Cost-of-living Adjustment of Retirement Benefits; Revising how the cost-of-living adjustment of benefits for certain retirees and beneficiaries is calculated; providing a declaration of important state interest, etc.
Sponsored bills
Sunshine State One-Call of Florida, Inc., Board of Directors; Requiring a certain number of licensed underground utility and excavation contractors to be voting members of the Sunshine State One-Call of Florida, Inc., board of directors; requiring the National Utility Contractors Association of Florida to provide recommendations for such members, etc.
License Taxes; Defining the terms “electric motorcycle,” “plug-in hybrid electric motorcycle,” and “plug-in hybrid electric vehicle”; imposing specified additional annual license taxes on electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; increasing such taxes beginning on a specified date; providing for the distribution of proceeds from the additional license taxes; providing that the registrant of an electric vehicle or a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle is not entitled to a credit or refund for certain additional license tax except under certain conditions, etc.
Competition for the Sale of Event Tickets; Prohibiting live performance venues from entering into specified contracts and covenants for the sale of tickets and licenses or from requiring artists to distribute tickets through specific ticket platforms; requiring live performance venues to allow artists to distribute tickets through the ticket platforms of the performance artists’ choice, subject to certain conditions; prohibiting a live performance venue from selling or transferring tickets and licenses at more than face value, etc.
Disclosure of Estimated Ad Valorem Taxes; Requiring that certain listings to include estimated ad valorem taxes; prohibiting the current owner’s ad valorem taxes from being displayed or used for certain purposes; providing requirements for listing platforms, the Department of Revenue, and property appraisers; requiring, beginning on a specified date, the department to annually publish a formula and certain information on its website, etc.
Refusal to Submit to a Breath, Urine, or Blood Test; Requiring that a person arrested for driving or being in actual physical control of a motor vehicle while under the influence who refuses to submit to a lawful test of his or her breath incidental to a lawful arrest be told that he or she is subject, for a first refusal, to the suspension of the privilege to operate a motor vehicle unless the person agrees to the placement for a specified timeframe, at the person’s own expense, of an ignition interlock device on all vehicles that are individually or jointly leased or owned and routinely operated by the person for 1 continuous year; specifying application of prohibitions and penalties; prohibiting eligibility to receive a license until certain actions are performed, etc.
Coverage by Citizens Property Insurance Corporation; Revising certain minimum replacement costs as risk amounts ineligible for coverage by Citizens Property Insurance Corporation for personal lines residential structures; providing exceptions to rate increase limitations on single policies issued by the corporation; requiring surcharges for a specified purpose for policies covering certain personal lines residential structures, etc.
Coverage for Out-of-network Ground Ambulance Emergency Services; Defining the terms “ambulance service provider” and “nonparticipating ambulance service provider”; requiring certain health insurers to reimburse nonparticipating ambulance service providers at a specified rate for providing ground ambulance services; prohibiting certain cost-sharing responsibilities paid from exceeding a certain amount; requiring certain health maintenance contracts to require a health maintenance organization to reimburse out-of-network ambulance service providers at a specified rate for providing covered services, etc.
Reemployment of Retirees in the Florida Retirement System; Allowing a retiree to be reemployed by an employer participating in the Florida Retirement System and to receive compensation from that employer and retirement benefits after meeting the definition of termination; establishing contributions rates necessary to fund a new retirement benefit, etc.
Specialty License Plates/Clearwater Marine Aquarium; Directing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop a Clearwater Marine Aquarium license plate; providing for distribution and use of fees collected from the sale of the plate, etc.