S0558 - Homeless Service Professionals
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Darryl Ervin Rouson
Last updated about 1 year ago1 Co-Sponsor
Providing qualifications for certification as a person with lived experience; requiring the Department of Children and Families to conduct background screening; specifying disqualifying offenses for a person applying for certification; authorizing a person who does not meet background screening requirements to request an exemption from disqualification from the department, etc.
STATUS
Introduced
S1260 - Verification of Reemployment Assistance Benefit Eligibility
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jay Trumbull
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Citing this act as the "Promoting Work, Deterring Fraud Act of 2024"; providing requirements for reemployment assistance benefit conditions for non-Florida residents; removing requirements that certain skills assessments of claimants be voluntary; revising circumstances under which the department disqualifies claimants from benefits; requiring the department to verify claimants' identities before paying benefits; requiring the department to procure an online workforce search and match tool for a specified purpose, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S0870 - Unsolicited Proposals for Public-private Partnerships
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Governmental Oversight and Accountability, Jim Boyd
Last updated about 1 year ago2 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing, rather than requiring, a responsible public entity to publish notice of an unsolicited proposal for a qualifying project in a specified manner and that other proposals for the same project will be accepted; authorizing a responsible public entity to proceed with an unsolicited proposal for a qualifying project without a public bidding process if the responsible public entity holds a public meeting that meets certain requirements and holds a subsequent public meeting at which it makes a certain determination; requiring the responsible public entity to consider certain factors; requiring the responsible public entity to publish a certain report in the Florida Administrative Register for a certain period of time in certain circumstances, etc.
STATUS
Introduced
S0488 - Medicaid Coverage for Prescribed Foods for Disease Treatment and Prevention
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Tina Polsky
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration, in conjunction with the Department of Health, to establish the Food is Medicine Pilot Program to provide Medicaid coverage for purchases and deliveries of prescribed health-promoting foods under certain circumstances; requiring the agency, in conjunction with the department, to seek federal approval and waivers for the pilot program; requiring allocation of a portion of the pilot program implementation budget to a specified organization for the establishment of a specified center, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1520 - County Budget Officers
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jonathan Martin
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Specifying that the county budget officer reports directly to the board of county commissioners; prohibiting such officer from being a member of the executive branch of county government unless otherwise authorized, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S0800 - Foreign Polluters
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Ana Maria Rodriguez
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Urging Congress to support solutions that examine the pollution differential between United States production and that of other countries and that hold foreign polluters accountable for their pollution, etc.
STATUS
Passed
S1624 - Energy Resources
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Regulated Industries, Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, Jay Collins
Last updated 12 months ago3 Co-Sponsors
Providing that resilience facilities are a permitted use in certain land use categories in local government comprehensive plans and specified districts if certain criteria are met; prohibiting amendments after a specified date to a local government's comprehensive plan, land use map, zoning districts, or land development regulations if such amendments would conflict with resiliency facility classification; requiring the Department of Management Services to develop a Florida Humane Preferred Energy Products List in consultation with the Department of Commerce and the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; including development districts as a type of political subdivision for purposes of preemption over utility service restrictions, etc.
STATUS
Introduced
S1210 - Estero Bay Aquatic Preserve
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jonathan Martin
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Revising the boundaries of the Estero Bay Aquatic Preserve, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1662 - Cybersecurity
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Governmental Oversight and Accountability, Appropriations, Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
Last updated 12 months ago4 Co-Sponsors
Providing that certain firms are disqualified from being awarded specified state contracts if certain conditions exist; providing that the Florida Center for Cybersecurity may also be referred to as "Cyber Florida"; providing that the center is established under the direction of the president of the University of South Florida, or his or her designee; requiring the Department of Management Services to contract with an independent verification and validation provider for specified services for all agency staff and vendor work to implement the enterprise cybersecurity resiliency program, etc.
STATUS
Introduced
S1792 - Online Access to Materials Harmful to Minors
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Judiciary, Erin K. Grall, Ileana Garcia
Last updated 10 months ago3 Co-Sponsors
Requiring a commercial entity that publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on a website or application that contains a substantial portion of such material to perform reasonable age verification methods, prevent access to such material by minors, and provide methods for reporting unauthorized or unlawful access; prohibiting the retention of certain personal identifying information, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S0536 - Community-based Child Welfare Agencies
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, Fiscal Policy
Last updated 10 months ago4 Co-Sponsors
Revising requirements for contracts the Department of Children and Families has with community-based care lead agencies; requiring the lead agency's board of directors to disclose to the department any known actual or potential conflicts of interest; prohibiting a lead agency from entering into a contract or being a party to any transaction with related parties if a conflict of interest is not properly disclosed; requiring the contract with the department and the lead agency to specify the administrative functions that the lead agency may subcontract, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S0224 - Citizen Volunteer Advisory Committees
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Governmental Oversight and Accountability, Rules, Tommy A. Wright
Last updated 9 months ago3 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing specified regional citizen volunteer advisory committees to conduct public meetings and workshops by means of communications media technology; requiring that such technology allow all persons to audibly communicate; providing notice requirements for public meetings or workshops conducted by means of communications media technology, etc.
STATUS
Passed
S0306 - Placement of Surrendered Newborn Infants
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, Gayle B. Harrell
Last updated 10 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Defining the term "community-based care lead agency"; requiring community-based care lead agencies to establish and maintain a specified registry; prohibiting the community-based care lead agency from transferring certain costs to prospective adoptive parents; requiring licensed child-placing agencies that take custody of surrendered newborn infants to report certain information; providing requirements for the hospital once it takes physical custody of a surrendered newborn infant, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S0790 - Surrendered Infants
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Clay Yarborough, Rosalind Osgood, Keith Perry
Last updated about 1 year ago3 Co-Sponsors
Changing the term "newborn infant" to "infant"; increasing the age at which a child is considered an infant; authorizing a parent to leave an infant with medical staff or a licensed health care professional at a hospital after the delivery of the infant, upon the parent giving a certain notification; authorizing a parent to surrender an infant by calling 911 to request that an emergency medical services provider meet the surrendering parent at a specified location, etc.
STATUS
Introduced
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