Bill > S1394

Introduced Session

An act relating to the Department of Business and Professional Regulation; amending s. 20.165, F.S.; revising the primary investigative, enforcement, and prosecutorial responsibilities of law enforcement officers appointed by the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco within the Department of Business and Professional Regulation; amending s. 448.095, F.S.; revising the lists of persons or entities that may request copies of certain documentation relied on by an employer to verify a new employee’s employment eligibility to include the department; requiring the department to notify the Department of Commerce and the Department of Law Enforcement within a specified timeframe if it believes an employer failed to properly verify an employee’s employment eligibility; amending s. 468.412, F.S.; revising a provision prohibiting talent agencies from sending or causing to be sent any employee or minor to certain locations for certain purposes; providing an exception; providing criminal penalties; amending s. 509.261, F.S.; providing that a public lodging establishment or public food service establishment that distributes or sells hemp extract in violation of the state hemp program is subject to specified penalties; amending s. 559.79, F.S.; authorizing the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to request certain personal identification information from an applicant or licensee to evaluate and validate the applicant’s or licensee’s work authorization status; authorizing the department to request specified information; authorizing the department to submit an applicant’s or licensee’s personal identification information to the appropriate federal agencies to validate the applicant’s or licensee’s identity or work authorization status; requiring the department to suspend the license of any licensee found not to have work authorization status; requiring the department to reinstate a license without additional charge to the licensee upon verification that the licensee is authorized to work in the United States; providing that the department is not liable for any licensure delay, denial, or suspension; authorizing the department to enter into memoranda of understanding; authorizing the department to adopt rules; amending s. 569.006, F.S.; revising the circumstances in which the division may suspend or revoke the permit of a retail tobacco products dealer; creating s. 569.24, F.S.; prohibiting a dealer, or a dealer’s agents or employees, from possessing, selling, or possessing with the intent to sell, deliver, or give, directly or indirectly, nitrous oxide; providing applicability; providing criminal penalties; amending s. 569.35, F.S.; revising the circumstances in which the division may suspend or revoke the permit of a retail nicotine product dealer; amending s. 877.111, F.S.; deleting nitrous oxide as a prohibited substance to be inhaled or ingested for specified purposes; deleting criminal penalties related to the inhalation or ingestion of nitrous oxide; deleting applicability; making technical changes; creating s. 877.113, F.S.; prohibiting a person from inhaling, ingesting, or possessing with the intent to inhale or ingest for specified purposes any compound, liquid, or chemical containing nitrous oxide; providing criminal penalties; providing that the possession or presence of any drug paraphernalia constitutes prima facie evidence that the person possessed, distributed, sold, transferred, or possessed with the intent to sell, inhale, or ingest nitrous oxide for specified purposes; authorizing a court to require a person to participate in a substance abuse services program that is approved or regulated by the Department of Children and Families; providing that such participation may be imposed in addition to, or in lieu of, any penalty or probation otherwise prescribed by law; prohibiting such penalty, probation, or program participation from exceeding the maximum sentence possible for an offense; providing applicability; amending s. 316.193, F.S.; conforming a provision to changes made by the act; reenacting s. 448.09(2), F.S., relating to the prohibition against the employment of unauthorized aliens, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 448.095, F.S., in a reference thereto; reenacting ss. 893.145(12) and 948.15(1), F.S., relating to the definition of “drug paraphernalia” and misdemeanor probation services, respectively, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 877.111, F.S., in references thereto; providing an effective date.

AI Summary

Jonathan Martin (R)*, 

Died in Regulated Industries (on 03/13/2026)

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