Operation and Safety of Motor Vehicles and Vessels; Revising conditions under which a person’s driving privilege is suspended and under which the person commits a misdemeanor relating to tests for alcohol, chemical substances, or controlled substances; requiring the clerk of the court to notify the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles of certain final dispositions by electronic transmission; providing circumstances under which a person may operate a human-powered vessel within the boundaries of the marked channel of the Florida Intracoastal Waterway; designating Monroe County as an anchoring limitation area subject to certain requirements; authorizing a county or municipality to establish a boating-restricted area within and around a public mooring field and within certain portions of the Florida Intracoastal Waterway, etc.
Sponsored bills
Educational Opportunities Leading to Employment; Renaming the Florida Ready to Work Certification Program as the Florida Ready to Work Credential Program; providing where the program training may be conducted; requiring that certain students be covered by the workers’ compensation insurance of their employers in a work-based learning opportunity; requiring admissions counseling to use certain tests or alternative methods to measure achievement of college-level communication and computation by students entering college programs, etc. APPROPRIATION: $2,000,000
Education; Authorizing members of certain committees of a district school board to attend meetings in person or through the use of telecommunications networks; authorizing state universities and Florida College System institutions to solicit applications and sponsor charter schools under certain circumstances; authorizing a charter school to offer a career and professional academy; creating the “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act”; expanding eligibility to receive capital outlay funds to schools of hope operated by a hope operator; authorizing the principal, teachers, and parent or guardian to collaborate to develop a customized 1-year education plan for the student in lieu of retaining the student, etc.
Gaming Enforcement; Expanding the authority of the Office of Statewide Prosecution within the Department of Legal Affairs to investigate and prosecute certain crimes; creating the Florida Gaming Control Commission within the Office of the Attorney General; creating the Division of Gaming Enforcement within the commission; specifying that certain persons are ineligible for appointment to or employment with the commission; providing standards of conduct for commissioners and employees of the commission, etc. APPROPRIATION: $2,100,000
Public Records and Public Meetings/Florida Gaming Control Commission; Specifying that any exempt or confidential and exempt information obtained by the Florida Gaming Control Commission retains its exempt or confidential and exempt status; providing an exemption from public meetings requirements for portions of meetings of the commission wherein exempt or confidential and exempt information is discussed, provided certain requirements are met; providing for the future review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Gaming; Revising the application requirements for an operating license to conduct pari-mutuel wagering for a pari-mutuel facility; prohibiting greyhound permitholders from conducting live racing; specifying that certain permitholders that do not conduct live racing or games retain their permit and remain pari-mutuel facilities; specifying that, if such permitholder has been issued a slot machine license, the permitholder’s facility remains an eligible facility, continues to be eligible for a slot machine license, is exempt from certain provisions of ch. 551, F.S., is eligible to be a guest track, and, if the permitholder is a harness horse racing permitholder, is eligible to be a host track for intertrack wagering and simulcasting and remains eligible for a cardroom license, etc.
Implementation of the 2021 Gaming Compact Between the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the State of Florida; Providing for legislative approval and ratification of a gaming compact between the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the state; requiring the Governor to cooperate with the Tribe in seeking approval and ratification of such compact from the United States Secretary of the Interior; authorizing the Tribe to conduct additional games, contests, and sports betting; providing age requirements for fantasy sports contests and sports betting; providing conditions, requirements, and prohibitions relating to poker games played in a designated player manner, etc.
Taxes/Bingo Operators; Requiring bingo operators to pay a specified tax relating to monthly gross receipts; providing requirements for the tax payments; requiring bingo operators to file monthly reports containing specified information; providing civil and administrative penalties for failing to make the required tax payments; providing requirements for certain funds deposited into the Pari-mutuel Wagering Trust Fund, etc.
Fees/Bingo Licenses; Revising the Division of Pari-mutuel Wagering’s authorizations relating to bingo games and instant bingo to include authorizations relating to fees; establishing an annual fee for a bingo license; setting limits on the amount that may be charged for bingo employee occupational license fees and bingo business occupational license fees; requiring such fees to be deposited into the Pari-mutuel Wagering Trust Fund, etc.
Fees/Fantasy Contest Operator License; Requiring applicants for a fantasy contest operator license to pay a specified application fee; requiring contest operators to pay a specified annual license renewal fee; prohibiting such fees from exceeding a specified amount; requiring contest operators to remit certain fees; specifying that the costs for certain fingerprint processing and retention shall be borne by applicants; authorizing the Division of Pari-mutuel Wagering within the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to charge a specified handling fee related to fingerprint processing, etc.