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Bills That Go Into Effect July 1, 2018102 bills from the 2018 regular legislative session are slated to take effect on July 1,2018. Another bill, SB 118 from the 2017 regular legislative session, will also takeeffect on Sunday.

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Effective July 1, 2019 (NOT 2018)[SB 0920, HB 0935, HB 1361]

Bills That Go Into Effect July 1, 2018

HB 21 Controlled Substances Boyd

Controlled Substances: Requires practitioners to complete specifiedboard-approved continuing education course to prescribe controlledsubstances; defines "acute pain"; provides for adoption of standards ofpractice for treatment of acute pain; limits prescribing of opioids for acutepain in certain circumstances; requires pain management clinic ownersto register approved exemptions with DOH; provides requirements forpharmacists & practitioners for dispensing of controlled substances topersons not known to them; conforms state controlled substancesschedule to federal controlled substances schedule; revisesrequirements for prescription drug monitoring program. Effective Date:July 1, 2018

HB 29 Military and Veterans Affairs Ponder

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Military and Veterans Affairs: Citing this act as the "Don HahnfeldtVeteran and Military Family Opportunity Act"; revising licensure eligibilityrequirements; requiring the Department of Agriculture and ConsumerServices to waive certain fees; authorizing the licensing authority torecognize certain military-issued credentials for purposes of licensure;designating March 25 of each year as "Medal of Honor Day"; requiringthe State Board of Education to issue a temporary certificate ineducational leadership to certain persons, etc. Effective Date: July 1,2018

HB 37 Direct Primary Care Agreements Burgess

Direct Primary Care Agreements: Specifies that direct primary careagreement does not constitute insurance & provides requirements forsuch agreement. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB 41 Pregnancy Support and Wellness Services Toledo

Pregnancy Support and Wellness Services: Requires DOH to contractwith not-for-profit statewide alliance of organizations to providepregnancy support & wellness services through subcontractors; providesduties of department; provides contract requirements; requires servicesto be provided in noncoercive manner & forbides inclusion of religiouscontent. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB 53 Coral Reefs Jacobs

Coral Reefs: Establishes Southeast Florida Coral Reef EcosystemConservation Area. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB 67 Florida Slavery Memorial McGhee

Florida Slavery Memorial: Establishes Florida Slavery Memorial;provides for administration of memorial by DMS; directs DMS to developspecified plan & submit such plan to Governor & Legislature. EffectiveDate: July 1, 2018

HB 75 Postsecondary Fee Waivers Ponder

Postsecondary Fee Waivers: Authorizes FCS institutions to waiveportion of certain postsecondary fees for active duty members of U.S.Armed Forces using military tuition assistance; requires FCS institutionsto report to SBE number & value of such fee waivers granted annually.Effective Date: July 1, 2018

SB100

Taxes and Fees for Veterans and Low-income Persons Steube

Taxes and Fees for Veterans and Low-income Persons; Exemptingcertain persons and businesses from business taxes and fees; repealing

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provisions relating to exemptions allowed for disabled veterans of anywar or their unremarried spouses; deleting fees for adding the word“Veteran” to an identification card or driver license; prohibiting taxcollectors from charging certain driver license service fees to veteranswho present specified forms of identification, etc. Effective Date:7/1/2018

SB140 Marriage Licenses Benacquisto

Marriage Licenses; Providing that a marriage license may not be issuedto a person under the age of 18 years; requiring parties to a marriage tofile a written and signed affidavit with the county court judge or clerk ofthe circuit court before the judge or clerk may issue a marriage license;requiring each party to a marriage to provide his or her social securitynumber or an alien registration number for purposes of child supportenforcement; clarifying that a county court judge or clerk of a circuit courtcommits a misdemeanor if he or she issues a blank marriage license orif he or she issues a marriage license without obtaining the ages andidentification numbers of the parties, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2018

HB141 Transportation Harrison

Transportation: Revising provisions relating to contracting andnegotiation between the Department of Transportation and localgovernmental entities for acquisition, construction, or operation ofturnpike projects; exempting a law enforcement officer from paying a tollon a toll facility when operating an official vehicle while on official lawenforcement business; requiring fees generated from tolls to be used toreimburse, by interlocal agreement, a county or another localgovernmental entity for the direct actual costs of operating a specifiedfire station providing services to the public on Alligator Alley, etc..Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB155 State Symbols Magar

State Symbols: Abrogates scheduled repeal of state saltwater reptile &state horse designations; designates Florida Cracker Cattle as officialstate heritage cattle breed. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB165

