Manufactured Housing; Reducing the percentage of the sales price of certain mobile homes which is subject to sales tax; exempting certain recreational vehicle dealer applicants from a garage liability insurance requirement; revising an exemption for certain water service resellers from regulation by the Florida Public Service Commission relating to water and wastewater systems; specifying a requirement for disclosing and agreeing to a mobile home lot rental increase; providing that a mobile home park damaged or destroyed due to natural forces may be rebuilt with the same density as previously approved, permitted, or built, etc.
Renewable Energy; Defining the terms “renewable energy credit” and “renewable portfolio standard”; requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt rules for a renewable portfolio standard; directing the Office of Energy within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, in consultation with other state agencies, state colleges and universities, public utilities, and other private and public entities, to develop a unified statewide plan to generate the state’s energy from renewable sources by specified dates, etc.
Decennial Census; Requires Legislature to adjust federal decennial census figures to include incarcerated individuals in geographic areas where they last resided before incarceration rather than facility where they resided at time of federal census; requires DOC to provide report to Legislature listing certain information relating to incarcerated individuals; provides effective date.
Water and Wastewater Systems; Requiring a municipality to charge customers receiving its utility services outside the municipal boundaries the same rates, fees, and charges as it charges customers within the municipality under certain circumstances; authorizing certain water and wastewater utilities to establish a rate base value by using the fair market value when acquiring a utility system; establishing a procedure to determine the fair market value; specifying the contents required for an application to the Public Service Commission for approval of the rate base value of the utility system, etc.
School Board Employees; Proposing amendments to the State Constitution, relating to the State Board of Education, school districts, and school boards, to provide that school boards shall, subject to Article I, Section 6 of the State Constitution, set the wages, hours, and terms and conditions of employment for all school board employees, etc.
Medically Essential Electric Utility Service; Specifies that fact that certain electric utilities must provide medically essential electric service does not require them to otherwise be regulated by PSC; provides notification requirements for electric utilities relating to certification process for obtaining medically essential electric service & service disconnection; provides certification requirements for customers; specifies duties of electric utilities; revises penalties for falsification of such certification; requires certain health care practitioners to inform certain patients of such certification process; requires such practitioners to provide patients with completed medical certifications & document certification.
Administrative Procedures; Revises provisions relating to rulemaking, notices, hearings, development, timelines, emergency rules, material incorporated by reference, proposal of lower cost regulatory alternatives, statement of estimated regulatory costs, impacts on small businesses, rule modification, & regulatory plans.
Private Property Rights; Exempting from the definition of “public utility” property owners who own and operate a renewable energy source device, produce renewable energy from that device, and provide or sell the renewable energy to users on that property, under certain circumstances, etc.
Repeal of Constitution Revision Commission; Repeals references to Constitution Revision Commission, powers of chair, & assistance by state & local agencies.
Regulatory Reform; Establishing the Red Tape Reduction Advisory Council within the Executive Office of the Governor; requiring an agency adopting a rule to submit a rule replacement request to the Administrative Procedures Committee; requiring the committee to examine rule replacement requests and existing rules; requiring the Administrative Procedures Committee to establish a regulatory baseline of agency rules; providing that a proposed rule may not cause the total number of rules to exceed the regulatory baseline, etc.
Capital Investment Tax Credit; Providing a credit against the corporate income tax, the sales and use tax, or a stated combination of the two taxes to a qualifying business that establishes a qualifying project for the creation of intellectual property which meets certain capital investment criteria; authorizing the carryover or transfer of credits, subject to certain conditions, etc.
Assistance for Micro Businesses; Authorizing certain local governments to set aside up to a specified percentage of funds for procuring personal property and services for the purpose of entering into contracts with micro businesses; providing eligibility for micro businesses under the Microfinance Loan Program; providing eligibility for micro businesses under the Department of Transportation’s highway project business development program, etc.
