TALLAHASSEE ? The 2012 legislative session nears the official midpoint this week, and lawmakers today will continue advancing dozens of bills on property taxes, dangerous dogs, buried treasure, and higher education research.
The Senate goes into session at 10:30 a.m., but is not planning to take up a controversial prison privatization plan. And because the House did not immediately certify its redistricting maps, the Senate is still waiting for them to arrive in the proper format to be taken up and sent to the Florida Supreme Court and Gov. Rick Scott.
After the Senate?s scheduled session, Transportation will take up a bill (SB 250 by Sen. Oscar Braynon, D-Miami Gardens) at 1:30 p.m. to allow school districts to mount their buses with cameras, in the hope of catching images of the drivers who don?t stop when children are boarding or exiting the buses. The panel also hears two bills on red-light cameras (SBs 568, 590) spelling out drivers don?t have the burden of proving they?re innocent when they?re caught on video and allowing them to challenge tickets.
The House Finance and Tax Committee meets at 3:45 p.m. and is slated to take up two property tax measures: HJR 169/HB 357, which would create an additional homestead exemption for seniors, and PCB FTC 12-06, which would give a property tax exemption to deployed service-members.
The Senate Government Oversight and Accountability Committee meets at 4 p.m. and will consider SB 868, which will add sovereign submerged lands to the areas off-limits to treasure hunters, along with a Department of Children and Families re-organizatino bill (SB 2048).
The House Community and Military Affairs Committee is meeting at 8 a.m. and will hear a bill restricting Miami-Dade?s breed-specific dangerous dog ordinance (HB 997 by Rep. Carlos Trujillo, R-Miami). Miami-Dade bans pit bulls, and was grandfathered into current law.
The House Education Committee meets at 1:30 p.m. to consider a bill removing the president of the Florida Student Association from the Board of Governors and allowing the governor to pick the student representative on the BOG (HJR 931 by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach).
The House Government Operations Committee is also delving into the state?s economic-development agencies and commercialization of university research at 9 a.m.
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