Rick Roth Archives - Laws for Landlords

Taxation

Requires marketplace providers & persons located outside FL to remit discretionary sales surtax; replaces taxation of mail order sales with taxation of remote sales; provides entities making remote sales are dealers for sales & use taxes; requires entities to collect & remit additional fees at time of sale; authorizes marketplace providers & sellers to agree for marketplace sellers to collect taxes & fees; provides relief to persons for liability for tax, penalty, & interest due on remote sales; provides alternative method to calculate unemployment contribution in specified years; provides for deposit of funds in Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund.

March 3, 2023

Parental Rights in Education

Requires district school boards to adopt procedures that comport with certain provisions of law for notifying student’s parent of specified information; requires such procedures to reinforce fundamental right of parents to make decisions regarding upbringing & control of their children; prohibits school district from adopting procedures or student support forms that prohibit school district personnel from notifying parent about specified information or that encourage student to withhold from parent such information; prohibits school district personnel from discouraging or prohibiting parental notification & involvement in critical decisions affecting student’s mental, emotional, or physical well-being; prohibits classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in certain grade levels; requires school districts to notify parents of healthcare services; authorizes parent to bring action against school district to obtain declaratory judgment; provides for additional award of injunctive relief, damages, & reasonable attorney fees & court costs to certain parents.

November 19, 2022

Immigration Enforcement

Requires law enforcement agency operating county detention facility to enter into specified agreement with U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement to assist with immigration enforcement; requires such agency to report specified information quarterly to FDLE; prohibits governmental entity from executing, amending, or renewing contract with common carriers or contracted carriers under certain circumstances; requires specified governmental entity contracts with common carriers or contracted carriers to include specified provisions.

November 16, 2022

Reducing Fetal and Infant Mortality

Revises purpose & requirements for Comprehensive Statewide Tobacco Education & Use Prevention Program; requires DOH to contract with local healthy start coalitions for creation of fetal & infant mortality review committees; prohibits physician from performing abortion if gestational age of fetus is determined to be more than specified number of weeks; provides exception; requires directors of certain medical facilities & certain physicians to submit monthly report to AHCA electronically; requires hospitals participate in minimum number of quality improvement initiatives.

November 11, 2022

Statewide Flooding and Sea Level Rise Resilience

Establishes Statewide Office of Resilience within EOG; provides for appointment of Chief Resilience Officer; requires DEP to submit report to Governor & Legislature; requires DOT to develop resilience action plan for State Highway System & submit plan & reports to Governor & Legislature; revises projects DEP may fund within Resilient Florida Grant Program; revises vulnerability assessment requirements for noncoastal communities; extends dates by which DEP must complete comprehensive statewide flood vulnerability & sea level rise data set & assessment; requires projects to be ranked in Statewide Flood & Sea Level Rise Resilience Plan; requires Florida Flood Hub for Applied Research & Innovation to provide tidal & storm surge flooding data to certain entities; revises requirements for copies of evaluation certificates that must be submitted to DEM.

November 9, 2022

Fraud Prevention

Requires that electronic credentialing system display certain vehicle information, provide notification, & allow drivers to update information; requires DHSMV to provide Legislature with recommendations for compliance verification with financial responsibility requirements; requires certain sellers to allow consumers to cancel in specified manner & by specified means service contracts that have automatic renewal provisions; revises maximum fines for public adjusters & public adjuster apprentices; revises requirements for advertisements issued or caused to be issued by service agreement companies or salespersons; provides transfer of funds & appropriation.

November 9, 2022

Transportation Facility Designations

Designates 98 Points of Light Way in Miami-Dade County; directs DOT to erect suitable markers.

August 21, 2022

Legal Notices

Revising construction as to the satisfaction of publication requirements for legal notices; revising requirements for newspapers that are qualified to publish legal notices; authorizing the Internet publication of specified governmental agency notices on newspaper websites in lieu of print publication if certain requirements are met; requiring the Florida Press Association to seek to ensure equitable access for minority populations to legal notices posted on the statewide legal notice website; requiring the association to publish and maintain certain reports on the statewide legal notice website, etc.

June 2, 2022

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