Summaries of General Laws Passed at the 2004
Special Session A of the Florida Legislature
Ch. 2004-473 (C.S. for S.B. 4-A) Affects provisions relating to the apportionment of certain costs and funding for juvenile detention facilities. Effective December 21, 2004, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2004-474 (C.S. for S.B. 8-A) Establishes reimbursement procedures for ad valorem taxes levied on certain residential property rendered uninhabitable due to a named tropical system; prescribes reimbursement procedures for sales taxes paid on replacement mobile homes purchased as a result of damage caused by a named tropical system. Effective December 21, 2004.
Ch. 2004-475 (C.S. for S.B. 14-A) Provides appropriations for the repair and restoration of state beaches and dunes adversely affected by specified 2004 hurricanes and tropical storms; requires a progress report. Effective December 21, 2004.
Ch. 2004-476 (S.B. 16-A) Provides appropriations for activities relating to citrus canker eradication and tree compensation, soybean rust control, and the Caribbean fruit fly certification program; requires a progress report on the eradication of citrus canker. Effective December 21, 2004.
Ch. 2004-477 (S.B. 18-A) Provides appropriations to address nutritional, medical, and social service needs of the elderly, children, families, disabled, and low-income individuals adversely affected by specified 2004 hurricanes and tropical storms. Effective December 21, 2004.
Ch. 2004-478 (S.B. 28-A) Revises income documentation requirements for eligibility for the Florida Kidcare program. Effective December 21, 2004.
Ch. 2004-479 (H.B. 5-A) Delays the date by which discount medical plan organizations or plan marketers must comply with specified licensure and regulation provisions. Effective December 21, 2004.
Ch. 2004-480 (H.B. 9-A) Affects provisions relating to hurricane insurance deductibles; prescribes reimbursement and applicability policies and procedures. Effective December 21, 2004.
Ch. 2004-481 (H.B. 11-A) Establishes an Educational Facilities Hurricane Restoration Cash Flow Loan Program to restore educational facilities damaged by hurricanes in 2004; provides eligibility requirements. Effective December 21, 2004.
Ch. 2004-482 (H.B. 19-A) Affects provisions relating to hurricane-relief funding. Effective December 21, 2004, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2004-483 (H.B. 21-A) Requires the Agency for Workforce Innovation to provide quarterly reports on certain expenditures. Effective December 21, 2004.
Ch. 2004-484 (H.B. 1-A) Affects provisions relating to the voluntary prekindergarten education program to implement s. 1(b) and (c), Art. IX of the State Constitution. Effective January 2, 2005.
Summaries of General Laws Passed at the 2005
Regular Session of the Florida Legislature
Ch. 2005-1 (S.B. 1334) Designates portions of the Florida Statutes 2005 which constitute the official statute law of the state. Designates general laws which are, and which are not, repealed by the adoption of the Florida Statutes 2005. Effective July 5, 2005.
Ch. 2005-2 (C.S. for S.B. 1336) Amends, repeals, or reenacts various provisions in the Florida Statutes to replace incorrect cross-references, delete obsolete or expired provisions, correct grammatical and typographical errors, remove inconsistencies and redundancies, and otherwise improve the clarity of the statutes. Effective July 5, 2005.
Ch. 2005-3 (S.B. 1338) Repeals numerous provisions of the Florida Statutes which were repealed other than by a “current session” of the Legislature, for the purpose of omitting such provisions from publication in the Florida Statutes 2005. Effective July 5, 2005.
Ch. 2005-4 (S.B. 1340) Removes gender-specific references to human beings from the Florida Statutes without substantive change in legal effect. Effective July 5, 2005.
Ch. 2005-5 (C.S. for S.B. 200) Redesignates the “Florida Hazardous Materials Emergency Response and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1988” as the “Florida Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act”; extends the date of certain fee provisions. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-6 (S.B. 516) Revises provisions relating to citrus districts; membership of the Florida Citrus Commission; and the Citrus Stabilization Act. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-7 (S.B. 1376) Re-creates the Dedicated License Trust Fund; carries forward all current balances of the fund; and continues all current sources and uses of the fund. Effective November 4, 2008.
Ch. 2005-8 (S.B. 1378) Re-creates the Florida Panther Research and Management Trust Fund; carries forward all current balances of the fund; and continues all current sources and uses of the fund. Effective November 4, 2008.
Ch. 2005-9 (S.B. 1380) Re-creates the Florida Forever Program Trust Fund; carries forward all current balances of the fund; and continues all current sources and uses of the fund. Effective July 1, 2008.
Ch. 2005-10 (S.B. 1382) Re-creates the Land Acquisition Trust Fund within the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; carries forward all current balances of the fund; and continues all current sources and uses of the fund. Effective November 4, 2008.
Ch. 2005-11 (S.B. 1384) Re-creates the Lifetime Fish and Wildlife Trust Fund; carries forward all current balances of the fund; and continues all current sources and uses of the fund. Effective November 4, 2008.
Ch. 2005-12 (S.B. 1386) Re-creates the Marine Resources Conservation Trust Fund; carries forward all current balances of the fund; and continues all current sources and uses of the fund. Effective November 4, 2008.
Ch. 2005-13 (S.B. 1388) Re-creates the Nongame Wildlife Trust Fund; carries forward all current balances of the fund; and continues all current sources and uses of the fund. Effective November 4, 2008.
Ch. 2005-14 (S.B. 1390) Re-creates the Save the Manatee Trust Fund; carries forward all current balances of the fund; and continues all current sources and uses of the fund. Effective November 4, 2008.
Ch. 2005-15 (S.B. 1392) Re-creates the State Game Trust Fund; carries forward all current balances of the fund; and continues all current sources and uses of the fund. Effective November 4, 2008.
Ch. 2005-16 (S.B. 1394) Re-creates the Conservation and Recreation Lands Program Trust Fund within the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; carries forward all current balances of the fund; and continues all current sources and uses of the fund. Effective July 1, 2008.
Ch. 2005-17 (C.S. for S.B. 1396) Terminates the Florida Preservation 2000 Trust Fund and the Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund within the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; provides for transfer of current balances and revenues to trust funds within the commission. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-18 (S.B. 1398) Creates the Administrative Trust Fund within the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; provides for use and source of funds; provides for review and termination or re-creation. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-19 (S.B. 1400) Creates the Federal Grants Trust Fund within the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; provides for use and source of funds; provides for review and termination or re-creation. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-20 (S.B. 1402) Creates the Grants and Donations Trust Fund within the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; provides for use and source of funds; provides for review and termination or re-creation. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-21 (S.B. 1404) Creates the Administrative Trust Fund within the Agency for Persons with Disabilities; provides for use and source of funds; provides for review and termination or re-creation. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-22 (C.S. for S.B. 1406) Creates the Federal Grants Trust Fund within the Agency for Persons with Disabilities; provides for use and source of funds; provides for review and termination or re-creation. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-23 (C.S. for S.B. 1408) Creates the Operations and Maintenance Trust Fund within the Agency for Persons with Disabilities; provides for use and source of funds; provides for review and termination or re-creation. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-24 (C.S. for S.B. 1410) Creates the Social Services Block Grant Trust Fund within the Agency for Persons with Disabilities; provides for use and source of funds; provides for review and termination or re-creation. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-25 (S.B. 2042) Creates the Welfare Transition Trust Fund within the Department of Military Affairs; provides for use and source of funds; provides for review and termination or re-creation. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-26 (S.B. 292) Abrogates the repeal of a definition relating to citrus canker. Effective April 14, 2005.
