Sen. Jason Pizzo

Community Violence Task Force; Creating the task force within the Department of Law Enforcement; providing for membership, duties, and meetings of the task force; requiring state agencies to provide assistance when requested by the task force; authorizing the task force to receive exempt or confidential and exempt information and specifying that the information maintains such status; requiring the task force to submit a report to the Governor and Legislature by a specified date, 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.

Residential Swimming Pool Requirements; Requiring that swimming pools located on residential real property that is transferred or sold on or after a specified date meet certain pool safety and pool barrier requirements; requiring certain persons to report violations of the law to a local law enforcement agency; providing a criminal penalty, etc.

Immigration; Revising the duties and responsibilities of the Office of Economic Accountability and Transparency within the Department of Commerce; revising penalties, including suspension and revocation of certain licenses and the imposition of fines, for violating provisions related to employing unauthorized aliens; revising the definition of the term “employee”; requiring that all private employers, rather than only those employing a specified number or more of employees, use the E-Verify system to verify a new employee’s employment eligibility, etc.

Fees/Florida Manufacturing Promotional Campaign; Requiring the Department of Commerce to assess and collect a specified annual fee sufficient to fund the costs of administering the voluntary Florida Manufacturing Promotional Campaign; requiring that such fees be deposited into the Economic Development Trust Fund for a specified purpose, 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.

Manufacturing; Revising the duties of the Department of Commerce; establishing the Chief Manufacturing Officer among the senior leadership of the department; providing that the Chief Manufacturing Officer is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the Secretary of Commerce; requiring the department to prepare a report regarding manufacturing efforts in this state; creating the Florida Manufacturers’ Workforce Development Grant Program; requiring the department, in coordination with the Chief Manufacturing Officer and the State Manufacturing Extension Partnership organization, to review applications submitted and to select specified projects, etc.

Maddy summarySB 1784 authorizes Florida municipalities to use revenue generated from operating their central sewage systems to fund expansions of those systems. The bill amends Section 180.03 of Florida Statutes to explicitly permit this use of existing operational funds for system growth. This change directly affects local governments managing public sewer infrastructure by providing a new funding mechanism for expansion projects. The bill was scheduled to take effect July 1, 2025, but was indefinitely postponed and later died in committee.

Study on the Elimination of Property Taxes; Requiring the Office of Economic and Demographic Research to conduct a specified study; requiring the office to submit a report to the Legislature by a specified date, 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.