HB 1349 - Soldiers' and Heroes' Monuments and Memorials Protection Act

• Revises the definition of "veteran" in Florida Statutes to include persons who received an upgraded discharge under honorable conditions, and lists specific wartime service periods including conflicts from the Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604) through Operation Iraqi Freedom (beginning March 19, 2003).

• Creates section 265.155 defining "remembrance" to include monuments, memorials, plaques, buildings, roads, and other objects honoring soldiers, military figures, government officials, law enforcement, firefighters, and astronauts erected on or after March 22, 1822.

• Prohibits relocation, removal, alteration, or renaming of remembrances on public property except for construction or repairs, and requires relocation within 90 days of completion; any remembrance sold or repurposed must be relocated to a location of equal prominence.

• Grants standing to pursue civil enforcement to state residents, historic preservation entities, veterans, and law enforcement benevolent organizations in circuit court.

• Makes willful and malicious damage, defacement, injury, or removal of remembrances owned by governmental entities, museums, historical societies, or located in cemeteries a third-degree felony; effective October 1, 2018.