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Religious Liberty
- Specifying that certain communication between a member of the clergy and a certain person is not exempt from child abuse reporting requirements; deleting an exemption for privileged communications to clergy relating to child abuse, abandonment, or neglect, etc. 2020/03/14 Died in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
- Citing this act as the "Florida Competitive Workforce Act"; adding sexual orientation and gender identity as impermissible grounds for discrimination in public lodging establishments and public food service establishments; providing an exception for constitutionally protected free exercise of religion, etc. 2020/03/14 Died in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
- Deleting exemptions from school-entry health examinations and immunization requirements for religious reasons; requiring the Board of Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine to jointly create a medical exemption review panel, etc. 2020/03/14 Died in Health Policy
- Citing this act as the "Holocaust Education Act of 2020"; requiring charter school instructional personnel to teach specified topics; requiring certain private school instructional personnel to teach specified topics; revising the requirements for instructional content relating to the Holocaust that members of public school instructional staff are required to teach; requiring the Department of Education […]
Marriage
- Repeals provisions relating to marriages between persons of the same sex. 2020/03/14 Died in Civil Justice Subcommittee
- Creates Florida Healthy Marriage Handbook; provides requirements for handbook; provides for distribution of printed copies of the handbook under certain circumstances; requires clerks of court to post electronic copies of handbook on its website & make handbook available to certain applicants; encourages clerks of court to provide list of course providers & websites where certain […]
Sanctity of Life
- Providing a public records exemption for information that could identify a minor which is contained in a record held by the court relating to the minor's petition to waive consent requirements to obtain an abortion; providing for future legislative review and repeal under the Open Government Sunset Review Act; providing a statement of public necessity, […]
- Reclassifying the criminal offense for a specified violation; prohibiting physicians from performing or inducing the termination of the pregnancy of a minor unless specified requirements are satisfied; requiring a physician to obtain written consent from a minor's parent or legal guardian before performing or inducing a termination of the pregnancy of a minor; providing exceptions […]
- Prohibits termination of pregnancy if physician determines that preborn human being has detectable preborn intrauterine heartbeat; removes medical necessity exceptions; revises certain informed consent requirements; removes provisions relating to partial-birth abortions; removes certain civil remedies; provides criminal penalties. 2020/03/14 Died in Health Quality Subcommittee
- Proposes amendment to State Constitution to provide that neither house of Legislature may vote on bill that would affect access to abortion services unless at least half of members of that house are women. 2020/03/14 Died in Civil Justice Subcommittee
- Creating the "Clinic Protection Act"; prohibiting a person from committing certain acts against reproductive health services clients, providers, or assistants; providing civil remedies for those aggrieved by specified violations against reproductive health services clients, providers, or assistants or against certain properties; requiring a court to take actions necessary to safeguard the health, safety, or privacy […]
- Requiring certain licensed facilities to provide to victims of sexual assault information regarding emergency contraception and its availability, if requested, etc. 2020/03/14 Died in Health Policy
- Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution to provide that neither house of the Legislature may vote on a bill that would affect access to abortion services unless at least half of the members of that house are women, etc. 2020/03/14 Died in Health Policy
- Expands existing public records exemption to include information identifying pregnant minor that is contained in court records relating to such minor's petition to waive consent requirements to obtain abortion; provides for future legislative review & repeal of expanded exemption; provides for reversion of specified language if exemption is not saved from repeal; provides statement of […]
- Reclassifies criminal offense for specified violation; requires physician to obtain notarized written consent of parent or legal guardian before inducing or performing termination of pregnancy of minor; provides exceptions to consent requirement; provides criminal penalties. 2020/02/19 Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/SB 404
- Requiring certain licensed facilities to provide to victims of sexual assault information regarding emergency contraception and its availability, if requested, etc. 2019/08/02 Withdrawn prior to introduction
Gambling
- Could not locate any eligible bills to be returned. This may be caused by bills from prior sessions being archived and removed from the RSS channel. Please visit LegiScan to obtain updated and current session information.
Adoption
- Provides eligibility to certain veterans & servicemembers for specified adoption benefits. 2020/06/10 Chapter No. 2020-22
- Revising the definition of the term "qualifying adoptive employee" and providing for retroactive application; providing that adoptive servicemembers and veterans are eligible to receive certain monetary benefits; requiring servicemembers and veterans seeking a benefit to apply to the Department of Children and Families, etc. 2020/02/19 Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/HB 61
Human Trafficking
- Revises required health education in public schools to include information regarding dangers & signs of human trafficking; authorizes student to opt out of specified portion of health education; & requires DLA to develop human trafficking awareness campaigns. 2020/03/14 Died in PreK-12 Innovation Subcommittee
- Revising the required health education in public schools to include information regarding the dangers and signs of human trafficking; specifying the minimum requirements of the human trafficking education portion of the comprehensive health education curriculum, etc. 2020/03/14 Died in Messages
Foster Care
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