CS/HB 7209 Summary

• Transfers motor vehicle consumer rights pamphlet distribution responsibility from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

• Revises private investigator, security officer, and recovery agent licensing requirements, including eliminating photograph submission requirements and updating firearms instructor certifications.

• Creates exemption from food permitting for "cottage food operations" producing non-potentially hazardous foods with annual gross sales not exceeding $15,000, with specified labeling and sales restrictions.

• Transfers enforcement of the Motor Vehicle Warranty Enforcement Act and Florida New Motor Vehicle Arbitration Board operations from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to the Department of Legal Affairs.

• Makes various technical and grammatical corrections to licensing statutes, updates payment methods from certified checks to electronic funds transfers, and revises citizenship/immigration requirements for certain license applicants.