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Legislator > Mitch Rosenwald

State Representative
Mitch Rosenwald
(D) - Florida
Florida House District 098
In Office - Started: 11/05/2024
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Capitol Office
The Capitol
402 S. Monroe St.
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
402 S. Monroe St.
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: 850-717-5098
Oakland Park Office
3411 North Dixie Highway
Oakland Park, FL 33334-2839
Oakland Park, FL 33334-2839
Phone: 954-481-0340
Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
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H1195 | Fentanyl Testing | An act relating to fentanyl testing; creating s. 395.1042, F.S.; providing a short title; requiring hospitals or hospital-based off-campus emergency departments to test for fentanyl in a urine test and perform a confirmation test if the urine test results are positive for fentanyl; requiring specified results to be retained as part of the patient's clinical record for a certain timeframe; providing an effective date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H1421 | Improving Screening for and Treatment of Blood Clots | An act relating to improving screening for and treatment of blood clots; providing a short title; amending s. 385.102, F.S.; revising legislative findings under the Chronic Diseases Act; amending s. 395.1012, F.S.; requiring hospitals with emergency departments to develop and implement policies and procedures and conduct training for the rendering of appropriate medical attention for persons at risk of forming venous thromboembolisms; creating s. 395.3042, F.S., requiring the Department of Health to contract with a private entity to establish a statewide venous thromboembolism registry at no cost to the state; providing requirements for the private entity; requiring hospitals with an emergency department, beginning on a date certain, to regularly report certain information; requiring the department to require the private entity to use a nationally recognized platform to collect certain data; requiring the private entity to provide regular reports to the department on such data; requiring the agency, by a date certain, to provide to the Governor and the Legislature a specified report; providing requirements for such report; providing applicability; amending s. 400.211, F.S.; revising requirements for certain hb1421 -04-erCS/2025 Legislature annual inservice training for certified nursing assistants employed by nursing home facilities; revising training requirements for certain certified nursing assistants who may be delegated tasks in nursing home facilities; amending s. 429.55, F.S.; providing legislative findings; defining terms; requiring assisted living facilities to provide a consumer information pamphlet containing specified information to residents; providing an effective date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H0289 | Boating Safety | An act relating to boating safety; providing a short title; amending s. 327.02, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "livery vessel"; amending s. 327.30, F.S.; revising and providing penalties for vessel collisions, accidents, and casualties; defining the term "serious bodily injury"; creating s. 327.3015, F.S.; prohibiting a person from knowingly providing false information in specified reports; providing a criminal penalty; amending s. 327.33, F.S.; revising and providing penalties for the reckless operation of a vessel; amending s. 327.35, F.S.; defining the term "unborn child"; requiring a minimum mandatory prison term for boating under the influence manslaughter; amending s. 327.395, F.S.; requiring the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to adopt certain rules regarding standards for online boating safety education courses; specifying requirements regarding such rules; amending s. 327.54, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "livery"; amending s. 327.731, F.S.; requiring a person convicted of certain noncriminal infractions to pay a fine; requiring such proceeds to be deposited into the Marine Resources Conservation Trust Fund for specified purposes; amending s. 327.73, F.S.; hb289 -04-erCS/2025 Legislature conforming a cross-reference; amending s. 782.072, F.S.; defining the term "unborn child"; revising the definition of the term "vessel homicide"; amending s. 921.0022, F.S.; ranking offenses on the offense severity ranking chart of the Criminal Punishment Code; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; providing an effective date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H0907 | Florida Institute for Pediatric Rare Diseases | An act relating to the Florida Institute for Pediatric Rare Diseases; creating s. 1004.4211, F.S.; establishing the Florida Institute for Pediatric Rare Diseases within the Florida State University College of Medicine; providing the goals of the institute; requiring the institute to establish and administer the Sunshine Genetics Pilot Program for a specified period; providing the purpose of the pilot program; providing institute responsibilities and duties relating to the pilot program; providing requirements for participation in the pilot program and data collection and release in the pilot program; defining the term "health care practitioner"; providing reporting requirements for the pilot program; establishing the Sunshine Genetics Consortium for specified purposes; requiring the consortium to be administered at the institute by an oversight board; providing for the membership and terms of the board; providing meeting and reporting requirements for the consortium; providing that specified provisions will be implemented subject to available funding in the General Appropriations Act; providing an effective date. hb907 -02-erLegislature | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H0913 | Condominium and Cooperative Associations | An act relating to condominium and cooperative associations; amending s. 468.432, F.S.; prohibiting a person whose community association manager license is revoked from having an indirect or direct ownership interest in, or being an employee, a partner, an officer, a director, or a trustee of, a community association management firm for a specified timeframe; requiring a licensee to create and maintain an online licensure account with the Department of Business and Professional Regulation; requiring a community association manager to identify on his or her online licensure account certain information; requiring a licensee to provide specific information on his or her online licensure account; requiring that such information be updated within a specified timeframe; requiring a community association management firm to identify on its online licensure account the community association managers it employs to provide community association management services; requiring the department to give written notice to the community association management firm and the community association if the community association manager has his or her license suspended or revoked; amending s. 468.4334, F.S.; prohibiting a community association hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature manager or a community association management firm from knowingly performing any act directed by the community association if such act violates any state or federal law; revising the contractual obligations a community association manager or a community association management firm has with the association board; requiring that a contract include a certain statement, if applicable to the type of management services provided in the contract; providing that such contracts may not waive or limit certain professional practice standards; requiring a community association to include specified information on its website or mobile application, if such association is required to maintain official records on a website or an application; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 468.4335, F.S.; revising what constitutes a rebuttable presumption of a conflict of interest with a community association manager or a community association management firm; defining the term "compensation"; requiring an association to solicit multiple bids from other third-party providers if a bid that exceeds a specified amount is or may reasonably be construed to be a conflict of