Utility Relocation; Requiring that a specified amount of communications services tax remittances be distributed by the Department of Revenue by a nonoperating transfer to the Department of Commerce in monthly installments to the Grants and Donations Trust Fund within the Department of Commerce for the Utility Relocation Reimbursement Grant Program; revising the percentage by which a certain amount transferred into the Local Government Half-cent Sales Tax Clearing Trust Fund must be reduced, beginning on a certain date; specifying that a county or municipal authority is not responsible for paying the expense properly attributable to such work except as otherwise provided; creating the Utility Relocation Reimbursement Grant Program within the Department of Commerce; providing the purpose of the program, etc. APPROPRIATION: $50,000,000
Sponsored bills
Disability History and Awareness Instruction; Citing this act as the "Evin B. Hartsell Act"; requiring the Department of Education to develop specified curricula; authorizing the department to consult with the Evin B. Hartsell Foundation to further develop such curricula, etc.
Timeshare Management Firms; Revising applicability for provisions governing conflicts of interest between community association managers or community association management firms and certain persons with a financial interest in such associations; deleting a provision requiring managing entities that perform community association management to comply with certain provisions related to community association management firms; requiring the board of administration of a timeshare condominium to meet once per year, etc.
Fire Prevention; Requiring a local enforcement agency to issue a permit for a fire alarm system project or fire sprinkler system project within a specified time period; requiring the local enforcement agency to provide an inspection within a specified timeframe; specifying a condition under which a local amendment to the Florida Fire Prevention Code is unenforceable; requiring that a uniform summary inspection report include certain information, etc.
Roof Contracting; Revising the definition of the term “roofing contractor”; requiring certain roofing contractors to complete certain continuing education courses; revising the circumstances under which residential property owners are authorized to cancel a roof repair or replacement contract without penalty or obligation following a declared state of emergency; revising the notice that contractors must provide to residential property owners when executing such a contract, etc.
Expedited DNA Testing Grant Program; Defining the term “private lab”; creating the Expedited DNA Testing Grant Program within the Department of Law Enforcement; specifying potential grant recipients; providing purposes for the grants under the program; specifying eligible uses for such grant funds; requiring each grant recipient to provide a report to the executive director of the department within a certain timeframe, etc.
Surrendered Infants; Revising the definition of the term “infant”; defining the term “infant safety device”; authorizing certain hospitals, emergency medical services stations, and fire stations to use infant safety devices to accept surrendered infants if the device meets specified criteria; requiring such hospitals, emergency medical services stations, and fire stations to monitor the inside of the device 24 hours per day and physically check and test the devices at specified intervals, etc.
Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Senator Geraldine F. “Geri” Thompson; Recognizing and celebrating the life and legacy of Senator Geraldine F. “Geri” Thompson, etc.
Security for Jewish Day Schools and Preschools; Requiring DOE to establish program to provide funds to Jewish day schools & preschools for specified security purposes; provides authorized uses for such funds.
Maddy summaryThis bill creates a new section in Florida law that officially defines the term "antisemitism" using the working definition adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2016. The legislation provides specific contemporary examples of antisemitism, such as denying the Holocaust, holding Jewish people collectively responsible for actions by Israel, or applying double standards to the State of Israel compared to other nations. It explicitly states that criticizing Israel in a manner similar to how other countries are criticized does not count as antisemitism under this definition. The law aims to help monitor and report hate crimes while ensuring it does not infringe on First Amendment rights or conflict with existing antidiscrimination laws.