Bill > H0433

Introduced Session

An act relating to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; creating s. 125.489, F.S.; defining the terms "gasoline-powered farm equipment" and "gasoline-powered landscape equipment"; prohibiting counties from enacting or enforcing any law that restricts or prohibits the use of gasoline-powered farm equipment or gasoline-powered landscape equipment or that distinguishes such equipment from any other equipment under certain circumstances; providing construction; amending s. 163.3164, F.S.; defining the terms "ecologically significant parcel" and "low- density municipality"; amending s. 163.3202, F.S.; prohibiting an application for a development on an ecologically significant parcel in a low-density municipality from being administratively approved without a specified attestation provided by the developer; providing applicability; providing for a waiver; creating s. 166.063, F.S.; defining the terms "gasoline-powered farm equipment" and "gasoline- powered landscape equipment"; prohibiting municipalities from enacting or enforcing any law that restricts or prohibits the use of gasoline-powered farm equipment or gasoline-powered landscape equipment or that distinguishes such equipment from any other hb433-01-c1 equipment under certain circumstances; providing construction; amending s. 212.055, F.S.; conforming a cross-reference; amending s. 253.0341, F.S.; requiring the Acquisition and Restoration Council to determine whether certain surplused lands are suitable for bona fide agricultural purposes; prohibiting a local governmental entity from transferring future development rights for certain surplused lands determined to be suitable for bona fide agricultural purposes; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection, in coordination with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, to determine whether specified state-owned conservation lands are suitable for bona fide agricultural purposes; authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to surplus state-owned lands determined to be suitable for bona fide agricultural purposes; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to retain a rural-lands-protection easement for such surplused lands; requiring that all proceeds from the sale of such surplused lands be deposited in the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Incidental Trust Fund for less than fee simple; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to annually provide a report of such surplused lands to the Board hb433-01-c1 of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund; prohibiting certain lands from being surplused; amending s. 259.1053, F.S.; deleting provisions relating to the Babcock Ranch Advisory Group; amending s. 287.1351, F.S.; revising circumstances under which a vendor is prohibited from submitting a bid, proposal, or reply to an agency or from entering into or renewing any contract to provide goods or services to an agency; amending s. 322.12, F.S.; providing penalties for an applicant for a commercial driver license who receives unauthorized assistance on certain portions of the examination; amending s. 322.36, F.S.; prohibiting a person from knowingly or willfully providing unauthorized assistance to an applicant for the examination required to hold a commercial driver license; repealing ss. 377.71, 377.711, and 377.712, F.S., relating to definitions and the Southern States Energy Compact, Florida as party to the Southern States Energy Compact, and Florida's participation in the Southern States Energy Board, respectively; amending s. 403.0855, F.S.; deleting provisions relating to legislative approval of certain rules adopted by the Department of Environmental Protection; revising requirements for permittees of biosolids land application sites; hb433-01-c1 deleting an obsolete provision; amending s. 482.071, F.S.; requiring certain persons applying for a pest control business license or renewal to provide the department with a certificate of insurance; specifying requirements for such certificate of insurance; amending s. 482.161, F.S.; revising an administrative fine for violations of pest control provisions; amending s. 482.165, F.S.; revising civil penalties for the unlicensed practice of pest control; amending s. 489.105, F.S.; defining the terms "subcontractor" and "supplier"; creating s. 489.1295, F.S.; prohibiting licensed contractors or persons holding themselves out as such from failing to pay their subcontractor or supplier within a specified timeframe without reasonable cause after receiving payment for the services the subcontractor or supplier performed; providing penalties; amending s. 500.04, F.S.; revising the list of prohibited acts related to the prevention of fraud, harm, adulteration, misbranding, or false advertising in the preparation, production, manufacture, storage, or sale of food; repealing s. 500.81, F.S., relating to the Healthy Food Financing Initiative; amending s. 500.93, F.S.; making a technical change; amending s. 501.013, F.S.; authorizing the Department of Agriculture and Consumer hb433-01-c1 Services to provide an exemption from certain health studio regulations; creating s. 501.062, F.S.; providing legislative intent; defining the terms "commercial solicitation" and "dwelling"; prohibiting a person from engaging in commercial solicitation under certain circumstances; providing construction; providing penalties; amending s. 570.07, F.S.; authorizing the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to reorganize departmental units upon the approval of the Commissioner of Agriculture; amending s. 570.822, F.S.; providing additional eligibility requirements for the Agriculture and Aquaculture Producers Emergency Recovery Loan Program; creating s. 570.832, F.S.; requiring the Florida Wildflower Foundation, Inc., in coordination with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, to establish the Florida Native Seed Research and Marketing Program, subject to legislative appropriation; providing the purpose of the program; creating s. 570.846, F.S.; establishing the Food Animal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program; providing the purpose of the program; providing definitions; providing eligibility requirements for the program; authorizing the department to make loan