Jacksonville mayoral candidate Mike Hogan has been involved in crafting and/or

voting on hundreds, if not thousands, of pieces of legislation during his two terms
on the City Council (1991-99) three years in the Legislature (2001-03) and work
on several commissions, including the powerful 2008 Taxation and Budget
Reform Commission.

Here are highlights of that record:

City Council - 1991 - Began first council term July 1

July
- Among minority (5-14) who didn’t sign or weren’t ask to sign letter seeking
federal funds for Automated Skyway Express extension.

August
- Voted against (9-9) proposed property tax rollback of 25 cents based on voter-
approved referendum of Cap 3 charter amendment, which capped increases at
no more than 3 percent a year. General Counsel John Delaney said Cap 3
violated state law and that the council wasn’t bound by it. Voted with majority (17-
1) on subsequent vote to approve the proposed rollback.

Hogan then on Cap 3: “I am against tax increases, but I voted against Cap ... I’m
concerned with the exclusion of growth.”

September

- Voted in minority (2-17) against adopting $424 million general operating budget
that included lower tax rate (25 cents less) cut 379 city jobs, avoided firefighter
layoffs, kept neighborhood libraries open, restored Sunday hours to regional
libraries, approved $3.5 million for Northbank Riverwalk. Hogan voted with
minority (7-12) against Riverwalk, seeking to spend money instead on drainage
improvements.

Hogan then on Riverwalk project: “The people of west Jacksonville have trouble
getting excited about walking along the north bank of the river when the river is
flowing in their houses.”

October
- Voted with minority (6-13) on extension of the 6-cent local option gas tax for 20
years. Mayor Ed Austin requested it because of shortfall in drainage and road
improvement projects. Designed to raise about $400 million in new revenue.

December
- Sponsored resolution to abolish the state Department of Community Affairs and
return land-use regulatory power to local governments. Hogan accused the DCA
of meddling too much in the city’s administering its 2010 Comprehensive Plan.
Hogan then on abolishing the DCA: “It seems that everything we want to do in
this city we can’t because of a state law. I didn’t realize how much control
Tallahassee has over Jacksonville.”

- Voted with majority as chairman of special committee that recommended

privatizing the city’s debt-plagued sports and entertainment facilities. Of Hogan’s
work, committee member John Lowe said, “He’s maturing in the job into quite a
leader.”

City Council - 1992

February
- Voted with minority (6-11) on his sponsored bill to transfer $500,000 in
uncommitted funds from Northbank Riverwalk’s construction account to city
drainage projects.

Hogan then said the bill was “pro-priority” spending by putting basic community
needs ahead of a recreational project. But Councilwoman Tillie Fowler described
the bill was “anti-downtown.”

April
- Proposed deleting a $1.5 million study of Soutel Drive from a $102 million road
project bond issue. African American council members E. Denise Lee and C.B.
Griffin criticized the overall plan, saying it didn’t include enough work in
predominantly black parts of the city.

Councilwoman Lee then on Hogan’s proposal: “That (Soutel Drive) is the only
thing in here that represents anything that looks like black in this city.”

May
- Voted with majority (15-3) to add charter amendment proposal to ballot
guaranteeing west side of St. Johns River gets at-large council members. Each
member would have to reside in a different section of city. Supporters said vote
would increase chances of a black winning an at large seat. But council’s black
membership disagreed.

Councilwoman Lee then on the vote: “It still allows the total city to vote. Does that
really say you want to help the minority community?”

June
- Voted with majority (14-4 and 15-3) to override Mayor Austin’s veto of two
Council-approved bills that exempted two oversize signs (Pepsi-Cola on
Southside and Peninsular Pet Control on Westside) from the city’s sign
ordinance. Members denied they succumbed to political leverage in passing the
two bills. Hogan then on his vote: “The real person playing politics with this bill is
the mayor.”

- (Non voting issue) The Times-Union asked council members to grade Austin’s
first 100 days. Hogan gave him a C.

Hogan on Austin: “He’s made some good decisions and some bad decisions.
From an integrity standpoint, he’s doing what he thinks is best for the city.”

July
- Voted with majority (11-8) opposed to overriding Austin’s veto of minority set-
aside bill: called the Equal Business Opportunity program - to earmark a
percentage of city contracts to blacks and women. Austin considered it a “quota”
bill and said he would propose a compromise for a minority economic
development program.

