Sen. Lori Berman

Human Trafficking; Revising the definition of the term “coercion”; prohibiting facilitating or enabling the receiving of persons in any place, structure, building, or conveyance for the purpose of prostitution, lewdness, or assignation, or facilitating or enabling any person to remain there for such purpose; providing that a person may not procure, facilitate, or entice another to engage in prostitution for specified purposes; providing increased criminal penalties for specified prohibited acts relating to prostitution, lewdness, or assignation; deleting provisions relating to the reclassification of penalties if a massage establishment is used for lewdness, assignation, or prostitution, etc.

Domestic Violence and Parental Responsibility Determinations; Citing this act as “Greyson’s Law”; requiring a court to order shared parental responsibility if it is found to be in the best interests of the child based on certain factors; providing that clear and convincing evidence of certain conduct creates a rebuttable presumption that shared parental responsibility is not in the best interests of the child; requiring the court to rely upon specific evidence to make required findings that a presumption has been rebutted, etc.

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders; Revising the definition of the term “developmental disability” to include fetal alcohol spectrum disorders; defining the term “fetal alcohol spectrum disorders”, etc.

Domestic Violence; Prohibiting certain acts of domestic violence and dating violence; revising a prohibition on the sale or transfer of firearms to persons convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence offenses; prohibiting persons convicted of a misdemeanor offense of domestic violence from possessing a firearm or ammunition; requiring a law enforcement officer to remove firearms from the scene of an alleged act of domestic violence under certain circumstances, etc.

Voter Registration; Revising the date by which the registration books must be closed before an election; revising procedures governing voter registration by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; requiring specified applications to include a voter registration component, subject to approval by the Department of State; specifying requirements for the voter registration component, etc.

117th Anniversary of Rotary International; Recognizing the 117th anniversary of Rotary International, etc.

Transportation Facility Designations/98 Points of Light Road; Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in a specified county; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.

Triple-negative Breast Cancer Awareness; Recognizing March 2022 as “Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Awareness Month” and March 3, 2022, as “Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Awareness Day” in Florida, etc.

Regulation of Smoking in Public Places; Authorizing counties and municipalities to further restrict smoking within the boundaries of public beaches and public parks under certain circumstances, with exceptions; requiring that any signs installed in relation to such restrictions include certain information, etc.

Comprehensive Review Study of the Central and Southern Florida Project; Requiring the South Florida Water Management District to prepare and submit a consolidated annual report regarding the status of a specified study to the Office of Economic and Demographic Research, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Governor, and the Legislature by a specified date, etc.