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HB 195 (Chambliss) requires the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission to consult with a national organization with expertise in mental health crisis intervention to establish minimum standards for basic skills and continued education training for law enforcement officers by July 1, 2025. (Cruz)

HB 151 (Busatta Cabrera) creates an unfunded mandate for government entities that provide retirement benefits through the Florida Retirement System (FRS). Beginning on July 1, 2024, the cost-of-living benefit of each retiree and annuitant shall be adjusted without a requirement for the Legislature enacting sufficient funding. (Chapman)

HB 27 (Benjamin) – Citizen’s Arrest

SB 96 (Jones) – Use of Threatened Use of Force

SB 98 (Jones) – Community Violence Task Force

SB 100 (Jones) – Pregnant Woman in Custody

HB 145 (Daley) and SB 180 (Polsky) – Sales of Ammunition

HB 155 (Daley) and SB 182 (Polsky) – Pub Rec./Sales of Ammunition

SB 176 (Polsky) – Sale, Transfer, and Storage of Firearms

HB 123 (Chambliss) – Child Water Safety Requirements

SB 130 (Berman) and HB 209 (Rayner) would prohibit the possession or use of a firearm in “sensitive locations.” The bills define a sensitive location as numerous public facilities including but not limited to buildings or facilities owned, leased or operated by government entities, including public transportation. (Cruz)

HB 75 (Rizo) and SB 184 (Avila) would make it unlawful for any person, after receiving a warning from a first responder not to approach, to violate such warning and approach or remain within 20 feet of a first responder who is engaged in the lawful performance of any legal or emergent duty, with the intent to: 1. Interrupt, disrupt, hinder, impede or interfere with the first responder’s ability to perform such duty; 2. Provoke a physical response from the first responder; or 3. Directly or indirectly harass the first responder or make so much noise that a first responder is prevented from performing their official duties or providing medical aid. SB 184 specifies that peaceful recording or observation is not harassment. (Chapman)

HB 49 (Chaney) makes changes to the employment restrictions for minors. Under the bill, minors 16 and 17 years of age will now be permitted to work the same number of hours as a person 18 years of age or older. The bill would also prohibit local governments from adopting or enforcing curfews on minors that are more stringent than those listed within the bill. (Cruz)

HB 191 (Brackett) – Town of Orchid, Indian River County

HB 103 (Arrington) creates a public records exemption for the personal identifying and location information of current county and city attorneys and assistant/deputy county and city attorneys, as well as information regarding the spouses and children of those attorneys. (Cruz)

HB 157 (Caruso) would allow local governments to meet and conduct official business via teleconferencing or other technological means, no more than two times per calendar year, as long as the meetings meet all of the requirements for public notice, public access and public participation. The bill does specify that meetings that include formal action on ordinances or are quasi-judicial hearings may not be conducted via teleconferencing or other technological means. (Cruz)

HB 15 (Rudman) – Contracts for Live Entertainment

SB 40 (Stewart) – Review of Employment Contracts

HB 175 (Benjamin) – Judgement Liens

HB 109 (Andrade) – Conversion Charter Schools

HB 35 (Rudman) and SB 106 (Jones) – Acceptance of Cash Payments by Businesses

HB 141 (Abbott) and SB 196 (Simon) – Regional Rural Development Grants Program

HB 173 (Daniels) – Not-for-profit Corporations that Operate Residential Homeowners' Associations

HB 177 (Andrade) and SB 204 (Brodeur) – Competition for the Sale of Event Tickets

HB 189 (Salzman) – Gambling

HB 179 (Bell), SB 202 (Rodriguez) and HB 213 (Smith) make changes related to towing-storage operator practices, including allowable fees, payment acceptance, lien requirements, sale of unclaimed vehicles and record retention. Specifically, the bills share the following provisions:

•Reduce the timeframe in which a towing-storage operator must send the notice of lien from seven to four business days, and reduce storage charges that may be charged if a lienor fails to provide this notice.

•Provide that a towing-storage operator may only charge certain fees.

•Require towing-storage operators to accept specified forms of payment.

•Increase the timeframe an unclaimed vehicle or vessel three years of age or newer may be sold by a lienor from 50 days to 65 days from the storage date, and require the notice of lien must not be sent less than 60 days before the sale.

•Increase the timeframe for the public notice requirement related to sale on an unclaimed vehicle by a towing-storage operator from ten days to twenty days before the sale.

•Require a towing-storage operator to make a towed vehicle available for inspection during normal business hours within 30 minutes after arrival at a storage facility.

•Require a towing-storage operator to accept electronic titles as well as paper titles as evidence of a person’s interest in a vehicle or vessel. 

•Require a towing-storage operator to retain records of all vehicles and vessels recovered, towed or stored; all notice publications and certified mailings; and fees for at least three years.

•Provide that foreclosing a storage lien on a vehicle or vessel must be through the process as opposed to the warehouse lien and landlord and tenant statutes. 

•Create notice and bond requirements for foreclosure of storage liens on vehicles or vessels held by self-storage facilities.

HB 179 differs from SB 202, where it prohibits the Florida Highway Patrol from excluding a wrecker operator from its wrecker operator system based solely on a prior felony conviction, unless such conviction is for a specified felony offense. 