Written Threats to Conduct Mass Shootingsor Acts of Terrorism McClain

Written Threats to Conduct Mass Shootings or Acts of Terrorism:Prohibiting a person from making, posting, or transmitting a threat toconduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism in a writing or otherrecord in any manner that would allow another person to view the threat;exempting certain providers of services from liability, etc. Effective Date:July 1, 2018







SB168 Nonnative Animals Steube

Nonnative Animals; Requiring the Fish and Wildlife ConservationCommission to establish a pilot program for the eradication of priorityinvasive species; specifying procedures for the capture and disposal ofanimals that belong to priority invasive species, etc. Effective Date:7/1/2018

HB185 Redirection of Fees to Tax Collectors Mariano

Redirection of Fees to Tax Collectors: Provides for allocation of feesfrom certain driver license examinations administered by tax collectors &certain driver license reinstatement services performed by tax collectors.Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB193 Mortgage Brokering Stark

Mortgage Brokering: Provides exemption from regulation under parts I &II of ch. 494, F.S., for certain securities dealers, investment advisors, &associated persons; provides requirements for certain solicitations &referrals. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB215 Motor Vehicles Payne

Motor Vehicles: Authorizing a mobile carrier to be operated on sidewalksand crosswalks within a county or municipality when such use ispermissible under federal law; requiring safety belt or, if applicable, childrestraint usage by an operator or passenger of an autocycle; providingthat a mobile carrier is not required to satisfy specified registration andinsurance requirements; authorizing a person to operate an autocyclewithout a motorcycle endorsement, etc. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

SB268

Public Records/PublicGuardians/Employees with FiduciaryResponsibility

Passidomo

Public Records/Public Guardians/Employees with FiduciaryResponsibility; Providing an exemption from public records requirementsfor certain identifying and location information of current or former publicguardians, employees with fiduciary responsibility, and the spouses andchildren thereof; providing for future legislative review and repeal of theexemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc. Effective Date:7/1/2018

HB Incarcerated Parents Williams









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Incarcerated Parents: Requires DCF to include parents who areincarcerated in development of case plans for their children; specifiesrespective responsibilities of department, correctional facilities, &incarcerated parents; provides conditions for amending case plan.Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB283 Cardiac Programs Raschein

Cardiac Programs: Grants exception from volume requirements fordiagnostic cardiac catheterization procedures & ischemic heart diseasediagnoses for certain hospitals providing adult cardiovascular services.Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB333 Minimum Officer Qualifications Burgess

Minimum Officer Qualifications: Defining the term "special operationsforces"; exempting certain applicants from completing a basic recruittraining program approved by the Criminal Justice Standards andTraining Commission under specified conditions; requiring an employingagency, training center, or criminal justice selection center to verify anddocument that certain applicants have served in the special operationsforces for a minimum period and completed certain training if they seekan exemption from the commission-approved basic recruit trainingprogram, etc. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB351 Prescription Drug Pricing Transparency Santiago

Prescription Drug Pricing Transparency: Requires pharmacists to informcustomers of certain generically equivalent drug products & whethercost-sharing obligations to such customers exceed retail price ofprescription; requires registration with OIR; provides registrationrequirements; requires registrant to report certain changes by specifieddate; requires office to issue registration certificate upon receipt ofcompleted registration form; provides for expiration; requires rulemaking;requires certain terms in health insurer or health maintenanceorganization contracts with pharmacy benefit managers. Effective Date:July 1, 2018

HB359 State Investments Nunez

State Investments: Requires SBA to divest certain investments &prohibits investments in specified institutions doing business withVenezuela, in violation of federal law; prohibits SBA from voting in favorof proxy resolution advocating expanded U.S. trade with suchgovernment; prohibits state agencies from investing in specified entitiesextending credit, buying, or trading goods or services with Venezuela;








authorizes Governor to waive investment prohibitions if certainconditions exist. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB361

Persons Authorized to Visit JuvenileFacilities Richardson

Persons Authorized to Visit Juvenile Facilities: Authorizes specifiedpersons to visit, during certain hours, all juvenile facilities operated oroverseen by DJJ or county; authorizes such persons to visit juvenilefacilities outside of certain hours pursuant to DJJ rules; prohibits DJJfrom unreasonably withholding permission for visits to such facilities bycertain persons. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

SB382 Transportation Facility Designations Book

Transportation Facility Designations; Providing honorary designations ofcertain transportation facilities in specified counties; directing theDepartment of Transportation to erect suitable markers; providing for“The Hope and Healing Highway” designation, notwithstanding aspecified provision, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2018

SB386 Consumer Finance Garcia

Consumer Finance; Revising a provision relating to the maximumdelinquency charge that may be charged for consumer finance loans;revising a requirement relating to installment repayments for consumerfinance loans, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2018