Ch. 2005-27 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 436) Authorizes the use of force, including deadly force, against an intruder or attacker in a dwelling, residence, or occupied vehicle under specified circumstances; provides exceptions; conforms specified provisions. Provides immunity from criminal prosecution and civil action for justifiable use of force. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-28 (H.B. 1877) Affects provisions relating to sexual predators and offenders. Effective September 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-29 (H.B. 155) Provides legislative findings regarding implementation and funding of the Lake Okeechobee Watershed Phosphorous Control Program and the Lake Okeechobee Protection Program; redefines a specified term. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-30 (H.B. 213) Requires the Board of Architecture and Interior Design and the Board of Landscape Architecture to prescribe forms of seals to be used by holders of valid certificates of registration; authorizes certain electronic registrations and transmissions; conforms specified provisions; revises certain contracting provisions. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-31 (H.B. 281) Requires establishment of a Paper Reduction Task Force to recommend paperwork reduction strategies for school districts and their personnel; provides for membership and requires a report. Effective May 10, 2005.
Ch. 2005-32 (H.B. 349) Revises auditor selection procedures. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-33 (H.B. 411) Adds the offenses of possession of any photographic material containing sexual conduct of a minor, transmission of pornography by electronic device, and facilitation of sexual conduct of or with a minor or the visual depiction of such conduct to the Criminal Punishment Code; reclassifies the offense of solicitation of a child, via a computer service, to commit an unlawful sexual act. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-34 (H.B. 625) Transfers a provision relating to a county’s authority to close and abandon certain roads and rights-of-way; conforms a specified provision. Effective May 10, 2005.
Ch. 2005-35 (H.B. 655) Expands the powers and duties of the Florida Inland Navigation District. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-36 (H.B. 727) Revises water management district planning and reporting requirements; repeals a provision relating to groundwater basin resource availability inventories. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-37 (H.B. 1923) Revises and readopts an exemption from public records requirements for specified proprietary confidential business information held by a local governmental entity. Effective September 30, 2005.
Ch. 2005-38 (S.B. 574) Designates the orange as the official state fruit. Effective May 20, 2005.
Ch. 2005-39 (H.B. 1283) Affects provisions relating to paternity, child support, and noncovered medical expenses. Effective July 1, 2005, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-40 (H.C.B. 6001) Exempts certain goods from sales and use tax application for a specified time period. Effective May 23, 2005.
Ch. 2005-41 (S.B. 450) Provides that certain motor vehicle insurance rate increases for insureds in active military service and their covered dependents constitute unfair practices. Effective May 24, 2005.
Ch. 2005-42 (S.B. 550) Revises qualifications for property tax exemptions for certain surviving spouses of disabled ex-service members; defines the term “ex-service member.” Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-43 (S.B. 868) Creates the “Ellwood Robinson ‘Bob’ Pipping, Jr., Memorial Act”; authorizes the establishment of certain monuments and memorials honoring Florida’s military veterans. Effective May 24, 2005.
Ch. 2005-44 (H.B. 285) Authorizes the state attorney to file a demand for a speedy trial under certain circumstances; requires the trial court to schedule the trial within a prescribed time period; provides for extensions and postponements under certain conditions. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-45 (H.B. 395) Provides for a military gold sportsman’s license; provides for an annual fee and use of funds; prescribes licensure eligibility and authorizations; provides an exemption; conforms specified provisions. Effective May 24, 2005.
Ch. 2005-46 (H.B. 523) Provides an exception to the hearsay rule of evidence for a statement of a deceased or ill declarant similar to one previously admitted; repeals a provision relating to testimony of an interested person regarding certain oral communications. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-47 (H.B. 623) Exempts former military vehicles from certain motor vehicle windshield and license plate requirements; defines the term “former military vehicle”; requires eye-protective devices when such vehicles are in operation. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-48 (H.B. 691) Creates the Citizen Soldier Matching Grant Program; provides for grant awards to private sector employers that provide wages to certain service members on federal active duty; mandates that professional licenses of service members not expire while such members are on federal active duty; provides for an extension period. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-49 (H.B. 885) Increases the number of regional autism centers; changes service providers for certain counties; directs specified fundraising efforts; prohibits future direct medical and pharmaceutical intervention in a center. Effective May 24, 2005.
Ch. 2005-50 (H.B. 937) Requires notification of contamination which extends beyond the rehabilitation site property boundaries; prescribes notice format and procedures; defines specified terms. Effective September 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-51 (H.B. 1069) Creates the Family Readiness Program to provide need-based assistance to families of specified service members who are federally deployed or participating in homeland defense; provides for program funding, participant eligibility, and award procedures. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-52 (H.B. 1659) Creates the Parental Notice of Abortion Act; provides notice criteria and procedures; provides for a waiver; penalizes violations; defines specified terms. Effective upon the adoption of rules and forms by the Supreme Court, but no later than July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-53 (S.B. 288) Revises and readopts an exemption from public records requirements for seaport security plans. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-54 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 334) Authorizes the Florida Housing Finance Corporation to waive annual recertification under certain conditions; revises provisions relating to revitalization of blighted areas and the powers and limitations on a housing authority; repeals certain limitations on housing authorities in Orange and Seminole Counties. Effective May 26, 2005.
Ch. 2005-55 (S.B. 356) Revises provisions relating to substance abuse treatment; conforms specified provisions. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-56 (C.S. for S.B. 388) Revises provisions relating to education funding; revises a provision relating to early learning coalitions; repeals a provision relating to K-20 education performance-based funding and the BEST Florida Teaching salary career ladder program. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-57 (C.S. for S.B. 392) Permits the use of funds from the Water Quality Assurance Trust Fund for the administration of brownfield sites. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-58 (C.S. for S.B. 394) Requires that funding for the enforcement of farm labor laws be provided via a transfer of funds from the Workers’ Compensation Administration Trust Fund to the Professional Regulation Trust Fund. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-59 (C.S. for S.B. 400) Requires compensation of a provider for contracted on-line procurement; provides for payment and deposit of certain fees due to the state. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-60 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 404) Creates and revises various provisions relating to health care; repeals a provision establishing the Office of Long-Term Care Policy; provides for future repeal of a specified pharmaceutical expense assistance program. Effective July 1, 2005, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-61 (C.S. for S.B. 408) Revises provisions relating to economic eligibility services; repeals a provision relating to eligibility determination functions of the Economic Self-Sufficiency Services Program. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-62 (C.S. for S.B. 410) Revises certain health care professional licensure, examination, and certification provisions; includes specified information relating to liability and disciplinary actions in a practitioner profile. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-63 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 434) Revises provisions relating to accommodations for individuals with disabilities, including provisions relating to service animals; conforms specified provisions. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-64 (S.B. 538) Clarifies that prosecutors may introduce and argue victim impact evidence to the jury. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-65 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 1090) Creates and revises provisions relating to disclosure of medical information, administration of specified medications, and informed patient consent regarding mental health care for minors and incapacitated persons. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-66 (C.S. for S.B. 1154) Revises provisions relating to Enterprise Florida, Inc.; repeals a provisions relating to the International Trade Data Resource and Research Center. Effective May 26, 2005.
