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S1164 - Use of Lights and Sirens on Authorized Emergency Vehicles
Transportation, Colleen Burton
Last updated 10 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Revising the definition of the term "authorized emergency vehicles"; authorizing organ transport vehicles to exercise certain privileges; providing that certain vehicles transporting organs and surgical teams for organ recovery or transplant may show or display red lights and operate sirens while en route to a hospital, an airport, or other designated location; authorizing the display or use of red warning signals by organ transport vehicles under certain circumstances, etc.
STATUS
Introduced
S1224 - Protection of Children and Victims of Crime
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice, Fiscal Policy
Last updated 7 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office and circuit guardian ad litem offices to participate in the development of a certain state plan; requiring the court to appoint a guardian ad litem for a child at the earliest possible time; requiring parents to consent to provide certain information to the guardian ad litem and attorney ad litem; requiring a court to appoint a guardian ad litem to represent a child in certain proceedings, etc.
STATUS
Passed
S1140 - Mobile Homes
Regulated Industries, Fiscal Policy, Colleen Burton
Last updated 10 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring that a petition for mediation be filed with the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to determine the adequacy and conformance of the homeowners' petition to initiate mediation; authorizing parties to disputes to jointly select a mediator and initiate mediation proceedings; requiring that specified live-in health care aides have ingress and egress to and from a mobile home owner's site without having to pay charges, etc.
STATUS
Introduced
S0126 - Support for the State of Israel
Lori B. Berman, Tina Polsky, Linda A. Stewart
Last updated 8 months ago
17 Co-Sponsors
Expressing the Florida Senate's unwavering support for the State of Israel, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1182 - Fees/Virtual Currency Kiosk Business
Colleen Burton
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring an applicant to submit a nonrefundable fee to apply to be registered as a virtual currency kiosk business, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S0322 - Public Records and Meetings
Colleen Burton
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Providing an exemption from public records requirements for certain information held by the Department of Health, the Board of Medicine, the Board of Osteopathic Medicine, the Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, and the Board of Physical Therapy Practice pursuant to the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact, and the Physical Therapy Licensure Compact, as applicable; authorizing disclosure of the information under certain circumstances; providing an exemption from public meetings requirements for certain meetings, or portions of meetings, of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Commission, the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact Commission, and the Physical Therapy Compact Commission; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing statements of public necessity, etc.
STATUS
Passed
S0986 - Management and Storage of Surface Waters
Colleen Burton
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Providing an exemption from surface water management and storage regulations for the implementation of certain measures and practices for environmental restoration, enhancement, and creation activities and water quality improvements on specified agricultural and government-owned lands; deleting requirements relating to adverse impacts on water resources, certain notification by the department and water management districts, and commencement of activities, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1436 - Consumer Finance Loans
Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, Colleen Burton
Last updated 10 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Defining the term "branch"; prohibiting a person from operating a branch of a business making consumer finance loans before obtaining a license from the Office of Financial Regulation; specifying application fees for branch licenses; requiring licensees offering an assistance program to borrowers after a federally declared disaster to send a specified notice to the office within a certain timeframe; requiring certain licensees to suspend specified actions for a certain timeframe after a federally declared disaster, etc.
STATUS
Introduced
S1066 - Consumer Protection
Banking and Insurance, Judiciary, Rules
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Revising requirements for payment settlement entities, or their electronic payment facilitators or contracted third parties, in submitting information returns to the Department of Revenue; authorizing a residential property owner to cancel a contract to replace or repair a roof without penalty or obligation under certain circumstances; providing requirements for certain insurers' accountants; revising the content of certain public adjuster contracts, etc.
STATUS
Introduced
S1698 - Food and Hemp Products
Agriculture, Colleen Burton
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Defining the term "total delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol concentration"; providing conditions for the manufacture, delivery, hold, offer for sale, distribution, or sale of hemp extract; prohibiting businesses and food establishments from possessing hemp extract products that are attractive to children; prohibiting the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services from granting permission to remove or use certain hemp extract products until it determines that such hemp extract products comply with state law, etc.
STATUS
Vetoed
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