Hogan then on his vote: “I believed in some type of minority business

enhancement program. There was nothing else to vote for. I expressed some
concerns, but I knew it could be amended. I thought it best for the two-branches
of government to be in concert on this thing.”

- Times-Union asked Austin to grade the council’s first 100 days. Austin gave
Hogan a C.

Austin on Hogan: “Too often he is negative. I’ve always seen him as a

councilman with great potential. So far, it is only potential.”

- Voted with minority (4-15) against Austin’s plan to raise the property tax rate
from $11.28 per to $11.32: the first increase in a decade. Mayor said $700,000
was needed to hire 50 new police officers.

August
Unanimously (19-0) approved 20-year retirement plan for police officers and
firefighters, moving up the minimum retirement five years to enhance the pension
plan.

September
- Voted with majority (12-6) for referendum to apply term limits to Constitutional
officers.
- Voted with minority (2-16) opposed to increasing minority participation in city
contracts by setting aside certain contracts for black- and female-owned
companies.

Hogan said then he voted no because the bill created a sort of “reverse
discrimination.”

- Voted with majority (16-1) to reward city contractors for voluntarily using
minority companies in their projects.

- Voted with minority (7-10) to keep the property tax rate at $11.28 rather than
$11.32 to fund $446 million operating budget.

- Voted with majority (15-2) to approve FY93 operating budget.

October
- Voted with minority (6-12) to ban sale of aerosol cans of spray paint to minors
as a way to curb graffiti. Minority said bill constituted overregulation.

Hogan then said the appropriate law against graffiti was on the books. He
identified the problem as “catching the offenders.”

December

- Voted with majority (12-7) approving seven of eight union contracts that called
for city employees to get pay raises averaging 17 percent over next three years.
Final contract approved (13-5).

Hogan then said he would not vote for a tax hike to fund the raises. “I have not
voted for any tax increases and I don’t plan on voting for any. I hope someone
shoots me if I do.”

City Council - 1993

April
- Voted with majority (16-3) to approve water and sewer rate increase, first in 11
years, designed to keep the city’s water and sewer system solvent and
encourage conservation. Increased costs and tougher environmental standards
brought the city’s once profitable water and sewer system to point of losing $1
million a month. Council was worried that city might ultimately have to dip into
general fund to bail out system without increase.
May
- Voted with majority (13-6) to approve $49 million Gator Bowl renovation as part
of $219 million bond issue covering River City Renaissance plan.

- Voted with minority (7-12) against the remaining $170 million of the River City
Renaissance plan, including $33 million for land acquisition in LaVilla and
Brooklyn, $20 million to acquire and renovate the St. James Building for City Hall;
and $17 million to renovate the Civic Auditorium. Poll showed 67% of public
approved of plan.

August
- Voted with minority (4-14) against 30-year Gator Bowl lease with Touchdown
Jacksonville, a key to city’s chances of winning one of two NFL expansion
franchises.

Hogan said he voted after general counsel and council auditor expressed
opposition and a council maneuver by proponents led to no debate. He also said
then his constituents were opposed. “I think there’s some concern that we’re just
getting caught up in this fever, instead of other more pressing needs.”

October
- Voted with majority (15-3) who approved his co-sponsored home-occupations
bill to make it easier for people to use their homes as a workplace without
requiring a zoning change.

- Voted with minority (2-17) against the approval of a homeless center site on
Catherine Street, which became the I.M. Sulzbacher Center. A small group of
downtown attorneys and architects worried about the impact of the center on the
area’s crime rate and property values.

Hogan, in a recent interview, said there were too many homeless shelters
downtown at the time and he also worried the city would be responsible for
helping to pay part of its budget - which it is - rather than strictly handled by a
non-profit. “We are spending millions of dollars on downtown and we’re inviting
more homeless to come downtown to stay. I don’t know where you put them, but
I don’t think you continue to add to the problem.”

City Council -1994

March
- Voted with minority (6-12) to oppose the city borrowing up to $10.6 million to
help fund an extension of the Automated Skyway Express across the St. Johns
River.
April
- Voted with majority (14-5) on two resolutions to request an independent federal
investigation that local federal prosecutors selectively prosecuted former Duval
County Judge Richard Kreidler in a pornography case.

September
- Voted with majority (11-7) for a new 1-cent bed tax on motel and hotel guests
which was a key component of Austin’s $30 million spending package that
included renovations to the Gator Bowl and Performing Arts Center and five new
police substations. State law required a 10-vote majority plus one to pass the
discretionary tax. The city already had a 12.5 percent bed tax.

