Governor Crist signed DBPR’s “streamlining” bill in to law on Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Attached is a press release from Representative Plakon’s office regarding HB 425. This is the “good” DBPR bill that was reported on throughout our weekly Legislative Reports. The bill eliminates the QB license and provisions in various practice acts relating to the core building code core course. It makes numerous technical changes to Chapter 489 relating to local licenses. It also contains a host of other DBPR provisions relating to other professions.

The success of this piece of legislation, during a year when the least number of bills passed since 1998, was largely due to the hard work of Representative Plakon who felt strongly about passing some “streamlining” provisions for the Department and worked endlessly to make sure it passed. In addition, credit goes to DBPR’s new Secretary Chuck Drago and DBPR’s lead lobbyist Darrick McGhee for their tireless efforts in securing passage of this important piece of Legislation.

Click here for Representative Plakon's Press release