State Employees; Providing for the resolution of collective bargaining issues at impasse between the state and certified bargaining units of state employees, etc.
OGSR/Building Plans, Blueprints, Schematic Drawings, and Diagrams; Removes scheduled repeal of exemption from public records requirements for certain building plans, blueprints, schematic drawings, & diagrams; removes provision allowing disclosure of certain information to certain entities.
OGSR/Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network; Removes scheduled repeal of exemption from public records requirements for certain information relating to Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network held by agency.
Housing; Removes authority of local governments to adopt or maintain laws, ordinances, rules, or other measures that would have effect of imposing controls on rents; specifies requirements & restrictions on counties in approving housing developments; authorizes local governments to adopt ordinances to provide ad valorem tax exemption for portions of property used to provide affordable housing; revises total amount of community contribution tax credits which may be granted for projects; provides sales tax exemption for building materials used in construction of affordable housing units; authorizes department to make information available to corporation to administer Live Local Program; prohibits deduction of General Revenue Fund service charge on documentary stamp tax proceeds; provides appropriations. APPROPRIATION: $711,000,000
Causes of Action Based on Improvements to Real Property; Revises time in which action founded on design, planning, or construction of improvement to real property must be commenced; revises events after which statute of limitations & repose periods begin to run; provides exceptions for model homes & improvements with multiple buildings; limits actionable violation under Florida Building Code to material violation.
OGSR/Security or Firesafety System Plans; Amending a provision which provides an exemption from public records requirements for security or firesafety system plans held by an agency; amending a provision which provides an exemption from public records and public meetings requirements for information relating to security or firesafety systems for certain properties and meetings relating to such systems and information; amending a provision which provides an exemption from public meetings requirements for portions of meetings that would reveal security or firesafety system plans held by an agency; removing the scheduled repeal of the exemption, etc.
OGSR/Citizens Property Insurance Corporation; Amending a provision which provides an exemption from public records requirements for certain data and information from technology systems owned by, under contract with, or maintained by Citizens Property Insurance Corporation and an exemption from public meetings requirements for portions of meetings which would reveal such data and information; removing the scheduled repeal of the exemptions, etc.
Education; Revising student eligibility and ineligibility requirements for the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program; revising student eligibility and ineligibility requirements for the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program; revising the eligibility criteria and obligations of private schools participating in certain educational scholarship programs; authorizing public schools, including charter schools, to enroll certain students on a part-time basis, etc.
Civil Remedies; Creating a rebuttable presumption that a lodestar fee is a sufficient and reasonable attorney fee in most civil actions; reducing the statute of limitations for negligence actions; providing standards for bad faith actions; providing for the distribution of proceeds when two or more third-party claims arising out of a single occurrence exceed policy limits; providing standards for the admissibility of evidence to prove the cost of damages for medical expenses in certain civil actions; requiring the trier of fact to consider the fault of certain persons who contribute to an injury, etc.
Trust Funds/State Opioid Settlement Trust Fund/Agency for Health Care Administration; Creating the State Opioid Settlement Trust Fund within the Agency for Health Care Administration; providing the purpose of the trust fund; specifying the funding source for the trust fund; providing for the reversion of certain funds to the Department of Financial Services Opioid Settlement Clearing Trust Fund; providing for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund, etc.
Trust Funds/State Opioid Settlement Trust Fund/Department of Health; Creating the State Opioid Settlement Trust Fund within the Department of Health; providing the purpose of the trust fund; specifying the funding source for the trust fund; providing for the reversion of certain funds to the Department of Financial Services Opioid Settlement Clearing Trust Fund; providing for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund, etc.
Trust Funds/State Opioid Settlement Trust Fund/Department of Children and Families; Creating the State Opioid Settlement Trust Fund within the Department of Children and Families; providing the purpose of the trust fund; specifying the funding source for the trust fund; providing for the reversion of certain funds to the Department of Financial Services Opioid Settlement Clearing Trust Fund; providing for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund, etc.