- Voted with majority (13-6) to relinquish control of city’s public housing system to
appointed authority.

- Council voted to adopt $494 million general fund budget maintaining the
property tax rate at $11.32. Froze 75 percent of city funds for JPA, Duval County
Housing Finance Authority, SMG and WJCT. WJCT included after some of the
station’s financial supporters accused management and its board of illegally
eliminating their voting rights.

October
- Opposed to using 1 percent of the cost of all city-funded projects exceeding
$100,000 to commission art in public places. Hogan and the other opponent,
Councilman John Draper, threatened to walk out on one vote - negating a
quorum - prompting Council president Jim Tullis to threaten them with arrest. The
bill was tabled after being put at the end of the agenda, when a quorum didn’t
exist anyway. It passed in a future vote opposed by Hogan.

Hogan then on opposition to the idea: “Government needs to take care of the
basic needs of the community before it starts getting involved with things like art.
It [the legislation] is like a family going out and buying a color TV when the roof’s
leaking.”

November
- Voted with majority (13-1) to tighten regulations on lingerie modeling shops and
nude dance halls. Hogan then on concerns by his constituents: “Our people feel
they are places that breed crime and prostitution.”

- Voted with majority (14-4) to reopen Northside Fire Station 15 at Pearl and 54th
streets, closed by Austin as part of a cost-cutting station consolidation plan
designed in 1992.
December
- Voted with majority (15-4) to prevent unlicensed gun sellers from selling
weapons in city buildings. Designed to make gun purchases harder for felons,
underage buyers and those who want to avoid background checks and waiting
periods required by licensed dealers. Opponents said restricting gun sales of
private owners was not the business of the council.

- Voted in majority (15-4) to reinstate money withheld from WJCT in station

dispute.

City Council -1995 - Second term began July 1

February
- Unanimous vote (16-0) for emergency transfer of $2.6 million for Duval County
Courthouse as River City Renaissance project with cost overrun.

- Voted with minority (3-13) for emergency transfer of $405,000 to I.M Sulzbacher
homeless shelter as River City Renaissance project with cost overrun.

April
- Voted with minority (8-9, failed for lack of 2/3 majority) against emergency
approval of a $6 million interest-free loan to turn the retired Saratoga aircraft
carrier into a downtown tourist attraction.

June
- Voted with minority (5-12) against approval for the sale of beer, wine and hard
liquor at city sports and entertainment facilities. All NFL stadiums sold at least
beer, but some don’t sell hard liquor. Opponents were concerned about safety
and the city’s liability for drinking-related accidents.

September
- Sponsored voter referendum (withdrawn in council committee) on repeal of term
limits in favor of allowing a two-term councilman to run at-large for the next eight
years and two-term at-large councilman to run for district seat.

William Scheu, president of the group that pushed for term limits, said Hogan’s
idea, “Goes exactly 180 degrees from what was intended.” Hogan then on his
idea: “The folks I represent, they see the difference. It’s almost like running for
another seat. This would give them [voters] a right to retain folks they would like
to retain.”

October
- Voted with majority on Cecil Field Development Commission for building a state
prison after the Naval air base’s closure in hopes of attracting of jobs to replace
those being lost. Unanimous vote reversed decision in Feb. 2006, killing the plan
that drew strong protests from area residents

City Council - 1996

May
- Voted with majority (12-5) against rezoning for halfway house for federal
prisoners in the Paxon area

June
- Voted with majority (13-3) to approve his sponsored bill eliminating need to file
state financial disclosure locally, duplicating filing in Tallahassee. Councilman
Harry Reagan, who sponsored the bill that led to the local disclosure, said then:
“The bottom line is it makes that kind of information more difficult to get.”

Hogan then on idea: “It has nothing to do with wanting to withhold information.
Disclosure is already there.”

- Voted with minority (2-16) against rezoning for Housing Authority land for 60-
apartment public housing complex at former Jax Speedway racetrack.
Neighborhood residents were concerned about possible environmental
contaminants and an abundance of public housing in the area. Hogan, who
represented the district where the property was located, agreed and also was
concerned about the $485,000 selling price the city agreed to pay for the site.

A former federal HUD official said he saw the motivation as an effort to keep
blacks out of the predominantly white neighborhood. Hogan then on the
allegation: “It’s is not a racial issue. I want children raised in good, decent
housing. But we’re not putting them on good soil. ...We know contaminants are
there. It’s not a matter of speculation.”

