Sen. George B. Gainer

Probationary or Supervision Services for Misdemeanor Offenders; Authorizing the Department of Corrections to supervise certain misdemeanor offenders; deleting a prohibition on private entities providing probationary or supervision services to certain misdemeanor offenders; requiring the department to reduce a probationer’s or offender’s supervision term by a specified amount of time for completing an educational advancement activity; authorizing a private or public entity to provide probation services and other specified programming to misdemeanor offenders, etc.

Mobile Home Registration Periods; Revising the registration and registration renewal periods for a mobile home owned by a natural person; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, beginning on a specified date, to give customers the option to renew their registrations on their dates of birth in certain years; specifying permissible renewal periods for such renewals, etc.

Financial Literacy Instruction in Public Schools; Citing this act as the “Dorothy L. Hukill Financial Literacy Act”; revising the requirements regarding financial literacy for the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards; revising the required credits for a standard high school diploma to include one-half credit of instruction in personal financial literacy and money management and seven and one-half, rather than eight, credits in electives; modifying the requirements for the award of a standard high school diploma for Academically Challenging Curriculum to Enhance Learning options, etc.

Workforce Education Postsecondary Student Fees; Authorizing district school boards and Florida College System institutions’ boards of trustees, in consultation with certain organizations, to implement a plan for a differential out-of-state fee for specified purposes; requiring school districts and Florida College System institutions to prioritize the enrollment of certain students in specified programs of study, etc.

Military Corpsmen and Medics of Florida (MCMF) Program; Creating the MCMF Program Office of Veterans Advocacy within the Department of Health; requiring the MCMF Program, through the Department of Economic Opportunity, to assist certain veterans and their spouses with specified tasks; requiring Florida Is for Veterans, Inc., to collaborate with specified entities to implement the MCMF Program, etc.

Tourist Development Taxes; Authorizing certain coastal counties to use up to a specified percentage of tourist development tax revenue to reimburse tourism training program expenses; revising the percentage of tourist development tax revenue which such counties may use to reimburse public safety services expenses; authorizing certain fiscally constrained counties to use tourist development tax revenue for such purposes without meeting certain criteria, etc.

Bingo; Increasing the monetary cap for bingo game jackpots and other game prizes, etc.

Transportation Facility Designations/98 Points of Light Road; Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in a specified county; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.

Racketeering; Revising the definition of the term “racketeering activity” to include certain actions relating to wild animal life, freshwater aquatic life, or marine life, etc.

Probationary or Supervision Services for Misdemeanor Offenders; Deleting a prohibition on private entities providing probationary or supervision services to certain misdemeanor offenders, etc.