Funding for Environmental Resource Management; Requires specified Seminole gaming compact revenues be used for land management activities; creates Local Trail Management Grant Program within DEP; authorizes FWCC to enter into wildlife corridor agreements with private landowners; requires Land Management Uniform Accounting Council to submit specified recommendations to Governor & Legislature; revises project prioritization for water quality improvement grant program; requires DEP & SWFMD to coordinate studies with Water School at FGCU & submit reports to Governor & Legislature; provides appropriations. APPROPRIATION: $536,000,000
Spaceport Territory; Revises spaceport territory to include certain property.
Career-themed Courses; Revises requirements for specified school district strategic plan to include certain information; requires DOE to include specified data in annual review of K-12 & postsecondary career & technical education offerings; & requires school districts to inform students & parents of specified information during middle school course selection
Renaming of Tallahassee Community College; Changes name of "Tallahassee Community College" to "Tallahassee State College".
Retention of Sexual Offense Evidence; Establishes minimum timeframe for retention of specified sexual offense evidence; requires specified entities to transfer such evidence to FDLE within specified time period; requires FDLE to retain such evidence; requires protocols for transferring & storing of specified sexual offense evidence & authorizes destruction of such evidence in specified circumstances.
Continuing Education Requirements; Requires board, or DBPR when there is no board, to allow by rule that distance learning may be used to satisfy continuing education requirements; revises requirements that such continuing education must satisfy; requires board or DBPR to exempt certain individuals from completing their continuing education requirement.
Relief of Julia Perez by the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office; Providing for the relief of Julia Perez by the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office; providing for an appropriation to compensate Julia Perez for personal injuries and damages sustained as a result of the negligence of an employee of the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office; providing a limitation on compensation and the payment of attorney fees, etc. CLAIM: $6,300,000
Florida Uniform Fiduciary Income and Principal Act; Specifying the duties of a fiduciary; providing that a fiduciary’s allocation, determination, or exercise of discretion is presumed to be fair and reasonable to all beneficiaries; authorizing a fiduciary to exercise discretionary power of administration under specified circumstances; prohibiting a court from ordering a fiduciary to change his or her decision unless the decision was an abuse of discretionary power; authorizing a fiduciary to adjust between income and principal if such adjustment assists in administering the trust or estate impartially; authorizing the conversion of an income trust to a unitrust; specifying the authority of a fiduciary with respect to the administration of certain trusts, etc.
Designation of a Certain Diagnosis on Motor Vehicle Registrations; Citing this act as the "Safeguarding American Families Everywhere (SAFE) Act"; requiring the application form for motor vehicle registration to include certain language allowing an applicant to indicate that he or she has been diagnosed with, or is the parent or legal guardian of a child or ward who has been diagnosed with, specified disabilities or disorders; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to allow specified persons to update a motor vehicle registration to include or remove the specified designation at any time, etc.
Towing and Storage; Requiring certain counties and authorizing certain municipalities to establish maximum rates for cleanup and disposal of hazardous and nonhazardous materials under certain circumstances; prohibiting the division from excluding certain wrecker operators from the wrecker operator system or failing to designate certain wrecker operators as authorized wrecker operators; authorizing towing-storage operators to charge certain fees, etc.
Law Enforcement and Correctional Officers; Authorizing county sheriffs to establish civilian oversight boards to review the policies and procedures of the sheriff’s office and its subdivisions; revising the definition of “political subdivision”; prohibiting a political subdivision from adopting or attempting to enforce certain ordinances relating to the receipt, processing, or investigation of complaints against law enforcement officers or correctional officers, or relating to civilian oversight of law enforcement agency investigations of complaints of misconduct by such officers; authorizing the chief of a municipal police department to establish a civilian oversight board to review the policies and procedures of the chief’s department and its subdivisions, etc.
University Carry Forward Balances; Authorizing a university to retain and report a reserve balance exceeding a specified amount; authorizing a university’s carry forward spending plan to include a reserve fund to be used for authorized expenses, etc.