Ch. 2005-67 (C.S. for S.B. 1354) Prohibits certain convicted sex offenders who are subject to conditional release supervision from having contact with a child under 18 years of age; provides a limited exception; conforms specified provisions. Effective January 1, 2006.
Ch. 2005-68 (S.B. 1502) Requires that the driver’s license application form include language permitting a voluntary contribution to the Children’s Hearing Help Fund; exempts such funds from the general revenue service charge. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-69 (C.S. for S.B. 2278) Revises provisions relating to the types of firearms a licensed security officer, private investigator, or recovery agent may carry while performing authorized duties. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-70 (S.B. 2600) General Appropriations Act; provides appropriations for fiscal year 2005-2006. Effective July 1, 2005, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-71 (S.B. 2602) Provides implementing and administering provisions for the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2005-2006. Effective July 1, 2005, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-72 (H.B. 19) Enumerates specified licensure reinstatement prerequisites and insurance coverage requirements for certain persons whose driver’s license or vehicle registration has been suspended or revoked; mandates that insurers make specified noncancelable coverage available for a certain period of time; permits cancellation under certain circumstances. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-73 (H.B. 227) Requires that district school boards develop plans to sponsor summer nutrition programs; provides criteria; provides for exemption under certain conditions. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-74 (H.B. 255) Revises certain animal rabies vaccination and certification requirements. Effective January 1, 2006.
Ch. 2005-75 (H.B. 279) Authorizes specified K-12 students to possess and self-administer epinephrine by auto-injector under certain circumstances; provides for indemnification. Effective January 1, 2006.
Ch. 2005-76 (H.B. 307) Authorizes certain physician assistants and advanced nurse practitioners to conduct physical examinations of specified licensure and employment applicants. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-77 (H.B. 319) Reclassifies penalties for offenses committed on the property of a religious institution while the victim is present to attend or participate in a religious service; conforms a specified provision. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-78 (H.B. 423) Redefines the term “employee” under the Workers’ Compensation Law to revise an exemption relating to owner-operators of motor vehicles. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-79 (H.B. 565) Revises provisions relating to pre-mediation disclosures and meetings between mobile home park owners and homeowners’ committees; provides sovereign immunity for specified agents or employees and board members or representatives. Effective May 26, 2005.
Ch. 2005-80 (H.B. 577) Revises the Interstate Compact for Juveniles; provides for an Interstate Commission for Juveniles; provides for commission membership, powers, duties, organization, and operation; repeals former compact provisions which have been superseded. Effective July 1, 2005, or upon enactment of the compact into law by the 35th compacting state, whichever date occurs later.
Ch. 2005-81 (H.B. 763) Exempts critical access hospitals from certain medical treatment facility requirements under specified circumstances; redefines specified terms; conforms specified provisions. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-82 (H.B. 775) Revises provisions relating to child support enforcement. Effective May 26, 2005, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-83 (H.B. 805) Abrogates the repeal of an exemption for solar energy systems from the tax on sales, use, and other transactions. Effective May 26, 2005.
Ch. 2005-84 (H.B. 841) Provides for the deposit of a percentage of unclaimed prize money and a percentage of revenues from the sale of certain lottery tickets in the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund; revises provisions relating to allocation and expenditure of funds for public education. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-85 (H.B. 897) Expands the definition of security accounts; creates and revises provisions relating to trusts. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-86 (H.B. 951) Revises provisions relating to the Florida Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Program. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-87 (H.B. 1141) Creates and revises provisions relating to greenways and trails. Effective May 26, 2005.
Ch. 2005-88 (H.B. 1695) Provides an exemption from public records requirements for individual records of children enrolled in the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program; provides exceptions; provides for future review and repeal. Effective May 26, 2005.
Ch. 2005-89 (H.B. 1699) Revises and readopts an exemption from public records requirements for specified information provided to sheriffs or state attorneys in certain domestic violence cases. Effective May 26, 2005.
Ch. 2005-90 (H.B. 1765) Creates the Federal Grants Trust Fund within the Florida Parole Commission; provides for source and use of funds; provides for review and termination or re-creation. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-91 (H.B. 1817) Revises and readopts an exemption from public records requirements relating to an active investigation or office review of a certified capital company; eliminates the exemption for specified persons. Effective May 26, 2005.
Ch. 2005-92 (H.B. 1889) Revises provisions relating to the distribution of funds from the excise tax on documents. Effective July 1, 2007, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-93 (H.B. 1907) Revises specified payroll contribution rates for the Florida Retirement System and the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences; reduces the administrative and educational assessments paid to the State Board of Administration. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-94 (H.B. 105) Provides that a certificate of authority is not required of certain insurers domiciled outside the United States for specified life insurance policies or annuity contracts; provides criteria, requirements, and limitations; requires certain disclosures. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-95 (H.B. 1041) Creates the Women’s Health and Safety Act; prescribes rule requirements relating to abortion clinics. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-96 (S.B. 300) Abrogates the expiration of certain provisions relating to taxation. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-97 (C.S. for S.B. 424) Provides for the resolution of specified collective bargaining issues; creates and revises provisions relating to certain state group health insurance programs. Effective June 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-98 (C.S. for S.B. 478) Requires annual reporting by a hospital with a podiatric residency program; expands the time period a resident in such program may continue unlicensed; specifies conditions under which a resident may prescribe medicinal drugs; penalizes violations. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-99 (C.S. for S.B. 552) Provides that certain operators of game promotions in connection with the sale of consumer products or services are required to include only specified information in advertising copy under certain conditions. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-100 (C.S. for S.B. 656) Revises and reenacts provisions relating to benefits and death benefits for and disciplinary actions against law enforcement and correctional officers. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-101 (C.S. for S.B. 660) Revises provisions relating to assets held in various benefit plans. Effective June 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-102 (S.B. 724) Increases the loan cap amount available to sponsors of housing communities for the elderly. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-103 (C.S. for S.B. 738) Revises provisions relating to the appointment of members to the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission. Effective June 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-104 (C.S. for S.B. 798) Provides an exemption from public records requirements for records held by a circuit or appellate court relating to a minor’s petition to waive notice requirements when terminating a pregnancy. Provides for future review and repeal. Effective upon the adoption of rules and forms by the Supreme Court, but no later than July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-105 (S.B. 904) Exempts a lead community-based foster care and related services provider from including specified language or a specified logo in its written contracts or documents; provides an exception. Effective June 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-106 (S.B. 908) Clarifies the Department of Environmental Protection’s rulemaking authority and the requirements and responsibilities of local governments regarding the Wekiva Parkway and Protection Act. Effective June 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-107 (C.S. for C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 1366) Provides for storm infrastructure recovery; clarifies the powers and duties of the Public Service Commission regarding the infrastructure recovery process; defines specified terms. Effective June 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-108 (C.S. for S.B. 1368) Creates the “Florida Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests Act”; conforms specified provisions. Repeals provisions relating to disclaimer of interests in property passing under certain nontestamentary instruments or certain powers of appointment and disclaimer of interests in property passing by will or intestate succession or under certain powers of appointment. