S1544 — Department of Business and Professional Regulation

Senate Bill 1544 was filed to require persons or entities licensed or permitted by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation's Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco to create and maintain an online account and provide an email address, and to expand engineering licensing exemptions and revise beverage license issuance requirements.

The bill requires licensees and applicants under the Beverage Law to establish and maintain an account in the division's online system and provide an email address to the division. The bill expands an existing exemption from certain engineering licensing requirements under Chapter 471, Florida Statutes, to include regular full-time employees of certain business organizations, rather than limiting the exemption to regular full-time employees of certain corporations licensed under that chapter. The bill also revises requirements for issuance of licenses under the Beverage Law.

Persons or entities licensed or permitted by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation's Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco, or applying for such license or permit; regular full-time employees of certain business organizations subject to Chapter 471, Florida Statutes engineering licensing requirements.

Bill was laid on table on March 5, 2024, and referred to CS/CS/HB 1335; no independent effective date is applicable to this bill as filed.