August
- Voted with minority (2-12) against placing city-staffed information booth in the
Regency mall.

September
- (Non-vote notable): Switched parties to Republican after GOP officials
approached him and Councilman Max Leggett about winning control of 19-
member council. Hogan was also being wooed for future office run as a
Republican.
- Voted with minority (3-16) against confirming Winston Nash as head of fire
department training. Nash, an African-American, twice filed racial discrimination
suits against the fire department, challenging promotional exams. The council’s
black members suggested opposition to Nash reflected a racial division, but
Councilman Terry Wood, one of the dissenters, said it had to do with Nash’s
work history.

October
- Lone minority vote (1-16) supporting a church rezoning on Stockton Street.

City Council - 1997

January
- Voted with minority (8-9) against negotiated settlement to allow a construction
industry landfill in Dinsmore.

February
- Voted with minority (3-15) against recommendation to the state that trucks
detour off Interstate 95 onto Interstate 295 and its widened Buckman bridge.

March
- Voted with minority (8-9) against zoning variance that would let restaurant to
serve liquor near neighboring church.

April
- Voted with minority (2-13) against tax-supported program to commission art in
public places.

June
- Voted with minority (2-15) against approving poker room at Jacksonville Kennel
Club.

Hogan then on the idea: “It’s another crack in the community standards. There’s
probably a lot of that type of gambling going on in people’s homes on Friday and
Saturday nights, but this gives legitimacy to it. It’s a commercial operation.”

- Voted with majority (12-4) for $39 million construction of first section of
Wonderwood Expressway.

August
- Only dissenter (1-15) against $17.7 million package of incentives for
construction of convention center hotel w/businessman Bucky Clarkson. Hogan
cited concerns about public funds being used for private projects.
- (No vote taken) Opposed to new amphitheater at Metro Park. Mayor Delaney
dropped idea 6/98.

Hogan said then that he was most concerned about the types of acts that could
perform, including those whose songs are sexually explicit or deal with killing
police. “The toughest nut for me to crawl over is the types of performances that
this facility would bring.”

November
- Voted with minority (6-12) against plan to help school board build a performing
arts middle school in LaVilla.

- Lone minority vote (1-16) against seeking federal help in preserving the health
of the St. Johns River by having mayor sponsor it for inclusion in American
Heritage Rivers program. Critics worried it would curtail waterfront property
owner’s rights.

City Council - 1998

January
- Voted with minority (4-14) against giving Riverside-Avondale a historic district
designation. Concerns of minority were over property owner’s rights.

April
- Lone minority vote (1-14) against spending close to $200,000 on public
education mailings to push for a referendum requiring the state to pay more of its
$600 million annual court tab. Requested by the Florida Association of Counties.
Hogan noted public will still pay for court system, just through state taxes instead
of local ones.

June
- Voted with majority (13-3) for his sponsored bill to match funds, up to $90,000,
raised by the Junior Jaguars Pop Warner football team to play in the World Youth
Games in Moscow. The money would come from a rarely used reserve fund. The
bill was amended to require that the city give money to groups only if event is
international and Jacksonville would be the only city representing the United
States.

Opponents were concerned about the feasibility of the offer. They included
Councilman Jim Tullis, chairman of the finance committee, who said, “I think
Mike Hogan is wrong. With all the needs we have in this community, I don’t feel
that the spending is justified. Hogan then on opposition: “I’m stunned. I can’t
believe this is even a debate. The millions of questionable tax dollars that we’ve
spent on other things, and we’re arguing over a few thousand for our kids.”

September
- Voted with minority in committee to support bill that would have changed the
way firefighters were hired from a computer-generated list, with an emphasis on
finding more qualified women and minority candidates for the historically white
department, to requiring the fire chief to hire candidates based on a new written
test that would be developed. Supporters said it was necessary in part to protect
the city against nepotism and discrimination. Opponents said it would have
limited the chances of getting hired for blacks and women. The ordinance stalled
in committee.

Mayor John Delaney eventually came up with a plan that eliminated the
computer list, but retained the emphasis on hiring women and minorities. It
included a series of strict screenings, a requirement that all candidates be state-
certified and physically able to do the job. A preferred list of candidates would
then be generated by an oral review board. Hogan and others on his committee
unanimously approved the change. Bill was withdrawn.

