Florida Senate - 2021                                     SB 416
       
       
        
       By Senator Burgess
       
       
       
       
       
       20-00540-21                                            2021416__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the POW-MIA Veterans Bracelet
    3         Memorial; creating s. 265.008, F.S.; providing
    4         legislative intent; establishing the POW-MIA Veterans
    5         Bracelet Memorial; providing for the funding and
    6         administration of the memorial; directing the
    7         Department of Management Services to designate space
    8         for the memorial’s construction and placement by a
    9         specified date; requiring the department to consider
   10         recommendations of, and coordinate with, specified
   11         entities regarding the memorial’s placement and
   12         design; authorizing the department to adopt rules;
   13         providing an effective date.
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   15  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   17         Section 1. Section 265.008, Florida Statutes, is created to
   18  read:
   19         265.008 POW-MIA Veterans Bracelet Memorial.—
   20         (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to memorialize the
   21  sacrifices and experiences of those captured or missing in
   22  combat during the Vietnam War era.
   23         (2) There is established the POW-MIA Veterans Bracelet
   24  Memorial.
   25         (3) The memorial shall be funded and administered by the
   26  Big Bend Chapter 96 of the Vietnam Veterans of America, without
   27  appropriation of state funds.
   28         (4) By July 1, 2022, the Department of Management Services
   29  shall identify and make an appropriate public area available for
   30  the construction and the placement of the POW-MIA Veterans
   31  Bracelet Memorial in Tallahassee, along South Monroe Street and
   32  on or near the premises of the Capitol Complex. The department
   33  shall consider recommendations by the Vietnam Veterans of
   34  America, and the Florida Historical Commission as required
   35  pursuant to ss. 265.111(2) and 267.0612(9), regarding the
   36  monument’s design and placement. In addition, the department
   37  shall coordinate with the Division of Historical Resources of
   38  the Department of State in determining the monument’s design and
   39  placement as required under s. 265.111(2).
   40         (5) The Department of Management Services may adopt rules
   41  to implement this section.
   42         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.