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S1552 - Housing Developments
Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to provide certain grants to community development districts for specified purposes; requiring the total number of units for certain new developments or redevelopments to be based on plans that include certain factors; prohibiting certain projects from requiring certain tax credits or bond financing; authorizing the corporation to use certain contributions for certain new construction projects to replace obsolete homes in mobile home parks and manufactured home communities, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S0194 - Motor Vehicle Repair Work
Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Citing this act as the "Lilly Glaubach Act"; requiring a motor vehicle repair shop to request a written crash report from a customer under certain circumstances; requiring a motor vehicle repair shop to prepare a transaction form under certain circumstances; requiring the motor vehicle repair shop to deliver transaction forms to law enforcement by a certain time; authorizing the department to revoke a vehicle repair shop's registration under certain circumstances, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S0700 - Controlled Substances
Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Excepting from the list of Schedule I controlled substances certain xylazine animal drug products approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration and used for certain purposes, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1636 - Substance Use Disorder Treatment Services
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Creating the Substance Use Disorder Housing Advisory Council; authorizing addiction treatment services to be provided through for-profit providers; providing that the certification of recovery residences that meet specified standards protects certain persons, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S0972 - Artificial Intelligence
Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Creating the Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council within the Department of Management Services; requiring the department to provide administrative support to the council; requiring members to be appointed to the council by a specified date; requiring each state agency to prepare and submit, by a specified date and using money appropriated by the Legislature, an inventory report for all automated decision systems that are being developed, used, or procured by the agency; providing legislative intent; prohibiting a county or a municipality or a political subdivision thereof from regulating the private and public use of artificial intelligence systems, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S0392 - Public Records/Patient-directed Doctor's Order Forms
Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Creating an exemption from public records requirements for personal identifying information held in the database for patient-directed doctor's order forms; authorizing the disclosure of such information to certain entities and individuals under specified conditions; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption under the Open Government Sunset Review Act; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S0784 - Installation of Waterway Markers
Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Revising the application requirements for marking certain waters of this state; requiring that all waterway markers be affixed to certain structures or buoys beginning on a specified date; requiring state and local governmental entities to conform to such requirements by a specified date, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S0680 - Protection of Medical Freedom
Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Prohibiting the Department of Health from requiring enrollment in the state's immunization registry or otherwise requiring persons to submit to immunization tracking; prohibiting business entities from requiring individuals to provide proof of vaccination or postinfection recovery from any communicable disease to gain access to, entry upon, or service from such entities; adding a person's vaccination and immunity status to the prohibited forms of discrimination by local housing assistance plans; prohibiting employers from refusing employment to, or discharging, disciplining, demoting, or otherwise discriminating against, an individual solely on the basis of vaccination or immunity status; prohibiting places of public accommodation from discriminating on the basis of vaccination or immunity status; prohibiting the Department of Health from requiring, as a school-entry requirement, that children receive immunizations approved only for emergency use, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S0242 - Cost-of-living Adjustment of Retirement Benefits
Ed Hooper, Lori B. Berman, Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Revising how the cost-of-living adjustment of benefits for certain retirees and beneficiaries is calculated; providing a declaration of important state interest, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S0390 - Patient-directed Doctor's Orders
Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Authorizing specified personnel of hospitals, nursing homes, and home health agencies, respectively, to withhold or withdraw cardiopulmonary resuscitation if presented with a patient-directed doctor's order (PDDO) form that contains an order not to resuscitate; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to adopt by rule procedures for the implementation of PDDO forms in hospice care; requiring the Department of Health to establish by rule circumstances and procedures under which emergency medical technicians and paramedics may honor PDDO forms, etc.
STATUS
Failed
BIOGRAPHY
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Senator from Florida district SD-022
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Florida Senate
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