The Florida Senate, Commerce and Tourism — Committee Meeting Expanded Agenda, March 15, 2021
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Expanded agenda of the Florida Senate Committee on Commerce and Tourism for its meeting on Monday, March 15, 2021, 3:30—6:00 p.m., with Senator Hooper as Chair and Senator Wright as Vice Chair. It lists SB 1948 (Department of Economic Opportunity), SB 1046 (Arrest Booking Photographs), SB 572 (Engineers), SB 1560 (Broadband Internet Service) and SB 302 (Small Business Saturday Sales Tax Holiday), among other bills. SB 1948 and SB 302 each show Fav/CS with Yeas 11 Nays 0.
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2021 Regular Session The Florida Senate
COMMITTEE MEETING EXPANDED AGENDA
COMMERCE AND TOURISM
Senator Hooper, Chair
Senator Wright, Vice Chair
MEETING DATE: Monday, March 15, 2021
TIME: 3:30—6:00 p.m.
PLACE: Toni Jennings Committee Room, 110 Senate Building
MEMBERS: Senator Hooper, Chair; Senator Wright, Vice Chair; Senators Burgess, Diaz, Garcia, Gruters,
Hutson, Pizzo, Powell, Taddeo, and Torres
BILL DESCRIPTION and
TAB BILL NO. and INTRODUCER SENATE COMMITTEE ACTIONS COMMITTEE ACTION
PUBLIC TESTIMONY WILL BE RECEIVED FROM ROOM A1 AT THE DONALD L.
TUCKER CIVIC CENTER, 505 W PENSACOLA STREET, TALLAHASSEE, FL 32301
1 SB 1948 Department of Economic Opportunity; Renaming the Fav/CS
Bean executive director of the Department of Economic Yeas 11 Nays 0
(Identical H 1463, Compare H Opportunity as the Secretary of Economic
1291, S 1640) Opportunity; revising the application process and
funding for development grants awarded by the
department to local governments; requiring the
department to implement an integrated modular
cloud-based system, rather than an integrated
Internet-based system, for the reemployment
assistance program; revising the timeline for
employers’ responses to notices of benefits claims
sent by the department, etc.
CM 03/15/2021 Fav/CS
AP
RC
2 SB 1046 Arrest Booking Photographs; Expanding the Fav/CS
Bean applicability of provisions relating to the dissemination Yeas 11 Nays 0
(Compare CS/H 755) of arrest booking photographs to include a person or
entity whose primary business model is the publishing
or dissemination of such photographs for a
commercial purpose or pecuniary gain, etc.
CJ 03/02/2021 Favorable
CM 03/15/2021 Fav/CS
RC
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COMMITTEE MEETING EXPANDED AGENDA
Commerce and Tourism
Monday, March 15, 2021, 3:30—6:00 p.m.
BILL DESCRIPTION and
TAB BILL NO. and INTRODUCER SENATE COMMITTEE ACTIONS COMMITTEE ACTION
3 SB 572 Engineers; Prohibiting a person who is not licensed Favorable
Baxley as an engineer from using a specified name or title; Yeas 11 Nays 0
(Similar H 931, Compare H 933, prohibiting, after a specified date, a person who is not
Linked CS/S 574) a licensed professional structural engineer from using
specified names and titles or practicing professional
structural engineering; authorizing the Board of
Professional Engineers to refuse to certify an
applicant for a professional structural engineer license
for certain reasons; exempting certain applicants who
apply for licensure before a specified date from
having to pass a certain national examination, under
certain conditions; specifying acts that constitute
grounds for disciplinary action, including civil
penalties, against a professional structural engineer,
etc.
RI 03/01/2021 Favorable
CM 03/15/2021 Favorable
RC
4 CS/SB 574 Fees/Professional Structural Engineer Licensing; Favorable
Regulated Industries / Baxley Authorizing the Board of Professional Engineers to Yeas 11 Nays 0
(Identical H 933, Compare H 931, establish fees relating to professional structural
Linked S 572) engineer licensing; requiring applicants to pay a
specified fee in order to be eligible to receive a
professional structural engineer license, etc.