November
- Voted with majority (12-4) for independent study of fire and rescue protection
needs and fire station placement.

Hogan then on the idea: “Typically, fire stations have been sited based on some
legislative maneuvering. This basically takes it out of the hands of the council
and the administration. If you represent a district, you have to do everything you
can for that district. But for fire and rescue for the entire city, we need to make
the decisions based on the greatest needs.”

December
- Unanimous in committee to lower title loan interest rates from 264 percent to
100 percent. Council voted next month (13-5) to lower rate to 18 percent. Hogan
absent due to family emergency.

City Council - 1999 - Second term ended June 30

January
- Lone minority vote (1-4) in committee opposed to putting pocket park at Main
and Monroe streets because of bad location.

- Voted with majority (9-8) denying repeal of park fee increase at Hannah Park.
May
- Voted with majority (11-2) supporting School Board battle to keep student
prayer messages in graduation ceremonies.

June 30
- Second council term ends

Florida Legislature - 2000 - Elected in November

December
- Voted with majority to name a slate of presidential electors pledged to
Republican George W. Bush.

Florida Legislature - 2001

- Voted with majority of delegation (9-1) to support plan to split operations of the
Jacksonville Port Authority creating separate agencies to run city’s seaports and
airports.

- Voiced support for bill for student-led prayers at high school graduations and
other non-mandatory assemblies. Opponents concerns included that it would
make students of other religions captive audiences for Christian prayers.
Supporters said it would allow students to exercise their right to express their
religious beliefs and that it was needed to restore a lost order in schools.

Hogan then recalled starting his school days with prayers and the Pledge of
Allegiance and that schools during that time were not plagued with violence such
as murders and rapes. Referring to court rulings that removed prayer from
schools, Hogan then on the idea said: “What the bill’s trying to do is recapture the
right we lost.”

- Voted with majority in special session (77-41) to cut $800 million from the year’s
state budget to close $1.3 billion general revenue shortfall. Led to hundreds of
millions of dollars in cuts to schools and health programs. Northeast Florida
school districts cut $10.5 million, including $6.8 in Duval. FCCJ to make $3.5
million in cuts and took about $1.5 million from the Florida School for the Deaf
and Blind.

Reasons cited by legislators included economic downturn after 9/11.

- Sponsored bill that would allow JEA and state’s other taxpayer-owned utilities to
avoid release some public records over his concerns about safety and privacy.
Bill died 47-61, then passed 62-53, but died in Senate when it wasn’t brought up
for a vote. Hogan said the bill had nothing to do with a Times-Union story the
previous summer that listed the Jacksonville’s top water users based on JEA
records.

Hogan then on the idea: “Why does the public have the right to know? I think
everybody wants government to be in the sunshine, but I don’t think anybody
deserves to have their privacy violated. I’m just looking to provide a lot of
protection and privacy.”

- Supported bill $152 million in incentive programs to recruit and retrain teachers
and $62 million in technology improvements for schools.

- Supported bill providing strict penalties for failure to pay support to a child or
spouse

- Supported providing $150 million in tax relief by cutting the intangibles tax on
personal property

- Supported nine-day tax free holidays for state’s families, created an estimated
$25 million in tax savings.

- Voted with majority (Vote unavailable) in special session giving school districts
control over the issue of approving voluntary student-led prayer at non-
mandatory high school assemblies such as graduation. Objections came
primarily from the Jewish membership, worried the measure would lead to
religious intolerance. Bill not heard in Senate.

- Voted with majority in second special session (80-39 in house; 26-14 in Senate)
to cut nearly $1 billion from budget. To close shortfall, also postponed a $128
million cut in intangibles tax on investments and took money out of reserves.
Northeast Florida schools cut by $23 million, including $15.2 million in Duval,
$3.5 million in Clay, $2.5 million in St. Johns and $4.5 million for Florida
Community College at Jacksonville.

Florida Legislature - 2002

- Sponsored bill to display “In God We Trust” motto in prominent place in public
schools. House passed 102-12 in March. Senate did not vote, killing bill.
Hogan then on opposition by groups, including civil libertarians: “I am still kind of
awestruck that so much attention has been placed on it. It’s kind of hard to vote
no to the preamble to the Constitution.”

- Voted with majority (88-28) giving school districts control over the issue of
approving voluntary student-led prayer at non-mandatory high school assemblies
such as graduation. Objections came primarily from the Jewish membership,
worried the measure would lead to religious intolerance.

