Important information for Florida residents: New laws become effective on October 1st

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – From banning unauthorized public sleeping to prohibiting inserting a monitoring system or software on somebody or their property with out permission, greater than 30 new Florida laws start on Oct. 1.

Here’s a take a look at the brand new laws:

HB 1365 Unauthorized Public Camping and Public Sleeping

Unauthorized Public Camping and Public Sleeping: Prohibits counties & municipalities from authorizing or in any other case permitting public tenting or sleeping on public property with out certification of designated public property by DCF; authorizes counties to designate public property for such makes use of for specified time interval; requires counties to ascertain specified requirements & procedures regarding such property; authorizes DCF to examine such property & to subject discover; gives exception throughout specified emergencies. Effective Date: October 1, 2024

SB 0758 Tracking Devices and Applications

Tracking Devices and Applications; Prohibiting the location or use of a monitoring system or monitoring software to find out the situation or motion of one other particular person or one other particular person’s property with out that particular person’s consent; revising exceptions; offering prison penalties, and so on. Effective Date: October 1, 2024

SB 0718 Exposures of First Responders to Fentanyl and Fentanyl Analogs

Exposures of First Responders to fentanyl and fentanyl Analogs; Providing prison penalties for adults who, in the middle of unlawfully possessing specified managed substances, recklessly expose a primary responder to such substances and an overdose or severe bodily damage of the primary responder outcomes; prohibiting the arrest, charging, prosecution, or penalizing below specified provisions of legislation of an individual appearing in good religion who seeks medical help for a person experiencing, or believed to be experiencing, an alcohol-related or a drug-related overdose, and so on. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

HB 0403 Specialty License Plates

Specialty License Plates: Exempts collegiate license plates from sure discontinuation & presale voucher necessities for specialty license plates; requires DHSMV to reauthorize beforehand discontinued collegiate license plates; renames & revises phrases showing on sure plates; directs DHSMV to develop specified plates; gives for distribution & use of charges collected from sale of plates. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

SB 0086 Hope Cards for Persons Issued Orders of Protection

Hope Cards for Persons Issued Orders of Protection; Requiring the clerks of the circuit court docket, in session with the Office of the Attorney General, to develop and implement the Hope Card Program; requiring clerks’ places of work to create a Hope Card and supply such card to petitioners inside a specified timeframe; offering prison penalties for the fraudulent use of a Hope Card, and so on. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

SB 0092 Yacht and Ship Brokers’ Act

Yacht and Ship Brokers’ Act; Revising the definition of the time period “yacht”; exempting an individual who conducts enterprise as a dealer or salesperson in one other state from licensure on this state for specified transactions; requiring, fairly than authorizing, the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to disclaim licenses for candidates who fail to fulfill sure necessities, and so on. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

HB 0341 Designation of a Diagnosis on Motor Vehicle Registrations

Designation of a Diagnosis on Motor Vehicle Registrations: Requires language on software type for motorized vehicle registration to permit applicant to point that applicant has been identified with, or is father or mother or authorized guardian of kid or ward who has been identified with, specified disabilities or problems; requires specified designation to be included in motorized vehicle document; prohibits inclusion of specified information in motorized vehicle document for sure functions; requires DHSMV to permit specified individuals to replace motorized vehicle registration to incorporate or take away specified designation at any time. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

Securities; Revising the checklist of securities which can be exempt from registration necessities below sure provisions; revising provisions regarding a sure registration exemption for sure securities transactions; updating the federal laws or rules with which the supply or sale of securities have to be in compliance; requiring that gives and gross sales of securities be in accordance with sure federal laws and guidelines; offering that registration exemptions below sure provisions should not out there to issuers for sure transactions below specified circumstances; specifying standards for figuring out integration of choices for the aim of registration or qualifying for a registration exemption; specifying the aim of the Securities Guaranty Fund, and so on. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

HB 0801 Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Training for Law Enforcement Officers

Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Training for Law Enforcement Officers: Requires FDLE to ascertain on-line, continued employment coaching element regarding Alzheimer's illness & associated types of dementia; requires coaching element be developed with DOEA; specifies instruction necessities for coaching; authorizes completion of such coaching to depend towards sure requirement. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

