Trust Funds/Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund/Florida Gaming Control Commission; Creating the Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund within the Florida Gaming Control Commission; providing the purpose of the trust fund; providing for sources of funds; providing that the trust fund is exempt from a certain service charge; providing for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund, etc.
Health and Human Services; Revising the minimum age at which a child may be covered by a guardianship assistance agreement entered into by his or her permanent guardian; revising the criteria, as of a specified date, for the Department of Children and Families to make adoption assistance payments for certain children; repealing provisions relating to provider qualifications, physicians providing private sector services, reimbursement for health care providers for services rendered through the Children’s Medical Services network, third-party payments for health services, service delivery systems, and the Children’s Medical Services program quality of care requirements, respectively, etc.
Trust Funds/Correctional Facilities Capital Improvement Trust Fund/Department of Corrections; Creating the Correctional Facilities Capital Improvement Trust Fund within the Department of Corrections; providing the purpose of the trust fund; providing for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund, etc.
Seized Property; Providing that any seized machine, apparatus, or device and the money or other things of value therein be deposited into the Pari-mutuel Wagering Trust Fund if the Florida Gaming Control Commission is the seizing agency; requiring that the proceeds from a sale or other disposition of property seized by the commission be deposited into the trust fund, etc.
Appropriations; Providing moneys for the annual period beginning July 1, 2024, and ending June 30, 2025, and supplemental appropriations for the period ending June 30, 2024, to pay salaries, and other expenses, capital outlay - buildings, and other improvements, and for other specified purposes of the various agencies of state government, etc. APPROPRIATION: $115,939,248,697
State Employees; Providing for the resolution of collective bargaining issues at impasse between the state and certified bargaining units of state employees, etc.
Correctional Facilities Capital Improvement; Requiring the deposit of appropriated funds and any net proceeds from the sale of bonds issued under the act into the Correctional Facilities Capital Improvement Trust Fund; requiring the Department of Corrections to include recommendations for the use of such funds in its annual legislative budget requests; requiring the department to contract with a construction management entity for projects exceeding a certain dollar amount, etc.
Education; Expanding the credit contributions for eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations; revising eligibility requirements for the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program; revising eligibility requirements for the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program; revising requirements for the Hope Scholarship Program; requiring the Florida Center for Students with Unique Abilities to develop specified purchasing guidelines by a specified date and annually revise such guidelines, etc.
Commodities Produced by Forced Labor; Prohibiting a company on the forced labor vendor list from taking certain procurement actions; requiring a company to provide a certain notification to the Department of Management Services within a certain timeframe; requiring the department to create and maintain a forced labor vendor list; providing a process for the department to place a company on such list, etc.
Homeowners’ Associations; Providing criminal penalties for directors or members of the board or association who fail to maintain and make available specified records; providing criminal penalties for persons who knowingly and intentionally deface, destroy, or fail to maintain specified accounting records; prohibiting an association or any architectural, construction improvement, or other such similar committee of an association from enforcing or adopting certain covenants, rules, or guidelines; prohibiting a homeowners’ association from restricting residents from installing certain vegetable gardens and clotheslines under certain circumstances, etc.
Homeowners’ Associations; Providing requirements for certain community association managers and community association management firms; prohibiting the Regulatory Council of Community Association Managers from requiring more than a specified number of hours of continuing education annually for license renewal; prohibiting an association and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from using a debit card issued in the name of the association; providing criminal penalties for certain violations related to fraudulent voting activity related to association elections, etc.
Ratification of the Department of Environmental Protection’s Rules Relating to Stormwater; Ratifying a specified rule relating to environmental resource permitting for the sole and exclusive purpose of satisfying any condition on effectiveness pursuant to s. 120.541(3), F.S., which requires ratification of any rule exceeding the specified thresholds for likely adverse impact or increase in regulatory costs; ratifying rule 62-330.010, Florida Administrative Code, with specified changes; requiring that specified future amendments to such rule be submitted in bill form to and approved by the Legislature, etc.