interest; providing applicability; deleting a requirement that all contracts and transactional documents related to a hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature proposed activity that is a conflict of interest be attached to the meeting agenda of the next board of administration meeting; requiring that the notice for the board meeting at which certain activity will be considered include certain information about a proposed activity that is a conflict of interest; deleting a requirement that the proposed activity be disclosed at the next regular or special meeting of the members; providing that a contract is voidable if certain findings are made; providing specifications for terminating a contract; making technical changes; amending s. 553.899, F.S.; revising the criteria for buildings that require a milestone inspection; requiring, rather than authorizing, the board of county commissioners or a municipal governing body to adopt a specified ordinance; requiring specified professionals who bid to perform a milestone inspection to disclose to the association in writing their intent to bid on services related to any maintenance, repair, or replacement that may be recommended by the milestone inspection; prohibiting such professionals from having any interest in or being related to any person having any interest in the firm or entity providing the association's milestone inspection unless such relationship is disclosed in hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature writing; defining the term "relative"; providing that a contract for services is voidable and terminates upon the association filing a written notice terminating such contract if such professionals fail to provide a written disclosure of such relationship; providing that such professionals may be subject to discipline for failure to provide such written disclosure; requiring the local enforcement agency responsible for milestone inspections to provide to the department specified information in an electronic format by a specified date; requiring the department to provide to the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA) all information obtained from the local enforcement agencies by a specified date; authorizing OPPAGA to request from the local enforcement agency any additional information necessary to compile and provide a report to the Legislature; amending s. 718.103, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "alternative funding method"; defining the term "video conference"; amending s. 718.110, F.S.; providing that the declaration of a nonresidential condominium may be amended to change certain provisions if all affected record owners join in the execution of such amendment; providing that the approval of nonaffected record owners is not required; hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature requiring that certain documents be served at a unit owner's address as reflected in the association's official records; amending s. 718.111, F.S.; requiring a community association manager or a community association management firm that contracts with a community association to possess specified licenses; providing that all board members or officers of a community association that contracts with a community association manager or a community association management firm have a duty to ensure that the community association manager or community association management firm is properly licensed before entering into a contract; authorizing a community association to terminate a contract with a community association manager or a community association management firm if the manager's or management firm's license is suspended or revoked during the term of the contract; requiring every condominium association to have adequate property insurance; deleting specified required coverage; providing that the amount of adequate insurance coverage may be based on the replacement cost of the property to be insured, as determined by an independent insurance appraisal or previous appraisal; requiring that such replacement cost be determined according to a specified timeframe; hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature providing that an association's obligation to obtain and provide adequate property insurance may be satisfied by obtaining and maintaining insurance coverage sufficient to cover a specified amount; revising which items constitute the official records of the association; requiring that certain documents be posted on certain associations' websites or made available for download through an application on a mobile device within a specified timeframe; revising which documents must be posted in digital format on the association's website or application; revising the timeframe in which the association must deliver a copy of the most recent financial report or a notice that a copy of the most recent financial report will be distributed; revising the methods of delivery for a copy of the most recent association financial report to include electronic delivery via the Internet; requiring that an officer or a director execute an affidavit as evidence of compliance with the delivery requirement; revising how financial reports are prepared; requiring an association board to use best efforts to make prudent investment decisions in fulfilling its duty to manage operating and reserve funds of the association; authorizing an association, including a multicondominium association, to invest hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature reserve funds in specified financial institutions without a vote of the unit owners; amending s. 718.112, F.S.; authorizing an association board meeting to be conducted in person or by video conference; requiring the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes to adopt rules; requiring that notice for board meetings conducted via video conference contain specific information; requiring that such meetings be recorded and maintained as an official record of the association; revising the distance from the condominium property within which a unit owner meeting must be held; authorizing a unit owner to vote electronically if the unit owner meeting is conducted via video conference; authorizing unit owner meetings to be conducted in person or via video conference; specifying what constitutes a quorum for meetings held via video conference; requiring that, if the bylaws are silent as to the location, the location of the meeting be provided in the association bylaws or within a specified distance from, or within the same county of, the condominium property; requiring that meetings held via video conference be recorded and be maintained as an official record of the association; requiring the division to adopt rules; revising the hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature methods of serving notice of unit owner meetings; authorizing budget meetings to be conducted via video conference; requiring the division to adopt rules; requiring that a sound transmitting device be used at such meetings for a specified purpose; revising a provision requiring that a board proposing a budget that requires a certain special assessment against unit owners simultaneously propose a substitute budget that meets certain requirements, rather than conduct a special meeting of the unit owners to consider a substitute budget after the adoption of the annual budget; requiring unit owners, rather than authorizing them, to consider a substitute budget; providing that the annual budget initially proposed by the board be adopted under certain circumstances; revising the criteria used in determining whether assessments exceed the specified percentage of assessments of the previous fiscal year; revising the threshold for deferred maintenance expenses or replacements in reserve accounts; authorizing the members to vote to waive the maintenance of reserves recommended in the most recent structural integrity reserve study under certain circumstances; deleting a requirement that the division approve the funding method; providing that specified reserves may be funded by regular hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature assessments, special assessments, lines of credit, or loans under certain circumstances; requiring that any special assessment, line of credit, or loan be approved by a majority of the total voting interests of the association; authorizing a unit-owner- controlled