Florida HB 433: Discrimination in Employment Screening

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A bill to be entitled 1
An act relating to the Department of Agriculture and 2
Consumer Services; creating s. 125.489, F.S.; defining 3
the terms "gasoline-powered farm equipment" and 4
"gasoline-powered landscape equipment"; prohibiting 5
counties from enacting or enforcing any law that 6
restricts or prohibits the use of gasoline-powered 7
farm equipment or gasoline-powered landscape equipment 8
or that distinguishes such equipment from any other 9
equipment under certain circumstances; providing 10
construction; amending s. 163.3164, F.S.; defining the 11
terms "ecologically significant parcel" and "low-12
density municipality"; amending s. 163.3202, F.S.; 13
prohibiting an application for a development on an 14
ecologically significant parcel in a low-density 15
municipality from being administratively approved 16
without an attestation provided by the developer; 17
specifying requirements for such attestation; 18
providing applicability; specifying requirements for 19
the attestation included in certain applications; 20
providing for a waiver; creating s. 166.063, F.S.; 21
defining the terms "gasoline-powered farm equipment" 22
and "gasoline-powered landscape equipment"; 23
prohibiting municipalities from enacting or enforcing 24
any law that restricts or prohibits the use of 25

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gasoline-powered farm equipment or gasoline-powered 26
landscape equipment or that distinguishes such 27
equipment from any other equipment under certain 28
circumstances; providing construction; amending s. 29
212.055, F.S.; conforming a cross-reference; making a 30
technical change; amending s. 253.0341, F.S.; 31
requiring the Acquisition and Restoration Council to 32
determine whether certain surplused lands are suitable 33
for bona fide agricultural purposes; prohibiting a 34
local governmental entity from transferring future 35
development rights for surplused lands determined to 36
be suitable for bona fide agricultural purposes; 37
requiring the Department of Environmental Protection, 38
in coordination with the Department of Agriculture and 39
Consumer Services, to determine whether certain state-40
owned conservation lands are suitable for bona fide 41
agricultural purposes; authorizing the Department of 42
Environmental Protection to surplus certain state-43
owned lands determined to be suitable for bona fide 44
agricultural purposes; requiring the Department of 45
Environmental Protection to retain a rural-lands-46
protection easement for such surplused lands; 47
requiring that all proceeds from the sale of such 48
surplused lands be deposited in the Department of 49
Agriculture and Consumer Services' Incidental Trust 50

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Fund for less than fee simple; requiring the 51
Department of Environmental Protection to annually 52
provide a report of such surplused lands to the Board 53
of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund; 54
prohibiting certain lands from being surplused; 55
amending s. 259.1053, F.S.; deleting provisions 56
relating to the Babcock Ranch Advisory Group; amending 57
s. 287.1351, F.S.; revising circumstances under which 58
a vendor is prohibited from submitting a bid, 59
proposal, or reply to an agency or from entering into 60
or renewing any contract to provide goods or services 61
to an agency; amending s. 322.12, F.S.; providing 62
penalties for an applicant for a commercial driver 63
license who receives unauthorized assistance on 64
certain portions of the examination; amending s. 65
322.36, F.S.; prohibiting a person from knowingly or 66
willfully providing unauthorized assistance to an 67
applicant for the examination required to hold a 68
commercial driver license; repealing ss. 377.71, 69
377.711, and 377.712, F.S., relating to definitions 70
and the Southern States Energy Compact, Florida as 71
party to the Southern States Energy Compact, and 72
Florida's participation in the Southern States Energy 73
Board, respectively; amending s. 403.0855, F.S.; 74
deleting a provision relating to legislative approval 75

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of certain rules adopted by the Department of 76
Environmental Protection; revising requirements for 77
permittees of biosolids land application sites; 78
revising the date by which permits must comply with 79
specified provisions; requiring local governments that 80
do not transport biosolids outside