Transportation Facility Designations; Designates 98 Points of Light Way in Miami-Dade County; directs DOT to erect suitable markers.
Rep. Alex Rizo
Sponsored bills
Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program Student Service Requirements; Authorizes student's service requirements for award under Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program to be paid rather than volunteer; authorizes, rather than requiring, student to identify specified interest or develop plan for his or her service requirements.
Homestead Property Tax Exemptions for Classroom Teachers, Law Enforcement Officers, Firefighters, Emergency Medical Technicians, Paramedics, Child Welfare Professionals, and Servicemembers; Specifies information that must be supplied annually to property appraiser by specified professionals who qualify for specified exemption; provides conditions under which those specified professionals may receive additional homestead property tax exemption; specifies amount of homestead property tax exemption; provides requirements for applying for & receiving exemption; specifies actions property appraiser may take if taxpayer improperly claims exemption; provides penalties under certain conditions; requires Legislature to appropriate moneys to offset reductions in ad valorem tax revenues experienced by fiscally constrained counties due; specifies procedures for distributing such moneys.
Environmental Management; Provides for water quality enhancement areas & permits, water quality enhancement service areas, & enhancement credits; directs DEP & water management districts to authorize sale & use of enhancement credits for specified purposes; directs DEP to maintain specified ledgers; revises requirements for developers & homebuilders to qualify for graywater technology incentives; requires to modify specified rules.
Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers; Revises entities conducting pharmacy audits to which certain requirements & restrictions apply; authorizes audited pharmacies to appeal certain findings; provides that health insurers & HMOs that transfer certain payment obligation to pharmacy benefit managers remain responsible for specified violations; provides penalty for failure to register as pharmacy benefit managers.
Golf Course Best Management Practices Certification; Directs turfgrass science program at UF/IFAS, in coordination & cooperation with DEP, to administer certification for golf course best management practices & provide training & testing programs; provides exemption from certain local training & local ordinance regulations; provides for turfgrass science program to share information with governmental entities & create online registry.
Atrocities and Genocide in Cuba; Urges President & Congress to take action to address atrocities & genocide in Cuba.
Organ Harvesting Practices of the People's Republic of China; Urges President & Congress of United States to condemn People's Republic of China for its practice of forcibly removing human organs for transplant & to pass & adopt certain punitive legislation & measures against China for such violation of human rights.
School Safety; Revises provisions relating to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission, FortifyFL, Commissioner of Education oversight of enforcement of school safety and security requirements, Office of Safe Schools, certain emergency drills, family reunification plans, threat assessment teams, safe-school officers, DOE responsibilities, & Florida Safe Schools Assessment Tool.
Victory For Youth/Share Your Heart; Provides an appropriation for the Victory For Youth/Share Your Heart. APPROPRIATION: $605,500