SB394 Fire Safety Bracy

Fire Safety; Requiring the Division of State Fire Marshal to establishspecified courses as a part of firefighter and volunteer firefighter trainingand certification; specifying the division’s authority to adopt rules fortraining related to cancer and mental health risks within the fire service,etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2018

HB413 Trusts Moraitis

Trusts: Deletes requirement that trust & its terms be for benefit of trust'sbeneficiaries; revises provisions relating to notice or sending of trustdocuments to include posting on secure electronic account or website;tolls specified limitations periods under certain circumstances;authorizes authorized trustee to appoint all or part of principal of trust tosecond trust or supplemental needs trust under certain circumstances;clarifies that certain knowledge by beneficiary does not cause claim toaccrue for breach of trust or commence running of period of limitations








or laches; provides retroactive application. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB417

Pub. Rec./Child Advocacy Center Personneland Child Protection Team Members Jenne

Pub. Rec./Child Advocacy Center Personnel and Child Protection TeamMembers: Provides public records exemption for certain informationconcerning child advocacy center personnel or child protection teammembers & their spouses & children. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB429 Donation and Transfer of Human Tissue Pigman

Donation and Transfer of Human Tissue: Requires DOH to develop &publish on its website an educational pamphlet relating to certain tissuetransplants; requires educational pamphlet to include specifiedinformation relating to risks & benefits of human cells, tissue, & cellular &tissue-based product transplants. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB449 Children's Initiatives Stafford

Children's Initiatives: Creates Tampa Sulphur Springs Neighborhood ofPromise Success Zone within City of Tampa in Hillsborough County &Overtown Children & Youth Coalition within City of Miami in Miami-DadeCounty; provides for management by not for profit corporations notsubject to state control, supervision, or direction. Effective Date: July 1,2018

HB455 Governance of Banks and Trust Companies McClain

Governance of Banks and Trust Companies: Revises requirementsrelating to financial institution experience of certain proposed directors &officers of proposed banks or trust companies; revises residencyrequirement of certain directors & financial institution experience ofcertain officers for banks or trust companies; revises instances duringwhich bank may not own certain stock, obligations, or other securities.Effective Date: July 1, 2018

SB472 National Statuary Hall Thurston, Jr.

National Statuary Hall; Requesting the Joint Committee on the Library ofCongress to approve the replacement of the statue of ConfederateGeneral Edmund Kirby Smith in the National Statuary Hall Collectionwith a statue of Mary McLeod Bethune; providing for the transfer ofownership of the statue of General Edmund Kirby Smith to the state;providing that the act is an official request to the Joint Committee on theLibrary of Congress, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2018








HB483 Unfair Insurance Trade Practices Yarborough

Unfair Insurance Trade Practices: Revises types, value & frequency ofadvertising & promotional gifts that licensed insurers or their agents maygive to insureds, prospective insureds, or others; authorizes suchinsurers or agents to make certain charitable donations on behalf ofinsureds or prospective insureds; prohibits title insurance agents,agencies, & insurers from giving insureds, prospective insureds, orothers merchandise in excess of specified value; authorizes certainlicensed insurers & agents to give specified complimentary services ordiscounted rates on specified services. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB495 K-12 Public Education Diaz

Education: Revising limitations on the maximum length of participation inthe Deferred Retirement Option Program for certain instructionalpersonnel and administrative personnel; providing requirements forspecified instruction relating to computer science; prohibiting certainconduct with students by authority figures; requiring school districts toadopt certain standards of ethical conduct; expanding the scope ofprovisions requiring the disqualification of persons convicted of certainoffenses to apply to all persons who are required to have contact withstudents; requiring a school district to file certain complaints with theDepartment of Education even if the subject of the complaint is no longeremployed by the district, etc. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

SB498

Office of Public and Professional GuardiansDirect-support Organization Garcia

Office of Public and Professional Guardians Direct-support Organization;Abrogating the scheduled repeal of provisions governing a direct-supportorganization established under the Office of Public and ProfessionalGuardians within the Department of Elderly Affairs, etc. Effective Date:7/1/2018

SB512 Homestead Waivers Young

Homestead Waivers; Providing language that may be used to waivespousal homestead rights concerning devise restrictions, etc. EffectiveDate: 7/1/2018

HB513

Distributing Pharmaceutical Drugs andDevices Rommel

Distributing Pharmaceutical Drugs and Devices: Revises an exception topharmacy regulations for certain manufacturers & distributers of dialysisdrugs or supplies. Effective Date: July 1, 2018