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-109 (C.S. for S.B. 1436) Provides for the purchase of automated external defibrillators by local governments; authorizes the carrying and use of such defibrillators in state and local law enforcement vehicles. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-110 (S.B. 1440) Revises time limitations for the prosecution of criminal offenses; provides specified exceptions; conforms a specified provision. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-111 (C.S. for S.B. 1486) Creates, revises, and reenacts various provisions relating to property insurance; creates a Task Force on Long-Term Solutions for Florida’s Hurricane Insurance Market; provides for administration, membership, duties, and expiration. Effective June 1, 2005, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-112 (S.B. 1798) Provides for the adoption of the 2005 version of the Internal Revenue Code. Effective June 1, 2005, and retroactively operative to January 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-113 (S.B. 1980) Expands the Florida Commission on Tourism membership to include a member of the restaurant industry; requires that all members file financial disclosures; repeals a provision relating to a statewide advisory committee. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-114 (C.S. for S.B. 2196) Creates the Shared County/State Juvenile Detention Trust Fund within the Department of Juvenile Justice; provides for use and source of funds; provides for review and termination or re-creation. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-115 (H.B. 17) Requires the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) in conjunction with the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to develop a model home and community-based waiver to serve children with specified disorders; requires AHCA to seek federal waiver approval and to implement the waiver. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-116 (H.B. 41) Provides criminal penalties for the unlicensed intentional or willful installation, service, testing, repair, improvement, or inspection of a fire alarm system; provides an exemption. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-117 (H.B. 69) Creates the Fire and Emergency Incident Information Reporting Program; provides for membership, powers, and duties; provides criminal penalties for the initiation of a pyrotechnic display within a structure; provides exceptions; requires the adoption of certain training rules. Effective June 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-118 (H.B. 151) Redefines the term “low-income” to expand a poverty level family income criterion. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-119 (H.B. 233) Enhances the criminal penalties for the unlawful killing of an unborn quick child by injury to the child’s mother; includes such crime under DUI manslaughter; conforms specified provisions; adopts a certain definition. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-120 (H.B. 345) Revises the powers and duties of the Capitol Police; revises a provision relating to enforcement of traffic laws. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-121 (H.B. 473) Mandates that certain water management districts conduct fingerprint-based criminal history checks of current or prospective employees or designated persons; permits other such districts to conduct these checks; establishes check requirements and procedures. Effective June 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-122 (H.B. 531) Provides for the issuance of a certificate of release for a mortgage by a title insurer for certain purposes; prescribes release certificate contents, procedures, and recordation; provides for liability of title insurers under certain circumstances; repeals a provision relating to failure or refusal to satisfy a lien. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-123 (H.B. 569) Permits year-round enrollment in the Medikids and Florida KidCare programs; provides a time period for the validity of KidCare program application. Effective June 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-124 (H.B. 699) Makes certain provisions on architectural and interior design services certifications applicable to limited liability companies; requires the Board of Architecture and Interior Design and the Board of Landscape Architecture to prescribe forms of seals to be used by holders of valid certificates of registration; authorizes certain electronic registrations and transmissions; requires surrender of seal upon registration expiration, suspension, or revocation; revises disciplinary actions and procedures. Effective June 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-125 (H.B. 853) Requires that a motor vehicle retail lessor provide a copy of the lease agreement to the retail lessee. Effective June 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-126 (H.B. 871) Provides additional authorization for the deposit of surplus state and local government funds; exempts certain public deposits from security requirements. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-127 (H.B. 1189) Provides state sponsored postsecondary educational opportunities to dependent children of certain dead or disabled veterans who were Florida residents at the time their death or disability occurred; decreases the parental residency time period; conforms specified provisions. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-128 (H.B. 1347) Creates, revises, and reenacts various provisions relating to controlled substances. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-129 (H.B. 1417) Revises certain land surveying and mapping licensure provisions; revises provisions relating to liability of partnerships and other business entities rendering professional surveying and mapping services. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-130 (H.B. 1729) Revises and readopts an exemption from public records requirements for certain Florida College Savings Program account information. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-131 (H.B. 1861) Revises and readopts an exemption from public records requirements for specified records of children enrolled in school readiness programs. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-132 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 1322) Creates the Committee on Public Service Commission Oversight; provides for membership, powers, and duties; creates and revises provisions relating to the regulation of the Public Service Commission, the Public Counsel, and communications; repeals a provisions relating to video programming regulation. Effective June 2, 2005.
Ch. 2005-133 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 838) Creates, revises, and repeals various provisions relating to medical care and services provided to Medicaid recipients; authorizes creation of a Medicaid managed care pilot program; provides for program locations and duties. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-134 (S.B. 106) Provides that the disability of an employee who works in another state may be certified by physicians licensed in that state; revises provisions relating to the State Retirement Commission and a specified optional retirement program. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-135 (S.B. 252) Authorizes municipalities to purchase retirement annuities for municipal personnel. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-136 (S.B. 266) Removes the time limitation from an alternative method by which state-designated teaching nursing homes and certain affiliated assisted living facilities may demonstrate financial responsibility. Effective June 3, 2005.
Ch. 2005-137 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 492) Affects provisions relating to recovering, towing, and storage of motor vehicles, vessels, and mobile homes. Effective July 1, 2005, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-138 (C.S. for S.B. 530) Mandates installation of specified ignition interlock devices on all vehicles owned or leased and operated by persons convicted of certain driving-under-the-influence offenses, prior to issuance of permanent or restricted drivers’ licenses; provides exceptions; prescribes installation period duration. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-139 (S.B. 1020) Prohibits specified intentional malicious actions against police dogs, fire dogs, SAR dogs, and police horses; provides penalties and provides for restitution. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-140 (S.B. 1122) Authorizes the Department of Revenue to provide tax information to the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA); requires provision of specified records and information relating to payments on behalf of Medicaid-eligible persons; requires certain personal representatives to provide AHCA with copies of death certificates. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-141 (C.S. for S.B. 1312) Provides for the creation and distribution of “RV friendly” markers; revises procedures relating to dispute resolution of certain consumer claims and complaints through mediation and arbitration. Effective June 3, 2005.
