Sen. Jason Brodeur

Homestead Property Tax Exemption; Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to authorize the Legislature, by general law, for all levies other than school district levies, to grant an additional homestead property tax exemption on $50,000 of the assessed value of homestead property owned by classroom teachers, law enforcement officers, correctional officers, firefighters, child welfare services professionals, active duty members of the United States Armed Forces, and members of the Florida National Guard, etc.

Fee Exemptions for Reunited Students; Creating a tuition and fee exemption for students who enter the custody of the Department of Children and Families after a specified age and who are reunited with their biological or legal custodians before reaching a specified age after spending at least 18 months in department custody; requiring the student to meet certain federal financial aid eligibility requirements; providing that the exemption includes fees associated with enrollment in applied academics for adult education instruction; providing that the exemption remains valid until the student reaches a specified age, etc.

Long-term Cleanup of Harmful Algal Blooms; Citing this act as the “Implementation of Long-term Solutions for Cleaning Florida’s Water Bodies Act”; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to take certain actions to physically remove, reduce, clean up, and respond to harmful algal blooms; requiring the department to give preference to innovative technologies that meet certain standards, etc.

Sanitary Sewer Lateral Inspection Programs; Defining the term “continuous monolithic pipe system”; authorizing counties and municipalities, respectively, to access sanitary sewer laterals within their jurisdiction for specified purposes; requiring counties and municipalities to notify private property owners within a specified timeframe if the county or municipality intends to access the owner’s sanitary sewer lateral; authorizing a program established by a county or a municipality to evaluate and rehabilitate sanitary sewer laterals on residential and commercial properties to use state or local funds allocated for environmental preservation or the protection of water quality, etc.

Homestead Property Tax Exemptions for Classroom Teachers, Law Enforcement Officers, Firefighters, Child Welfare Professionals, and Servicemembers; Specifying the information that must be supplied annually to the property appraiser by classroom teachers, law enforcement officers, firefighters, child welfare professionals, and servicemembers who qualify for a specified exemption; providing conditions under which a classroom teacher, a law enforcement officer, a firefighter, a child welfare professional, or a servicemember may receive an additional homestead property tax exemption; specifying actions a property appraiser may take if a taxpayer improperly claims an exemption; requiring the Legislature to appropriate moneys to offset reductions in ad valorem tax revenues experienced by fiscally constrained counties due to adoption of the constitutional amendment providing the additional homestead property tax exemption, etc.

Suicide Prevention; Revising the purposes of the Commission on Mental Health and Substance Abuse to include an assessment of the state’s suicide prevention infrastructure; revising the duties of the commission to include duties relating to the state’s suicide prevention infrastructure, etc.

Food Recovery; Directing the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, subject to appropriation, to implement a pilot program to provide incentives to Florida growers to contribute high-quality fresh fruits and vegetables to food recovery entities in the state; authorizing food recovery entities to negotiate the purchase price of produce and reimburse agricultural companies for certain costs; requiring the department to reimburse food recovery entities for certain costs, etc. APPROPRIATION: $5,000,000

Medicaid Modernization; Authorizing Medicaid to reimburse providers for certain remote evaluation and patient monitoring services, etc.

Regulation of Compounded Drug Products; Requiring the Surgeon General, on behalf of the Department of Health, to sign and become a party to the United States Food and Drug Administration’s Memorandum of Understanding Addressing Certain Distributions of Compounded Human Drug Products; requiring certain pharmacy permittees to annually report information to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy’s information sharing network as required by the memorandum, etc.

Animal Cruelty; Revising the elements necessary for a misdemeanor charge of animal cruelty, etc.