Sen. Jason Pizzo

Title Fraud Prevention; Creating a pilot program in Broward County; providing a definition; requiring certain parties to provide specified information to the property appraiser; requiring the property appraiser to make certain notifications to specified parties; providing that certain action or inaction does not give rise to liability; requiring participating property appraisers to submit a report to specified parties containing certain information, etc.

Support for the State of Israel; Expressing the Florida Senate’s unwavering support for the State of Israel, etc.

Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes; Transferring the division to the Department of Legal Affairs by a type two transfer on a date certain; requiring the Department of Business and Professional Regulation and the Department of Legal Affairs to enter into a memorandum of agreement by a date certain; requiring the Department of Legal Affairs to develop rules and procedures for resolving certain disputes to include all possible means of alternative dispute resolution, etc.

Office of the Blue Economy; Establishing the Office of the Blue Economy within the Department of Commerce; defining the term “blue economy”; providing duties of the Office of the Blue Economy, etc.

My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program; Establishing the My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program within the Department of Financial Services; providing requirements for associations to apply for a certain inspection; authorizing a unit owner to participate in the pilot program under certain circumstances; providing requirements for hurricane mitigation inspectors and inspections, etc.

Community Associations; Requiring community associations to return official records of an association within a specified period following termination of a contract; requiring community association managers and management firms to provide a written disclosure of certain conflicts of interest to the association’s board; providing criminal penalties for any officer, director, or manager of an association who knowingly solicits, offers to accept, or accepts a kickback; authorizing, rather than requiring, certain hurricane protection specifications; specifying when the cost of installation of hurricane protection is not a common expense, etc. APPROPRIATION: $7,416,269

Public Records/Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for the personal identifying information in an application submitted to the Department of Legal Affairs by, or on behalf of, a person seeking compensation through the Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program; providing exceptions; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program; Establishing the Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program within the Department of Legal Affairs; requiring the department to accept and process applications for the payment of compensation claims under the program; requiring the department to provide specified notice of the program; requiring the department, subject to the appropriation of funds for that purpose, to pay a specified compensation amount to approved applicants, etc. APPROPRIATION: $20,000,000

Antisemitism; Defining the term “antisemitism”; providing contemporary examples of antisemitism, etc.

Blue Economy Evaluation; Requiring the Office of Economic and Demographic Research, beginning on a specified date, to biennially include an evaluation of the state’s blue economy in its annual assessment, etc.