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Introduced Session

An act relating to the Florida Kratom Consumer Protection Act; amending s. 500.92, F.S.; defining terms; revising the definition of the term “kratom product”; requiring that finished kratom products sold to consumers at certain establishments meet certain requirements; requiring that kratom products be manufactured only by a processor who holds a certain permit issued by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; prohibiting specified operations; prohibiting exemptions from certain requirements; requiring certain processors to be properly registered with the United States Food and Drug Administration; requiring processors to comply with certain regulations; requiring processors to maintain product liability insurance with a specified occurrence limit; requiring processors of a finished kratom product to retain and submit a certificate of analysis from an accredited laboratory to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for each batch of finished kratom product; specifying requirements for such laboratory; prohibiting processors from having any financial or economic interest in such laboratory or the body accrediting such laboratory; requiring processors to maintain their certificates of analysis for a specified amount of time after the finished kratom product’s expiration date; requiring that the certificate of analysis demonstrate that the finished kratom product is in compliance with statutory and rule concentration limits for specified substances; requiring that certain finished kratom products comply with product registration and testing requirements; providing an exception; providing nonapplicability; providing requirements for finished kratom products produced in this state and subsequently shipped or transported out of this state for sale outside of this state; requiring a processor or the department to submit a certain report to the United States Food and Drug Administration if a processor or the department receives a certain notice; authorizing the department to conduct an independent third-party test of a kratom product if probable cause exists that the product is adulterated; requiring the processor to pay the testing cost; authorizing the department to revoke the processor’s product registration if the processor fails to pay for such test within a specified timeframe; providing prohibitions; providing criminal penalties; providing that certain kratom products are subject to a stop-sale order; authorizing the department to revoke a processor’s finished kratom product registration under certain circumstances; providing that a processor whose kratom product contains a controlled substance or other prohibited substances is in violation of the act; authorizing the levying of administrative fines for laboratories that fail to comply with certain requirements; providing an appropriation; providing an effective date.

AI Summary

Joe Gruters (R)*,  Jonathan Martin (R), 

Senate Commerce and Tourism Hearing (08:30:00 1/21/2026 110 Senate Building) (on 01/21/2026)

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