Bill > H1009

Introduced Session

An act relating to governmental agency publication of advertisements and public notices; amending s. 50.0311, F.S.; expanding the definition of the term "governmental agency"; revising the definition of the term "publicly accessible website"; requiring that certain legal notices be continuously published for a specified timeframe when the notices are for a specified purpose and provided under a certain circumstance; authorizing certain counties or specified municipalities, school boards, clerks of the circuit court, and tax collectors to use a publicly accessible website to publish certain advertisements and legal notices under specified conditions; revising the definition of the term "special district"; requiring that certain public bid advertisements on a publicly accessible website be provided and accessible to the general public without charge; reenacting ss. 11.02, 45.031(2), 50.011(2), 50.021, 50.0211(3), 50.031, 50.051, 50.061(4), 50.0711(1), (3) and (4), 69.081(9), 90.902(12), 120.81(1)(d), 121.055(1)(b) and (h), 125.66(2)(a), 162.12(2)(a), 189.015(1), 190.005(1)(d), 197.402(1), 200.065(2)(f), 338.223(1)(c), 348.0308(3), 348.635(3), 348.7605(3), 373.0397, 373.146, 403.722(12), 849.38(5), 932.704(6)(a), 1001.372(2)(c), and 1011.03(1), F.S., relating to notice of special or local legislation or certain relief acts, judicial sales procedure, publication of legal notices, publication when no newspaper in county, Internet website publication, newspapers in which legal notices and process may be published, proof of publication, form of uniform affidavit, amounts chargeable, court docket fund, service charges, publications, sunshine in litigation, concealment of public hazards prohibited, self- authentication, exceptions and special requirements, general areas, Senior Management Service Class, ordinances, enactment procedure, emergency ordinances, rezoning or change of land use ordinances or resolutions, notices, meetings, notice, required reports, establishment of district, advertisement of real or personal property with delinquent taxes, method of fixing millage, proposed turnpike projects, public-private partnership, public-private partnership, public-private partnership, Floridan and Biscayne aquifers, designation of prime groundwater recharge areas, publication of notices, process, and papers, permits, hazardous waste disposal, storage, and treatment facilities, proceedings for forfeiture, notice of seizure and order to show cause, forfeiture proceedings, district school board meetings, public hearings, budget to be submitted to Department of Education, respectively; providing an effective date.

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Griff Griffitts (R)*, 

Other Sponsors (2)

Died in Rules (on 03/13/2026)

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