- Co-sponsored bill to require filtering software on computers available to minors

at public libraries to prevent pornography from being viewed.

- Voted with majority of delegation for bill requiring local governments to pay cash
for billboards they want removed along any road. State and federal law already
required payment for billboards along interstate or fed highway.

- Voted with majority in special session (76-39) for 1,776 page bill that gave a
blueprint and reorganization of state’s education system by tinkering with the
power of local school boards and handing more control over to state universities.
One catalyst was a voter approved constitutional amendment that called for
creating a new state board of education and ending the elected job of education
commissioner.

- Voted with majority in special session (81-35) to approve $50.4 billion budget
that will boost spending in public school operations by about $1.1 billion,
including $63.7 for Northeast Florida schools. Duval got $39.4 million increase,
$10.1 million for St. Johns, $10 million for Clay, $3 million for Nassau and $1.2
million for Baker. Budget included $20 million to help Jacksonville attract a
DaimlerChrysler plant and $8.7 million for Shands Jacksonville hospital. Hogan
earmarks included $1.1 million for two road projects that could ease traffic on
Blanding and $56,000 for a mental health program for infants in Clay.

- Voted with majority in special session for bill to cut $262 million in corporate
income taxes.

- Supported bill establishing program to help identify learning disabilities in young

children.

- Supported bill establishing school safety zones to protect children from loiterers

- Supported bill funding $97 million to protect children from abuse and neglect.

- Supported bill to create an act encouraging the recruitment and retention of

Florida nurses.

- Supported bill to protect consumers against identity theft and prevent the
financial exploitation of seniors.
- Supported bill reenacting the “Three Strikes” law which requires judges to
impose the maximum sentence on criminals for a third violent felony

- Praised by the National Federation of Independent Business for voting with the
group’s positions 90 percent of time.

- Praised by the Associated Industries of Florida, one of state’s most powerful

lobbying groups, for voting with the group’s positions 88 percent of the time.

- Ranked 99th out of 120 by the Florida League of Conservation Voters for
measures it supported.

- Ranked in bottom quarter of Miami Herald’s annual ranking of effectiveness of

state’s lawmakers.

Florida Legislature - 2003

- Re-filed a bill exempting utility records from public records. No vote.

- Sponsored a bill increasing number of signatures necessary to get an initiative

on the ballot or requiring amendments be passed by a super majority, more than
a simple majority of 50 plus one. Would have to have support in majority of
state’s 67 counties to pass.

- Voted with majority for bill (2003 Tele-Competition Innovation and Infrastructure
Act) that allowed for $344 million increase in basic local phone rates by
BellSouth, Sprint and Verizon. BellSouth customers in Jacksonville area to pay
$3.14 more a month. Also allowed phone companies to automatically increase
their rates by up to 20 percent a year with no state regulation. Proponents said it
was needed to promote competition and lower prices on long distance calls.

- Voted with majority (95-19) for medical malpractice bill aimed at slowing
skyrocketing premiums by calling for $250,000 cap on non-economic damage,
such as compensation for loss of family member or the loss of a limb or sight.

- Voted with majority (93-23) for smoking prohibition, prompted by constitutional

amendment, in virtually all indoor work areas, including bars and restaurants.
House and Senate failed to agree on how to implement bill.

- Voted with majority (Vote not available) for massive expansion of the state’s
school voucher program as part of a plan to reduce class sizes. Plan would have
allowed school districts to approve the vouchers if their schools became overly
crowded; also granted vouchers to a private school for students entering
kindergarten in the fall. Compromise bill in Senate died.

- Sponsored bill for nearly $8 million in new fees for Florida Identification cards
(from $3 to $10 driver’s license reinstatements (suspended from $25 to $35,
revoked from $50 to $60) and second time written driving exam from free to $5
and cost of driving skills test from free to $10. Used to help pay for digital
equipment to make licenses less susceptible to fraud or identity theft.

Other Hogan-sponsored House Bills - died in committee or no votes

recorded

Resolutions and Joint Resolutions - 2001

- Public records exemption for identifying information and financial information

relating to a person’s health or eligibility for health-related services made or
received by the Department of Health.

- Expansion of the type of personnel and facilities that can accept abandoned
newborns; revising background screening requirements for school health
personnel; providing for appointment of a guardian advocate for tuberculosis
patients; exempting emergency medical services examination questions and
answers from discovery.