SB 202 and HB 213 differ from HB 179, where it preempts any county or municipal charter, ordinance, resolution, regulation or rule that imposes a requirement upon a towing-storage operator more stringent than those within this legislation. (Chapman)

SB 166 (Polsky) creates the Medical Marijuana Public Employee Protection Act. The bill would prohibit a public employer from taking adverse personnel actions against an employee or job applicant who is a qualified patient for their use of medical marijuana unless that use is impairing the employee's ability to perform their job duties or responsibilities. (Chapman)

SB 110 (Jones) would repeal the preemption of city and county ordinances and rules imposing price controls on rent or other lawful business activity. (Chapman)

HB 119 (Melo) and SB 188 (Brodeur) – Trespass on Commercial Agricultural Property

HB 31 (Edmonds) and SB 64 (Osgood) – Landlords and Tenants

SB 58 (Stewart) – Sales Tax Holiday for Micromobility Vehicles and Related Personal Safety Equipment 

HB 113 (Maney) and SB 216 (Hooper) – Tax Collections and Sales

HB 171 (Daniels) – Homestead Exemptions for Totally and Permanently Disabled First Responders

SB 172 (Polsky) – Verification of Eligibility for Homestead Exemption

SB 218 (Wright) – Property Tax Exemption for Surviving Spouses of Veterans

SB 102 (Jones) – Property Insurance

HB 55 (Tant) is the implementing bill for HJR 53 if it is voter-approved and would provide for a property tax exemption for the surviving spouse of a quadriplegic who was receiving a property tax exemption on real estate used and owned as a homestead at the time of their death. (Chapman)

HJR 53 (Tant) proposes an amendment to the constitution to authorize the Legislature to provide for a property tax exemption for the surviving spouse of a quadriplegic who was receiving a property tax exemption on real estate used and owned as a homestead at the time of their death. The constitutional amendment must be approved by at least 60% of electors at the November 2024 general election and will take effect on January 1, 2025. (Chapman)

SB 100 (Garcia) and HB 561 (Mooney, Jr.) – Mangrove Replanting & Restoration

HB 55 (Garcia) and SB 108 (Rodriguez) – Trees and Other Vegetation within Rights-of-Way

SB 54 (Rodriguez) and HB 135 (Mooney) – Land Acquisition Trust Fund (Keys)

HB 125 (McClain) and SB 194 (Hooper) – Utility System Rate Base Values

HB 207 (Edmonds) and SB 592 (Powell) – Notice of Contaminated Water Systems

HB 325 (Valdes), SB 484 (Bradley), HB 759 (Baker) and SB 1720 (Rouson) – Flood Disclosures for Property Sales

SB 716 (Stewart) and HB 1291 (Antone) – Flood Zone Disclosures for Dwelling Units

HB 527 (Skidmore) and SB 1484 (Pizzo) – Office of the Blue Economy

HB 411 (Steele) – District School Board Elections

HB 407 (Shoaf) and SB 702 (Simon) – Apalachicola Bay Area of Critical State Concern

SB 320 (Harrell) and HB 547 (Sirois) – Land Acquisition Trust Fund (Indian River Lagoon)

HB 557 (Bell) and SB 602 (Burton) – Land Acquisition Trust Fund (Heartland Headwaters)

HB 713 (McFarland) and SB 742 (Grall) – Administrative Procedures and Permitting Process Review

HB 739 (Cassel) and SB 1336 (Polsky) – Disposal of Food Waste Material

SB 724 (Boyd) and HB 1181 (Robinson) – Seagrass Restoration Technology Development Initiatives

HB 821 (Yeager) and SB 1162 (DiCeglie) – Renewable Energy Cost Recovery

SB 930 (Stewart) – Excise Tax on Water Extracted for Commercial or Industrial Use

SB 1134 (Gruters) and HB 1505 (Grant) – Outstanding Florida Springs (Warm Mineral Springs)

HB 1149 (Massullo) – Carbon Sequestration

HB 1187 (Beltran) and SB 1216 (Ingoglia) – Campaign Finance

SB 1206 (Thompson) and HB 1469 (Joseph) – Elections

HB 1195 (Cross) and SB 1268 (Rouson) – Urban Agriculture Pilot Projects

SB 1368 (Wright) and HB 1367 (Altman) – Unlawful Dumping (water control districts)

SB 1248 (Ingoglia) – Political Parties

CS/CS/CS/SB 162 (Collins) requires the Department of Environmental Protection to issue reciprocal licenses to public water utility workers licensed in other states who meet specified requirements, including holding an active and valid license in the other jurisdiction, passing a licensure examination in the other jurisdiction that is comparable to Florida's licensure examination, and not being subject to any disciplinary action. The Department is directed to give education and operational experience credits to license applicants who have performed comparable duties in the armed forces but do not meet other requirements for a reciprocal license. Further, the bill provides that, during a declared state of emergency, the Department may issue a temporary license to applicants who otherwise meet the requirements for license reciprocity, and it must waive the application fee for a temporary operator license. Finally, the bill directs the Department to adopt rules for licensure by reciprocity. 

Effective date: July 1, 2023. (O'Hara)