association that is required to have a structural reserve study to obtain a line of credit or a loan to fund capital expenses required by a milestone inspection or a structural integrity reserve study; requiring that any special assessment, line of credit, or loan be sufficient to fund the cumulative amount of any previously waived or unfunded portions of the reserve funding amount and the most recent structural integrity reserve study; requiring that funding from the line of credit or loan be immediately available for access by the board for a specified purpose without further approval by association members; requiring that such special assessments, lines of credit, or loans be included in the association's financial report; providing applicability; deleting a requirement that the majority of the members must approve of the board pausing contributions to the association's reserves for a specified purpose; authorizing the board to temporarily pause reserve fund contributions or reduce hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature the amount of reserve funding for a specified purpose for a budget adopted on or before a specified date if the association has completed a milestone inspection within a specified timeframe and such inspection recommended certain repairs; requiring that such temporary pause or reduction be approved by a majority of the total voting interests of the association; providing applicability; requiring associations that have paused or reduced their reserve funding to have a structural integrity reserve study performed before the continuation of reserve contributions for specified purposes; providing that an association's reserve accounts may be pooled for a specified number of required components; requiring that reserve funding for certain components be pooled within those components; requiring that reserve funding in the proposed annual budget be sufficient to ensure that available funds meet or exceed projected expenses for all components in the reserve pool based on the reserve funding plan or schedule of the most recent structural integrity reserve study; providing that a vote of the members is not required for the board to change the accounting method for reserves to specified accounting methods; requiring the division to annually adjust for inflation the minimum threshold amount for hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature required reserves, based on specified criteria; requiring the division, by a specified date and annually thereafter, to conspicuously post on its website the inflation-adjusted minimum threshold amount for required reserves; revising the items to be included in a structural integrity reserve study; requiring specified design professionals or contractors who bid to perform a structural integrity reserve study to disclose in writing to the association their intent to bid on any services related to the maintenance, repair, or replacement that may be recommended by the structural integrity reserve study; prohibiting such professionals or contractors from having any interest in or being related to any person having any interest in the firm or entity providing the association's structural integrity reserve study unless such relationship is disclosed in writing; defining the term "relative"; providing that a contract for services is voidable and terminates upon the association filing a written notice terminating such a contract if such professional or contractor fails to provide a written disclosure of such relationship with the firm conducting the structural integrity reserve study; providing that such professional or contractor may be hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature subject to discipline for his or her failure to provide such written disclosure; requiring that a structural integrity reserve study include a recommendation for a reserve funding schedule based on specified criteria; providing that the study may recommend other types of reserve funding schedules, provided each recommended schedule is sufficient to meet the association's maintenance obligations; requiring that reserves not required for certain items be separately identified as such in the structural integrity reserve study; requiring that the structural integrity reserve study take into consideration the funding method or methods used by the association to fund maintenance and reserve funding obligations through regular assessments, special assessments, lines of credit, or loans; requiring that a structural integrity reserve study that has been performed before the approval of a special assessment or the securing of a line of credit or a loan be updated to reflect certain information regarding the reserve funding schedule; providing that a structural integrity reserve study may be updated to reflect changes in the useful life of the reserve items after such items are repaired or replaced, and the effect such repair or replacement will have on the reserve funding schedule; hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature requiring an association to obtain an updated structural integrity reserve study before adopting any budget in which the reserve funding from regular assessments, special assessments, lines of credit, or loans do not align with the funding plan from the most recent version of the structural integrity reserve study; revising applicability; authorizing an association to delay a required structural integrity reserve study for a specified timeframe if it has completed a milestone inspection or similar inspection, for a specified purpose; requiring an officer or director of an association to sign an affidavit acknowledging receipt of the completed structural integrity reserve study; requiring the division to adopt rules for the form for the structural integrity reserve study in coordination with the Florida Building Commission; making technical changes; amending s. 718.113, F.S.; requiring the board to determine whose responsibility it is to pay for removal or reinstallation of hurricane protection under certain circumstances; deleting authorization for an association to enforce and collect certain charges as assessments; amending s. 718.1265, F.S.; revising the emergency powers of a condominium association; amending s. 718.128, F.S.; deleting a hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature requirement for written notice of certain meetings; requiring, after a specified percentage of voting interests adopts a resolution, a board to hold a meeting within a certain timeframe to adopt such resolution; requiring that a petition to adopt a resolution be submitted to the board within a certain timeframe; requiring an association to designate an e- mail address for receipt of electronically transmitted ballots; requiring that electronically transmitted ballots meet specified requirements; authorizing a unit owner to electronically transmit a ballot without complying with certain provisions; requiring an association to count completed such electronically submitted ballots if such ballots comply with specified requirements; providing requirements for electronically transmitted ballots; providing a rebuttable presumption; amending s. 718.203, F.S.; providing that all condominiums, not just residential, can be covered by an insured warranty program; amending s. 718.301, F.S.; providing that certain provisions of law relating to transfer of control of an association do not apply to certain residential condominiums beginning on a specified date; amending s. 718.302, F.S.; providing that certain agreements may be cancelled by unit owners if the unit owners own hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature a specified percentage of voting interests in certain condominiums; amending s. 718.407, F.S.; requiring that a specified report be provided to an association within a certain timeframe after the end of the fiscal year; requiring that copies of receipts and invoices be included with the report; authorizing the division to impose penalties under certain circumstances; authorizing an association to challenge the apportionment of certain costs of the shared facilities within a certain timeframe; providing construction; amending s. 718.501, F.S.; revising the duties of the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes regarding investigation of complaints; requiring condominium associations to create and maintain an online