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Introduced Session

An act relating to the Department of Management Services; repealing s. 24.113, F.S., relating to minority participation; amending s. 110.112, F.S.; providing for equal employment opportunity; prohibiting discrimination in employment; prohibiting a hiring manager from engaging in certain employment practices; authorizing certain persons to file a complaint with the Attorney General or the Department of Business of Professional Regulation; amending s. 110.123, F.S.; revising definitions; amending s. 110.12301, F.S.; providing for competitive procurement of claims review services for state group health insurance plans; amending s. 110.205, F.S.; revising exempt positions that are not covered by the career service system; revising the definition of the term "department"; amending s. 110.211, F.S.; revising recruitment provisions relating to the career service system; amending s. 110.605, F.S.; revising the personnel rules of the Department of Management Services; amending ss. 112.19 and 112.191, F.S.; revising specified benefits of law enforcement officers and firefighters, respectively; amending s. 217.07, F.S.; requiring that specified funds be used for specified purposes; repealing ss. 255.101 and 255.102, F.S., relating to contracts for public construction works and contractor use of minority business enterprises, respectively; amending s. 287.042, F.S.; revising the powers, duties, and functions of the department relating to commodities, insurance, and contractual services; amending s. 287.055, F.S.; revising the Consultants' Competitive Negotiation Act relating to public announcement and qualification procedures and competitive selection; amending s. 287.057, F.S.; revising provisions relating to procurement of commodities or contractual services; amending s. 287.084, F.S.; revising provisions relating to preference to Florida businesses; providing applicability; repealing ss. 287.093, 287.0931, 287.094, 287.0943, and 287.09431, F.S., relating to minority business enterprises and programs; amending s. 287.09451, F.S.; renaming the Office of Supplier Diversity as the Office of Supplier Development; revising the office's powers, duties, and functions; defining the term "Florida-based enterprise"; repealing s. 287.0947, F.S., relating to the Florida Advisory Council on Small and Minority Business Development; repealing ss. 287.133, 287.134, and 287.1346, F.S., relating to denial or revocation of the right to transact business with public entities; repealing s. 287.1351, F.S., relating to suspended vendors and state contracts; creating s. 287.1355, F.S.; providing definitions; requiring the Department of Management Services to establish a prohibited vendors list; requiring a certain certification and disclosure by vendors at a specified time; requiring a specified statement to be contained in any invitation to bid, request for proposal, invitation to negotiate, or any contract entered into by a date certain; providing construction; requiring the department to maintain by electronic means the prohibited vendors list; requiring such list to be posted on the department's website and updated within a specified time period; requiring specified notice from vendors, affiliates, and public entities to the department; requiring the department to conduct an investigation; authorizing the department to issue a written demand on vendors in certain instances; requiring department investigations to be conducted in accordance with specified rules; requiring the department to send notice of its investigation determination in certain instances; providing notice requirements; prohibiting vendors that do not receive such notice from being placed on the prohibited vendors list; authorizing vendors to file a petition for an administrative hearing; providing for waiver of the right to such a hearing in certain instances; prohibiting vendors from filing a petition for a specified hearing; providing for procedural applicability; providing exceptions; requiring the department to establish its administrative action by a specified burden of proof; providing for a certain rebuttable presumption; providing for a specified burden of proof of the vendor; listing certain factors that the administrative law judge must consider in such hearing; prohibiting vendors from engaging in public contracting and purchasing upon issuance of a specified order; authorizing vendors to file a petition for removal from the prohibited vendors list in certain instances and within a specified time; requiring removal proceedings to be conducted by specified law; providing for the considerations of the administrative law judge in such proceedings; prohibiting vendors from filing subsequent petitions for removal within a specified time period in certain instances; authorizing the department to file such a petition in certain instances; providing that vendors and affiliates placed on the prohibited vendors list are ineligible to receive certain incentives; providing applicability; prohibiting a public entity from contracting with vendors which would provide access to certain information unless a specified affidavit is submitted; requiring a vendor, by a specified date, to submit a specified affidavit to extend or renew a contract with a public entity; requiring the department to adopt rules; repealing s. 288.1167, F.S., relating to sports franchise contract provisions for food and beverage concession and contract awards to minority business enterprises; providing a directive to the Division of Law Revision; amending s. 288.7015, F.S.; revising the duties of the rules ombudsman; amending s. 288.702, F.S.; revising a short title; amending s. 288.703, F.S.; revising definitions; amending s. 288.7031, F.S.; revising applicability; amending s. 288.705, F.S.; revising provisions relating to the statewide contracts register; repealing ss. 288.706, 288.7094, 288.7102, 288.71025, 288.7103, and 288.714, F.S., relating to the Florida Minority Business Loan Mobilization Program and the Black Business Loan Program; amending s. 295.187, F.S.; providing duties of the Office of Supplier Development relating to the Florida Veteran Business Enterprise Opportunity act; repealing s. 373.607, F.S., relating to minority business enterprise procurement goals; repealing s. 473.3065, F.S., relating to the Clay Ford Scholarship Program and the Certified Public Accountant Education Minority Assistance Advisory Council; repealing s. 641.217, F.S., relating to the requirement of minority recruitment and retention plans under the Health Maintenance Organization Act; repealing s. 760.80, F.S., relating to minority representation on boards, commissions, councils, and committees; amending ss. 16.615, 17.11, 20.60, 43.16, 110.105, 110.116, 110.211, 110.403, 187.201, 212.096, 215.971, 255.0992, 255.20, 282.201, 282.709, 286.101, 287.012, 287.0571, 287.056, 287.059, 287.0591, 287.138, 288.0001, 288.001, 288.0065, 288.12266, 288.124, 288.776, 290.004, 290.0056, 290.0057, 290.046, 320.63, 331.351, 334.045, 338.227, 339.2821, 339.63, 348.754, 376.3072, 376.84, 381.986, 394.47865, 402.7305, 408.045, 409.901, 440.45, 489.125, 570.07, 616.255, 616.256, 625.3255, 627.351, 627.3511, 657.042, 658.67, 947.02, 947.021, 957.09, 1001.706, 1004.435, 1009.70, 1013.45, and 1013.46, F.S.; conforming cross-references and provisions to changes made by the act; providing an effective date.

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Judson Sapp (R)*, 

Died in Government Operations Subcommittee, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/SB 1662 (Ch. 2025-155) (on 06/16/2025)

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