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Background: Current law prohibits local laws, ordinances, or regulations that prohibit vacation rentals or regulate the duration or frequency of rental of vacation rentals. Ordinances adopted by various local governments have sparked litigation. Legislation: SB 188 (Steube) and HB 425 (La Rosa) would have prohibited a local law, ordinance, or regulation on vacation rentals that restricts the use, prohibits, or regulates vacation rentals based solely on their classification, use, or occupancy. Amendment: SB 188 was amended so that local governments were permitted to amend certain vaca- tion rental laws, ordinances, or regulations to be less restrictive, including providing regulatory relief for certain military personnel and disabled veterans. The bill maintains the prohibition in current law against local laws, ordinances, or regulations that prohibit vacation rentals or regulate the duration or frequency of rental of vacation rentals. Status: This bill. died in Senate message. We should expect to see this again next session. nr. Background: Current law requires a state medical examiner to carry out an examination or autopsy on any person who died under traumatic, suspicious, or otherwise unusual circumstances; who at time of death was unattended by a physician; or whose body is to be cremated, buried at sea, or dissected, in order to properly ascertain the cause of death. Although the governor appoints the state's medical ex- aminers, the counties in whose jurisdictions their districts overlap are responsible for compensating them, either through a direct fee agreement or through the county's budget allocations. The fees charged by the counties vary by location. Legislation #1: HB 17 (Fines) proposed to prohibit certain local governments from imposing or adopting certain regulations on businesses, professions, & occupations after certain date; preempts to state regulations concerning businesses, professions, & occupations; provides exceptions to preemp- tion. Legislation #2: SB 1158 (Passidomo) proposed to reserve to the State of Florida the exclusive right to regulate matters of commerce, trade, and labor under certain circumstances thereby prohibiting coun- ties, municipalities, and special districts from engaging in specified actions that regulate commerce, trade, or labor, unless otherwise expressly authorized to do so by special or general law. Update: Both bills died in committee. We should expect to see this again next session. P208