- Public records exemption for information that identifies parents who leave
newborn infants at emergency medical services stations.

- Exemption of certain debtor’s interests from attachment, garnishment or legal

process.

- Required that the Department of Children and Family Services select

professional guardians on a rotating basis from a list of guardians who have
agreed to serve; requiring that any such guardian agree to accept a certain
proportion of indigent cases; amending statute prescribing civil remedies for theft
and other offenses in which the victim is an elderly person or disabled adult;
authorizing the court to advance a trial on the docket which involves a victim who
is an elderly person or disabled adult.

- Public record exemption for information identifying the location of specified

archaeological and cultural sites.

- Required that each utility using public rights-of-way to allow apparatus to be

attached to its poles and to provide electric services for the apparatus.
- Resolution recognizing March 6 as Lymphedema D-Day in Florida and
expressing support for those who have lymphedema.

- Resolution proclaiming Nov. 1-4 as Ham Jam Week in Clay County.

Resolutions and Joint Resolutions - 2002

- Prescribing civil remedies for theft and other offenses in which victim is elderly
or disabled person; provides that violation of patient rights is not cause of action
under act; provides for court actions to protect ward in event of breach of
fiduciary duty by guardian; provides priority of guardian advocate who has been
authorized to consent to medical treatment for person with developmental
disability.

- Involving anatomical gifts: amends declaration of legislative intent; prohibits

modification of donor’s intent; provides that donor document is legally binding;
provides certain implications of anatomical gift; revises manner of executing such
gifts; revises rights and duties at death; revises procedures by which terms of
anatomical gift may be amended or revoked.

- Requires that individuals enrolled in postsecondary educational institution be

provided information regarding meningococcal meningitis and hepatitis B
vaccines and, if residing in on-campus housing, provide documentation of
vaccination against meningococcal meningitis and hepatitis B or statement
declining such vaccination.

- Revises legislative intent regarding Underground Facility Damage Prevention &

Safety Act; redefines terms “business hours”, “excavate” and “system”; defines
terms “design services,” “positive response,” “premark,” and “tolerance zone”;
provides for free-access notification system; revises procedures for excavation
and notification.

- Regarding health care, states legislative findings and intent; provides that
failure to disclose practitioner’s training in health care advertisements constitutes
grounds for discipline; provides penalties; establishes criteria for supervision of
specialty medical care by allopathic physicians; establishes criteria for
supervision of specialty medical care by osteopathic physicians.

- Resolution proclaiming Oct. 31 to Nov. 3 as Ham Jam Week in Clay County and
extends best wishes to all participants and visitors.

- Resolution recognizing June 2002 as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month in

Florida and urges all men to gain better understanding of risks associated with
prostate cancer, to take preventive steps to minimize those risks and to consult
with their doctors about annual prostate cancer screening in compliance with
American Cancer Society prostate cancer screening guidelines.

- Resolution expressing appreciation for efforts of Florida 4-H program and offers
congratulations on observance of centennial anniversary of 4-H program in
American; designates February 19, 2002 as Florida 4-H Day.

- Resolution paying tribute to memory of Sgt. Bradley Crose.

- Resolution extending condolences to family of Spc. Marc A. Anderson.

Resolutions and Joint Resolutions - 2003

- Regarding assessments for the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury

Compensation Plan, provides that children born in a family practicing teaching
hospital shall not be considered for the purposes of making assessments for the
plan. (Bill withdrawn)

- Joint resolution regarding vote required for adoption of constitutional

amendments, a resolution requiring that constitutional amendments be approved
by a majority of the voters in a majority of the counties. (Withdrawn)
n Revises the definition of various types of vehicles; revises provisions to contest
violating toll facility citations; reduces the number of outstanding citations
required before the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles may deny
issuance of a license plate or validation sticker; revises provisions relating to
unlawful speed; requires that funds be used for enhancement of driver education
program funds; exempts service members from penalties for expiration of mobile
home and motor vehicle registrations; revises list of documents accepted for
proof of identity of applicant for identification cards and driver’s licenses;
increases the fee for application, renewal and duplication of such cards; provides
fees for second or subsequent examinations of specified applicants; increases
fees for reinstatement of suspended or revoked licenses; revises fees for
application of return of license; etc. (Died in Committee on Appropriations)

- Revises method of mailing permitted in providing notice precedent to actions to

collect worthless checks. (Tabled)