HB529 Florida Fire Prevention Code Diaz

Florida Fire Prevention Code: Requires specified containers be allowedin exit corridors of certain apartment occupancies under certaincircumstances; authorizes authorities having jurisdiction to approvealternative containers; requires such authorities to allow phase-in periodto comply; provides for future repeal. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB533 Unfair Insurance Trade Practices Hager

Unfair Insurance Trade Practices: Authorizing insurers to refuse toinsure or refuse to continue to insure an applicant or insured for failing topurchase certain noninsurance motor vehicle services, etc. EffectiveDate: July 1, 2018

HB539 Alarm Confirmation Cortes (B)

Alarm Confirmation: Revises requirements for alarm confirmation toinclude additional methods by which alarm monitoring companypersonnel may confirm residential or commercial intrusion/burglaryalarm signal & to require two attempts be made to confirm alarm signal.Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB545

Prohibition Against Contracting withScrutinized Companies Fine

Prohibition Against Contracting with Scrutinized Companies: Prohibitscompany that is on Scrutinized Companies that Boycott Israel List or thatis engaged in boycott of Israel from bidding on, submitting proposal for,or entering into or renewing contract with agency or local governmentalentity for goods or services; provides exceptions; requires specifiedprovision in such contracts; requires company to make specifiedcertification in specified circumstances; provides for preemption.Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB547

Reports Concerning Seized or ForfeitedProperty Killebrew

Reports Concerning Seized or Forfeited Property: Revises deadline forannual report by law enforcement agencies concerning property seizedor forfeited under Florida Contraband Forfeiture Act. Effective Date: July1, 2018

HB565 Excess Credit Hour Surcharges Mariano









Excess Credit Hour Surcharges: Requires state university to returnspecified amount of assessed excess credit hour surcharges to first-time-in-college students who meet certain requirements. Effective Date:July 1, 2018

SB566 Unlawful Detention by a Transient Occupant Young

Unlawful Detention by a Transient Occupant; Revising factors thatestablish a person as a transient occupant of residential property;authorizing a former transient occupant, under certain circumstances, tobring a civil action for damages or recovery of personal belongings, etc.Effective Date: 7/1/2018

SB568 Telephone Solicitation Young

Telephone Solicitation; Revising the definition of the term “telephonicsales call” to include voicemail transmissions; prohibiting thetransmission of voicemails to specified persons who communicate to atelephone solicitor that they would not like to receive certain voicemailsolicitations or requests for donations, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2018

HB577 High School Graduation Requirements Silvers

High School Graduation Requirements: Authorizes student to use creditearned upon completion of apprenticeship or preapprenticeship programto satisfy specified high school graduation requirements; requires SBE toapprove & identify registered apprenticeship & preapprenticeshipprograms. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB591 Missing Persons Porter

Missing Persons With Special Needs: Abrogating the scheduled repealof provisions governing the citizen support organization for FloridaMissing Children's Day; expanding a project for missing persons withspecial needs to all centers for autism and related disabilities at stateuniversities, etc. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

SB622 Health Care Facility Regulation Grimsley

Health Care Facility Regulation; Providing that a designated facilityowned or operated by a public health trust and located within theboundaries of a municipality is under the exclusive jurisdiction of thecounty creating the public health trust; eliminating state licensurerequirements for clinical laboratories; requiring a birth center to befederally certified and meet specified requirements to perform certainlaboratory tests, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2018








HB631 Possession of Real Property Edwards-Walpole

Possession of Real Property: Authorizes person with superior right topossession of real property to recover possession by ejectment;provides that person entitled to possession of real property has cause ofaction to regain possession from another person who obtainedpossession of real property by forcible entry, unlawful entry, or unlawfuldetainer; prohibits local government from enacting or enforcingordinance or rule based on customary use; provides an exception;creates, revises, & repeals related procedural provisions. Effective Date:July 1, 2018

HB639

Equitable Distribution of Marital Assets andLiabilities Perez

Equitable Distribution of Marital Assets and Liabilities: Redefines "maritalassets & liabilities" for purposes of equitable distribution in dissolution ofmarriage actions; provides formulas & guidelines for determining amountof passive appreciation; authorizes court to require security & interestwhen installment payments are ordered in division of assets. EffectiveDate: July 1, 2018

HB651 State Employment Yarborough

State Employment: Repeals provisions relating to Florida StateEmployees' Charitable Campaign; prohibits organization, entity, orperson from intentionally soliciting state employees for fundraising orbusiness purposes within specified areas during specified times;provides exceptions. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

SB660

Florida Insurance Code Exemption forNonprofit Religious Organizations Brandes

Florida Insurance Code Exemption for Nonprofit ReligiousOrganizations; Revising criteria under which a nonprofit religiousorganization that facilitates the sharing of contributions among itsparticipants for financial, physical, or medical needs is exempt fromrequirements of the code, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2018

