Sen. Keith Perry

Insurance; Revising the entities for which the Office of Insurance Regulation is required to conduct market conduct examinations; beginning on a specified date, requiring insurers and insurer groups to file a specified supplemental report on a monthly basis; revising the requirements for public housing authority self-insurance funds; revising the procedure for persons to organize as a domestic reciprocal insurer; providing that a domestic reciprocal insurer may seek a certificate of authority only under certain circumstances, etc.

Music-based Supplemental Content to Accelerate Learner Engagement and Success Pilot Program; Creating the pilot program within the Department of Education; providing requirements for the pilot program; providing funding requirements, subject to legislative appropriation; requiring the College of Education at the University of Florida to evaluate the pilot program’s effectiveness and annually share its findings with the Department of Education and the Legislature, etc.

Property Rights; Authorizing property owners or their authorized agents to request assistance from the sheriff from where the property is located for the immediate removal of unauthorized occupants from a residential dwelling under certain conditions; authorizing a sheriff to arrest an unauthorized occupant for legal cause; providing criminal penalties for any person who knowingly and willfully presents a false document purporting to be a valid lease agreement, deed, or other instrument conveying real property rights, etc.

Florida Veterans’ History Program; Defining the term “veteran”; creating the Florida Veterans’ History Program within the Division of Arts and Culture of the Department of State as a Florida Folklife Program; requiring the division’s folklorists to seek out and identify certain veterans; authorizing the division to contract with a third-party vendor for a specified purpose, etc. APPROPRIATION: $91,207

Theft; Reducing the minimum threshold amount for grand theft of the third degree; creating the offense of grand theft of the third degree; providing criminal penalties; defining the term “social media platform”; providing criminal penalties for persons committing certain retail theft acts in concert with a certain number of other persons within one or more establishments for specified purposes, etc.

Nicotine Products and Dispensing Devices; Requiring nicotine product manufacturers who sell nicotine dispensing products in this state to execute and deliver a form, under penalty of perjury, to the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation for each dispensing device sold within this state which meets certain criteria; providing penalties for certain violations by manufacturers; prohibiting the sale, shipment, or distributing of certain nicotine dispensing devices from being sold for retail sale in this state; providing criminal penalties for the unlawful sale or dealing of unlisted nicotine dispensing devices; providing for the seizure and destruction of unlawful nicotine dispensing devices in accordance with the Florida Contraband Forfeiture Act, etc.

Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia Training for Law Enforcement and Correctional Officers; Requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to establish an online, continued employment training component relating to Alzheimer’s disease and related forms of dementia; requiring that the training component be developed with the Department of Elder Affairs; authorizing the completion of such training to count toward a certain requirement, etc.

Low-voltage Alarm System Projects; Specifying that a nonelectric fence or wall must enclose the outside perimeter of a low-voltage electric fence; permitting low-voltage electric fences to be installed in areas within more than one zoning category; prohibiting a municipality, county, district, or other entity of local government from adopting or maintaining certain ordinances or rules that provide additional requirements for low-voltage alarm system projects, etc.

Lights Displayed on Fire Department Vehicles; Authorizing that certain government-owned fire department vehicles may show or display blue lights under certain circumstances, 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