principle repayments on behalf of eligible candidates up to a certain amount for a hb433-01-c1 specified timeframe, subject to legislative appropriation; providing construction; authorizing the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to adopt rules; amending s. 570.85, F.S.; prohibiting a local government from requiring a property owner to obtain a rural event venue permit or license; amending s. 570.86, F.S.; defining the term "rural event venue"; amending s. 583.01, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "dealer"; amending s. 590.02, F.S.; revising the Florida Forest Service powers, authority, and duties; authorizing the Forest Service to manage the Welaka Training Center; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; authorizing the Withlacoochee or Welaka Training Centers to assess certain fees as determined by the Florida Forest Service, regardless of where certain training occurs; renaming the Bonifay Forestry Station as the John Michael Mathis Forestry Station; creating s. 595.421, F.S.; establishing the Farmers Feeding Florida Program for specified purposes; requiring Feeding Florida to take certain actions to implement the program; prohibiting the food purchased by Feeding Florida through such program from re-entering the wholesale, retail, or secondary market; prohibiting a candidate for elective office from hosting a food distribution hb433-01-c1 event under certain circumstances; providing applicability; amending s. 597.004, F.S.; prohibiting the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services from renewing a certificate of registration for a noncompliant facility unless certain documentation is provided with the renewal application; prohibiting entities whose certificate of registration has been revoked from reapplying for a specified period of time; amending s. 597.010, F.S.; authorizing, rather than requiring, the periodic adjustment of the annual rental fee charged for certain leases; amending s. 599.012, F.S.; making technical changes; amending s. 616.001, F.S.; revising and deleting definitions relating to public fairs and expositions; amending s. 616.01, F.S.; revising application requirements for a proposed charter for an association to conduct a public fair or exposition; requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to provide an applicant for a proposed charter with specified information upon the denial of a proposed charter; revising requirements for information that must be included in the proposed charter; amending s. 616.02, F.S.; limiting the number of incorporated state fair associations per county; providing construction; authorizing the Department of Agriculture and Consumer hb433-01-c1 Services to waive certain requirements at the discretion of the commissioner; authorizing fair associations incorporated before a certain date to conduct their affairs; deleting provisions relating to requirements for a proposed charter; amending s. 616.03, F.S.; revising requirements for the approval and recordation of the charter; amending s. 616.05, F.S.; revising the process by which a proposed charter amendment is incorporated into the original charter; amending s. 616.051, F.S.; revising the circumstances under which a circuit judge is authorized to dissolve an association and order the distribution of its remaining assets; requiring that such assets be distributed to certain counties; s. 616.07, F.S.; deleting provisions relating to distribution of public funds after the dissolution of an association; amending s. 616.101, F.S.; specifying the basis for annual public fair attendance records; requiring a fair association to review its charter every 5 years and submit an updated copy of the charter to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; requiring a designated member of the association to make an attestation; amending s. 616.15, F.S.; revising the information that an applicant must submit to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services hb433-01-c1 for the department to issue a permit for an association to conduct a fair; revising the timeframe within which the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is required to issue the permit upon the receipt of specified information; amending s. 616.251, F.S.; exempting the Florida State Fair Authority from specified provisions; amending s. 624.4032, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "nonprofit agricultural organization"; amending s. 843.085, F.S.; prohibiting a person from wearing or displaying an item that displays the words "concealed weapon permit" or "concealed weapon permit holder" with the intent to mislead another to believe that the person is authorized to wear or display such item; amending s. 865.065, F.S.; revising definitions; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 934.02, F.S.; defining the term "signal jamming device"; creating s. 934.51, F.S.; prohibiting the possession, manufacture, sale, importation, distribution, or use of a signal jamming device; providing exceptions; providing criminal penalties; amending s. 288.1175, F.S.; conforming cross- references; reenacting ss. 287.056(4) and 287.138(5), F.S., relating to disqualification for state term contract eligibility, and contracting with entities of hb433-01-c1 foreign countries of concern prohibited, respectively, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 287.1351, F.S., in references thereto; reenacting s. 500.177(1), F.S., relating to penalties for dissemination of a false advertisement, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 500.04, F.S., in a reference thereto; reenacting s. 212.08(13), F.S., relating to taxation and specified exemptions, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 616.07, F.S., in a reference thereto; reenacting s. 616.185, F.S., relating to trespass upon grounds or facilities of a public fair, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 616.15, F.S., in a reference thereto; providing an effective date.

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Danny Alvarez (R)*,  Chad Johnson (R)*,  Jose Alvarez (D),  J.J. Grow (R),  Randy Maggard (R),  Danny Nix (R), 

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House State Affairs Committee Hearing (08:30:00 2/24/2026 ) (on 02/24/2026)

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