Bill > H1461

Introduced Session

An act relating to industries and professional activities; amending s. 20.165, F.S.; renaming, removing, and redesignating specified boards, commissions, and councils established within the Department of Business and Professional Regulation; changing the office locations of certain divisions; requiring the department to provide to the Division of Professions a summary of changes to statutory law within a specified time period after adjournment of session; repealing ss. 310.011, 310.032, 310.042, 455.2124, 455.2228, 468.384, 468.399, 468.4315, 468.4337, 468.4338, 468.521, 468.522, 468.523, 468.605, 468.8316, 468.8416, 471.007, 471.008, 471.009, 471.019, 471.0195, 471.038, 472.007, 472.008, 472.009, 472.018, 472.019, 473.303, 473.312, 474.204, 474.206, 475.02, 475.03, 475.04, 475.045, 475.05, 475.10, 476.054, 476.064, 477.015, 481.205, 481.2055, 481.305, 482.243, 489.107, 489.507, 492.103, 493.6116, 499.01211, 559.9221, and 570.81, F.S., relating to Board of Pilot Commissioners; oath of members of the Board of Pilot Commissioners; organization and meetings of the board; proration of continuing education; barbers and cosmetologists and instruction on HIV and AIDS; Florida Board of Auctioneers; expenditure of excess funds; Regulatory Council of Community Association Managers; continuing education; reactivation and continuing education; the Board of Employee Leasing Companies, membership, appointments, and terms; rules of the board; applicability of s. 20.165 and chapter 455; Florida Building Code Administrators and Inspectors Board; continuing education; Board of Professional Engineers; rulemaking authority of the board; board headquarters; reactivation; Florida Building Code training for engineers; Florida Engineers Management Corporation; Board of Professional Surveyors and Mappers; rules of the board; board headquarters; continuing education; continuing education for reactivating a license; Board of Veterinary Medicine; renewal of license; Board of Accountancy; continuing education; Barbers' Board; organization, headquarters, personnel, and meetings of the board; Board of Cosmetology; Board of Architecture and Interior Design; authority of the board to make rules; Florida Real Estate Commission; delegation of powers and duties; legal services; duty of commission to educate members of profession; Florida Real Estate Commission Education and Research Foundation; power of commission to enact bylaws and rules and decide questions of practice; seal; Board of Landscape Architecture; Pest Control Enforcement Advisory Council; Construction Industry Licensing Board; Electrical Contractors' Licensing Board; Board of Professional Geologists; sponsorship of interns; Drug Wholesale Distributor Advisory Council; Motor Vehicle Repair Advisory Council; and Agricultural Economic Development Project Review Committee, respectively; requiring the department to conduct a specified study; amending ss. 212.08, 215.5586, 215.55871, 309.01, 310.0015, 310.002, 310.051, 310.061, 310.071, 310.073, 310.075, 310.081, 310.101, 310.102, 310.111, 310.1115, 310.121, 310.131, 310.142, 310.151, 310.183, 310.185, 319.28, 326.002, 326.006, 376.303, 381.0065, 403.868, 403.9329, 440.02, 448.26, 468.382, 468.385, 468.3852, 468.3855, 468.387, 468.388, 468.389, 468.392, 468.393, 468.395, 468.396, 468.397, 468.398, 468.431, 468.433, 468.4336, 468.435, 468.436, 468.520, 468.522, 468.524, 468.5245, 468.525, 468.526, 468.527, 468.5275, 468.529, 468.530, 468.531, 468.532, 468.603, 468.606, 468.607, 468.613, 468.619, 468.621, 468.627, 468.629, 468.631, 468.8312, 468.8315, 468.8415, 468.8417, 468.8419, 469.004, 469.012, 469.013, 471.003, 471.0035, 471.005, 471.011, 471.013, 471.017, 471.021, 471.023, 471.025, 471.031, 471.033, 471.045, 471.055, 472.003, 472.005, 473.302, 473.3035, 473.304, 473.305, 473.306, 473.309, 473.3101, 473.311, 473.3125, 473.313, 473.314, 473.315, 473.316, 473.319, 473.3205, 473.321, 473.322, 473.323, 474.202, 474.2021, 474.2065, 474.207, 474.211, 474.2125, 474.213, 474.214, 474.215, 474.216, 474.2165, 474.217, 474.221, 476.034, 476.074, 476.114, 476.134, 476.144, 476.154, 476.155, 476.192, 476.204, 476.214, 476.234, 477.013, 477.0135, 477.016, 477.018, 477.019, 477.0201, 477.0212, 477.022, 477.025, 477.026, 477.0263, 477.028, 477.029, 481.203, 481.207, 481.209, 481.211, 481.215, 481.217, 481.219, 481.221, 481.222, 481.223, 481.225, 481.2251, 481.303, 481.306, 481.307, 481.309, 481.310, 481.311, 481.313, 481.315, 481.317, 481.319, 481.321, 481.323, 481.325, 489.103, 489.105, 489.108, 489.109, 489.113, 489.1131, 489.1136, 489.114, 489.115, 489.116, 489.117, 489.118, 489.119, 489.1195, 489.121, 489.126, 489.127, 489.129, 489.131, 489.132, 489.133, 489.1401, 489.1402, 489.141, 489.142, 489.1425, 489.143, 489.1455, 489.146, 489.509, 489.510, 489.511, 489.513, 489.514, 489.515, 489.516, 489.5161, 489.517, 489.518, 489.5185, 489.519, 489.520, 489.521, 489.522, 489.523, 489.525, 489.533, 489.5335, 489.537, 489.552, 492.102, 492.104, 492.105, 492.1051, 492.106, 492.107, 492.108, 492.1101, 492.111, 492.113, 493.6101, 493.6105, 493.6106, 493.6111, 493.6113, 493.6118, 493.6120, 493.6123, 493.6201, 493.6202, 493.6203, 493.6301, 493.6302, 493.6303, 493.6304, 493.631, 493.6401, 493.6402, 493.6403, 493.6406, 514.0315, 514.075, 533.791, 553.998, 569.34, 627.192, 633.216, 713.01, and 1006.12, F.S.; providing licensing authority to the department rather than licensing boards; removing continuing education