account with the division on or before a specified date; requiring condominium associations to provide requested information to the division; requiring the division to adopt rules; authorizing the division to require condominium associations to provide such information no more than once a year; requiring that certain information be updated within a specified timeframe; requiring the division to provide a condominium association a specified notice of any requirement to provide information after the condominium association hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature creates an online account; specifying the information the division may require from a condominium association; amending s. 718.503, F.S.; revising the disclosures that must be included in a contract for the sale and resale of a residential unit; amending s. 8 of chapter 2024-244, Laws of Florida, as amended; requiring that specified documents be made available on an association's website or made available for download through an application on a mobile device within a specified timeframe; revising the documents required to be posted in digital format on an association's website or application; amending s. 31 of chapter 2024-244, Laws of Florida; revising retroactivity and applicability; amending s. 719.104, F.S.; requiring a board to use best efforts to make prudent investment decisions in fulfilling its duty to manage operating and reserve funds of the cooperative association; authorizing an association to invest reserve funds in specified financial institutions without a vote of the unit owners; amending s. 719.106, F.S.; revising the deferred maintenance expense or replacement costs threshold that must be included in reserve accounts; authorizing the board to pause contributions to its reserves or reduce reserve funding if a local building official determines the hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature entire cooperative building is uninhabitable due to a natural emergency; authorizing any reserve account funds held by the association to be expended to make the cooperative building and its structures habitable, pursuant to the board's determination; requiring the association to immediately resume contributing funds to its reserves upon determination by the local building official that the cooperative building is habitable; providing that certain reserves may be funded by regular assessments, special assessments, lines of credit, or loans under certain circumstances; requiring that a special assessment, a line of credit, or a loan requires the approval of a majority vote of the total voting interests of an association; authorizing a unit-owner-controlled association to obtain a line of credit or a loan to fund capital expenses required by a milestone inspection or a structural integrity reserve study; requiring that such lines of credit or loans be sufficient to fund the cumulative amount of any previously waived or unfunded portion of the reserve funding amount and most recent structural integrity reserve study; requiring that funding from such line of credit or loan be immediately available for access by the board for a specified purpose without further approval by hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature the members of the association; requiring that any special assessment, line of credit, or loan be included in the annual financial statement to be delivered to unit owners and provided to prospective unit purchasers; authorizing the board to temporarily pause reserve fund contributions or reduce the amount of reserve funding for a specified purpose for a budget adopted on or before a specified date if the association has completed a milestone inspection within a specified timeframe; requiring that such temporary pause or reduction be approved by a majority of the total voting interests of the association; providing applicability; requiring associations that have paused or reduced reserve funding contributions to have a structural integrity reserve study performed for specified purposes before the continuation of reserve contributions; providing that an association's reserve accounts may be pooled for a specified number of required components; requiring that reserve funding for certain components be pooled within those components; requiring that reserve funding in the proposed annual budget be sufficient to ensure that available funds meet or exceed projected expenses for all components in the reserve pool based on the reserve funding plan or schedule of the most recent hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature structural integrity reserve study; providing that a vote of the members is not required for the board to change the accounting method for reserves to specified accounting methods; requiring the division to annually adjust for inflation the minimum threshold amount for required reserves based on specified criteria; requiring the division, by a specified date and annually thereafter, to conspicuously post on its website the inflation-adjusted minimum threshold amount for required reserves; revising the criteria for buildings that require a structural integrity reserve study; revising the items required to be included in a structural integrity reserve study; requiring specified design professionals or contractors, rather than any person qualified to perform a structural integrity reserve study, to perform structural integrity reserve studies; requiring such design professionals or contractors who bid to perform a structural integrity reserve study to disclose in writing to the association their intent to bid on any services related to the maintenance, repair, or replacement that may be recommended by the structural integrity reserve study; prohibiting such professionals or contractors from having any interest in or being related to any person having any interest hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature in the firm or entity providing the association's structural integrity reserve study unless such relationship is disclosed in writing; defining the term "relative"; providing that a contract for services is voidable and terminates upon the association filing a written notice terminating such a contract if such professional or contractor fails to provide a written disclosure of such relationship with the firm conducting the structural integrity reserve study; providing that such professional or contractor may be subject to discipline for his or her failure to provide such written disclosure; requiring that a structural integrity reserve study include a recommendation for a reserve funding schedule based on specified criteria; providing that the study may recommend other types of reserve funding schedules, provided each recommended schedule is sufficient to meet the association's maintenance obligation; requiring that reserves not required for certain items be separately identified as such in the structural integrity reserve study; requiring that the structural integrity reserve study take into consideration the funding method or methods used by the association to fund its maintenance and reserve funding obligations through regular assessments, special assessments, hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature lines of credit, or loans; requiring that a structural integrity reserve study that has been performed before the approval of a special assessment or the securing of a line of credit or a loan be updated to reflect certain information regarding the reserve funding schedule; providing that a structural integrity reserve study may be updated to reflect changes in the useful life of the reserve items after such items are repaired or replaced, and the effect of such repair or replacement will have on the reserve funding schedule; requiring an association to obtain an updated structural integrity reserve study before adopting any budget in which the reserve funding from regular assessments, special assessments, lines of credit, or loans do not align with the funding plan from the most recent version of the structural integrity reserve study; revising applicability; authorizing an association to delay a required structural integrity reserve study for a specified timeframe if it has completed a milestone inspection or similar inspection, for a specified purpose; requiring an officer or a director of the association to sign an affidavit acknowledging