kingdom ; Commending Congress for granting trade promotion authority to the executive branch, urging the executive branch to negotiate a comprehensive and mutually beneficial free trade agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom, and urging Congress to ratify such agreement, etc.

Gain-time for Certain Women Prisoners; Specifying that a pregnant prisoner or a prisoner who is the mother of a child of a certain age sentenced to a state correctional institution is eligible under certain circumstances to earn or receive gain-time in an amount that would cause her sentence to expire, end, or terminate after serving 65 percent of the sentence imposed; providing that a pregnant prisoner or a prisoner who is the mother of a child of a certain age is ineligible under certain circumstances to earn or receive gain-time in an amount that would cause her sentence to expire, end, or terminate after serving 65 percent of the sentence imposed, etc.

Assistant State Attorney and Assistant Public Defender Student Loan Repayment Program; Establishing a student loan repayment program within the Department of Education for assistant state attorneys and assistant public defenders; requiring the Department of Education to administer the program; requiring payments to be contingent upon proof of eligibility and annual recertification through an annual certification affidavit; providing that payments are not considered taxable income; requiring the department to reduce payments for all program participants by a proportional amount if appropriated funds are insufficient to provide maximum payment for all program participants’ loans, etc.

First Aid for Severe Bleeding; Requiring the State Surgeon General to adopt guidelines for the placement of bleeding control kits in state buildings; requiring district school boards to provide a bleeding control kit in every school within the school district; requiring school districts to provide instruction for all students in first aid for severe bleeding; requiring students to study and practice skills associated with first aid for severe bleeding at least once before graduating from high school; requiring the Department of Education to develop a list of approved first aid for severe bleeding instructional programs for certain instructional personnel by a specified date, etc.

Health Education; Requiring health education instruction for certain students to include age-appropriate water safety instruction; providing requirements for such instruction, etc.

Compensation for Eligible Victims of Wrongful Incarceration; Extending the filing deadline for a petition claiming wrongful incarceration; providing limited retroactivity for filing a petition claiming wrongful incarceration; providing that a deceased person’s heirs, successors, or assigns do not have standing to file a petition related to the wrongful incarceration of the deceased person; revising eligibility for compensation for wrongful incarceration for a wrongfully incarcerated person; authorizing the Chief Financial Officer to adjust compensation for inflation for persons found to be wrongfully incarcerated after a specified date; specifying that payments for certain petitions filed under the Victims of Wrongful Incarceration Compensation Act are subject to specific appropriation, etc.

HIV Prevention Justice Act; Citing this act as the "HIV Prevention Justice Act"; reducing the degree of criminal penalty for certain persons who are infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and who donate blood, plasma, organs, skin, or other human tissue for use in another person; revising prohibitions relating to the intentional transmission of certain diseases through sexual conduct; providing that a person’s failure to comply with behavioral recommendations does not de facto establish intent to transmit a disease; revising requirements for HIV testing in cases involving criminal transmission of HIV, etc.

Evictions During a Declared State of Emergency; Prohibiting specified service of process during an emergency declaration period; providing immunity from liability for certain persons for failing to take certain actions during an emergency declaration period; defining the term “emergency declaration period”; tolling specified time periods for certain evictions under certain circumstances; requiring a court to stay eviction proceedings during an emergency declaration period; defining the term “emergency declaration period”, etc.