Foreign Influence; Requiring any state agency or political subdivision to disclose certain gifts or grants received from any foreign source to the Department of Financial Services within a specified timeframe; requiring any entity that applies for a certain grant or proposes a certain contract to disclose to a state agency or political subdivision any current or prior interest of, contract with, or grant or gift received from a foreign country of concern under certain circumstances; requiring the Department of Management Services to periodically screen certain vendors; requiring the Department of Financial Services to establish and maintain an Internet website to publish the disclosures, etc.
Freestanding Emergency Departments; Deleting an obsolete provision relating to a prohibition on new emergency departments located off the premises of licensed hospitals; prohibiting a freestanding emergency department from holding itself out to the public as an urgent care center; requiring a freestanding emergency department to clearly identify itself as a hospital emergency department using certain signage; requiring a freestanding emergency department to post signs in certain locations which contain specified statements, etc.
Growth Management; Providing an exception to a prohibition against legal entities and their members exercising the power of eminent domain over or acquiring title to certain facilities or property; authorizing landowners with development orders existing before the incorporation of a municipality to elect to abandon such orders and develop the vested density and intensity contained therein under specified conditions; revising the required acreage thresholds under which a small scale development amendment may be adopted, etc.
Clerks of the Circuit Court; Clarifies responsibility of person released from incarceration regarding enrolling in payment plan for outstanding court obligations; requires clerk to establish terms of payment plans; specifies circumstances under which moneys held in reserve may be used; provides procedures for release of funds; revises provisions governing transfer of certain funds from Clerks of Court Trust Fund to General Revenue Fund; requires clerks to develop uniform payment plan form; requires orders & notifications for traffic citations & suspensions to include information regarding payment plans; designates clerk as entity responsible for collecting payment of court obligations.
Workforce Related Programs and Services; Creating the Office of Reimagining Education and Career Help Act for certain purposes; creating the Office of Reimagining Education and Career Help within the Executive Office of the Governor for a specified purpose; requiring participants of the Quick-Response Training Program to earn at or above minimum wage; establishing an automated consumer-first workforce system; requiring certain standards and policies established by the Department of Education to include a specified requirement for training providers; providing that industry certification is achieved when a student receives a credential that is identified on the Master Credentials List, etc.
Building Inspections; Requiring that certain counties allow requests for inspections to be submitted electronically; requiring that local enforcement agencies allow requests for inspections to be submitted electronically; authorizing enforcement agencies to perform virtual inspections, etc.
Homestead Exemption for Seniors 65 and Older; Revising provisions to require certain taxpayers to submit a claim for homestead exemption only one time if certain conditions are met; requiring the property appraiser to provide specified information related to income limitations on an annual basis, etc.
Courts; Deleting the requirement that the Clerk of the Supreme Court physically keep books, records, and other materials in the clerk’s office; requiring the clerks of the circuit court to collaborate with specified entities to prepare a plan to procure or develop a statewide electronic solution to accurately identify all assessments mandated by statute; providing for the periodic inflationary adjustment of the monetary jurisdictional limit applicable to all actions at law in county courts filed on or after a specified date, beginning in a specified year; requiring the clerk of a district court of appeal to have an office at the headquarters of the court, etc.
Interception of Wire, Oral, or Electronic Communications Made in Violation of Protective Orders; Providing an exception to prohibitions on interception and recording of communications when the communication is received in violation of a specified injunction or order; limiting the use of the intercepted communication to evidencing a violation of the specified injunction or order, etc.
Largemouth Bass; Requires FWCC to adopt certain rules; provides for sale of Florida largemouth bass as food fish.
Corporate Income Tax; Adopting the 2021 version of the Internal Revenue Code and other federal statutes relating to federal income taxes for purposes of the state corporate income tax code; requiring additions to taxable income of certain amounts relating to federal deductions for business interest expense, business meals, and charitable contributions; providing that certain federal changes relating to expensing rules for qualified film, television, and live theatrical productions do not apply to the state corporate income tax, etc.
Business Organizations; Revises circumstances under which shareholders are entitled to appraisal rights & certain payments; entitles corporations to prepay shareholder if shareholder makes demand for payment; specifies when interest is applicable to such prepayments; revises requirements for proceedings relating to unsettled demands for payment; revises eligibility requirements for shareholders entitled to fair value of shares during court proceedings.