receipt of the completed structural integrity reserve study; requiring the division to adopt by rule the form for the structural hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature integrity reserve study in coordination with the Florida Building Commission; amending s. 719.128, F.S.; revising the emergency powers of a cooperative association; amending s. 719.501, F.S.; requiring a cooperative association to create and maintain an online account with the division; requiring the division to adopt rules; authorizing the division to require cooperative associations to provide information to the division no more than once per year; providing an exception; requiring the division to provide associations a specified timeframe to provide any required information; specifying the information the division may request; amending s. 719.503, F.S.; revising the disclosures required to be included in a contract for the sale and resale of an interest in a cooperative; amending s. 914.21, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "official investigation"; reenacting s. 468.436(2)(b), F.S., relating to disciplinary proceedings, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 468.4335, F.S., in a reference thereto; reenacting ss. 718.106(2)(b), 718.117(4), 718.403(1)(d), and 718.405(4), F.S., relating to condominium appurtenances, termination of condominium, phase condominiums, and multicondominiums, respectively, to incorporate the hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature amendment made to s. 718.110, F.S., in references thereto; reenacting s. 721.13(3)(e), F.S., relating to management, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 718.111, F.S., in a reference thereto; reenacting ss. 718.504(7)(a) and (21)(c) and 718.618(1)(d), F.S., relating to prospectus or offering circulars and converter reserve accounts and warranties, respectively, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 718.112, F.S., in references thereto; reenacting s. 718.115(1)(e), F.S., relating to common expenses and common surpluses, to incorporate the amendment made in s. 718.113, F.S., in a reference thereto; reenacting s. 718.706(1) and (3), F.S., relating to specific provisions pertaining to offering of units by bulk assignees or bulk buyers, to incorporate the amendments made to ss. 718.111, 718.112, and 718.503, F.S., in references thereto; reenacting s. 718.705(2), F.S., relating to the transfer of control of the board of administration, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 718.301, F.S., in a reference thereto; reenacting ss. 719.103(24) and 719.504(7)(a) and (20)(c), F.S., relating to definitions and prospectus or offering circulars, respectively, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 719.106, F.S., in references thereto; providing effective dates. hb913 -03-er2025 Legislature | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H0393 | My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program | An act relating to the My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program; amending s. 215.55871, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "condominium"; limiting participation in the My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program to certain structures and buildings on condominium property; prohibiting a condominium association from applying for a hurricane mitigation inspection or a mitigation grant under the pilot program unless certain conditions are met; providing that grant funds may only be used for certain water intrusion mitigation devices or improvements; revising the approval requirements to receive a mitigation grant; removing the amount of grant funding for certain projects; revising the improvements for which a mitigation grant may be used; requiring improvements to be identified in the final hurricane mitigation inspection in order for an association to receive grant funds; requiring grant funds to be awarded for a mitigation improvement that will result in a mitigation credit, discount, or other rate differential; requiring mitigation improvements to be made to all openings under certain circumstances; providing an effective date. hb393 -03-e1 | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H0669 | Israeli Bonds | An act relating to Israeli bonds; amending s. 218.415, F.S.; prohibiting local governments from requiring minimum bond ratings in certain circumstances; providing an effective date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H0163 | Ad Valorem Property Tax Exemption for the Surviving Spouse of Quadriplegics | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to Section 6 of Article VII and the creation of a new section in Article XII of the State Constitution to authorize the Legislature to provide for a homestead property tax exemption for the surviving spouse of certain quadriplegics. | Dead |
H0177 | Transportation Facility Designations | An act relating to transportation facility designations; providing honorary designations of certain transportation facilities in specified counties; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H1019 | Weapons and Firearms | An act relating to weapons and firearms; providing a short title; creating s. 790.0653, F.S.; providing definitions; requiring a background check on every sale or other transfer of a firearm; requiring background checks on all persons involved in firearm sales or other transfers; requiring firearm sales or other transfers to be conducted through, and processed by, a licensed dealer; authorizing a fee; providing exceptions; providing criminal penalties; requiring the investing law enforcement agency to report certain violations to the Attorney General; providing applicability; amending s. 790.174, F.S.; revising requirements for the safe storage of firearms; providing and revising definitions; revising criminal penalties for violations; providing exceptions; amending s. 790.175, F.S.; requiring firearms to be sold by dealers with trigger locks or gun cases; providing exceptions; revising warnings to be posted in gun dealerships; requiring certain materials to be given to gun purchasers; requiring a purchaser to sign a specified statement; providing record retention requirements for dealers; providing construction; providing criminal penalties; creating s. 790.223, F.S.; providing definitions; prohibiting specified acts involving unfinished firearm frames or receivers; providing criminal penalties; providing applicability; prohibiting certain actions leading to the assembly of a firearm; prohibiting certain activities involving a three-dimensional printer or computer numerical control milling machine that has the primary or intended function of manufacturing or assembling firearms or related items; providing exceptions; providing construction; creating the Veteran's Firearm Suicide Reduction Task Force; providing requirements for the task force; providing membership; providing for staff support; providing requirements for meetings; specifying duties and powers of the task force; authorizing the task force to seek assistance from state agencies; requiring a report; providing for repeal of the task force; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0029 | Pub. Rec. and Meetings/Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact | An act relating to public records and meetings; creating s. 491.023, F.S.; providing an exemption from public records requirements for certain information held by the Department of Health or the Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling pursuant to the Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact; authorizing the disclosure of such information under certain circumstances; providing an exemption from public meetings requirements for certain meetings or portions of certain meetings of the Social Work Licensure Compact Commission or its executive committee or other committees; providing an exemption from public records requirements for recordings, minutes, and records generated during the exempt meetings or portions of such meetings; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing statements of public necessity; providing a contingent effective date. | Dead |
