Sen. Jim Boyd

Cybersecurity; Requiring certain audit plans of an inspector general to include certain information; providing that the Department of Management Services, acting through the Florida Digital Service, is the lead entity for the purpose of certain responsibilities; requiring the department, through the Florida Digital Service, to track the implementation by state agencies of certain plans; creating the Florida Cybersecurity Advisory Council within the Department of Management Services; requiring the council to provide certain assistance to the Florida Digital Service; providing for the membership of the council, etc.

Construction Permits; Revising the requirements for when a county may request certain information; authorizing all components of a completed application to be submitted electronically or in person; requiring a local enforcement agency to reduce a building permit fee by a specified percentage for failing to meet certain deadlines; requiring a local government or a local building department, respectively, to reduce a building permit fee or master building permit fee, as applicable, by a specified percentage for failing to meet certain deadlines, etc.

False Reports of Crimes; Defining the term “public safety agency”; authorizing enhanced fines for the willful making of false reports of crimes under certain circumstances, etc.

Florida Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association; Defining the term “Moody’s Corporate Bond Yield Average”; authorizing the association to assume or reissue covered policies of impaired insurers; granting the association the right to appear or intervene before a court or an agency in certain proceedings; revising the calculation of Class A assessments; specifying requirements for repayment of deferred assessments upon removal or rectification of the conditions causing a deferral, etc.

Assets of an Estate in Administration; Deleting a requirement that assets of an estate in administration may be placed in a savings and loan association only if such savings and loan association is a member of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation and doing business in this state, etc.