Ch. 2005-142 (C.S. for S.B. 1412) Creates the Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund within the Agency for Persons with Disabilities; provides for source and use of funds; provides for review and termination or re-creation. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-143 (C.S. for S.B. 1438) Revises provisions relating to repossession and recovery agents including licensure requirements, required insurance coverage, disciplinary actions, and recovery and sale of certain property. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-144 (C.S. for S.B. 1662) Revises provisions relating to unauthorized insurers or persons representing or aiding such insurers. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-145 (H.B. 977) Permits the Department of Transportation to revoke or refuse to renew or reissue licenses of certain general aviation airports that fail to develop, file, or update security plans. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-146 (H.B. 193) Prohibits hazing at high schools with grades 9-12; delineates conduct constituting hazing; provides a specified exemption; creates offenses relating to hazing at the high school and postsecondary school levels. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-147 (C.S. for C.S. for C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 442) Creates, revises, and repeals various provisions relating to building safety. Effective July 1, 2005, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-148 (C.S. for S.B. 1244) Creates and revises provisions relating to taxes on gross receipts for utility and communication services. Effective January 1, 2006, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-149 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 1910) Revises provisions relating to the Passport to Economic Progress Program; creates a Florida Youth Summer Jobs Pilot Program; provides eligibility criteria and program requirements; provides for program administration and funding. Effective June 8, 2005.
Ch. 2005-150 (C.S. for C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 2048) Increases the number of circuit court judges and county court judges in specified circuits and counties; provides funding. Effective June 8, 2005, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-151 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 2498) Provides an exemption from penalty provisions for certain warranties; provides for actual damages and costs for violations for which statutory penalties apply; redefines a specified term. Effective June 8, 2005; the amendment to s. 634.271 is retroactively operative to January 1, 1998.
Ch. 2005-152 (C.S. for S.B. 2610) Revises provisions relating to the management of state financial matters; repeals provisions relating to zero-based budgeting, use of a chart of accounts by entities using performance-based program budgets, and the Olympic Games Guaranty Account. Effective July 1, 2005, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-153 (H.B. 75) Redefines specified terms relating to title insurance; revises requirements relating to the issuance of title insurance and the preservation and retention of certain evidence. Effective June 8, 2005, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-154 (H.B. 401) Creates the Southwest Florida Expressway Authority; provides for membership, purposes, powers, and duties; exempts the authority from taxes on any of its tangible or intangible property; provides for future expiration. Effective June 8, 2005, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-155 (H.B. 529) Affects provisions relating to funeral and cemetery industry regulation; repeals provisions relating to identification of human remains and monument establishment requirements. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-156 (H.B. 551) Redefines the term “rental company,” for the purpose of applicability of specified liability limits, to include certain related rental or leasing companies and certain holders of motor vehicle titles or equity interest in a motor vehicle. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-157 (H.B. 955) Creates and revises provisions relating to recreational and commercial working waterfront property, aquaculture, the use of sovereign submerged lands, and local government comprehensive planning; exempts specified military installations from certain impact requirements. Effective January 1, 2006.
Ch. 2005-158 (H.B. 989) Revises the Boating Advisory Council’s membership and duties; revises salt water products licenses, stone crab trap certificate fees, use of funds from the Florida Panther Research and Management Trust Fund, and permitting; repeals a provision relating to the Advisory Council on Environmental Education and its programs and activities. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-159 (H.B. 1025) Provides criminal penalties for the knowing and willful aiming of the beam of a laser lighting device at a person operating a motor vehicle, vessel, or aircraft; redefines the term “laser lighting device.” Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-160 (H.B. 1289) Authorizes the Department of Environmental Protection or the governing board of a water management district to require the signing and sealing of certain documents and reports submitted by professional geologists. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-161 (H.B. 1395) Revises provisions relating to the placement and display of uniform safety flags at public beaches; revises liability provisions for specified governmental entities; provides for the development and availability of beach safety information and materials. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-162 (H.B. 1469) Provides exemptions from public meetings requirements for certain portions of meetings conducted by the Board of Funeral, Cemetery, and Consumer Services and the board’s probable cause panel; provides an exemption from public records requirements for certain examination, inspection, investigation, and trade secret information held by the Department of Financial Services. Provides for future review and repeal. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-163 (H.B. 1527) Creates and revises provisions relating to the disposition of unclaimed tangible and intangible property. Effective June 8, 2005.
Ch. 2005-164 (H.B. 1697) Creates, revises, and reenacts various provisions relating to highway safety. Effective July 1, 2005, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-165 (H.B. 1715) Revises provisions relating to domestic security; redesignates the “Chief of Domestic Security Initiatives” as the “Chief of Domestic Security”; creates the Domestic Security Oversight Council; provides for membership, organization, powers, and duties. Effective June 8, 2005.
Ch. 2005-166 (H.B. 1855) Creates and revises provisions relating to the management of natural resources; defines specified terms; creates the Florida Oceans and Coastal Council; provides for membership and responsibilities. Effective June 8, 2005.
Ch. 2005-167 (C.S. for S.B. 60) Includes additional specified law enforcement agency or medical examiner’s office employees within the special risk membership classification of the State Retirement System. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-168 (C.S. for S.B. 152) Authorizes a court to reduce or terminate an alimony award upon proof by a preponderance of the evidence that the alimony obligee is in a supportive relationship with a person not related by consanguinity or affinity; prescribes relationship determination factors. Effective June 10, 2005.
Ch. 2005-169 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 186) Establishes testing, reporting, and disclosure parameters relating to sexually transmissible diseases. Effective June 10, 2005.
Ch. 2005-170 (C.S. for S.B. 474) Requires patient notification of the availability of registered nurses to assess the condition of specified patients; deletes a mandatory monthly visit requirement. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-171 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 620) Revises provisions relating to the wireless emergency telephone system. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-172 (C.S. for S.B. 720) Deletes the requirement for specified monthly assessments and reporting by certain registered nurses; makes permanent the personal care attendant program for spinal cord injury victims; revises participant eligibility requirements; provides for program oversight and increased funding. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-173 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 758) Provides that staff of a children’s advocacy center have access to records of child abuse and neglect; prohibits the adverse use of specified report information. Effective June 10, 2005.
Ch. 2005-174 (C.S. for S.B. 786) Imposes fees on new motor vehicle tires and new or remanufactured lead-acid batteries sold to governmental entities; clarifies that prior remissions by dealers are not subject to refund. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-175 (C.S. for S.B. 822) Defines and redefines specified terms relating to the state group insurance program; includes TRICARE supplemental insurance within such program. Effective June 10, 2005.
Ch. 2005-176 (C.S. for S.B. 1094) Provides for confidentiality of the identity or identifying characteristics of a blood donor; provides exceptions. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-177 (C.S. for S.B. 1118) Permits victim services programs to have immediate access to vehicle crash reports; defines the term “victim services program.” Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-178 (C.S. for S.B. 1300) Revises provisions determining when a payment of estimated tax is deemed paid in regards to time limitations for refund claims; retroactively operative to January 1, 2001. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-179 (C.S. for C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 1314) Authorizes limited continued court jurisdiction of the cases of certain foster or dependent children under specified circumstances; prescribes issues to be considered. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-180 (C.S. for S.B. 1318) Revises provisions relating to underground petroleum storage; extends the operation period of the Inland Protection Finance Corporation; provides for financial assistance for the restoration of certain contaminated sites. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-181 (C.S. for S.B. 1330) Creates, revises, and repeals various provisions relating to financial institutions. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-182 (C.S. for S.B. 1432) Defines and redefines specified terms relating to insurance administrators; revises provisions relating to the administrator application process, annual reporting, and insurer responsibilities; provides for adoption of new rules. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-183 (C.S. for S.B. 1454) Prohibits unauthorized handbill distribution in a public lodging establishment; penalizes violations; requires that such lodging establishments provide notification of the prohibition. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-184 (C.S. for S.B. 1602) Prescribes the burden of proof, remedy, and affirmative defense in certain tax refund or recovery actions. Effective July 1, 2005, and retroactively operative to all actions initiated on or after that date and, to the maximum extent authorized by law, to all actions pending as of that date.
