Sen. Joe Gruters

Lawton Chiles Endowment Fund; Requiring the Chief Financial Officer to annually certify the amount of unencumbered and undispersed endowment funds which reverts to the endowment’s principal by a specified date; allocating a portion of the reverted funds to the board of trustees of the University of South Florida; requiring that such funds be used to support the university’s Health Heart Institute, etc.

Florida Postsecondary Student Assistance Grant Program; Expanding grant eligibility to certificate-seeking students; expanding the postsecondary institution list for grant-eligible students to include institutions licensed by the Commission for Independent Education which prepare students to obtain Airframe and Powerplant certification from the Federal Aviation Administration, etc.

Florida State University President John Thrasher; Expressing appreciation and gratitude to Florida State University President John Thrasher upon completion of his exceptional tenure as the 15th president of Florida State University and for his personal and professional achievements and commending him for his outstanding accomplishments and service, etc.

Florida Postsecondary Academic Library Network; Revising provisions relating to the awareness of certain postsecondary education programs and initiatives; deleting provisions relating to the Florida Academic Library Services Cooperative; providing that the Board of Governors and the Department of Education will oversee a host entity chosen to deliver certain services; transferring responsibility for certain statewide online student advising services to the host entity; requiring the chancellors of the State University System and the Florida College System to provide a certain report, etc.

Impact Fees; Requiring local governments and special districts to credit against the collection of impact fees any contribution related to public facilities or infrastructure; providing limitations on impact fee increases; requiring specified entities to submit an affidavit attesting that impact fees were appropriately collected and expended; requiring school districts to report specified information regarding impact fees, etc.

Charlotte County; Recognizing the 100th anniversary celebration of Charlotte County, etc.

Taxation; Citing this act as the “Park Randall ‘Randy’ Miller Act”; revising the definition of the term “retail sale” to include sales facilitated through a marketplace; requiring marketplace providers and persons located outside of this state to remit discretionary sales surtax when delivering tangible personal property to a county imposing a surtax; providing that a marketplace seller, rather than the marketplace provider, is liable for sales tax collection and remittance under certain circumstances; requiring certain amounts to be deposited into the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund during specified periods, etc. APPROPRIATION: $353,000

Valuation of Timeshare Real Property; Providing a condition for the adequacy of the number of resales for the purposes of certain tax appeals; providing that this condition meets the constitutional mandate for just valuation, etc.

Public Defender Duties; Specifying additional circumstances under which a public defender may not be appointed to represent a defendant, etc.

Impact Fees; Prohibiting new or increased impact fees from applying to certain applications; providing that impact fee credits are assignable and transferable under certain conditions, etc.