HB661 Business Filings Miller

Business Filings: Authorizes certain persons & entities to correct certaindocuments; provides that correction filed for certain reasons are notsubject to department fee; requires department to send notice of filing ofrecord through e-mail or send copy of document to mailing address ofentity, representative, or agent; provides notice requirements for








department if record changes entity's e-mail or mailing address. EffectiveDate: July 1, 2018

HB667 Beverage Law Perez

Beverage Law: Provides for electronic orders received at vendor'slicensed place of business to be construed as sale made at vendor'slicensed place of business; authorizes vendor to make certain deliveriesin third-party vehicle; prohibits manufacturer licensed as vendor frommaking such deliveries; requires that licensee's identity & age be verified& documented at time of delivery; requires that deliveries comply withage requirements for selling, giving, or serving alcoholic beverages.Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB675 Pharmacies Brodeur

Pharmacies: Revises membership of Board of Pharmacy; establishesClass III institutional pharmacies; provides requirements for suchpharmacies; revises notice requirements; authorizes distribution ofmedicinal drugs & prepackaged drug products without specified permitunder certain conditions; removes provision exempting certain drugrepackagers from specified permit requirements. Effective Date: July 1,2018

HB703 Water Management District Surplus Lands Burgess

Water Management District Surplus Lands: Requires water managementdistricts to publish notice of intention to sell surplus lands on its website;revises circumstances when water management districts must publishfirst notice of intention to sell surplus lands; revises process for sellingcertain lower valued surplus lands. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB705

Pub. Rec./Water Management DistrictSurplus Lands Burgess

Pub. Rec./Water Management District Surplus Lands: Providesexemption for certain records relating to sale of surplus lands; authorizesdisclosure of such records under certain circumstances; provides forfuture legislative review & repeal. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB731 Home Education Sullivan

Home Education: Specifying that a home education program is not aschool district program and is registered with the district schoolsuperintendent only for the purpose of complying with the state'sattendance requirements; prohibiting a district school superintendentfrom requiring certain evidence relating to a child's age from children








enrolling in specified schools and programs; requiring the department toprovide certain teacher and student ACT and PreACT information for theevaluation of certain services and activities, etc. Effective Date: July 1,2018

HB735 Mammography Harrell

Mammography: Requires facilities performing mammography to includecertain information in summary of mammography report provided toeach patient; provides applicability; provides for future repeal. EffectiveDate: July 1, 2018

SB740

Department of Agriculture and ConsumerServices Stargel

Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Specifying themethodology for the assessment of certain structures in horticulturalproduction; revising permitting requirements and operating standards forwater vending machines; requiring certain liquefied petroleum gasdealers to provide notice within a specified period before rendering aconsumer’s liquefied petroleum gas equipment or system inoperable ordiscontinuing service; providing that delaying or failing to make paymentfor certain livestock is an unfair and deceptive act, etc. Effective Date:This act shall take effect July 1, 2018

HB755

Pub. Rec./Nationwide Public SafetyBroadband Network Williamson

Pub. Rec./Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network: Providesexemption from public records requirements for certain informationrelating to Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network held by agency;provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemption; providesstatement of public necessity. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB841 Community Associations Moraitis

Community Associations: Revising condominium associationrecordkeeping and financial reporting requirements; revising provisionsrelating to required association bylaws; revising board term limits;revising voting requirements relating to alterations and additions tocertain common elements or association property; providing that anassociation may not prohibit a unit owner from installing an electronicvehicle charging station; providing when the installation of an electronicvehicle charging station may be the basis of a lien; revising requirementsto serve as a board member; requiring an association to follow certainprocedures when amending a governing document, etc. Effective Date:July 1, 2018







SB872

Young Farmers and Ranchers Grimsley

Young Farmers and Ranchers; Creating the Florida Young Farmer andRancher Matching Grant Program within the Department of Agricultureand Consumer Services; creating the Florida Young Farmer andRancher Advisory Council within the department; requiring thedepartment to establish a clearinghouse on its website for resources toassist young and beginning farmers and ranchers, etc. Effective Date:7/1/2018

HB875

Limitations of Actions Other Than for theRecovery of Real Property Leek

Limitations of Actions Other Than for the Recovery of Real Property:Authorizes commencement, within specified timeframe, of certain claimsafter pleading to which such claims relate; provides applicability.Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB937 Perinatal Mental Health Nunez

Perinatal Mental Health: Requires DOH to offer perinatal mental healthcare information through Family Health Line toll-free hotline accessibleto general public; revises components included in postpartum evaluation& followup care provided by birth centers to include mental healthscreening & information on postpartum depression; providesappropriation. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB953 Consumer Report Security Freezes Harrison

