Dues and Uniform Assessments; Requires that public employee who desires to join employee organization sign membership authorization form; requires that form include specified acknowledgement; requires employee organization to revoke employee's membership upon receipt of request for revocation; requires employees to provide specified notice to employer to revoke deductions; provides revocation form may not require employee to state reason for revocation; provides deductions commence upon employer's receipt & confirmation of employee's signed deduction authorization form; requires confirmation within specified time; specifies time period that employee's authorization to deduct dues & uniform assessments remains in effect.
Valuation of Timeshare Real Property; Providing a condition for the adequacy of the number of resales for the purposes of certain tax appeals; providing that this condition meets the constitutional mandate for just valuation, etc.
Corporate Income Tax; Adopting the 2021 version of the Internal Revenue Code and other federal statutes relating to federal income taxes for purposes of the state corporate income tax code; providing for retroactive operation; requiring the addition to adjusted federal income of certain amounts of business interest expense deductible in certain taxable years, etc.
Public Records and Public Meetings Exemptions/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 confidential or exempt information is discussed; providing for future review and repeal; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Requirements for Pari-mutuel Permitholders to Conduct Live Racing or Games; 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; authorizing jai alai permitholders, harness horse racing permitholders, and quarter horse racing permitholders to elect not to conduct live racing or games; specifying that certain permitholders that do not conduct live racing or games retain their permit and remain pari-mutuel facilities, etc.
Gaming Enforcement; Creating the Florida Gaming Control Commission within the Office of the Attorney General; providing for membership of the commission; requiring the Commission on Ethics to accept and investigate any alleged violations of the standards of conduct for commissioners; designating the Florida Gaming Control Commission as the state compliance agency having authority to carry out certain responsibilities; transferring all powers, duties, functions, records, offices, personnel, property, pending issues, existing contracts, administrative authority, administrative rules, trust funds, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to the commission by a type two transfer, etc.
Public Records/Social Media Platform Activities; Providing a public records exemption for information received by the Attorney General pursuant to an investigation by the Attorney General or a law enforcement agency into certain social media platform activities; providing a public records exemption for information received by the Department of Legal Affairs pursuant to an investigation by the department or a law enforcement agency into violations by certain social media platforms; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Social Media Platforms; Prohibiting a social media platform from knowingly deplatforming a candidate; providing requirements for public contracts and economic incentives related to entities that have been convicted or held civilly liable for antitrust violations; providing that social media platforms that fail to comply with specified requirements and prohibitions commit an unfair or deceptive act or practice; authorizing the Department of Legal Affairs to investigate suspected violations under the Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act and bring specified actions for such violations, etc.
Relief From Burdens on Real Property Rights; Revises definitions of terms "action of governmental entity" & "real property" & revises definition of term "land" for purposes of private property rights protection.
Implementing the 2021-2022 General Appropriations Act; Incorporating by reference certain calculations of the Florida Education Finance Program; extending for 1 fiscal year authorization for the Department of Education to provide certain appropriated funds to certain education television stations and public colleges and universities for public broadcasting; extending for 1 year the exemption of certain rules pertaining to the medical use of marijuana from certain rulemaking requirements; authorizing the Department of Children and Families to submit a budget amendment to realign funding for implementation of the Guardianship Assistance Program, etc.
Appropriations; Providing moneys for the annual period beginning July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2022, and supplemental appropriations for the period ending June 30, 2021, to pay salaries, and other expenses, capital outlay - buildings, and other improvements, and for other specified purposes of the various agencies of state government, etc. APPROPRIATION: $94,958,184,153
State Group Insurance Program; Authorizing persons eligible to participate in the program to elect membership with certain health maintenance organization plans; requiring that at least one health maintenance organization plan be made available to each enrollee residing in this state; deleting a requirement that health plans be offered in specified benefit levels; removing a limitation on the annual maximum amount for coverage for medically necessary prescription and nonprescription enteral formulas and amino-acid-based elemental formulas for home use; requiring the department to ensure that the prescription drug program receives certain benefits; requiring the department to perform annual audits of such benefits, etc.
