Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez

Carbon Sequestration; Creating the Carbon Sequestration Task Force adjunct to the Department of Environmental Protection; providing for task force membership and duties; requiring the task force to submit specified reports to the Secretary of Environmental Protection and to the Governor and Legislature by specified dates; providing for expiration of the task force, etc. APPROPRIATION: $350,000

Marketable Record Title to Real Property; Providing that certain rights are extinguished for the redevelopment of a certain portion of a lake that meets certain criteria if such redevelopment is for the purpose of developing affordable housing; authorizing a parcel owner to seek a judicial determination within a certain timeframe; prohibiting the revitalization of certain lapsed covenants or restrictions; providing a method for service of process of quiet title and certain other actions, etc.

Support for the State of Israel; Expressing the Florida Senate’s unwavering support for the State of Israel, etc.

Statewide Environmental Resource Permitting Rules; Requiring that stormwater management systems be designed with side slopes that meet a certain minimum design requirement; superseding certain side slope rules and authorizing their repeal by a specified publication of notice and a specified filing, etc.

Condominium Windstorm Pilot Program; Requiring the Office of Insurance Regulation to establish the Condominium Windstorm Pilot Program for a specified purpose; providing for the expiration of the pilot program; requiring a majority vote of the total voting interests of a condominium association in order to participate in the pilot program; authorizing associations to participate in the pilot program beginning on a date certain, etc.

Taxation; Authorizing a county or school board to exclude rent or license fees from the discretionary sales surtaxes imposed, under certain circumstances; specifying the application of an exemption for sales taxes for certain purchasers of boats and aircraft; authorizing the department to consider requests to settle or compromise certain liabilities after certain time periods have expired, in certain circumstances; providing a limitation; providing that certain department decisions are not subject to review, etc.

Towing and Storage; Authorizing a towing-storage operator to charge certain fees; revising requirements for law enforcement agencies and the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles relating to the removal of vehicles or vessels; revising the timeframe in which certain unclaimed vehicles or vessels may be sold; requiring a towing-storage operator to accept certain documents as evidence of a person’s interest in a vehicle or vessel; preempting specified local regulations, etc.

Citizens Property Insurance Corporation; Revising eligibility for coverage by the corporation in certain counties to include personal lines residential structures that have a dwelling replacement cost of less than a specified amount; requiring the corporation to annually implement a rate increase up to a specified percentage for any single policy issued by the corporation, excluding increases associated with coverage changes and surcharges, etc.

Electronic Health Records; Requiring certain hospitals to make patients’ electronic health records available through a nationally recognized trusted exchange framework; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to adopt rules; requiring certain hospitals to make specified patient data available to the agency’s Florida Health Information Exchange program for specified purposes; requiring certain licensees to report certain information in a manner, timeframe, and frequency prescribed by agency rule, etc.

Community Associations; Requiring community associations to return official records of an association within a specified period following termination of a contract; requiring community association managers and management firms to provide a written disclosure of certain conflicts of interest to the association’s board; providing criminal penalties for any officer, director, or manager of an association who knowingly solicits, offers to accept, or accepts a kickback; authorizing, rather than requiring, certain hurricane protection specifications; specifying when the cost of installation of hurricane protection is not a common expense, etc. APPROPRIATION: $7,416,269