Sen. Ray Wesley Rodrigues

Designation of Essential Caregivers for In-person Visitations; Authorizing residents to designate essential caregivers with whom facilities or program providers may not prohibit in-person visitation; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to adopt guidelines for visitation which meet certain requirements; authorizing a facility or provider to revoke an essential caregiver’s designation for certain violations; authorizing the designation of a new essential caregiver if the original caregiver’s designation is revoked, etc.

Resiliency Energy Environment Florida Programs; Providing that a property owner may apply to a Resiliency Energy Environment Florida (REEF) program for funding to finance a qualifying improvement and may enter into an assessment financing agreement with a local government; authorizing a local government to enter into an agreement with a program administrator to administer a REEF program on the local government’s behalf; specifying underwriting, financing estimate, disclosure, and confirmation requirements for program administrators relating to residential real property, etc.

Summer Youth Service Learning Program; Citing this act as the "Youth Service Learning and Employment Assistance Initiative Act"; creating the program within the Department of Education; providing eligibility requirements for students and employers to participate in the program; requiring the department to create a statewide employment hub for the program; requiring participating employers to post employment opportunities to the employment hub; requiring school districts and public postsecondary institutions to notify students of the employment hub, etc.

Face Covering Mandates; Prohibiting counties and municipalities from requiring that a citizen of the United States wear a face covering; prohibiting district school boards from adopting, implementing, or enforcing a policy, a rule, a code of conduct, or an order requiring the wearing of a face covering; prohibiting a district school superintendent from implementing or enforcing a policy, a rule, a code of conduct, or an order requiring the wearing of a face covering; prohibiting a school principal from implementing or enforcing a policy, a rule, a code of conduct, or an order requiring the wearing of a face covering, etc.

Occupational Licensing; Prohibiting boards within the Division of Certified Public Accounting, the Division of Professions, or the Division of Real Estate of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation from inquiring into or considering a license applicant’s criminal history until after the board determines the applicant is otherwise qualified for a license; prohibiting such boards from denying an applicant’s license application due to the applicant’s criminal history unless the applicant was convicted of a felony that directly relates to the profession; requiring such boards to provide specified notification to applicants who are determined to be ineligible for licensure because of a felony conviction, etc.

Local Districting; Prohibiting the drawing of county districts to favor or disfavor an incumbent county commissioner; prohibiting the consideration of the addresses of certain persons during the district-drawing process; requiring municipalities to fix the boundaries of their districts in a certain manner; prohibiting the drawing of municipal districts to favor or disfavor an incumbent member of the municipality’s governing body; prohibiting the drawing of member residence areas of district school boards to favor or disfavor an incumbent district school board member, etc.

Florida Hometown Hero Housing Program; Creating the Florida Hometown Hero Housing Program; providing the purpose of the program; specifying requirements for loans under the program; authorizing the Florida Housing Finance Corporation to underwrite and make such loans to specified borrowers; specifying ineligible employees, etc.

Caloosahatchee River Watershed; Prohibiting the land application of septage from onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems within the watershed; removing a requirement for entities disposing of septage within the watershed to develop and submit a specified agricultural use plan to the Department of Health; directing the Department of Environmental Protection to adopt an updated Caloosahatchee River and Estuary Basin Management Action Plan by a specified date; requiring the department to prioritize certain remediation needs, etc.

Limitation on Terms of Office for Members of a District School Board; Proposing an amendments to the State Constitution to limit the terms of office for members of a district school board, etc.

Fetal and Infant Mortality Reduction; Revising the purpose and requirements for the Comprehensive Statewide Tobacco Education and Use Prevention Program; requiring the Department of Health to contract with local healthy start coalitions for the creation of fetal and infant mortality review committees in all regions of this state; prohibiting a physician from performing a termination of pregnancy if the physician determines the gestational age of a fetus is more than a specified number of weeks, with exceptions; requiring the directors of certain medical facilities and certain physicians to submit a certain report to the Agency for Health Care Administration monthly, etc. APPROPRIATION: $260,000