Sen. Tom Leek

Installation or Use of Tracking Devices or Applications; Providing enhanced criminal penalties for a person who, to commit or facilitate the commission of a dangerous crime, knowingly installs or places a tracking device or tracking application on another person’s property without consent or uses such a device or application to determine a person’s or their property’s location or movement without consent, etc.

Assault or Battery on a Utility Worker; Defining the term “utility worker”; providing for reclassification of certain offenses committed against a utility worker engaged in work on critical infrastructure, etc.

Maddy summarySB 578 revises the regulations concerning the maximum allowable capacity for individual wine containers sold within the state. The bill specifically modifies an existing exception to these standard capacity limits. This change could impact wine producers, distributors, and retailers by altering the range of wine container sizes permitted for sale to consumers.

Controlled Substances; Excepting from the Schedule I controlled substance xylazine drug products approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for certain use; creating the offense of trafficking in xylazine, etc.

My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program; Limiting participation in the My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program to certain structures or buildings; revising the improvements for which a grant may be used; requiring that improvements be verified during the final hurricane mitigation inspection to qualify for grant funds; specifying that mitigation grants may be awarded only for mitigation improvements that will result in a mitigation credit, discount, or other rate differential, etc.

Aggravated Animal Cruelty; Citing this act as "Dexter’s Law"; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to post on its website the names of certain individuals who have violated specified animal cruelty provisions; providing a sentencing multiplier for specified offenses of aggravated animal cruelty, 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.

Benefits for Certain Officers Injured in the Line of Duty; Revising eligibility criteria for health insurance coverage provided to law enforcement, correctional, and correctional probation officers injured in the line of duty and to their spouses and dependent children, etc.

Employment Agreements; Creating the “Florida Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality, and Economic Growth (CHOICE) Act”; providing that certain covered garden leave agreements are not a restraint of trade or an attempt to monopolize trade or commerce; requiring a court to enter a preliminary injunction to stop covered employees, businesses, entities, or individuals if a breach of a covered garden leave agreement is alleged; providing that certain covered noncompete agreements are not a restraint of trade or an attempt to monopolize trade or commerce; authorizing a covered employer to reduce the salary or benefits of a covered employee if he or she engages in gross misconduct, etc.

Water Access Facilities; Providing sovereignty submerged land leases for Clean Marine Manufacturer facilities; providing competitive grant programs for the construction and maintenance of publicly owned parking for boat-hauling vehicles and trailers, etc.