Consumer Report Security Freezes: Prohibits consumer reportingagencies from charging any fee to consumers for placing, removing, ortemporarily lifting security freeze on his or her consumer report; prohibitsconsumer reporting agencies from charging any fee to representatives ofprotected consumers for placing, removing, or temporarily lifting securityfreeze on such consumer's consumer report. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB1009 Closing Gap Grant Program Brown

Closing Gap Grant Program: Provides additional priority area for ClosingGap grant proposals that addresses racial & ethnic disparities inmorbidity & mortality rates relating to Lupus. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB1013 Daylight Saving Time Nunez

Daylight Saving Time: Provides legislative intent regarding State ofFlorida & its political subdivisions observing daylight saving time year-









round under certain conditions. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB1055

Pub. Rec./Addiction Treatment FacilityPersonnel DuBose

Pub. Rec./Addiction Treatment Facility Personnel: Provides exemptionfrom public records requirements for certain identifying & locationinformation of current or former directors, managers, supervisors,nurses, & clinical employees of addiction treatment facility, & thespouses & children thereof; provides for future legislative review &repeal of exemption; provides for retroactive application; providesstatement of public necessity. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB1059 Exploitation of a Vulnerable Adult Burton

Exploitation of a Vulnerable Adult: Creates cause of action for injunctionfor protection of vulnerable adult from exploitation; providesrequirements for clerk of circuit court; provides penalty for willfulviolation. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB1073 Department of Financial Services Hager

Department of Financial Services: Revises requirements for electronicoriginals & copying of certain records media; revises certain bureaunames & creates new bureaus; revises service options for childtransition plans; creates Florida Open Financial Statement System &authorizes CFO to choose contractors to build system; revisesrequirements for licensure or appointment of managing general agentsunder the Florida Insurance Code; revises license application processfor managing general agents; revises terms of office for Florida FireSafety Board; deletes provision for staffing and funding formula ofFlorida State Fire College. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB1079 Child Welfare Burton

Child Welfare: Requiring the Department of Children and Families toestablish rules for granting exemptions from criminal history and certainother records checks required for persons being considered forplacement of a child; authorizing the court to make certaindeterminations regarding placement of a child with a guardian; requiringthe court, during permanency hearings, to determine case plancompliance; requiring the Florida Institute for Child Welfare to evaluatethe implementation of the Guardianship Assistance Program; requiring aguardian to apply for a license with the department to be eligible for theprogram; revising the offenses that disqualify certain child carepersonnel from specified employment, etc. Effective Date: July 1, 2018







HB1089 East Mulloch Drainage District, Lee County Rodrigues (R)

East Mulloch Drainage District, Lee County: Creates East Mulloch WaterControl District as dependent special district; provides charter of districtshall be subject to amendment or repeal by county commission;provides boundaries & powers of district; provides for assessments bydistrict; provides an exception to general law; dissolves East MullochDrainage District; transfers all assets & liabilities of East MullochDrainage District to East Mulloch Water Control District; provides thatliabilities of district are not liabilities of county commission. EffectiveDate: July 1, 2018

HB1091 Early Learning Grall

Early Learning: Revises provisions relating to the Office of EarlyLearning, Early Learning Coalitions, & school readiness program.Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB1137

Pinellas County Construction LicensingBoard Peters

Pinellas County Construction Licensing Board: Revises boardcomposition & terms; provides for election & terms of chair & vice chair;provides that board staff are employees of Pinellas County; provides thatboard is dependent agency of Board of County Commissioners ofPinellas County; requires board to provide annual report on finances &administrative activities; requires periodic audits; requires members ofboard to file financial disclosure statements; specifies board is eligiblefor state funding to support its operations during transition to county;provides for dissolution of board upon approval at referendum. EffectiveDate: July 1, 2018

HB1177

Joint Task Force on State Agency LawEnforcement Communications Ingoglia

Joint Task Force on State Agency Law Enforcement Communications:Provides that representative of Florida Sheriffs Association shall beappointed member of Joint Task Force on State Agency LawEnforcement Communications; provides that sheriff's office that employsrepresentative must pay per diem & travel expenses incurred byrepresentative. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB1187 Guardianship Spano

Guardianship: Provides powers & duties of clerk of court relating toguardianships; prohibits certain fees and cost incurred by guardian frombeing paid or reimbursed by ward's assets; authorizes certain guardiansof property to provide confidential information to clerk or to an Office of








Public & Professional Guardians investigator; provides duty to maintainconfidentiality of certain information. Effective Date: July 1, 2018.

