HB 693 Summary

• Eliminates use of metering machines for cigarette tax payment and requires retail dealers (instead of wholesale dealers) to affix identification stickers to cigarette vending machines furnished by the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco.

• Removes restrictions preventing nonresidents from obtaining licenses in real estate, appraising, and barbering by deleting irrevocable consent and service of process requirements for nonresident applicants.

• Deletes requirement that chief administrators of proprietary real estate schools meet specific licensure qualifications as broker associates or sales associates.

• Permits distilled spirits greater than 153 proof to be distilled, bottled, packaged, or processed for export or sale outside Florida.

• Removes requirement that beverage licenses be issued in duplicate; allows licensees to display single original license.