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S1276 - Litigation Financing
Fiscal Policy, Jay Collins
Last updated 10 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Citing this act as the "Litigation Investment Safeguards and Transparency Act"; requiring a court's consideration of potential conflicts of interest which may arise from the existence of a litigation financing agreement in specified circumstances; prohibiting specified acts by litigation financiers; requiring certain disclosures related to litigation financing agreements and the involvement of foreign persons, foreign principals, or sovereign wealth funds; requiring the indemnification of specified fees, costs, and sanctions by a litigation financier in specified circumstances, etc.
STATUS
Introduced
S1398 - Florida Crop Diversification Commission
Jay Collins
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Creating the commission adjunct to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; providing the membership and duties of the commission; requiring the commission to submit an annual report to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1640 - Payments for Health Care Services
Fiscal Policy, Jay Collins
Last updated 10 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Establishing a 3-year statute of limitations for an action to collect medical debt for services rendered by certain health care facilities; providing additional personal property exemptions from legal process for medical debts resulting from services provided in certain licensed facilities; requiring certain licensed facilities to post on their respective websites a consumer-friendly list of standard charges for a minimum number of shoppable health care services, etc.
STATUS
Introduced
S1560 - Ad Valorem Taxation Exemptions
Finance and Tax, Jay Collins
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to authorize the Legislature, by general law, to exempt certain tangible personal property from ad valorem taxation, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1486 - Permanency for Children
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, Jay Collins
Last updated 10 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the Department of Children and Families to conduct a criminal history records check of certain persons; authorizing specified persons to initiate a proceeding if both parents of a child are deceased or the last known living parent is deceased and a legal custodian has not been appointed for the child through a probate or guardianship proceeding; authorizing certain persons to remove a child from a court-ordered placement under certain circumstances, etc.
STATUS
Introduced
S1084 - Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Fiscal Policy, Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, Jay Collins
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Preempting the regulation of electric vehicle charging stations to the state; prohibiting local governmental entities from enacting or enforcing such regulations; providing that a pest control operator's certificate, a special identification card, and certain limited certifications for pesticide applicators, respectively, expire a specified length of time after issuance; authorizing the department to take disciplinary action against a person who swears to or affirms a false statement on certain applications, cheats on a required examination, or violates certain procedures under certain circumstances; authorizing Class "G" licensees to qualify for multiple calibers of firearms in one requalification class under certain circumstances; prohibiting the manufacture for sale, sale, holding or offering for sale, or distribution of cultivated meat in this state, etc.
STATUS
Passed
S1156 - Dangerous Dogs
Agriculture, Jay Collins
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Citing this act as as the "Pam Rock Act"; requiring certain dog owners to securely confine their dogs in a proper enclosure; defining the term "department"; requiring, rather than authorizing, that dogs subject to certain dangerous dog investigations be confiscated, impounded, and held; requiring animal control authorities to provide certain information to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and to destroy certain dogs; requiring the department to create and maintain a statewide Dangerous Dog Registry, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S0722 - Fleeing or Attempting to Elude a Law Enforcement Officer
Jay Collins, Keith Perry
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Providing mandatory minimum sentences for violations; providing for pretrial diversion for first-time offenders, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1778 - Escrow Accounts for Improvements to Residential Real Property
Jay Collins
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring contractors and qualified companies that receive a specified amount of money for improvements to residential real property to place such payments in an escrow account with specified institutions or persons; authorizing the contractor or qualified company to keep funds received from different owners in the same account under certain circumstances; authorizing the owner of the residential real property to request in a specified manner an accounting report from the contractor or qualified company, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1502 - Health Care Expenses
Jay Collins
Last updated 10 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Establishing a 3-year statute of limitations for an action to collect medical debt for services rendered by a health care provider or facility; providing additional personal property exemptions from legal process for medical debts resulting from services provided in certain licensed facilities; requiring a licensed facility to post on its website a consumer-friendly list of standard charges for a minimum number of shoppable health care services; prohibiting certain collection activities by a licensed facility, etc.
STATUS
Introduced
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