SB 0808 Treatment by a Medical Specialist

Treatment by a Medical Specialist; Authorizing firefighters, legislation enforcement officers, correctional officers, and correctional probation officers to obtain medical therapy by a medical specialist for sure situations below sure circumstances; requiring firefighters, legislation enforcement officers, correctional officers, and correctional probation officers to inform sure entities of their choice of a medical specialist, and so on. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

Reducing minimal threshold quantity for grand theft of third diploma; creates new offense of grand theft offenses; gives enhanced prison penalties for committing petit theft of first diploma & having sure earlier convictions; revises variety of thefts required inside specified aggregation interval required to commit specified violation for retail theft; revises specified timeframes by which particular person acts of retail theft could also be aggregated; prohibits retail theft with specified variety of different individuals for specified objective; prohibits retail theft when social media platform is used to solicit participation; requires particular person convicted of retail theft to pay specified restitution. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

HB 0819 Lehigh Acres Municipal Services Improvement District, Hendry and Lee Counties

Lehigh Acres Municipal Services Improvement District, Hendry and Lee Counties: Expands territorial boundaries of district. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

SB 0902 Motor Vehicle Retail Financial Agreements

Motor Vehicle Retail Financial Agreements; Revising the definition of the time period “guaranteed asset protection product”; requiring entities to refund the parts of the acquisition worth of the contract for a assured asset safety product below sure circumstances; creating the “Florida Vehicle Value Protection Agreements Act”; authorizing the supply, sale, or present of auto worth safety agreements in compliance with a sure act, and so on. Effective Date: October 1, 2024

HB 1007 Nicotine Products and Dispensing Devices

Nicotine Products and Dispensing Devices: Requires nicotine product producers who promote nicotine shelling out units to execute type prescribed by Division of Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco of DBPR, for every nicotine shelling out system bought; requires division to develop & preserve listing; requires division to make listing out there on web site; prohibits nicotine product producer from promoting, transport, or distributing nicotine shelling out units for retail sale; requires wholesale nicotine product sellers to buy & promote for retail solely these nicotine shelling out units listed on listing; prohibits sure individuals & entities from dealing, at retail, in nicotine shelling out units not listed on listing; gives for seizure & destruction of contraband nicotine shelling out units. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

HB 1025 Municipal Service District of Ponte Vedra Beach, St. Johns County

Municipal Service District of Ponte Vedra Beach, St. Johns County: Revises provisions regarding phrases of workplace of District Trustees; revises capital expenditure quantity required to be accredited by voters of district; revises authority of district to approve such expenditure; revises limitation on quantity of district's contingency reserves. Effective Date: October 1, 2024

SB 1036 Reclassification of Criminal Penalties

Reclassification of Criminal Penalties; Requiring reclassification of the penalty for the fee of a felony dedicated by an individual who has a earlier specified conviction; defining the time period “transnational crime organization”; authorizing reclassification of the penalty for any misdemeanor or felony offense if the fee of such offense was for specified functions, and so on. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

HB 1049 Flood Disclosure within the Sale of Real Property

Flood Disclosure within the Sale of Real Property: Requires vendor of residential actual property to supply specified information to a potential purchaser; specifies how such information have to be disclosed. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

HB 1171 Schemes to Defraud

Schemes to Defraud: Provides for reclassification of sure offenses when dedicated in opposition to individuals 65 years of age or older, in opposition to minors, or in opposition to individuals with disabilities; gives for civil actions for damages by individuals whose picture or likeness was utilized in scheme to defraud with their consent. Effective Date: October 1, 2024

HB 1235 Sexual Predators and Sexual Offenders

Sexual Predators and Sexual Offenders: Revises reporting necessities; specifies standards relevant for removing of standing for sure individuals; revises registration necessities; revises provisions regarding verification; revises penalties. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

