Sen. Bobby Powell

Public Meetings/Task Force on Public Safety in Urban and Inner-City Communities; Providing an exemption from public meetings requirements for portions of meetings of the Task Force on Public Safety in Urban and Inner-City Communities at which exempt or confidential and exempt information is discussed; providing for expiration; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Wireless Services Provider Automatic Location Identification Information; Citing this section as the “Parental Rights and Mobile Location Tracking Act”; authorizing a parent or person with legal custody of a child and a guardian of a ward to access a child’s or ward’s automatic location identification information under certain circumstances; requiring a wireless services provider to provide to a parent, person with legal custody, or guardian the automatic location identification information of certain cellular telephones in certain circumstances; specifying the format of receipt of automatic location identification information; authorizing a person who is a victim of domestic violence to request a temporary suspension on the ability of certain persons to access their automatic location identification information, etc.

Criminal Rehabilitation; Specifying that to rehabilitate the offender to transition back to the community successfully is one of the primary purposes of sentencing; reducing the minimum sentence that must be served by a defendant from 85 percent of the sentence to 65 percent; revising provisions concerning gain-time to provide for outstanding deed gain-time, good behavior time, and rehabilitation credits, etc.

Florida A&M University Rattlers; Recognizing and honoring the Florida A&M University Rattlers football team for winning the 2023 HBCU National Championship, etc.

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Education for Athletic Coaches; Requiring independent sanctioning authorities and the Florida High School Athletic Association, respectively, to adopt guidelines to educate certain persons on first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation procedures; requiring athletic coaches to hold a current certificate of successful completion of a course in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, etc.

Mental Health of Minors; Defining the terms “immediately” and “serious bodily harm”; specifying the conditions that must be met for a minor to be taken to a receiving facility for involuntary examination; requiring that court orders for involuntary examinations be made a part of the minor’s clinical record; requiring that minors be immediately released if a parent or guardian revokes consent for the minor’s admission; creating the Telehealth Pilot Program within the Department of Children and Families, etc.

Public Records/County Attorneys and City Attorneys; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for the personal identifying and location information of current county attorneys, assistant county attorneys, deputy county attorneys, city attorneys, assistant city attorneys, and deputy city attorneys and the names and personal identifying and location information of the spouses and children of such attorneys; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program; Establishing the Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program within the Department of Legal Affairs; requiring the department to accept and process applications for the payment of compensation claims under the program; requiring the department to provide specified notice of the program; requiring the department, subject to the appropriation of funds for that purpose, to pay a specified compensation amount to approved applicants, etc. APPROPRIATION: $20,000,000

Wills and Estates; Expanding the types of probate documents that must be recorded; specifying that certain property is either included or excluded from the probate estate at the time of death; defining the term “probate estate”; providing that demands and disputes arising under a certain act must be determined using a specified action; providing that certain rights are forfeited if specified actions are not taken, etc.

FAMU Day; Designating February 21, 2024, as “FAMU Day” in Florida, etc.