Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez

Legal Tender; Requiring the Department of Financial Services to contract with an appropriate vendor to conduct a specified study and submit a report to the Legislature by a specified date; prohibiting the vendor from having certain relationships; requiring, by a specified date, the department to provide proposed statutory and administrative rule language if certain conditions are met, etc.

Disability History and Awareness Instruction; Citing this act as the "Evin B. Hartsell Act"; requiring the Department of Education to develop specified curricula; authorizing the department to consult with the Evin B. Hartsell Foundation to further develop such curricula, etc.

Emergency Services; Deleting a limitation on the number of red or red and white warning signals that certain vehicles may display; revising the circumstances under which certain applicants for a specified license are exempt from a requirement to obtain certificates of public convenience and necessity; providing criminal penalties for the submission of an affidavit that fraudulently attests to certain facts; revising a limitation on the number of counties that may be granted a certain exemption, etc.

Indemnification of Commuter Rail Transportation Providers; Creating the "Coastal Link Commuter Rail Service Act"; authorizing an agency to assume the obligation to protect, defend, indemnify, and hold harmless certain entities from and against certain liabilities, costs, and expenses in certain circumstances; providing that an employee of an operator is not a coastal link corridor invitee of such operator in certain circumstances; specifying the circumstances under which certain passengers are coastal link corridor invitees of certain operators; requiring that the allocation of liability between certain agencies be allocated as agreed and limited by certain provisions, etc.

Motor Vehicles; Reclassifying the offense of driving, moving, or causing to be moved a vehicle or equipment with certain lighting on a highway as a third degree felony; prohibiting a person from knowingly using a license plate obscuring device; prohibiting the purchase, possession, manufacture, sale, offering for sale, or distribution of a license plate obscuring device, etc.

Health Care Billing and Collection Activities; Revising the definition of the term “extraordinary collection action”; authorizing licensed facilities to engage in an extraordinary collection action under certain circumstances, etc.

Resilient Florida Trust Fund/Department of Environmental Protection; Re-creating the Resilient Florida Trust Fund within the Department of Environmental Protection; deleting provisions relating to the termination of the trust fund, etc.

Maddy summarySR 1868 designates April 2, 2025, as "Independent Online Sellers Day" in Florida. This ceremonial resolution does not create new laws or policies; it simply recognizes independent online sellers through a designated observance date. The bill directly affects Florida's independent online sellers by providing a symbolic day of recognition. It has no binding provisions or mechanisms beyond the date designation.

Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week; Recognizing the week of May 4, 2025, as “Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week” in Florida, and encouraging individuals who are experiencing uncontrollable, abnormal, and repetitive movements to consult their health care provider regarding their symptoms, etc.

Maddy summarySenate Resolution 1848 designates July 24, 2025, as "Private Investigators Day" in Florida. The resolution recognizes July 24 as "PI Day" in the profession and highlights Florida's 8,233 private investigators, who are concentrated in metropolitan areas like Miami, Tampa, and Fort Lauderdale. This ceremonial resolution does not create new laws or alter existing regulations; it solely honors the profession through symbolic recognition.