HB 1389 Digital Voyeurism

Digital Voyeurism: Redesignates “video voyeurism” as “digital voyeurism”; revises components; gives diminished prison penalties for sure violations by individuals below 19 years of age; specifies that every occasion of sure violations is separate offense; gives for reclassification of sure violations by sure individuals who're household or family members of sufferer or who maintain place of authority or belief with sufferer. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

HB 1545 Child Exploitation Offenses

Child Exploitation Offenses: Creating the offense of dangerous communication to a minor; rating the offense on the offense severity rating chart of the Criminal Punishment Code; and so on. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

SB 1628 Local Government Actions

Local Government Actions; Requiring that sure bond referenda known as by a county, district, or municipality be held at a common election; revising applicability provisions for the enactment or adoption of county and municipal ordinances, respectively, and so on. Effective Date: October 1, 2024

SB 1698 Food and Hemp Products

Food and Hemp Products; Defining the time period “total delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol concentration”; offering situations for the manufacture, supply, maintain, supply for sale, distribution, or sale of hemp extract; prohibiting companies and meals institutions from possessing hemp extract merchandise which can be enticing to kids; prohibiting the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services from granting permission to take away or use sure hemp extract merchandise till it determines that such hemp extract merchandise adjust to state legislation, and so on. APPROPRIATION: $2,000,000 Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

HB 7001 OGSR/Reporter of Child Abuse, Abandonment, or Neglect

OGSR/Reporter of Child Abuse, Abandonment, or Neglect: Removes scheduled repeal of exemption from public data necessities for different figuring out information with respect to any particular person reporting little one abuse, abandonment, or neglect. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

HB 7003 OGSR/Preregistered Voters

OGSR/Preregistered Voters: Removes scheduled repeal of exemption from public document necessities for information regarding preregistered voter registration candidates who're minors; authorizes disclosure of confidential information in sure circumstance. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

HB 7005 OGSR/Financial Disclosure

OGSR/Financial Disclosure: Removes scheduled repeal of exemptions from public document necessities for safe login credentials held by Commission on Ethics & sure information entered into digital submitting system for monetary disclosure. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

SB 7006 OGSR/Utility Owned or Operated by a Unit of Local Government

OGSR/Utility Owned or Operated by a Unit of Local Government; Amending a provision which gives exemptions from public document necessities for information associated to the safety of sure expertise, processes, practices, information expertise techniques, industrial management expertise techniques, and buyer meter-derived information and billing information held by a utility owned or operated by a unit of native authorities; extending the date of scheduled repeal of public document exemptions regarding the safety of sure expertise, processes, practices, information expertise techniques, and industrial management expertise techniques; amending a provision which gives an exemption from public assembly necessities for conferences held by a utility owned or operated by a unit of native authorities which might reveal sure information; extending the date of scheduled repeal of the exemption, and so on. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

HB 7007 OGSR/Campus Emergency Response

OGSR/Campus Emergency Response: Removes provision permitting disclosure of sure information in sure campus emergency response to sure entities; & removes scheduled repeal of exemption from public data necessities for sure campus emergency response. Effective Date: October 1, 2024

SB 7008 OGSR/Department of the Lottery

OGSR/Department of the Lottery; Amending a provision regarding an exemption from public data necessities for sure information held by the Department of the Lottery, information about lottery video games, private figuring out information of shops and distributors for functions of background checks, and sure monetary information held by the division; offering for future legislative overview and repeal of an exemption from public data necessities for information regarding the safety of sure applied sciences, processes, and practices; eradicating the scheduled repeal of an exemption, and so on. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

HB 7009 OGSR/Mental Health Treatment and Services

OGSR/Mental Health Treatment and Services: Removes scheduled repeal of exemption from public data necessities for petitions for voluntary & involuntary admission for psychological well being therapy, court docket orders, associated data, & private figuring out information relating to individuals in search of psychological well being therapy & companies. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

HB 7043 OGSR/Agency Personnel Information

OGSR/Agency Personnel Information: Removes scheduled repeal of exemption from public data necessities for sure private figuring out & location information of specified company personnel & spouses & kids thereof. Effective Date: October 1, 2024.

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