Sen. Lori Berman

Review of Compensation for Legislators and Cabinet Members; Requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA) to conduct research, analyze data, and prepare a report containing certain information relating to the compensation of members of the Legislature; requiring that such report be provided to the Governor and Legislature by a specified date; requiring OPPAGA to conduct research, analyze data, and prepare a report containing certain information relating to the compensation of members of the Cabinet, etc.

Elections; Requiring the Florida Commission on Offender Review to develop and maintain a database for a specified purpose; repealing a provision relating to the Office of Election Crimes and Security; authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to preregister certain individuals to vote; revising the information a third-party voter registration organization is required to provide to the Division of Elections of the Department of State, etc.

Maddy summarySCR 198 is a resolution proposing to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution, which would require equal legal rights for all citizens regardless of sex. This resolution does not create new laws or directly affect individuals; it is a procedural step seeking to complete the constitutional ratification process for the ERA. If adopted, it would advance the ERA's path to becoming part of the Constitution, though it requires approval from other states and the federal government. The resolution focuses solely on the constitutional amendment process, not on implementing specific policies.

Residential Utility Disconnections; Prohibiting an electric utility, a public utility, or a water utility from disconnecting service to residential customers for nonpayment of bills or fees under specified circumstances; requiring such utilities to waive reconnection fees and late fees in certain circumstances; prohibiting such utilities from recovering from customers any fee or expense incurred in complying with the act; requiring such utilities to deliver notice of nonpayment of bills or fees to residential customers within a specified timeframe using specified methods of notice and including certain information, etc.

Awareness Program for Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia-related Disorders; Requiring the Department of Elderly Affairs to contract for the development and implementation of the Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Program; requiring the Alzheimer’s Disease Advisory Committee to evaluate the program and make certain recommendations, etc.

Consumer Finance Loans; Prohibiting persons from engaging in specified actions to evade the requirements of ch. 516, F.S.; providing that consumer finance loans made in violation of such prohibitions are void and uncollectible; providing construction relating to when a person is deemed to be a lender subject to such prohibitions, etc.

Florida Museum of Black History; Providing legislative intent; establishing the Florida Museum of Black History Board of Directors; prohibiting specified members of the board from holding state or local elective office while serving on the board; requiring that the board work jointly with the Foundation for the Museum of Black History, Inc., etc.

State Renewable Energy Goals; Revising the definitions of the terms “biomass” and “renewable energy”; prohibiting the drilling or exploration for, or production of, oil, gas, or other petroleum products in certain locations; prohibiting the permitting and construction of certain structures intended for the drilling or exploration for, or production or transport of, oil, gas, or other petroleum products in certain locations; providing for statewide net zero carbon emissions by a specified date; directing the Office of Energy within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, in consultation with other state agencies, Florida College System institutions and state universities, public utilities, and other private and public entities, to develop a unified statewide plan to generate the state’s electricity from renewable energy and reduce the state’s carbon emissions by specified dates, etc.

Advanced Wastewater Treatment; Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection, in consultation with water management districts and wastewater facilities, to submit to the Governor and the Legislature specified reports on certain sewage disposal facilities in this state by specified dates, etc.

Transportation Facility Designations/Harris Rosen Way and Geraldine Thompson Way; Providing honorary designations of certain transportation facilities in a specified county; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.