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S0954 - Certified Public Accountants
Governmental Oversight and Accountability, Regulated Industries, Joe Gruters
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Authorizing certain certified public accountants to apply to the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to place their licenses on retired status; providing that a licensee loses retired status; authorizing a retired licensee to accept certain reimbursements or per diem amounts; prohibiting a retired licensee from offering or rendering certain professional services, etc.
STATUS
Introduced
S0212 - Medicaid Buy-in Program for Individuals with Disabilities
Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to establish and implement a Medicaid buy-in program for specified individuals with disabilities under certain circumstances; requiring the agency to seek federal waiver approval or submit any necessary state plan amendments by a specified date; requiring the agency to implement the program upon receiving federal approval, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1360 - Florida Red Tide Mitigation and Technology Development Initiative
Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, Joe Gruters
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the initiative to develop recommendations for deployment of certain technologies and approaches and submit a report to the Department of Environmental Protection, the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, and certain state agencies; requiring the department to submit an evaluation regarding the technologies and approaches to Mote Marine Laboratory within a specified time period and amend regulatory or permitting processes and expedite regulatory reviews under certain circumstances, etc.
STATUS
Introduced
S1750 - International Drug Reference Pricing
Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Providing legislative policy; requiring prescription drug manufacturer permitholders to annually report certain international price data to the Agency for Health Care Administration; providing for administrative enforcement by a specified fine and permit suspension; requiring the agency to contract with an entity to designate reference price source countries and establish the reference prices for prescription drugs based on certain criteria; requiring the agency contractor to reevaluate the designated reference prices source countries annually and revise, as needed, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1678 - Taxes, Fines, and Fees
Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Deleting a provision allowing the indigent care and trauma center surtax to be levied without a majority vote of electors; restoring provisions relating to the payment of funds collected by a county officer into the State Treasury; eliminating fees for original, renewal, and replacement driver licenses and identification cards, certain driver license endorsements, reinstatement of driver licenses, and certain requests for review or hearing; revising a specified assessment on citrus, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1588 - Heated Tobacco Products
Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Revising the definition of the term "cigarette"; revising the definition of the term "tobacco products"; prohibiting its application to heated tobacco products; defining the term "heated tobacco product", etc.
STATUS
Failed
S0886 - Valuation of Timeshare Units
Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Specifying the methodology by which certain timeshare units must be valued in certain tax appeals; providing that the methodology meets the constitutional mandate for just valuation, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1602 - Elections
Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Revising the information that the uniform statewide voter registration application must be designed to elicit from an applicant and must contain; requiring the Department of State and supervisors of elections to verify certain information relating to citizenship status; requiring certain voter registration applicants who have not previously voted in the state to provide certain identification before voting; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to provide an opportunity to register to vote or update voter registration records to certain individuals, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1770 - Tax-filing Extensions
Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Authorizing an automatic extension for filing returns and remitting taxes on sales, use, and other transactions and for filing state income tax returns, respectively, when specified states of emergency are declared, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1448 - Transparency in Social Media
Joe Gruters
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Designating the "Transparency in Social Media Act"; requiring foreign-adversary-owned entities operating social media platforms in the state to publicly disclose specified information in a certain manner; requiring foreign-adversary-owned entities operating social media platforms to implement a user verification system for certain entities, etc.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
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Senator from Florida district SD-022
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Florida Senate
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