| S1476 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that an unmarried biological father be individually notified of the filing of a dependency petition under certain circumstances. Provides that notice of the petition for dependency is not required if the unmarried biological father signs an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S1914 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the governing board of a water management district or the Department of Environmental Protection from requiring a county or municipality to adopt any resolution or ordinance or require review or approval of the resolution or ordinance as a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S1200 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides duties for the Agency for Health Care Administration with regard to the statewide system for stroke response and treatment. Requires the agency to establish the Stroke Task Force. Requires primary and comprehensive stroke centers and certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S1292 | Enroll
Sine Die | Requires the Chief Financial Officer to conduct workshops with state agencies, local governments, educational entities, and entities of higher education to gather information pertaining to uniform reporting requirements. Requires the Chief Financial ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Ordered engrossed, then enrolled -SJ 1848 |
| S0226 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the national accreditation of human service providers to substitute for certain agency licensure and monitoring requirements. Requires a single lead agency to be responsible for monitoring human services delivery for designated populations. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0212 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises the standards of conduct for commissioners of the Public Service Commission. Requires that commissioners observe and abide by the Code of Judicial Conduct while conducting docketed proceedings. Prohibits a commissioner or the commissioner's d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S1578 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes amendments to the State Constitution to change the valuation to which the homestead exemption applies and to provide an alternative homestead exemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0158 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the "Florida Ban on Texting While Driving Law." Provides legislative intent. Prohibits the operation of a motor vehicle while using a wireless communications device for certain purposes. Specifies information that is admissible as evidence of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S1404 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the provision of certain notices under the Administrative Procedure Act via a link to a publicly available Internet website. Provides that the construction and operation of a biofuel processing facility or renewable energy generating facil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0536 | Intro
Sine Die | Deletes a repeal date relating to a provision that restricts the use of state and federal funds provided to the boards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0138 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that persons found to have committed criminal offenses who allege that the offenses resulted from posttraumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, substance use disorder, or psychological problems stemming from service in a combat thea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0910 | Intro
Sine Die | Cites this act as the "Safe and Hygienic Bedding Act." Prohibits a person from manufacturing or selling bedding that is made in whole or in part from secondhand material unless such material has been sanitized, germicidally treated, or cleaned using ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0496 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides enhanced penalties for an assault or battery on an ocean lifeguard. Amends a provision relating to arrest without warrant to conform provisions. Amends and reenacts provisions relating to the offense severity ranking chart to conform. Amends...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0822 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education may testify in the form of an opinion as to the facts at issue in a case under certain circumstances. Requires the courts of this state to interpre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S1984 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an exemption from public records requirements for information relating to investments by the Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research through the Technology Seed Capital Fund. Creates an exemption from public meetings requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0846 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits controlling or intentionally viewing any photograph, motion picture, exhibition, show, image, data, computer depiction, representation, or other presentation that includes sexual conduct by a child. Provides an exception. Provides penalties...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0268 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines the term "certified business" for purposes of a tax exemption provided to certain businesses located within a super enterprise zone. Provides a tax exemption for certain property purchased for use or consumption by businesses in a super enter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S1264 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires direct service providers to participate in level 2 background screening as a condition for certification to serve clients of vocational rehabilitation. Prohibits persons for whom background screening is required from having contact with any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0764 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for reclassification of specified assault or battery offenses when committed against persons licensed, registered, certified, or regulated under provisions relating to psychological and clinical, counseling, and psychotherapy services. Reena...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0470 | Intro
Sine Die | Cites this act as the "Officer Jose Somohano Assault Weapons Act." Provides that a person commits a felony of the third degree if he or she stores or leaves an assault weapon within the reach or easy access of another person if that person obtains th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S1500 | Intro
Sine Die | Decreases the limits of liability and requisite insurance coverage for lead community-based providers and subcontractors. Provides immunity from liability for the Department of Children and Family Services for acts or omissions of a community-based p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S1098 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that for purposes of resolving an impasse the sheriff, the tax collector, the property appraiser, the supervisor of elections, and the clerk of the circuit court are each deemed the "legislative body" for their respective employees. Provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0558 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development to sell naming rights for a public school facility or space for commercial advertising to be displayed on school buses or a public school facility to a private sector business or entity ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S1932 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates said commission within the Executive Office of the Governor. Requires the commission, within available resources, to conduct comprehensive analytical research of criminal and juvenile justice data, evaluations of relevant criminal and juvenil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0302 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the Drug Deterrence Pilot Program within the Agency for Workforce Innovation. Provides for the screening of individuals to determine which individuals must be tested. Provides terms of disqualification of benefits. Provides for authentication...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0066 | Intro
