Department of Financial Services; Providing an exception to service of process on public entities under certain circumstances; authorizing specified persons relating to the Division of Rehabilitation and Liquidation to purchase coverage in a state group health insurance plan at specified premium costs; requiring certain hospitals to demonstrate financial responsibility for maintaining professional liability coverage; revising requirements for licenses by endorsement to practice funeral directing, etc.
Minority Health Month; Recognizes April 2022 as "Minority Health Month."
Building Regulation; Revising eligibility requirements for a person applying to become certified as a building code inspector or plans examiner; revising the special conditions or requirements that the Florida Building Code Administrators and Inspectors Board may impose on provisional certificates; prohibiting local laws, ordinances, or regulations that prohibit or restrict a private property owner’s ability to obtain a building permit to demolish a single-family residential structure located in certain flood zones if certain conditions are met; requiring the local jurisdiction to provide equal access under certain circumstances to certain documents to a private provider, owner, and contractor, etc.
Inventories of Critical Wetlands; Requires each water management district governing board, in cooperation with local governments, to develop list of critical wetlands for acquisition using funds from Land Acquisition Trust Fund; requires boards to consider certain criteria when including wetlands on list.
Environmental Management; Providing for water quality enhancement areas; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to establish water quality enhancement service areas; requiring the department and water management districts to authorize the sale and use of enhancement credits to governmental entities to address certain adverse water quality impacts and to meet certain water quality requirements; revising the conditions that a developer or homebuilder must certify it meets as part of its application for development approval or amendment of a development order, etc.
Nursing Homes; Specifying functions that do not constitute direct care staffing hours for purposes of required nursing home staffing ratios; revising nursing home staffing requirements; providing that eating assistance to residents provided by certain direct care staff counts toward certain minimum direct care staffing requirements; providing that an unsatisfied or undischarged adverse final judgment in connection with a nursing home facility becomes the responsibility and liability of a new owner if ownership of the facility is transferred, etc.
Money Services Businesses; Providing that a rule may require certain reports to the Office of Financial Regulation to contain declarations by control persons, rather than officers or other responsible persons; providing that control persons, rather than officers, are not liable for loss or damages under certain circumstances; requiring licensees to report changes in control persons, rather than certain other entities or persons; repealing a provision relating to control of a money services business, etc.
Golf Course Best Management Practices Certification; Requiring the turfgrass science program at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, in coordination and cooperation with the Department of Environmental Protection, to administer a certification for golf course best management practices and provide and approve certification training and testing programs; providing certification and recertification requirements, etc.
Clerks of the Circuit Court; Revising the calculation used to determine the presumed ability to pay certain fees, charges, costs, and fines; requiring the Florida Clerks of Court Operations Corporation to provide a recommendation on the distribution of specified fines, fees, charges, and costs; authorizing clerks of the circuit court to submit to the commission, at prescribed intervals, certified requests for reimbursement of specified petitions and orders at a certain rate per petition or order; authorizing clerks of the court to conduct a review of specified records, etc.
Cleanup of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl; Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to adopt rules for statewide cleanup target levels for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances in soil and groundwater by a specified date; prohibiting such rules from taking effect until ratified by the Legislature; providing that certain persons are not subject to administrative or judicial action under certain circumstances; providing that certain statutes of limitations are tolled from a specified date, etc.
Protective Injunctions; Authorizing clerks of the court to electronically transmit certain documents relating to an injunction for protection against domestic violence under certain circumstances; providing that electronically transmitted documents may be served in the same manner as certified copies; authorizing clerks of the court to electronically transmit certain documents relating to injunctions for protection against repeat violence, sexual violence, or dating violence and against stalking, respectively, under certain circumstances; requiring the Florida Sheriffs Association and the Florida Association of Court Clerks and Comptrollers to establish a joint workgroup for a specified purpose, etc.
Hurricane Loss Mitigation Program; Revising the use of certain funds from the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund to also include construction of certain facilities; revising provisions to require the Manufactured Housing and Mobile Home Mitigation and Enhancement Program to be operated by Gulf Coast State College; delaying the future repeal of the Hurricane Loss Mitigation Program, etc.