HB1201 Education for Prisoners Ahern

Education for Prisoners: Authorizes DOC to contract with certain entitiesto provide education services for Correctional Education Program;authorizes each county to contract with certain entities to provideeducation services for county inmates; authorizes use of state funds foroperation of postsecondary workforce programs for education of certainstate inmates. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB1217 Deployed Parent Custody and Visitation Metz

Deployed Parent Custody and Visitation: Creating provisions entitled"Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act"; providingrequirements for agreement forms, termination, modification, power ofattorney, and filing; providing requirements for temporary orders grantingcustodial responsibility; requiring certain witnesses to be sworn in byspecified officers, etc. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB1265 Alcoholic Beverages Miller

Alcoholic Beverages: Removes certain liquor bottle size restrictions foroperators of intrastate railroads & sleeping cars; removes requirementthat operators of intrastate railroads & sleeping cars keep separatealcoholic beverages intended for sale on passenger trains & alcoholicbeverages intended for sale in railroad transit station. Effective Date:July 1, 2018

HB1267 Telephone Solicitation Killebrew

Telephone Solicitation: Authorizes telecommunication providers to blockcertain calls; prohibits blocking of certain calls; authorizestelecommunication providers to rely upon caller identification serviceinformation to determine originating numbers for purpose of blockingsuch calls. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB1279 School District Accountability Sullivan

School District Accountability: Revises duties of Auditor General; revisesprovisions relating to Office of Inspector General, district school boards,school district superintendents, Commission on Ethics, & DOE duties &responsibilities; provides appropriation. Effective Date: July 1, 2018








HB1285 Florida Business Entities Albritton

Florida Business Corporation Act: Authorizes omission of certainconfidential information from annual benefit report of certaincorporations; authorizes modification of form articles of incorporation toinclude provisions required for certain corporations; provides that certainprovisions of act extend to financial institutions in certain circumstances.Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB1301 Sexual Offenders and Predators Fitzenhagen

Sexual Offenders and Predators: Reducing aggregate & consecutivenumber of days used to determine residency for purposes of sexualpredator or sexual offender registration; provides for mandatorysentence of community control with electronic monitoring for certainoffenses committed by sexual predators & sexual offenders if court doesnot impose prison sentence. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB1373 Medication Administration Stevenson

Medication Administration: Revises training requirements for unlicenseddirect service providers to assist with administration of or to superviseself-administration of medication; provides validation requirements forcompetency & skills of unlicensed direct service providers & requirescompletion of annual inservice training course developed by APD.Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB1383 Tax Deed Sales Latvala

Tax Deed Sales: Requires tax certificateholder to pay specified costs tobring property on which taxes are delinquent to sale; requires taxcollector to contract with title company to determine who must be noticed& provided property information reports; revises provisions concerningtax deed sales & filings for & distributions of surplus funds. EffectiveDate: July 1, 2018

SB1392 Criminal Justice Brandes

Prearrest Diversion Programs; Requiring the Department of Correctionsto include information in its annual report on inmate admission based onoffense type and recidivism rate; encouraging local communities andpublic or private educational institutions to implement prearrest diversionprograms for certain offenders; requiring each pretrial release programto include in its annual report the types of criminal charges of defendantsaccepted into a pretrial release program, the number of defendantsaccepted into a pretrial release program who paid a bail or bond, thenumber of defendants accepted into a pretrial release program with no








prior criminal conviction, and the number of defendants for whom apretrial risk assessment tool was used or was not, etc. Effective Date:7/1/2018

HB1435 Child Welfare Perez

Child Welfare: Requires DCF, in collaboration with sheriffs' offices thatconduct child protective investigations & community-based care leadagencies, to develop statewide family-finding program; authorizescommunity-based care lead agencies to establish kinship navigatorprograms; requires court to request that parents consent to providingaccess to additional records. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB1437

Employment Services for Persons withDisabilities Abruzzo

Employment Services for Persons with Disabilities: Specifies thatparticipants in certain disabled persons’ work experience activities areconsidered state employees for workers’ compensation purposes.Effective Date: July 1, 2018

SB1552 Juvenile Justice Bracy

Juvenile Justice; Allowing the Department of Highway Safety and MotorVehicles to distribute proceeds from the Invest in Children license plateannual use fee on a statewide basis; deleting provisions authorizing theDepartment of Juvenile Justice to develop evening reporting centers;requiring the department to hold a prolific juvenile offender in securedetention pending a detention hearing following a violation of nonsecuredetention, etc. Effective Date: Except as otherwise expressly provided inthis act, this act shall take effect July 1, 2018

