Sen. Jonathan Martin

County Constitutional Offices; Revising the base salary used to calculate the compensation of a clerk of the circuit court and county comptroller, a supervisor of elections, a property appraiser, and a tax collector, respectively; providing that county constitutional officer employees are eligible to receive certain adoption benefits from the state; authorizing specified county constitutional officers to budget for and pay specified bonuses to employees, pending a specified approval; authorizing a district school board to contract with a county tax collector’s office to administer road tests on school grounds at one or more schools within the district, etc.

Massage Establishments; Authorizing the Department of Health to immediately suspend the license of massage therapists and massage establishments if the massage therapist or certain individuals connected to the massage establishment are arrested for, convicted or found guilty of, or enter criminal pleas to specified violations; revising certain rules the board is required to adopt; revising advertising requirements for massage therapists and massage establishments, etc. APPROPRIATION: $876,703

Dog Breeding; Providing a presumption that a breeding female dog is being used for breeding purposes unless certain conditions are met; requiring certain dog breeders to apply for and obtain a certification of registration from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; authorizing the department to assess late filing penalties and to extend a renewal date for good cause for a specified number of days; authorizing the department to enter and inspect any dog breeding facility under certain circumstances; requiring dog breeders to microchip certain dogs, etc. APPROPRIATION: $5,550,000

Monuments and Memorials; Citing this act as the "Historical Monuments and Memorials Protection Act"; defining the terms “memorial” and “monument”; providing that a person or an entity that damages, defaces, destroys, or removes a monument or memorial is liable for treble the costs to return, repair, or replace the monument or memorial; prohibiting the placement of specified objects on or near a memorial that existed before a specified date, etc.

Costs of Prosecution and Investigation; Increasing minimum attorney fees and costs in certain cases, etc.

Municipal Electric Utilities; Revising the definition of the term “public utility” to include a municipality supplying electricity to any electric retail customer receiving service at a physical address located outside its corporate boundaries; requiring certain municipalities to be treated as public utilities for a specified timeframe, etc.

Public Records and Meetings/Universal Regulatory Sandbox; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for information in universal regulatory sandbox applications determined by the Office of Regulatory Relief to be economically harmful to the applicant if released; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Universal Regulatory Sandbox; Creating the Office of Regulatory Relief within the Department of Economic Opportunity; creating the General Regulatory Sandbox Program; providing requirements for applications; requiring the office to consult with specified entities before admitting an applicant into the regulatory sandbox; specifying limits to such exemption; authorizing the office to terminate participation in the regulatory sandbox, etc.

Issuance of Special Beverage Licenses; Revising requirements relating to the issuance of special food service licenses and certain club licenses, etc.

Public Records/Investigative Genetic Genealogy Materials; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for investigative genetic genealogy information and materials; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.