Ch. 2005-185 (S.B. 1796) Revises certain property tax administration procedures. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-186 (C.S. for S.B. 1922) Provides an exemption from public records requirements for specified complaints and records held by the Commission on Ethics or by a county or municipal Commission on Ethics and Public Trust; provides for future review and repeal. Effective June 10, 2005.
Ch. 2005-187 (C.S. for S.B. 2070) Revises provisions relating to the sale and taxation of communications services; creates the Communications Service Tax Task Force; provides for membership, operation, and duties; repeals a provision relating to special rules for users of substitute communications systems. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-188 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 2550) Requires interagency agreements to ensure that assistive technology devices be provided for use by persons with disabilities as they transition between schools, employment, or independent living. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-189 (S.B. 2574) Revises provisions relating to dentistry. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-190 (H.B. 185) Provides an exemption from public records requirements for certain identifying family information regarding a deceased child who is the subject of a review by the State Child Abuse Death Review Committee or its local delegate; provides an exemption from public meetings requirements for certain portions of meetings held by such committees. Provides for future review and repeal. Effective June 10, 2005.
Ch. 2005-191 (H.B. 189) Mandates that construction standards for hospice facilities comply with the Florida Building Code; provides for an update of the construction standards for such facilities. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-192 (H.B. 291) Imputes actions taken by a developer designated board of administration of a condominium association to the developer; requires examination and certification of certain defects by specified licensed individuals or entities. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-193 (H.B. 449) Expands the public records exemption for proprietary confidential business information regarding trade secrets owned or controlled by the not-for-profit corporation operating the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute or its subsidiaries and provides for future review and repeal. Effective June 10, 2005.
Ch. 2005-194 (H.B. 497) Requires traffic citation forms to include a check box indicating failure to stop at a traffic signal; provides penalties for such failure; provides for distribution of funds collected as fines. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-195 (H.B. 501) Includes service warranty agreement sales covering communications equipment under certain limited licensing provisions; provides additional appointment authority for certain licensed branch vendor locations; revises certain licensure requirements and qualifications; deletes a specified fee provision. Effective June 10, 2005.
Ch. 2005-196 (H.B. 579) Adds specified programs to public school educational choice options; revises certain fee, dual enrollment, and award eligibility requirement provisions. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-197 (H.B. 643) Revises provisions relating to an exemption from the tax on sales, use, and other transactions for farm equipment. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-198 (H.B. 729) Provides an exemption from public records requirements for specified records of the Florida Self-Insurers Guaranty Association, Incorporated; provides an exemption from public meetings requirements for certain portions of meetings held by the association’s board of directors or the board’s subcommittees. Provides for future review and repeal. Effective June 10, 2005.
Ch. 2005-199 (H.B. 869) Creates the Crohn’s and Colitis Disease Research Act; requires an inflammatory bowel disease epidemiology study and a study of the Medicaid coverage standards for inflammatory bowel disease therapies. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-200 (H.B. 913) Increases the civil penalty fine for a noncriminal infraction of the Florida Litter Law; provides for distribution and use of funds. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-201 (H.B. 1031) Requires the Department of Environmental Protection to design a pilot project to encourage the reuse or recycling of campaign signs. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-202 (H.B. 1089) Creates and revises provisions relating to licensure of independent postsecondary educational institutions; requires rule adoption regarding citation and penalties for violations of law; revises funding and disbursement provisions of the Institutional Assessment Trust Fund. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-203 (H.B. 1091) Provides an exemption from public records requirements for all investigatory records held by the Commission for Independent Education; provides an exemption from public meetings requirements for certain portions of meetings of a probable cause panel. Provides for future review and repeal. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-204 (H.B. 1099) Revises provisions relating to the membership, terms of office, and duties of the Assistive Technology Advisory Council. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-205 (H.B. 1159) Permits certain local government employees to elect participation in a specified benefit or retirement program during a limited time; provides for payment of membership costs; provides for levying and payment of specified taxes for provision of fire protection services via interlocal agreement. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-206 (H.B. 1231) Redefines specified terms relating to agricultural products; revises provisions relating to dealers in such products. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-207 (H.B. 1305) Creates, revises, and repeals provisions relating to the authority, organization, and processes of specified divisions, commissions, councils, and grants within the Department of State; provides for the establishment of certain citizen support organizations. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-208 (H.B. 1525) Revises provisions relating to certain systems, programs, and projects providing for integrated long-term care of the elderly. Effective June 10, 2005.
Ch. 2005-209 (H.B. 1693) Amends or reenacts provisions relating to unemployment compensation. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-210 (H.B. 1717) Creates and revises various provisions relating to agriculture; repeals a provision relating to establishment of an advisory committee to the Legislative Commission on Migrant Labor. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-211 (H.B. 1801) Provides an exemption from public meetings requirements for certain meetings or portions of meetings of the Domestic Security Oversight Council relating to active criminal investigative or intelligence information; provides an exemption from public records requirements for audio or video recordings, minutes, and notes of a closed meeting or any closed portion thereof. Provides for future review and repeal. Effective June 8, 2005; became a law June 10, 2005; see 374 So.2d 959 (Fla. 1979).
Ch. 2005-212 (H.B. 1921) Revises and readopts an exemption from public records requirements for certain information obtained by a domestic violence fatality review team; revises and readopts an exemption from public meetings requirements for specified portions of meetings held by any domestic violence fatality review team. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-213 (C.S. for S.B. 1098) Provides an exemption from public records requirements for specified information held by or regarding a guardian ad litem; creates an exception to the exemption for all records held by the Department of Children and Family Services regarding reports of child abandonment, abuse, or neglect; provides for future review and repeal. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-214 (C.S. for S.B. 1184) Revises easement right provisions relating to establishing a statutory way of necessity exclusive of common-law rights. Effective June 13, 2005.
Ch. 2005-215 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 2502) Authorizes water management districts to establish small business programs to help such businesses participate in district procurement and contract activities; allows district governing board members to continue membership pending successor appointments; revises provisions relating to specified submissions and deadlines. Effective June 13, 2005.
Ch. 2005-216 (H.B. 567) Revises provisions relating to policies and procedures regarding building code plans review and inspection services. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-217 (H.B. 331) Exempts the placement of certain informational markers from permitting requirements; provides placement requirements. Effective June 13, 2005.
Ch. 2005-218 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 652) Revises public construction bond form requirements; provides that certain sureties are not insurers. Effective June 14, 2005.
