Sen. Keith Perry

Insurance; Redefining the term “covered policy” under the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund in relation to certain collateral protection insurance policies; authorizing any association, trust, or pool created for the purpose of forming or managing a risk management mechanism or providing self-insurance for a public entity to establish a quorum and conduct public business through communication media technology; specifying the entities that must receive requests for loss run statements; providing a ratemaking factor for workers’ compensation and employer’s liability insurance, etc.

Unlicensed Contracting; Revising the criminal penalties for persons who engage in contracting without proper registration or certification, etc.

Traffic and Pedestrian Safety; Citing this act as the "Sophia Nelson Pedestrian Safety Act"; requiring a traffic engineering study to be conducted which recommends installation of a specified pedestrian crosswalk before such installation occurs; requiring a pedestrian crosswalk on a public highway, street, or road which is located at any point other than at an intersection with another public highway, street, or road to conform to specified requirements; providing coordination requirements for certain devices and signals; requiring that traffic control signal devices at adjacent intersections be taken into consideration, etc.

Licensure Requirements for Land Surveyors and Mappers; Authorizing an exiled professional to substitute specified lawful practice of the profession for the education requirement for examination; revising education requirements for licensure; providing that specified work experience may be substituted for education requirements for licensure as a land surveyor or mapper, etc.

Educator Conduct; Requiring the Department of Education to maintain a disqualification list of certain persons; providing that certain provisions relating to conduct and prohibition from employment apply to educational support employees; prohibiting certain employees and personnel from employment under certain circumstances; prohibiting certain individuals from employment at a charter school; revising acts that warrant a disciplinary action by the Education Practices Commission, etc.

Home-based Businesses; Specifying conditions under which a business is considered a home-based business; providing requirements for home-based businesses; authorizing a home-based business to operate in an area zoned for residential use; specifying that home-based businesses are subject to certain business taxes; providing prohibitions and authorizations for local governmental actions relating to home-based businesses, etc.

Economic Self-sufficiency; Requiring an early learning coalition to give priority for participation in a school readiness program to certain children; requiring the Office of Early Learning within the Department of Education to coordinate with the University of Florida Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies to conduct an analysis of certain assistance programs, etc.

Preemption of Local Occupational Licensing; Preempting licensing of occupations to the state; prohibiting local governments from imposing additional licensing requirements or modifying licensing unless specified conditions are met; specifying that certain specialty contractors are not required to register with the Construction Industry Licensing Board; authorizing counties and municipalities to issue certain journeyman licenses, etc.

Electronic Threats; Prohibiting a person from sending, posting, or transmitting, or from procuring the sending, posting, or transmission of a written or electronic record when in such record the person makes a threat to kill or to do bodily harm to another person or to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism; providing criminal penalties, etc.

Growth Management; Providing an exception to a prohibition against legal entities and their members exercising the power of eminent domain over or acquiring title to certain facilities or property; authorizing landowners with development orders existing before the incorporation of a municipality to elect to abandon such orders and develop the vested density and intensity contained therein under specified conditions; revising the required acreage thresholds under which a small scale development amendment may be adopted, etc.