Sen. Travis Hutson

Constitutional Amendments; Increasing the signature threshold at which the Secretary of State must transmit initiative petitions to the Attorney General for review; providing that a citizen may challenge in circuit court a petition circulator’s registration with the Secretary of State; authorizing the Division of Elections or a supervisor of elections to provide petition forms in a certain electronic format; requiring that ballots containing constitutional amendments proposed by initiative include certain disclosures and statements, in a specified order, etc.

Beverage Law; Repealing provisions relating to limitations on the size of individual wine containers and individual cider containers; revising provisions that authorize a restaurant to allow patrons to remove partially consumed bottles of wine from a restaurant for off-premises consumption; revising the requirements for the sale of branded products by a licensed craft distillery to consumers, etc.

Student Transportation Funds; Modifying the requirements for determination of student membership in a school district for funding purposes, etc.

Florida Job Growth Grant Fund; Authorizing the Governor to approve workforce training grants to certain charter schools under the Florida Job Growth Grant Fund; authorizing certain public schools to apply for specified grant funds; requiring grant funds to be used toward specified expenses, etc.

Nonembryonic Stem Cell Banks; Prohibiting a nonembryonic stem cell bank from performing certain processes on adult human nonembryonic stem cells or HCT/Ps under certain circumstances; providing that a nonembryonic stem cell bank that performs certain functions is deemed a clinic; requiring such nonembryonic stem cell banks to comply with specified requirements, etc.

Fees/Office of Financial Regulation/Financial Technology Sandbox Applications; Prohibiting the Office of Financial Regulation from waiving or modifying fees for the Financial Technology Sandbox except as specified, etc.

Department of Health’s Regulation of Recreational Activities; Providing a timeframe for certain owners or transferees to apply for a permit; preempting to the Department of Health the regulatory authority for permitting standards; providing that evidence of a certain length of stay in a guest register creates a rebuttable presumption that a guest is transient; specifying when certain property becomes abandoned; authorizing a park operator to refuse certain individuals access to the premises and to eject transient guests or visitors based on specified conduct; providing that certain surf pools are exempt from supervision under certain circumstances, etc.

Education; Providing that individuals enrolled in certain preapprenticeship programs are deemed to be employees of the state for purposes of receiving certain medical care under workers’ compensation coverage; revising the general duties of the Department of Education with regard to registered apprenticeship and registered preapprenticeship programs; providing that registered apprenticeship or registered preapprenticeship program sponsors are responsible for the selection and training of certain personnel, as approved by the department; revising criteria for apprenticeship occupations, etc.

Education; Requiring the Department of Education to collect certain information about career preparation and placement in this state; authorizing state universities designated by the State Board of Education to sponsor a charter school; providing that charter schools operated by a municipality, a public entity, or a private, not-for-profit organization are eligible for a 15-year charter if approved by the sponsor; requiring that any arrangement entered into to borrow or otherwise secure funds for a charter school from certain sources indemnify the sponsor, rather than the school district; authorizing charter schools to offer career and professional academies, etc.

Public Deposits; Adding credit unions meeting certain criteria to a list of qualified public depositories; specifying criteria for a credit union to be designated as a qualified public depository by the Chief Financial Officer; revising and specifying the mutual responsibility and contingent liability of financial institutions designated as qualified public depositories; requiring the Chief Financial Officer to segregate and separately account for certain amounts attributable to credit unions in the Public Deposits Trust Fund, etc.