- Provides a longer statute of limitations for certain criminal sexual offenses

where statute of limitations has not run by July 1, 2003. (Died in Public Safety
and Crime Prevention Committee)

- Creates the Mold Remediation Act; provides registration requirements for mold
assessment companies and consultant; mold remediation companies and
contractors; and mold training providers; provides qualifications for registration;
requires certain training; provides for fees; provides for rules and orders of the
Construction Industry Licensing Board; prohibit performing more than one
specified activity on a given project; authorizes the Department of Business and
Professional Regulation to issue reprimands and to modify, suspend or revoke a
registration; provides guidelines for disciplinary actions; provides for rulemaking
by the board and by the department. (Died in Committee on Business
Regulation).

- Resolution proclaiming Nov. 3 to Nov. 9 as Ham Jam Week in St. Johns County

2008 Taxation and Budget Reform Commission

The Florida constitution mandates the panel to meet every 20 years to

recommend constitutional changes to improve the state’s tax and budget system.
25 members.

- Voted with minority (7-18) for a voter referendum to replace, in a swap, state
required school property taxes with state revenues generated through one or
more of the following options; repealing sales tax exemptions not specifically
included; increasing sales tax rate up to one percent; spending reductions, other
revenue options created by the legislature. Measure would cut property tax bills
by at least 25 percent, revamp the way the state pays for schools and order
Legislature to replace the estimated loss of $9 billion with new, expanded sales
taxes or other revenues. Proponents said needed to stimulate ailing housing
market, revive economy and prepare state’s tax system for next 20 years.
(Removed from ballot)

House Speaker Marco Rubio advocated it: “People need to know that a 'no’ vote
dooms inevitably to property tax increases in the state — in order to fund
education at a level where people want it.”

Opponents worried, which eliminates property taxes the state now requires
school districts to collect, is foolhardy because it relies on Legislature to find
other means to fund education.

Hogan called it a “bait and switch” on voters who might think the 6 percent sales
tax would go up only a penny.

- Voted with majority (17-6) to recommend to the Legislature a streamlined sales

and use tax agreement and to place on the ballot a voter referendum for the state
to petition to become part of a national sales and use tax agreement. Would
impose a sales tax on purchases from Internet retailers and home shopping
channels. Favored by businesses who say they have to collect 6 percent sales
tax out-of-state businesses don’t.

- Voted with majority (17-6) to amend constitution to allow direct and indirect
state payment to religious organizations. Proposal to give constitutional
protection to private school vouchers. Designed to shield school voucher
program from legal challenge. Would remove Blaine Amendment from state
Constitution, which bars taxpayer money from being used “directly or indirectly”
in the aid of any sectarian institution. Church/state issues.

- Voted with majority to amend constitution to require that the Legislature

authorize counties to levy a local option sales tax to supplement community
college funding; requiring voter approval to levy the tax; providing that approved
taxes will sunset after 5 years and may be reauthorized by the voters. Defeated
by voters.

- Voted with majority to amend constitution to provide a tax break to marinas and
commercial fishing operations by requiring they be taxed on their current use
rather than on the basis of the costlier “highest and best use.” Approved by
voters.

- Voted with majority to amend constitution so lawmakers would be allowed to

prohibit tax assessment increases for residential property improvements that
harden structures against hurricane damage or add renewable energy equipment
such as solar panels. Approved by voters.

- Voted with majority that made statutory recommendation to Legislature (SR36)

to raise gas taxes and title and motor vehicle fees for road construction
purposes. Slated to raise $12 billion in new revenue. Hogan said he wanted the
cost implemented gradually tied to increases in the Consumer Price Index.

- Sponsored a proposal rejected (14-9, three short of super majority) for

statewide referendum to cap state and local tax revenues. Would have tied all
city, county and state revenue increases to formula based on population growth
and inflation plus one percent on revenue growth in state and local government.
Angered Jacksonville Mayor John Peyton and others with the anti-crime
Jacksonville Journey group who saw it as a threat to their intent to raise revenue
to help pay for programs recommended by the group.

Hogan then said of the idea: “Today we are not going to give our citizens a
chance to restrain government: not choke government, but restrain government.”
Sources: Official records of the Jacksonville City Council, Legislature and
Taxation and Budget Review Commission; Times-Union archives; other
newspaper’s archives; University of Florida’s IFAS Extension service; Legislature
bill list from Hogan campaign.

— Compiled by Jim Schoettler