SB1712 Postsecondary Revenue Bonds and Debt Montford

Postsecondary Revenue Bonds and Debt; Authorizing state universitiesto use specified moneys to pay debt service on revenue bonds ifrequired by a specified federal program, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2018

HB5001 General Appropriations Act Appropriations

Committee

General Appropriations Act: Provides moneys for annual periodbeginning July 1, 2018, & ending June 30, 2019, & supplementalappropriations for period ending June 30, 2018, to pay salaries & otherexpenses, capital outlay-buildings & other improvements, & for otherspecified purposes of various agencies of state government.EffectiveDate: July 1, 2018








HB5003

Implementing the 2018-2019 GeneralAppropriations Act

AppropriationsCommittee

Implementing the 2018-2019 General Appropriations Act: Implementsspecific appropriations of General Appropriations Act for 2018-2019fiscal year. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB5005 Collective Bargaining Appropriations

Committee

Collective Bargaining: Providing for the resolution of specific collectivebargaining issues at impasse between the State of Florida and certifiedbargaining units of state employees; providing for all other mandatorycollective bargaining issues at impasse that are not specificallyaddressed by this act or the General Appropriations Act to be resolvedconsistent with personnel rules and by otherwise maintaining the statusquo, etc. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB5007 State-Administered Retirement Systems Appropriations

Committee

State-Administered Retirement Systems: Revises required employerretirement contribution rates for members of certain membership classes& subclasses of FRS; provides finding of important state interest.Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB6033 Volunteer Florida, Inc. Ponder

Volunteer Florida, Inc.: Abrogates future repeal date of nonprofit direct-support organization established by Florida Commission on CommunityService. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB6059

Department of Corrections' Direct-SupportOrganization Plakon

Department of Corrections' Direct-Support Organization: Abrogatesscheduled repeal of provisions governing DSO that is permitted to usefacilities of state correctional system. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB7033

Trust Funds/Re-creation/Land AcquisitionTrust Fund/DOS

Transportation &Tourism AppropriationsSubcommittee

Trust Funds/Re-creation/Land Acquisition Trust Fund/DOS: Re-createsLand Acquisition Trust Fund within DOS without modification; abrogatesprovisions relating to termination of trust fund, to conform. EffectiveDate: July 1, 2018









HB7051

Trust Funds/Re-creation/Land AcquisitionTrust Fund/DACS

Agriculture & NaturalResourcesAppropriationsSubcommittee

Trust Funds/Re-creation/Land Acquisition Trust Fund/DACS: Re-createsLand Acquisition Trust Fund within DACS without modification;abrogates provisions relating to termination of trust fund, to conform.Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB7055 Education Education Committee

Education: Revises provisions relating to Commissioner of Education,DOE, school districts, school district superintendents, statewide,standardized assessments, charter schools, educational scholarshipprograms, principal autonomy pilot program initiative, dual enrollment,FLVS, & private schools. Effective Date: July 1, 2018

HB7069 Trust Funds

Higher EducationAppropriationsSubcommittee

Trust Funds: Re-creates Florida ABLE Program Trust Fund within SBAwithout modification; abrogates provisions relating to termination of trustfund, to conform; provides contingent effective date. Effective Date: July1, 2018

HB7087 Taxation Ways & Means

Committee

Taxation: Provides an exemption from excise tax on certain documents,notes, & mortgages related to housing financing authority; providessales tax exemptions for specified products destroyed as a result ofhurricanes; authorizes ad valorem tax exemptions under specifiedsituations; provides documentary stamp tax exemption for certaintransfers of homestead property between spouses; reduces tax leviedon specified fees charged for use of real property; revises total amountof community contribution tax credits for projects related to housingopportunities; modifies calculation of dealer's collection allowance;revises provisions regarding adjusted taxable income for corporateincome tax purposes; increases total amount of contaminated siterehabilitation tax credits; requires specified reduction of civil penalties;increases tax credits for rehabilitation of drycleaning-solvent-contaminated sites & brownfield sites; extends carry forward period forunused tax credits; provides an appropriation. Effective Date: July 1,2018







2017 Bill That Goes Into Effect July 1, 2018

SB118 Criminal History Records Steube

Criminal History Records; Prohibiting a person or entity engaged inpublishing or disseminating arrest booking photographs from soliciting oraccepting a fee or other payment to remove a photograph; authorizing aperson whose arrest booking photograph is published to request inwriting that it be removed; requiring the Criminal Justice InformationProgram to administratively seal the criminal history records of an adultor a minor upon notification by the clerk of the court under specifiedcircumstances, etc. Effective Date: Except as otherwise expresslyprovided in this act and except for this section, which shall take effectupon this act becoming a law, this act shall take effect July 1, 2018

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