RI 03/01/2021 Fav/CS
CM 03/15/2021 Favorable
AP
5 SB 1560 Broadband Internet Service; Revising the duties of Fav/CS
Ausley the Florida Office of Broadband within the Department Yeas 11 Nays 0
(Identical H 1339, Compare CS/H of Economic Opportunity; requiring the office to
753) develop geographic information system maps in
collaboration with specified entities and consistent
with certain federal reporting standards by a specified
date; requiring the department to annually update
such maps and establish a mechanism to receive and
verify governmental and public input related to
broadband Internet service; establishing the
Broadband Deployment Task Force within the office
for a specified purpose; requiring the office to
establish a process to identify eligible households to
receive federal Emergency Broadband Benefit
Program funds under certain circumstances, etc.
CM 03/15/2021 Fav/CS
ATD
AP
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COMMITTEE MEETING EXPANDED AGENDA
Commerce and Tourism
Monday, March 15, 2021, 3:30—6:00 p.m.
BILL DESCRIPTION and
TAB BILL NO. and INTRODUCER SENATE COMMITTEE ACTIONS COMMITTEE ACTION
6 SB 302 Small Business Saturday Sales Tax Holiday; Defining Fav/CS
Taddeo the term “small business”; providing that small Yeas 11 Nays 0
(Similar H 637) businesses are not required to collect the sales and
use tax on the retail sale of certain items of tangible
personal property during a specified timeframe;
authorizing the Department of Revenue to adopt
emergency rules, etc.
CM 03/15/2021 Fav/CS
FT
AP
7 SB 616 Public Accountancy; Requiring that certain applicants Favorable
Gruters not be licensed in any state or territory in order to be Yeas 11 Nays 0
(Similar H 317) licensed by endorsement; requiring that a majority of
the hours required for continuing education include
specific content; authorizing certain Florida certified
public accountants to apply to the Department of
Business and Professional Regulation to have their
license placed in a retired status, etc.
RI 03/01/2021 Favorable
CM 03/15/2021 Favorable
RC
8 SB 1444 Florida Small Manufacturing Business Recovery Act; Favorable
Wright Creating the "Florida Small Manufacturing Business Yeas 11 Nays 0
(Identical H 1161) Recovery Act"; requiring the Department of Economic
Opportunity to accept applications for certification of
relief funds and relief contributions in a specified
manner; prohibiting the department from approving
more than a specified amount of relief investment
authority and relief contributions; authorizing
applicants whose applications were denied to provide
additional information within a certain timeframe to
cure defects in their applications; authorizing
nonrefundable tax credits for owners of tax credit
certificates issued by the department, etc.
CM 03/15/2021 Favorable
FT
AP
9 SM 1544 Free Trade Agreement/United States and United Favorable
Pizzo Kingdom ; Commending Congress for granting trade Yeas 11 Nays 0
promotion authority to the executive branch, urging
the executive branch to negotiate a comprehensive
and mutually beneficial free trade agreement between
the United States and the United Kingdom, and
urging Congress to ratify such agreement, etc.
CM 03/15/2021 Favorable
RC
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COMMITTEE MEETING EXPANDED AGENDA
Commerce and Tourism
Monday, March 15, 2021, 3:30—6:00 p.m.
BILL DESCRIPTION and
TAB BILL NO. and INTRODUCER SENATE COMMITTEE ACTIONS COMMITTEE ACTION
10 SB 2004 Broadband Internet; Requiring the Florida Office of Fav/CS
Burgess Broadband’s strategic plan to include short-term and Yeas 11 Nays 0
long-term goals for increasing the availability of and
access to broadband Internet service in this state;
requiring the updated plan to be submitted to the
Governor, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,
and the Legislature by a specified date; requiring the
office to provide technical and planning assistance
related to broadband infrastructure to rural
communities, etc.
CM 03/15/2021 Fav/CS
CA
RC
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