Sen. Travis Hutson

Clerks of Court; Revising the collections requirements of a clerk of court when a party petitions for a dissolution of marriage; revising the collections requirements of a clerk of court in probate matters; revising the collections requirements of a clerk of court in trial and appellate proceedings; revising the collections requirements of a clerk of court as it relates to fines, fees, service charges, and costs remitted to the state, etc.

Florida Atlantic University Men’s Basketball Team; Recognizing and celebrating the incredible accomplishments of the Florida Atlantic University men’s basketball team and the university’s commitment to both academic and athletic excellence, creating a collegiate brand that is nationally renowned, etc.

Causes of Action Based on Improvements to Real Property; Revising the time in which an action founded on the design, planning, or construction of an improvement to real property must be commenced; revising the date on which the statute of limitations period begins; providing for the calculation of the statute of limitations period for multi-dwelling buildings, etc.

Civil Remedies; Creating a rebuttable presumption that a lodestar fee is a sufficient and reasonable attorney fee in most civil actions; reducing the statute of limitations for negligence actions; providing standards for bad faith actions; providing for the distribution of proceeds when two or more third-party claims arising out of a single occurrence exceed policy limits; providing standards for the admissibility of evidence to prove the cost of damages for medical expenses in certain civil actions; requiring the trier of fact to consider the fault of certain persons who contribute to an injury, etc.

Intercollegiate Athlete Compensation and Rights; Revising requirements for athlete agents representing intercollegiate athletes for certain purposes; deleting requirements regarding the compensation that intercollegiate athletes may receive; deleting certain requirements for postsecondary educational institutions whose intercollegiate athletes seek to earn compensation or to have professional representation; requiring a postsecondary educational institution to conduct at least two financial literacy, life skills, and entrepreneurship workshops under certain conditions, etc.

Disaster Relief; Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to waive or reduce match requirements for certain local governments; authorizing the refund of ad valorem taxes for residential improvements rendered uninhabitable by certain hurricanes; providing for the extension and suspension of payments and discounts of certain taxes and assessments; requiring the Division of Emergency Management and local governments to enter into certain agreements to receive specified funds; providing for the organization and operation of the Florida Emergency Management Assistance Foundation within the division, etc. APPROPRIATION: $751,500,000

Identification Cards; Requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to issue or renew identification cards at no charge to persons presenting a valid voter’s registration card and attesting to financial hardship; prohibiting the department from requiring such persons to present certain evidence; requiring the department to issue identification cards at no charge to certain other persons, etc.

Local Business Protection Act; Citing this act as the "Local Business Protection Act"; authorizing certain businesses to claim business damages from a county or municipality if the county or municipality enacts or amends certain ordinances or charter provisions; limiting the amount of business damages that may be recovered; specifying ordinances and charter provisions that do not result in liability for business damages; requiring businesses and counties or municipalities to follow certain presuit procedures before businesses file an action for business damages, etc.

Soil and Water Conservation Districts; Providing for the subdivision of certain proposed soil and water conservation districts; requiring the supervisors of each soil and water conservation district to be elected from each of the district’s subdivisions; providing qualification requirements for supervisors to serve on the governing body of a soil and water conservation district; providing for the automatic dissolution of soil and water conservation districts under certain conditions, etc.

Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; Requiring lead land managing agencies, in consultation with the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, to consider the use of state lands as gopher tortoise recipient sites in certain management plans; requiring the commission, subject to appropriation, to encourage the establishment of gopher tortoise recipient sites on private lands and to create an online dashboard for certain gopher tortoise recipient site information; revising the notices a person must be given for failure to submit to certain tests for alcohol, chemical substances, or controlled substances; authorizing individuals, when participating in certain athletic team practices or competitions, to operate a human-powered vessel within the marked channel of the Florida Intracoastal Waterway under certain circumstances; prohibiting municipalities and counties from designating certain waters adjacent to designated public bathing beaches or swim areas as vessel exclusion zones, etc.