Public Records/Commissioners of the Florida Commission on Human Relations; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for the personal identifying and location information of certain current or former personnel and commissioners of the Florida Commission on Human Relations and the spouses and children of such current or former personnel and commissioners; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Sponsored bills
Injunctions for Protection; Defining the terms “serious violence by a known person” and “serious bodily injury”; creating a cause of action for an injunction for protection in cases of serious violence by a known person; prohibiting the clerk of the court from assessing a fee for the filing of such injunction for protection; requiring the clerk of the court to electronically transmit copies of specified documents within a certain timeframe after a court issues such injunction for protection; requiring law enforcement officers to accept a certified copy of such injunction for protection from the petitioner and immediately serve it upon a respondent, etc.
Impact of Perimenopause and Menopause on Women’s Health; Requiring the Department of Health to establish a perimenopause and menopause policy workgroup; requiring the department, in collaboration with others, to develop and make publicly available on its website information relating to perimenopause and menopause, etc.
Uterine Fibroid Research Database; Deleting a prohibition on the inclusion of personal identifying information in the uterine fibroid research database, etc.
Maddy summaryThis resolution designates August 2026 as "Immunization Awareness Month" in Florida, aligning with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's existing National Immunization Awareness Month. It has no policy, funding, or regulatory impact - it serves solely as a symbolic observance. The resolution recognizes the importance of vaccination awareness but does not create new requirements or change existing laws. It directly affects Floridians through state-level acknowledgment during that month.
Mental Health; Citing this act as the “Tristin Murphy Act”; expanding the programs and diversion initiatives supported by implementation or expansion grants to include training for 911 public safety telecommunicators and emergency medical technicians for certain purposes and to include veterans treatment court programs; encouraging communities to apply for specified grants to establish misdemeanor or ordinance violation mental health diversion programs; encouraging communities to apply for specified grants to establish pretrial felony mental health diversion programs; expanding eligibility for the Forensic Hospital Diversion Pilot Program to include Hillsborough County, etc. APPROPRIATION: $794,880
Veterans; Requiring the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to conduct a study that includes a survey evaluating the extent to which specified persons are aware of certain existing programs or services; requiring the department to ensure coordination to the greatest extent possible with the United States Department of Defense for a specified purpose; revising the purpose of the Veteran Suicide Prevention Training Pilot Program to include specialized mental health training; requiring the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to develop a plan to establish adult day health care facilities across this state to serve veterans and their families, etc. APPROPRIATION: $350,000
First in Your Family Florida Medical School Scholarship and Grant Program; Establishing the First in Your Family Florida Medical School Scholarship and Grant Program within the Department of Education for specified purposes; requiring the department to award scholarships to certain students enrolled in specified schools or programs; authorizing the department to provide grants to certain postsecondary educational institutions or nonprofit organizations to create and implement nontraditional mentoring services or support programs for specified purposes, etc. APPROPRIATION: $10,000,000
Vacating Premises After Rental Agreement Termination; Requiring landlords to provide certain tenants a specified amount of time to vacate the premises after delivery of a notice to terminate the rental agreement before bringing a specified action, etc.
Access to Historic Cemeteries; Requiring the state to have an easement on certain land owned by a private owner for ingress and egress to maintain the cemetery and conduct research and noninvasive searches relating to the Historic Cemeteries Program; providing that such ingress and egress be at reasonable times, in a reasonable manner, and after the owner is provided with reasonable notice, etc.