Ch. 2005-219 (S.B. 730) Permits a police officer to testify as an offended party in an action regarding lewdness, assignation, or prostitution charges. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-220 (S.B. 878) Requires that specified counties participate in a pilot program comparing the effectiveness of an alternative method of advertising delinquent tax property with the current method; requires a report. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-221 (S.B. 1450) Creates the Arthritis Prevention and Education Act; provides findings and purposes; provides for a prevention and education program. Effective June 14, 2005.
Ch. 2005-222 (C.S. for C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 1476) Creates and revises provisions relating to contract procurement and management and outsourcing by the Department of Children and Family Services; repeals certain contract management requirements. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-223 (C.S. for S.B. 1722) Redefines the term “multiservice senior center”; conforms specified provisions; encourages national accreditation of such centers. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-224 (C.S. for C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 1784) Restricts the use of certain aircraft and motor vehicles to authorized official state business; provides and determination and assignment criteria; revises provisions relating to the acquisition of certain professional services. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-225 (H.B. 63) Revises requirements for certification of a disability for issuance of disabled parking permits. Effective June 14, 2005.
Ch. 2005-226 (H.B. 71) Revises penalties for motor vehicle speed racing on highways, roadways, or parking lots; defines and redefines specified terms. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-227 (H.B. 113) Revises provisions relating to construction contracting and liens. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-228 (H.B. 205) Creates, revises, and reenacts provisions relating to the handling, taxation, distribution, and sale of cigarettes. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-229 (H.B. 481) Creates and revises provisions relating to the unlawful use of personal identification information; redefines specified terms. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-230 (H.B. 509) Creates and revises provisions relating to prompt payment for construction services. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-231 (H.B. 811) Revises provisions relating to health insurance; extends the interval between examination of the affairs, transactions, accounts, business records, and assets of HMO’s; provides for certain insurance rebates. Effective July 1, 2005, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-232 (H.B. 1081) Creates and revises provisions relating to discount medical plan organizations; repeals a provision relating to civil remedies. Effective June 14, 2005.
Ch. 2005-233 (H.B. 1129) Redefines specified terms relating to the entertainment industry; revises application criteria, procedures, and requirements for certain reimbursement eligibility. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-234 (H.B. 1267) Creates and revises provisions relating to nursing home compliance with building code and firesafety requirements and standards; requires installation of certain automatic sprinkler systems and fire protection systems; creates a specified loan guarantee program to assist in funding. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-235 (H.B. 1559) Creates an intergenerational respite care assisted living facility pilot program; provides Agency for Health Care Administration duties regarding the program; provides program requirements and standards. Effective June 14, 2005.
Ch. 2005-236 (H.B. 1935) Creates and revises various provisions relating to the state judicial system; repeals the Article V Indigent Services Advisory Board; provides for future repeal of funding for the Civil Traffic Infraction Hearing Officer Program. Effective July 1, 2005, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-237 (C.S. for S.B. 2412) Creates, revises, and repeals various provisions relating to viatical settlements. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-238 (H.B. 1389) Includes the power to purchase, lease, or transfer real or personal property in the powers of the boards of supervisors of water control districts; revises provisions relating to water control plan development and amendment, specified notices, and assessments. Effective June 15, 2005.
Ch. 2005-239 (C.S. for S.B. 348) Authorizes the Supreme Court to create an identifier system to identify all current or previous court cases related to an individual or his or her family in the court system; revises provisions relating to family court efficiency. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-240 (C.S. for S.B. 366) Expands the grounds for disciplinary action against certain health care practitioners; conforms specified provisions. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-241 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 370) Revises provisions relating to forms and procedures regarding the filing, execution, and satisfaction of judgments, orders, decrees, and liens. Effective June 17, 2005, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-242 (S.B. 470) Permits certain counties to levy an indigent care surtax; provides procedures and uses; prescribes rate limitations. Effective June 17, 2005.
Ch. 2005-243 (C.S. for S.B. 484) Revises provisions relating to home health agencies and services and nurse registries; provides for limited disclosure of specified clinical records. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-244 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 486) Authorizes specified counties and cities to apply to the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development for designation of enterprise zones. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-245 (S.B. 498) Requires that the Department of Children and Family Services or a community-based care provider determine citizenship or residency status of immigrant children who have been adjudicated dependent; provides for services and prescribes development of case plans and department or provider responsibilities. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-246 (C.S. for S.B. 512) Specifies the evidentiary requirements for a protective injunction filed on behalf of a minor child. Effective June 17, 2005.
Ch. 2005-247 (S.B. 670) Revises specified community college student fee provisions; provides requirements for bond issuance and validation; revises the maximum capital improvement fee allocation for community college child care centers. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-248 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 874) Excludes the transfer of prescription drugs due to a change in pharmacy ownership from the definition of “wholesale distribution”; redefines the term “pedigree paper” and abrogates the repeal of recordkeeping provisions for such papers; prohibits the use of specified violations as grounds for denying or withholding certain Medicaid reimbursements. Effective June 17, 2005.
Ch. 2005-249 (C.S. for S.B. 1012) Provides for the reinstatement of certain voided licenses; prescribes reinstatement requirements. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-250 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 1114) Permits certain restaurant patrons to remove resealed wine containers from the restaurant for off-premise consumption; specifies circumstances and procedures; clarifies that such resealed container is not an open container. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-251 (C.S. for S.B. 1144) Revises and reorganizes certain public records and public meetings exemption provisions. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-252 (C.S. for S.B. 1208) Provides for the establishment of the Florida Long-Term Care Partnership Program; provides program purpose and duties; provides for reduction in the total countable assets of certain persons when determining eligibility for nursing and rehabilitative services. Effective June 17, 2005, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-253 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 1446) Permits the State Board of Administration to require evidence of termination of employment; revises provisions relating to certain optional retirement programs; authorizes investment in additional asset-backed securities. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-254 (S.B. 1460) Requires that the motor vehicle registration application form include language permitting a voluntary contribution to Southeastern Guide Dogs, Inc.; provides for use of funds; exempts such funds from the general revenue service charge. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-255 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 1650) Revises and repeals various provisions relating to workforce innovation. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-256 (C.S. for S.B. 1868) Extends the moratorium on approving additional off-premise hospital emergency departments; revises provisions relating to regional poison control center certification and such centers’ access to and disclosure of certain patient information. Effective June 17, 2005.
Ch. 2005-257 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 1912) Creates, revises, and repeals provisions relating to licensure, registration, resident status, discipline, and reporting requirements of insurance agents and agencies. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-258 (C.S. for S.B. 2006) Revises provisions relating to motor vehicle service agreements and service warranties. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-259 (H.B. 77) Requires specified utilities and cooperatives to offer a purchase contract to producers of renewable energy; provides for establishment of purchase and contract requirements and rules; revises waste-to-energy facility permitting requirements and encourages certain permit applicants to consider construction of such facilities. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-260 (H.B. 925) Requires motorists to stop and yield to mobility-impaired pedestrians assisted by guide dogs or service animals. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-261 (H.B. 1029) Requires the Florida Seaport Transportation and Economic Development Council to establish a matching funds program for certain dredging projects. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-262 (H.B. 1651) Excludes specified chiropractic clinical facilities from the definition of the term “clinic” in regards to the Health Care Clinic Act; provides a regulation exception for chiropractic students participating in chiropractic college clinical internships; defines a specified term. Effective June 17, 2005.
