Florida Senate - 2021                              CS for SB 416
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and
       Domestic Security; and Senators Burgess, Hooper, Bean, Harrell,
       Perry, and Rodriguez
       
       
       
       583-01959-21                                           2021416c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the POW-MIA Vietnam Veterans
    3         Bracelet Memorial; creating s. 265.008, F.S.;
    4         providing legislative intent; establishing the POW-MIA
    5         Vietnam Veterans Bracelet Memorial; providing for the
    6         funding and administration of the memorial; directing
    7         the Department of Management Services to designate
    8         space for the memorial’s construction and placement by
    9         a specified date; requiring the department to consider
   10         recommendations of, and coordinate with, specified
   11         entities regarding the memorial’s placement and
   12         design; providing an effective date.
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   14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   16         Section 1. Section 265.008, Florida Statutes, is created to
   17  read:
   18         265.008 POW-MIA Vietnam Veterans Bracelet Memorial.—
   19         (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to memorialize the
   20  sacrifices and experiences of those captured or missing in
   21  combat during the Vietnam War era.
   22         (2) There is established the POW-MIA Vietnam Veterans
   23  Bracelet Memorial.
   24         (3) The memorial shall be funded and administered by the
   25  Big Bend Chapter 96 of the Vietnam Veterans of America, without
   26  appropriation of state funds.
   27         (4) By July 1, 2022, the Department of Management Services
   28  shall identify and make an appropriate public area available for
   29  the construction and the placement of the POW-MIA Vietnam
   30  Veterans Bracelet Memorial in Tallahassee, along South Monroe
   31  Street and on or near the premises of the Capitol Complex. The
   32  department shall consider recommendations by the Vietnam
   33  Veterans of America, and the Florida Historical Commission as
   34  required pursuant to ss. 265.111(2) and 267.0612(9), regarding
   35  the monument’s design and placement. In addition, the department
   36  shall coordinate with the Division of Historical Resources of
   37  the Department of State in determining the monument’s design and
   38  placement as required under s. 265.111(2).
   39         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.