Sine Die | Compensates Timothy Kulik and Theresa Ann Kulik for injuries and damages sustained as a result of the negligence of an employee of the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. Provides a limitation on the payment of fees and costs, etc. CLAIM...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S1398 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals provisions relating to regular terms of the Supreme Court, terms of the circuit courts, and regular and special terms of the district courts of appeal. Repeals provisions relating to requiring a judge to attend the first day of each term of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0200 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals a specified provision relating to cost recovery for the siting, design, licensing, and construction of nuclear and integrated gasification combined cycle power plants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0630 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines the terms "governmental entity," "professional sports team," and "public funds." Prohibits the use of public funds for certain purposes benefiting a professional sports team. Provides exceptions. Provides for the ad valorem taxation of proper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S1048 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises the definition of the term "public utility" to exclude certain renewable energy production facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S1386 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Health to obtain patient records pursuant to a subpoena and without notification to the patient from a controlled-substance medical clinic under certain circumstances. Renames pain-management clinics as "controlled-substa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S2148 | Fail | Prohibits the agency from expending funds above the amount appropriated in the General Appropriations Act. Requires that the agency monitor monthly program expenditures and provide quarterly reports to the Governor and Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Died in Conference Committee, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 2000 (Ch. |
| S0046 | Engross
Sine Die | Compensates William Dillon, who was wrongfully incarcerated for 27 years and exonerated by a court after DNA testing. Directs the Chief Financial Officer to draw a warrant for the purchase of an annuity. Provides for a waiver of certain tuition and f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0014 | Intro
Sine Die | Compensates Dennis Darling, Sr., and Wendy Smith for the loss of their son, Devaughn Darling, whose death occurred while he was engaged in football preseason training on the Florida State University campus. Provides a limitation on the payment of fee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0856 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the Board of Governors of The Florida Bar rather than the Governor to appoint members of judicial nominating commissions. Requires that each judicial nominating commission satisfy certain prerequisites for racial and gender diversity. Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S1926 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the State Employee Bonus Initiative, an online state employee suggestion program for reducing the cost of state government. Provides duties of the Legislative Budget Commission relating to the program, including creating and maintaining a pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0706 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to the State Constitution to disqualify a person who is convicted of a felony from voting only while the person is incarcerated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S1314 | Enroll
Sine Die | Defines the term "lease or lease-purchase of equipment." Requires that specified information relating to certain contracts be included in an agency's legislative budget request. Requires certain state contracts to identify the appropriation that fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Ordered engrossed, then enrolled -SJ 1848 |
| S1796 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a property appraiser to consider sales completed during a specified period after the assessment date in determining just valuation of real property under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0082 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates provisions directing the Department of Health to create and administer a statewide septic tank evaluation program. Eliminates procedures and criteria for the evaluation program. Eliminates provisions authorizing the department to collect a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0248 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a process for the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development to waive any or all job or wage eligibility requirements under certain circumstances when in the best interest of the public. Waives the requirement that a facility located ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S1278 | Intro
Sine Die | Deletes provisions relating to the College-Level Academic Skills Test (CLAST) and authorized examinations that demonstrate mastery of certain academic competencies. Deletes provisions relating to the CLAST.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S1376 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a credit against the corporate income tax for employment of a person previously convicted of a felony. Provides requirements to receive the credit. Provides exceptions for certain felons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S1906 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to the State Constitution to authorize counties and municipalities to freeze the assessed value of the homesteads of certain low-income senior citizens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S1990 | Engross
Sine Die | Ratifies a specified rule for the sole and exclusive purpose of satisfying any condition on effectiveness established by a provision, which requires ratification of any rule that meets any of the specified thresholds that may likely have an adverse i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0528 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the Department of Health and Human Services. Provides for appointment of a Secretary of Health and Human Services by the Governor. Establishes regions for the administration of program services. Establishes program divisions within each regio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S2070 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends chapter 2004-414, Laws of Florida, as amended, which relates to projects for which payment and performance bonds may be waived for the construction of a public building, for the prosecution and completion of a public work, or for repairs on a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S1636 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a farm owner or operator from tethering or confining certain specified covered farm animals in a specified manner. Provides exceptions. Authorizes the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services or the Attorney General to bring a civil ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S2222 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Ronnie Lopez and Robert Guzman, individually and as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Ana-Yency Velasquez, deceased, and for Ronnie Lopez, Jr., Ashley Lorena Lopez-Velasquez, and Steven Robert Guzman, minor child...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| S0020 | Intro
Sine Die | Compensates the Estate of Dr. Sherrill Lynn Aversa for Dr. Aversa's death as a result of the negligence of the Department of Transportation. Requires the Executive Office of the Governor to establish spending authority from unappropriated trust fund ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