requirements; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 259.1053, F.S.; removing the Babcock Ranch Advisory Group; amending s. 399.035, F.S.; revising the requirements for accessibility of elevators for the physically handicapped; amending s. 373.219, F.S.; providing an exception to the permit requirement for certain landscape irrigation water users; amending s. 455.02, F.S.; specifying that certain license application requirements apply only to certain professions; amending s. 455.213, F.S.; providing regulation authority to the department to regulate a cosmetologist or cosmetology specialist review an applicant's criminal record; amending s. 468.386, F.S.; requiring the department to reduce fees by a specified percentage on a certain date; amending s. 468.609, F.S.; revising the standards for certification as a building code inspector or plans examiner; amending s. 471.015, F.S.; revising who the department must certify as qualified for a license by endorsement for the practice of engineering; amending s. 473.308, F.S.; revising the education and work experience requirements for a certified public accountant license; directing the department to prescribe specified coursework for licensure; revising requirements for licensure by endorsement; removing provisions relating to licensure of applicants with work experience in foreign countries; providing applicability; creating s. 473.3085, F.S.; requiring an international applicant who seeks licensure as a certified public accountant in this state to meet specified criteria prescribed by the department; requiring such applicants to apply to the department; requiring such applicants to create and maintain an online account with the department; providing that the applicant's e-mail address serves as the primary means of communication from the department; requiring an applicant to submit any change in certain information within a specified timeframe through the department's online system; requiring the department to certify an applicant who meets certain requirements; requiring the department to adopt rules; amending s. 473.3141, F.S.; revising requirements for certified public accountants licensed in another state or a territory of the United States to practice in this state without obtaining a license; amending s. 476.184, F.S.; requiring the department to adopt rules; requiring a mobile barbershop to comply with all licensure and operating requirements that apply to a barbershop at a fixed location; providing an exception; requiring a mobile barbershop to have a permanent business address in a specified location; requiring that certain records be kept at the permanent business address; requiring a mobile barbershop licenseholder to file with the department a written monthly itinerary that provides certain information; requiring that a licenseholder comply with certain laws and ordinances; amending s. 476.188, F.S.; providing that a barbershop must be licensed with the department, rather than registered; authorizing the practice of barbering to be performed in a location other than a licensed barbershop under certain circumstances; amending s. 481.213, F.S.; revising who the department shall certify as qualified for a license by endorsement in the practice of architecture; amending s. 499.012, F.S.; revising permit application requirements for sale, transfer, assignment, or lease; removing permit application requirements for a prescription drug wholesale distributor to include a designated representative; amending s. 499.0121, F.S.; removing a designated representative as a responsible person who must be listed by a wholesale distributor; amending s. 499.041, F.S.; removing a requirement that the department assess each person applying for certification as a designated representative a fee, plus the cost of processing a criminal history record check; amending s. 509.261, F.S.; prohibiting a lodging establishment or a public food service establishment from selling hemp in violation of the state hemp program; amending s. 553.79, F.S.; prohibiting a local enforcement agency from denying the issuance of a certificate of occupancy to an owner of residential or commercial property based on noncompliance with Florida-friendly landscaping ordinances in certain circumstances; prohibiting a local enforcement agency from denying the issuance of a building permit for the alteration, modification, or repair of a single-family residential structure in certain circumstances; prohibiting a local enforcement agency from requiring a building permit for the construction of playground equipment or a fence on certain property; reordering and amending s. 569.002, F.S; making technical changes; amending s. 569.006, F.S.; revising the violations for which retail tobacco products dealers are penalized; amending 569.35, F.S.; revising retail nicotine product dealer administrative penalties; amending s. 581.217, F.S.; defining the term "division"; authorizing the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco to assist any agent of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services in enforcing the state hemp program; authorizing the division to enter any public or private premises during a specified timeframe in the performance of its duties; providing effective dates.

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Tiffany Esposito (R)*,  Taylor Yarkosky (R)*,  Michelle Salzman (R), 

Other Sponsors (1)

Died in Commerce Committee (on 06/16/2025)

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