H1575 | Water Quality Improvements | An act relating to water quality improvements; providing legislative findings; requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA) to conduct a study of the prevalence and effects of lead in drinking water in certain public facilities; specifying the information that must be included in the study; requiring OPPAGA to consult with interested entities in conducting the study; requiring OPPAGA to submit the study to the Governor and Legislature by a specified date; providing for future repeal; amending s. 403.0673, F.S.; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to consider and prioritize certain water quality improvement projects relating to special flood hazard areas; providing requirements for the Department of Health, the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and water management districts relating to harmful algal blooms; requiring water management districts to submit a plan relating to the prevention and mitigation of the harmful effects of blue-green algal blooms to certain entities by a specified date; requiring specified entities to provide a schedule for implementing the plan; requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the South Florida Water Management District to take specified actions to ensure nitrogen levels continue to drop in Lake Okeechobee; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection and the St. Johns River Water Management District to take specified actions relating to improving water quality in the Upper St. Johns River Basin; providing reporting requirements; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H1177 | Labor Regulations | An act relating to labor regulations; amending s. 447.303, F.S.; providing that all employee organizations that are certified as a bargaining agent, and not just those representing certain employees, may deduct dues and assessments from the salaries of certain employees; amending s. 447.305, F.S.; removing a provision requiring certain employee organizations to petition for recertification; creating s. 448.1065, F.S.; providing applicability; providing definitions; requiring certain employers to implement an outdoor heat exposure safety program that has been approved by specified departments; specifying requirements for the safety program; providing responsibilities for certain employers and employees; providing exceptions; requiring specified annual training on heat illness and providing requirements for such training; requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, in conjunction with the Department of Health, to adopt specified rules; creating s. 448.112, F.S.; providing definitions; requiring certain contracting agents to contribute funds to qualified benefit providers for the benefit of the workers of the contracting agent; providing applicability; providing the contribution amount; authorizing the contribution amount to be added to an invoice or other form of billing; requiring such contributions to be made within a certain time period; providing requirements for such contributions; providing duties of qualified benefit providers; authorizing a qualified benefit provider to use a specified percentage of contributions for administrative functions; requiring a worker to select a qualified benefit provider; authorizing a worker to change his or her qualified benefit provider annually; requiring contracting agents to provide certain information to its workers; providing requirements for an organization to become a qualified benefit provider; requiring the Department of Commerce to adopt specified rules; providing a cause of action; providing construction; amending s. 447.207, F.S.; conforming a cross-reference; repealing s. 542.335, F.S., relating to valid restraints of trade or commerce; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0365 | Rent of Affordable Housing Dwelling Units | An act relating to rent of affordable housing dwelling units; amending s. 83.46, F.S.; defining the term "affordable"; prohibiting certain landlords of specified dwelling units from increasing rent during the term of a rental agreement; providing exceptions; providing applicability; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0027 | Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact | An act relating to the Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact; creating s. 491.022, F.S.; creating the Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact; providing purposes, objectives, and definitions; specifying requirements for state participation in the compact and duties of member states; specifying that the compact does not affect an individual's ability to apply for, and a member state's ability to grant, a single state license pursuant to the laws of that state; providing for recognition of compact privilege in member states; specifying criteria a licensee must meet for compact privilege; providing for the expiration and renewal of compact privilege; specifying that a licensee with compact privilege in a remote state must adhere to the laws and rules of that state; authorizing member states to act on a licensee's compact privilege under certain circumstances; specifying the consequences and parameters of practice for a licensee whose compact privilege has been acted upon or whose home state license is encumbered; specifying that a licensee may hold a home state license in only one member state at a time; specifying requirements and procedures for changing a home state license designation; authorizing hb27-01-c1 active duty military personnel or their spouses to keep their home state designation during active duty; authorizing member states to take adverse actions against licensees and issue subpoenas for hearings and investigations under certain circumstances; providing requirements and procedures for such adverse action; authorizing member states to engage in joint investigations under certain circumstances; providing that a licensee's compact privilege must be deactivated in all member states for the duration of an encumbrance imposed by the licensee's home state; providing for notice to the data system and the licensee's home state of any adverse action taken against a licensee; establishing the Social Work Licensure Compact Commission; providing for jurisdiction and venue for court proceedings; providing for membership and powers of the commission; specifying powers and duties of the commission's executive committee; authorizing the commission to convene in closed, nonpublic meetings under certain circumstances; providing for the financing of the commission; providing specified individuals immunity from civil liability under certain circumstances; providing exceptions; requiring the commission to defend the specified individuals in civil actions hb27-01-c1 under certain circumstances; requiring the commission to indemnify and hold harmless specified individuals for any settlement or judgment obtained in such actions under certain circumstances; providing for the development of the data system, reporting procedures, and the exchange of specified information between member states; requiring the commission to notify member states of any adverse action taken against a licensee or applicant for licensure; authorizing member states to designate as confidential information provided to the data system; requiring the commission to remove information from the data system under certain circumstances; providing rulemaking procedures for the commission; providing for member state enforcement of the compact; authorizing the commission to receive notice of process, and have standing to intervene, in certain proceedings; rendering certain judgments and orders void as to the commission, the compact, or commission rules under certain circumstances; providing for defaults and termination of compact membership; providing procedures for the resolution of certain disputes; providing for commission enforcement of the compact; providing for remedies; providing for implementation of, withdrawal from, and amendment to the compact; specifying that hb27-01-c1 licensees practicing in a remote state under the compact must adhere to the laws and rules of that state; specifying that the compact, commission rules, and commission actions are binding on member states; providing construction; providing for severability; amending s. 456.073, F.S.; requiring the Department of Health to report certain investigative information to the data system; amending s. 456.076, F.S.; requiring monitoring contracts for certain impaired practitioners to contain certain terms; amending s. 491.004, F.S.; requiring the Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling to appoint an individual to serve as the state's delegate on the commission; amending ss. 491.005 and 491.006, F.S.; exempting certain persons from licensure requirements; amending s. 491.009, F.S.; authorizing certain disciplinary action under the compact for specified prohibited acts; amending s. 768.28, F.S.; designating the state's delegate and other members or employees of the commission as state agents for the purpose of applying waivers of sovereign immunity; requiring the commission to pay certain claims or judgments; authorizing the commission to maintain insurance coverage to pay such claims or judgments; providing an effective date. hb27-01-c1 | Dead |
