Sen. Tommy Wright

Public Records and Meetings/Agency’s Competitive Solicitation; Expanding the public records exemption related to bids, proposals, or replies to an agency’s competitive solicitation by extending the duration of the exemption in specified circumstances; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; expanding the public meetings exemption related to negotiations with a vendor that submitted a bid, proposal, or reply to an agency’s competitive solicitation by extending the duration of the exemption in specified circumstances; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing statements of public necessity, etc.

Tax Exemptions for Disabled Ex-servicemembers; Revising the amount of a certain exemption related to disabled ex-servicemembers, etc.

Ad Valorem Tax Exemption for Nonprofit Homes for the Aged; Revising an eligibility requirement for Florida limited partnerships applying for such exemption, etc.

Driving Under the Influence; Requiring that a person be told that his or her failure to submit to a lawful test of breath or urine is a second degree misdemeanor or a first degree misdemeanor under certain circumstances; classifying a person’s refusal to submit to a chemical or physical test of breath or urine as a second degree misdemeanor or a first degree misdemeanor under certain circumstances; authorizing judicial circuits to create a driving under the influence diversion program; providing penalties for specified violations of driving while a license or driving privilege is canceled, suspended, or revoked or under suspension or revocation equivalent status, etc.

Sheltering or Aiding Unmarried Minors; Creating a presumption of knowledge upon proof that an unmarried minor has not attained 18 years of age for the purpose of unlawfully sheltering or aiding unmarried minors; providing a defense to unlawfully sheltering or aiding unmarried minors; increasing criminal penalties for unlawfully sheltering or aiding unmarried minors, etc.

Establishment of a New Homestead; Requiring that homestead property be assessed below just value in certain circumstances; limiting the amount of such assessment, etc.

Homestead Property Assessment; Proposing an amendment to Section 4 of Article VII and the creation of a new section in Article XII of the State Constitution to allow newly established homestead property to be assessed at less than just value if the property was previously assessed as nonhomestead property and has not changed ownership, and to provide an effective date, etc.

Support for the State of Israel; Expressing the Florida Senate’s unwavering support for the State of Israel, etc.

Misuse of Emergency Communications Systems; Providing enhanced criminal penalties for a specified violation of emergency communications services which results in bodily injury or property damage; requiring a court to order restitution for certain violations; providing requirements for such restitution, etc.

Health Insurance Cost Sharing; Defining the term “cost-sharing requirement”; requiring specified individual health insurers and their pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments by or on behalf of insureds toward the total contributions of the insureds’ cost-sharing requirements; providing disclosure requirements for specified health insurers and their pharmacy benefit managers; requiring that specified contracts require pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments by or on behalf of insureds toward the insureds’ total contributions to cost-sharing requirements, etc.