My Safe Florida Home Program; Providing that licensed, rather than certified, inspectors are to provide hurricane mitigation inspections on site-built, single-family, residential properties that have been granted a homestead exemption; revising the hurricane mitigation inspectors that may be selected by the Department of Financial Services to provide hurricane mitigation inspections; revising the criteria for mitigation grant eligibility for homeowners; revising the improvements for eligible homes for which mitigation grants may be used; deleting a provision authorizing low-income homeowners to use grant funds for specified purposes, etc.
Relief/Ricardo Medrano-Arzate and Eva Chavez-Medrano/Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office; Provides for relief of Ricardo Medrano-Arzate & Eva Chavez-Medrano, as personal representatives of Hilda Medrano, by the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office; provides for appropriation of funds to pay Ricardo Medrano-Arzate & Eva Chavez-Medrano for damages awarded in connection with death of their daughter as result of negligence of Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office; provides limitation on payment of compensation, attorney, lobbying fees, & costs. CLAIM: $1,200,000
Relief/Robert Earl DuBoise/State of Florida; Provides for relief of Robert Earl DuBoise for being wrongfully incarcerated for almost 37 years; directs CFO to draw warrant payable directly to Mr. DuBoise; provides for waiver of tuition & fees; declares Legislature does not waive certain defenses or increase state's limits of liability; prohibits funds awarded from being used or paid for specified attorney or lobbying fees; prohibits Mr. DuBoise from submitting compensation application under certain provisions upon his receipt of payment; provides that certain benefits are vacated upon specified findings. APPROPRIATION: $1,850,000
Preemption Over Utility Service Restrictions; Prohibiting certain local governmental entities, subject to specified exceptions, from enacting or enforcing a resolution, an ordinance, a rule, a code, or a policy or from taking any action that restricts or prohibits or has the effect of restricting or prohibiting the use of appliances; revising an exception to preemption, etc.
Truth in Legal Advertising; Specifying prohibited practices relating to advertisements for legal services; requiring persons and entities that issue advertisements to solicit certain clients to include specified information and statements in such advertisements; providing that the person or entity that issues an advertisement is solely responsible for ensuring its compliance with specified provisions; prohibiting the use, obtaining, sale, transfer, or disclosure of a consumer’s protected health information for a specified purpose without written authorization, etc.
Residential Tenancies; Preempting the regulation of residential tenancies and the landlord-tenant relationship to the state; specifying that the act supersedes certain local regulations; revising how much notice is required to terminate certain tenancies; requiring a landlord to provide advance written notice of rent increases under certain circumstances, etc.
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.
Parenting Plans; Creating a presumption that equal time-sharing is in the best interests of the child, with exceptions; establishing the manner by which such presumption may be rebutted; requiring the court to evaluate certain factors and make specific written findings of fact under certain circumstances, etc.
Relief/Molly Parker/Department of Transportation; Provides for relief of Molly Parker; provides appropriation to compensate estate for Ms. Parker's death as result of negligence of DOT; provides limitation on compensation & payment of attorney fees; provides legislative intent regarding waiver of certain liens. CLAIM WITH APPROPRIATION: $5,950,000
Victim Compensation Claims; Authorizing the Department of Legal Affairs to issue waivers of any claim filing deadlines for specified victim claims for compensation upon a showing that a delay in filing the application occurred because of a delay in the testing of, or delay in the DNA profile matching from, a sexual assault forensic examination kit or biological material collected as evidence related to a sexual offense, etc.
Public Safety Emergency Communications Systems; Requiring a licensed contractor to submit a certain design if an interior radio coverage and signal strength assessment of a new building determines a two-way radio communications enhancement system installation is required; requiring new and existing buildings to meet certain minimum radio signal strength requirements, except under certain circumstances; exempting certain installations of two-way radio communications enhancement systems from prohibitions against the installation or transportation of certain radio equipment, etc.
Enforcement of School Zone Speed Limits; Authorizing a county or municipality to enforce the speed limit in a school zone at specified periods through the use of a speed detection system; authorizing a county or municipality to place or install, or contract with a vendor to place or install, a speed detection system in a school zone; specifying conditions for the placement or installation of speed detection systems; requiring a county or municipality that installs a speed detection system to provide certain notice to the public; requiring a law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over a county or municipality conducting a school zone speed detection system program to use certain funds to administer the School Crossing Guard Recruitment and Retention Program, etc.