Ch. 2005-263 (H.B. 1917) Revises provisions relating to residential and nonresidential commitment, detention, and treatment programs for children in the juvenile justice system; redefines specified terms; conforms specified provisions; repeals a certain task force on juvenile sexual offenders and provides for creation of a new task force on the subject. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-264 (H.B. 1939) Provides an exemption from public records requirements for certain reports of hurricane loss data and associated exposure data specific to a particular insurance company; provides an exemption from public meetings requirements for portions of meetings held by the Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology during which trade secret information is discussed. Provides for future review and repeal. Effective June 1, 2005; became a law June 17, 2005; see 374 So. 2d 959 (Fla. 1979).
Ch. 2005-265 (C.S. for S.B. 938) Specifies a patient’s right of access to adverse medical incident records; prescribes access procedures and fees; restricts use; defines specified terms. Effective June 20, 2005.
Ch. 2005-266 (C.S. for S.B. 940) Prescribes acts that constitute repeated medical malpractice and provides for review, verification, and determination regarding certain medical licensure information. Effective June 20, 2005.
Ch. 2005-267 (C.S. for S.B. 1056) Creates, revises, and repeals various provisions relating to business entities. Effective January 1, 2006, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-268 (C.S. for S.B. 1194) Provides an exception to just value assessment requirements for specified homestead property rendered uninhabitable by named storms in 2004. Effective June 20, 2005.
Ch. 2005-269 (C.S. for S.B. 2228) Establishes specified limitations on cumulative successor asbestos-related liabilities; provides exceptions; defines specified terms. Effective June 20, 2005.
Ch. 2005-270 (C.S. for S.B. 2348) Reduces the annual tax rate on certain intangible personal property. Effective January 1, 2006.
Ch. 2005-271 (H.B. 101) Exempts the sale of certain books, clothing, and school supplies from sales taxes for a specified time period; provides exceptions; defines specified terms. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-272 (H.B. 135) Limits or removes the civil liability applicable to street light providers under specified conditions. Effective June 20, 2005.
Ch. 2005-273 (H.B. 759) Creates, revises, and reenacts provisions relating to state and federal environmental permitting programs; continues a specified interim permitting program for the Northwest Florida Management District; revises the date for the submission of the Peace River Basin resource management plan. Effective June 20, 2005.
Ch. 2005-274 (H.B. 1019) Creates the Asbestos and Silica Compensation Fairness Act; requires physical impairment as an essential element of the claim; prescribes prima facie evidentiary requirements, claim procedures, statute of limitations, and liability scope and rules. Effective July 1, 2005, and applicable to any civil action asserting an asbestos claim in which trial has not commenced as of July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-275 (H.B. 1459) Creates and revises provisions relating to liens on commercial real estate. Effective October 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-276 (H.B. 1483) Revises provisions relating to tax refund programs for qualified defense contractors and target industry businesses; requires the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development to attempt to amend certain existing tax refund agreements. Effective June 20, 2005.
Ch. 2005-277 (H.B. 1567) Creates, revises, and repeals provisions relating to election processes and procedures. Effective January 1, 2006, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-278 (H.B. 1589) Creates, revises, and repeals provisions relating to election processes and procedures. Effective January 1, 2006, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-279 (H.B. 1591) Revises and readopts exemptions from public records requirements for voter, voter registration, and voting information, as well as confidential information relating to participants in the Address Confidentiality Program for Victims of Domestic Violence, held by a specified agency, a supervisor of elections, and the Department of State. Provides for future review and repeal. Effective January 1, 2006.
Ch. 2005-280 (H.B. 1813) Creates and revises various provisions relating to tax administration; repeals an ad valorem tax exemption for specified materials, hardware, and subsystems owned by a person and intended for use as a space laboratory. Effective July 1, 2005, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-281 (H.B. 1681) Creates and revises various provisions relating to transportation, including Department of Transportation entities, plans, projects, facilities, and sponsored studies; creates the Northwest Florida Transportation Corridor Authority; provides specified civil liability limits for death, injury, or damage claims against the department and its agents, consultants, or contractors under certain conditions. Effective June 20, 2005.
Ch. 2005-282 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 202) Revises provisions relating to the community contribution tax credit program. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-283 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 572) Penalizes the unlicensed sale of goods and services during a declared state of emergency; exempts specified organizations; provides for reasonable detainment of certain violators. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-284 (H.B. 517) Revises university master plan requirements and procedures; permits Florida Gulf Coast University to establish a school of engineering. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-285 (H.B. 1001) Delineates the constitutional duties of the Board of Governors of the State University System and the Legislature relating to postsecondary education; defines specified terms; prohibits citizen members of the Board of Governors and boards of trustees from acting as legislative lobbyists. Effective June 22, 2005.
Ch. 2005-286 (H.B. 1673) Eliminates second primary elections; conforms specified provisions. Effective January 1, 2006.
Ch. 2005-287 (H.B. 1725) Revises and repeals various provisions relating to the Florida Enterprise Zone Act. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-288 (H.B. 181) Revises provisions relating to pari-mutuel permitholders; provides for the transfer of a cardroom license under certain conditions. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-289 (C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 332) Creates the Water Protection and Sustainability Program Trust Fund within the Department of Environmental Protection; provides for source and use of funds; provides for review and termination or re-creation. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-290 (C.S. for C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 360) Creates and revises provisions relating to infrastructure planning and funding; repeals a provision relating to adoption of an optional public educational facilities element. Effective July 1, 2005.
Ch. 2005-291 (C.S. for C.S. for C.S. for S.B. 444) Revises provisions relating to the development and management of water supplies; repeals a provision relating to certain alternative water supply development projects; establishes the Water Protection and Sustainability Program and provides funding. Effective June 24, 2005, except as otherwise provided.
Ch. 2005-292 (H.B. 385) Designates various roads, bridges, an overpass, a cable barrier system, and a building. Repeals a specified road designation. Effective July 1, 2005.
Summaries of Joint Resolutions Proposing Amendments to
The State Constitution
C.S. for S.J.R. 2144 Proposes an amendment to s. 19, Art. III of the State Constitution relating to state budget planning, spending, and accountability requirements. To be submitted to the electorate at the general election to be held in November 2006 or at an earlier specifically authorized special election.
H.J.R. 1177 Proposes an amendment to s. 4, Art. VI of the State Constitution and creation of s. 26, Art. XII to change the term limits for certain elected constitutional officers from eight consecutive years to twelve consecutive years. To be submitted to the electorate for approval or rejection at the general election to be held in November 2006.
H.J.R. 1723 Proposes an amendment to s. 5, Art. XI of the State Constitution to require that any proposed amendment to or revision of the State Constitution be approved by at least 60 percent of the electors voting on the measure. To be submitted to the electorate for approval or rejection at the general election to be held in November 2006.