Career Offender Registration; Requiring a certain driver license or identification card marking for a career offender; requiring a career offender to report to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles in a certain month to obtain an updated or renewed driver license or identification card; providing that if a sanction is not imposed upon a career offender, such offender is deemed to have been released upon conviction; requiring certain career offenders to report to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and obtain a driver license or identification card containing a required marking within a certain period of time; authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to release certain images to the Department of Law Enforcement for purposes of public notification, etc.
Sponsored bills
Patient Funds Held in Trust by Chiropractic Physicians; Deleting the limitation on the amount of patient funds a chiropractic physician may hold in trust for specified purposes, etc.
Public Employees Relations Commission; Authorizing subpoenas to be served by certified mail, return receipt requested, or by personal service; revising application requirements for employee organization registration and renewal of registration; specifying the criteria by which the commission determines the method and timing of elections; providing that a petition to clarify the composition of a bargaining unit may be filed with the commission under certain circumstances; providing that implementation of appropriations from the Legislature which are specifically directed to be disbursed as salaries for employees of local governments are considered a financial urgency; authorizing certain public employers, public employees, and employee organizations, or combinations thereof, to file certain charges with the commission, etc.
Open Containers of Marijuana Products in Motor Vehicles; Prohibiting a person from possessing an open container of certain products while operating or a passenger in or on a vehicle or while seated in or on a vehicle that is parked or stopped within a road; providing that such open container is considered to be in a person’s possession under certain circumstances; providing penalties, etc.
Special Risk Class; Revising the Special Risk Class member criteria to include members employed as certain prosecutors and special investigators; providing the years of creditable service for full retirement eligibility, etc.
Employer Immunity from Civil Liability; Providing employers with immunity from civil liability for actions taken against a current or prospective employee under certain circumstances, etc.
Release of Driver License Information; Authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to provide state agencies and certain third parties with access to certain driver license information for specified purposes with the licensee’s consent; authorizing such third parties to use licensee images, signatures, and data in a certain manner under certain circumstances; prohibiting such third parties from retaining or selling certain data and information, etc.
Practice of Veterinary Medicine; Revising the membership of the Board of Veterinary Medicine; specifying the services a veterinary technician or veterinary technologist must be licensed to perform, under the supervision of a licensed veterinarian; specifying that licensed veterinarians are responsible for all services performed by licensed veterinary technicians or veterinary technologists; specifying the services that only licensed veterinarians may perform or provide, etc.
Traffic Enforcement; Defining the term “abandoned vehicle”; revising the circumstances under which law enforcement officers and traffic accident investigation officers may provide for the removal of an abandoned vehicle to the nearest garage or place of safety; prohibiting a person from operating a motor vehicle that the person knows bears a registration license plate or validation sticker that was not issued and assigned or lawfully transferred to the motor vehicle; specifying that using a motor vehicle to flee or attempt to elude a law enforcement officer is a circumstance under which a seizure of the motor vehicle may occur under the Florida Contraband Forfeiture Act, etc.
Newborn Screenings; Citing this act as “Mattie’s Law”; requiring that newborns, beginning on a specified date, be screened for biliary atresia; requiring the Department of Health to consult with the Genetics and Newborn Screening Advisory Council before adopting certain rules; requiring hospitals that provide birthing services to screen for biliary atresia in a specified manner, etc.