Bill > S1172

Introduced Session

An act relating to administrative procedures; amending s. 120.54, F.S.; specifying that hyperlinks to material incorporated by reference are provided by the Department of State; revising the timeframe during which an agency is required to publish a certain notice of correction in the Florida Administrative Register; requiring the Department of State to approve such notice of correction before publication of the notice; amending s. 120.5435, F.S.; requiring agencies to include a summary of their intended action on each rule identified for review within a specified timeframe; requiring that existing rules amended or reviewed after a certain date be reviewed in accordance with a specified schedule; deleting a provision requiring agencies to submit a certain report to the Legislature and the Joint Administrative Procedures Committee; amending s. 120.55, F.S.; revising a cross-reference; amending s. 120.65, F.S.; providing that the director of the Division of Administrative Hearings is appointed for a specified term from a certain list submitted by the statewide nominating commission; requiring the Administration Commission to appoint full-time administrative law judges to conduct proceedings; specifying requirements for such judges; requiring the Administration Commission to appoint administrative law judges from a certain list of nominations by the statewide nominating commission; providing for the membership and filling of vacancies of the statewide nominating commission; requiring that meetings and determinations of the statewide nominating commission be open to the public; requiring that administrative law judges serve for a certain term; authorizing the Administration Commission to remove judges for cause; requiring the statewide nominating commission to review judge conduct and make a certain determination; providing considerations for such determination; providing for the reappointment of an administrative law judge under specified circumstances; requiring certain judges to remain in office until the appointment of their successors; requiring the Administration Commission to appoint a new administrative law judge under specified circumstances; authorizing the commission to appoint specified attorneys as administrative law judges pro hac vice under a certain condition; prohibiting such person from serving for more than a specified number of successive days; authorizing the director of the Division of Administrative Hearings to receive or initiate complaints, conduct investigations, and dismiss complaints against administrative law judges; authorizing the director to make certain recommendations to the Administration Commission; defining the term “discipline”; requiring the director to submit preliminary findings to an administrative law judge who is the subject of a complaint; providing that an administrative law judge has a specified amount of time to provide a certain response; requiring that such response and the rebuttal by the director be included in the final report to the Administration Commission; requiring administrative law judges to be bound by stare decisis and precedent; requiring that inconsistencies between decisions be distinguished; requiring the director to establish training for new and sitting administrative law judges; revising the information included in a certain written report to include an accounting, by agency and entity, of payments or reimbursement received for administrative law judge services; requiring the division to adopt certain rules; amending s. 120.74, F.S.; requiring that an agency’s regulatory plan include a list of existing rules scheduled for review during the next 12 months, a 5-year schedule for review of all rules, and a summary of the agency’s intended action for each rule identified for review in the next 12 months; deleting a requirement that the Joint Administrative Procedures Committee annually submit a certain licensing performance report; requiring the Department of State to publish in the Florida Administrative Register a hyperlink to a dedicated website containing the regulatory plans; deleting an authorization for an agency to publish its regulatory plan on another state website; conforming a cross-reference; amending s. 627.351, F.S.; conforming a cross-reference; amending s. 766.207, F.S.; requiring that administrative law judges be compensated for arbitrating medical negligence claims at the rate of compensation set by the chief judge of the appropriate circuit court; making technical changes; providing an effective date.

AI Summary

Erin Grall (R)*, 

Introduced (on 01/13/2026)

Official Document