Sen. Danny Burgess

Public Records/Application for a De Novo Banking Charter; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for certain information received by the Office of Financial Regulation pursuant to an application for a de novo banking charter; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Electronic Dissemination of Commercial Recordings and Audiovisual Works; Revising the definition of the term “electronic dissemination”, etc.

Specialty License Plates/Honor Flight; Directing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop an Honor Flight license plate, etc.

Broadband Internet Infrastructure; Creating the "Florida Broadband Deployment Act of 2021"; requiring municipal electric utilities to provide a specified promotional rate to broadband providers for wireline attachments made in unserved or underserved areas within the utility’s service area; requiring municipal electric utilities to provide certain information regarding connections made available to broadband providers to the Office of Broadband within the Department of Economic Opportunity; requiring the local technology planning teams within the office to provide support to rural communities regarding broadband service availability; requiring wireline attachments to comply with certain safety and engineering standards, etc.

Veterans Treatment Courts; Authorizing certain courts to create and administer veterans treatment courts for specified purposes; providing standards for admission to a veterans treatment court program; specifying eligibility requirements for participation in the program; revising eligibility for certain pretrial programs to include certain individuals eligible to participate in a veterans treatment court program; specifying applicability of the act to participants in certain court programs in existence as of a specified date, etc.

Department of Financial Services; Specifying powers and duties of the Division of Public Assistance Fraud; specifying a condition that must be met before certain firefighter cancer-related benefits may be paid from the State Risk Management Trust Fund; specifying a criminal penalty for the willful and knowing dissemination of a sexual harassment victim’s personal identifying information, except under certain circumstances; prohibiting persons from acting as or advertising themselves as being funeral directors, embalmers, direct disposers, or preneed sales agents unless they are so licensed; prohibiting a firesafety inspector from knowingly and intentionally requesting, soliciting, accepting, or agreeing to accept certain compensation, etc.

Home Book Delivery for Elementary Students; Providing credits against oil and gas production taxes and sales taxes payable by direct pay permitholders, respectively, under the New Worlds Reading Initiative Tax Credit; providing a credit against the corporate income tax under the New Worlds Reading Initiative Tax Credit; establishing the New Worlds Reading Initiative under the Department of Education, etc.

Protection of Elderly Persons and Disabled Adults; Adding offenses concerning elderly persons and disabled adults to the authority of the Office of Statewide Prosecution; providing that a person who has been convicted of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of an elderly person or a disabled adult is not qualified to act as a personal representative; providing for forfeiture of specified benefits of persons who have been convicted of certain offenses involving elderly persons or disabled adults; specifying additional conduct that constitutes exploitation of an elderly person or a disabled adult, etc.

Water Management Districts; Authorizing water management districts to purchase commodities and contractual services from the contracts of other specified entities under certain circumstances, etc.

Public Records/Persons Provided Public Emergency Shelter; Creating an exemption from public records requirements for the addresses and telephone numbers of persons provided public emergency shelter during a storm or catastrophic event and held by the agency that provided the emergency shelter; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.