H0781 | Cyberintimidation by Publication | An act relating to cyberintimidation by publication; amending s. 836.115, F.S.; requiring that specified information has been electronically published without consent in order to constitute a violation; removing the requirement that an offender intend that a person be placed in reasonable fear of bodily harm when making a threat or harassing the person; increasing the criminal penalty for a violation; creating a civil cause of action; requiring a clear and convincing standard of evidence in such actions; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0035 | Heat Illness Prevention | An act relating to heat illness prevention; creating s. 448.112, F.S.; providing applicability; providing definitions; requiring certain employers to implement an outdoor heat exposure safety program that has been approved by specified departments; specifying requirements for the safety program; providing responsibilities for certain employers and employees; providing exceptions; requiring specified annual training on heat illness and providing requirements for such training; requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, in conjunction with the Department of Health, to adopt specified rules; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0299 | Elevator Accessibility Requirements | An act relating to elevator accessibility requirements; amending s. 399.035, F.S.; requiring elevator car interiors to have at least one support rail that meets certain specifications; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0165 | Tax Exemptions for Surviving Spouses of Quadriplegics | An act relating to tax exemptions for surviving spouses of quadriplegics; amending s. 196.101, F.S.; authorizing the surviving spouses of certain quadriplegics to carry over a certain tax exemption in certain circumstances; authorizing the Department of Revenue to adopt emergency rules; providing a contingent effective date. | Dead |
H0083 | Protections for Public Employees who use Medical Marijuana as Qualified Patients | An act relating to protections for public employees who use medical marijuana as qualified patients; creating s. 112.0556, F.S.; defining terms; prohibiting a public employer from taking adverse personnel action against an employee or a job applicant for his or her use of medical marijuana if the employee or job applicant is a qualified patient; providing exceptions; requiring a public employer to provide written notice of an employee's or a job applicant's right to explain or contest a positive marijuana test result within a specified timeframe; providing procedures that apply when an employee or a job applicant tests positive for marijuana; providing a cause of action and damages; providing construction; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0271 | Crimes Evidencing Prejudice | An act relating to crimes evidencing prejudice; amending s. 775.085, F.S.; expanding grounds for the reclassification of crimes to include acts based on the gender or gender identity of any person; specifying that the reclassification must occur if the crime was based in whole or in part on specified characteristics of any person; providing and revising definitions; amending s. 775.0863, F.S.; replacing the term "mental or physical disability" with the term "disability"; defining the term "disability"; specifying that the reclassification of a certain crime must occur if the crime was based in whole or in part on a disability of any person; amending s. 877.19, F.S.; expanding the data the Governor is required to collect and disseminate to include specified incidents; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0159 | Statewide, Standardized Assessments | An act relating to statewide, standardized assessments; amending ss. 1008.22 and 1008.25, F.S.; requiring the Department of Education to develop versions of statewide, standardized assessments and specified portions of the statewide, standardized coordinated screening and progress monitoring system in certain languages by a specified date; requiring the department to establish criteria for the use of such assessments and portions of the system; authorizing parents to prohibit the use of such assessments and portions of the systems in certain languages; requiring the department to develop a timetable and action plan for the development and implementation of such assessments and written portions of the system; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0675 | Grants for Low-income Senior Citizen Condominium Unit Owners | An act relating to grants for low-income senior citizen condominium unit owners; amending s. 420.507, F.S.; requiring the Florida Housing Finance Corporation to establish by rule requirements for a specified grant; providing the maximum amount for such grant; providing definitions; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0017 | Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program | An act relating to the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program; amending s. 1007.27, F.S.; conforming a cross-reference; amending s. 1007.35, F.S.; requiring public middle schools to provide for the administration of the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test to students who meet specified criteria to help such students qualify for the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program; providing for an exemption from such test; requiring specified test preparation resources and information be provided to certain students for a specified time period; providing continued eligibility criteria for students receiving such resources and information; providing for the funding for such assessments and resources; amending ss. 1009.534 and 1009.535, F.S.; revising the eligibility criteria for certain awards under the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0951 | Homelessness | An act relating to homelessness; providing a short title; amending s. 420.621, F.S.; defining the term "housing status"; creating s. 420.6215, F.S.; providing legislative findings; prohibiting the denial or abridgment of a person's ability to access public services solely because he or she is homeless; providing that a person experiencing homelessness has specified rights; authorizing a court to award certain relief, damages, and attorney fees and costs to a prevailing plaintiff in certain civil actions; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0103 | Protection from Surgical Smoke | An act relating to protection from surgical smoke; creating s. 395.1013, F.S.; defining the terms "smoke evacuation system" and "surgical smoke"; requiring hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to, by a specified date, adopt and implement policies requiring the use of smoke evacuation systems during certain surgical procedures; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0033 | Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote | An act relating to the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote; providing for enactment of the agreement; providing a method by which a state may become a member state; requiring a statewide popular election for President and Vice President of the United States; establishing a procedure for appointing presidential electors in member states; providing that the agreement becomes effective upon the occurrence of specified actions; providing for the withdrawal of a member state; requiring notification of member states when the agreement takes effect in a nonmember state or when a member state withdraws from the agreement; providing severability; providing definitions; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0223 | Electronic Monitoring Devices in Long-term Care Facilities | An act relating to electronic monitoring devices in long-term care facilities; creating ss. 400.025 and 429.265, F.S.; defining the terms "electronic monitoring device" and "representative"; authorizing a resident, or his or her representative, of a nursing home facility or assisted living facility, respectively, to install and use an electronic monitoring device in the resident's room if specified conditions are met; providing for notice; providing for consent of a resident living in a shared room with a resident who intends to install a device; authorizing the other resident or his or her representative to impose conditions on the consent; providing for withdrawal of consent and modification of conditions; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to adopt forms by rule; providing requirements for the forms; prohibiting facilities from denying admission or otherwise discriminating against a resident for installing an electronic monitoring device; providing an administrative penalty; providing a criminal penalty for unlawfully obstructing, tampering with, or destroying an electronic monitoring device or a recording made by such device; specifying who may view or listen to hb223-01-c1 images and sounds broadcast or recorded by an electronic monitoring device; providing applicability; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to adopt rules; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0957 | Limits on Property Insurance Rates Filed with the Office of Insurance Regulation | An act relating to limits on property insurance rates filed with the Office of Insurance Regulation; amending s. 627.062, F.S.; limiting the rates filed by property insurers with the Office of Insurance Regulation to a specified percentage; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0469 | Decreasing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services | An act relating to decreasing racial and ethnic disparities in mental health and substance abuse services; amending s. 381.7355, F.S.; revising project requirements and review criteria for the Closing the Gap grant program to include mental health and substance abuse services; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H1507 | Medicaid Eligibility for Medical Assistance and Related Services | An act relating to Medicaid eligibility for medical assistance and related services; amending s. 409.904, F.S.; extending Medicaid eligibility for specified low-income adults; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0963 | Veterans Rental Assistance Grant Program | An act relating to rental assistance for veterans; creating s. 420.5098, F.S.; providing legislative findings; creating the Veterans' Rental Assistance Grant Program; authorizing the Florida Housing Finance Corporation to provide certain grants to eligible applicants for a specified purpose; providing eligibility requirements for the program; authorizing rulemaking; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H1045 | Education | An act relating to education; amending s. 1002.421, F.S.; revising requirements for a private school to participate in certain educational scholarship programs; requiring the Department of Education to suspend the payment of funds to participating private schools under certain circumstances; amending s. 1011.62, F.S.; requiring the Legislature to determine the base student allocation using the Consumer Price Index; revising the minimum base salary for classroom teachers; creating s. 1011.761, F.S.; creating the K- 12 Classroom Technology Grant Program; requiring the department to administer the program and establish an application process; providing for the award of grants and the amount of such grants; providing funding for the program; authorizing the State Board of Education to adopt rules; creating s. 1011.781, F.S.; creating the K-12 Education Funding Task Force within the department; providing the purpose of the task force; providing for membership of the task force; providing for the terms of task force members; providing requirements for the selection of a chair, a quorum, and meetings of the task force; authorizing task force members to receive specified reimbursements; providing the duties and responsibilities of the task force; requiring the task force to annually provide a report to specified individuals and the public; providing requirements for such report; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0979 | State Department Customer Service Standards | An act relating to state department customer service standards; amending s. 23.30, F.S.; requiring state departments to employ a callback queue system for customers who contact state departments by telephone; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0217 | Property Tax Exemption for Surviving Spouses of Veterans | An act relating to the property tax exemption for surviving spouses of veterans; amending s. 196.081, F.S.; authorizing the surviving spouses of veterans who predecease the issuance of a certain letter from the Federal Government to produce the letter before the property appraiser; providing applicability; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0641 | Food Additives | An act relating to food additives; creating s. 500.181, F.S.; requiring food and drink products intended for human consumption that contain synthetic dyes to have a certain warning on the products' packaging; providing penalties; providing for the deposit of penalty proceeds; requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to conduct certain inspections; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H1409 | Elections | An act relating to elections; amending s. 20.10, F.S.; requiring that the Secretary of State be elected rather than appointed and serve a specified term; specifying when such election must occur; amending s. 20.32, F.S.; requiring the Florida Commission on Offender Review to develop and maintain a database for a specified purpose; specifying database requirements; requiring specified entities to provide specified information to the commission on a monthly basis; requiring the Department of Management Services, acting through the Florida Digital Service, to provide technical assistance to the commission in developing and maintaining the database; authorizing the Department of Management Services to adopt rules; requiring the commission to make the database publicly available on a website by a specified date; requiring the commission to update the database monthly; requiring the commission to publish certain instructions on the website; requiring the commission to submit a certain comprehensive plan to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date; specifying requirements for the comprehensive plan; providing that certain persons who register to vote are prohibited from being charged with certain crimes as a result of such registration or voting; requiring the commission to adopt rules; amending s. 97.021, F.S.; defining terms; providing construction; repealing s. 97.022, F.S., relating to the Office of Election Crimes and Security; repealing s. 97.0291, F.S., relating to prohibiting the use of private funds for election-related expenses; creating s. 97.0556, F.S.; authorizing a person who meets certain requirements to register to vote at an early voting site or at his or her polling place and to cast a ballot immediately thereafter; amending s. 97.057, F.S.; authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to preregister certain individuals to vote; providing that driver license or identification card applications, driver license or identification card renewal applications, and applications for changes of address for existing driver licenses or identification cards submitted to the department serve as voter registration applications; providing that an applicant is deemed to have consented to the use of his or her signature for voter registration purposes unless a declination is made; requiring that specified applications include a voter registration component, subject to approval by the Department of State; providing requirements for the voter registration component; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to transmit voter registration information electronically to the Department of State within a specified timeframe; requiring the Department of State to provide such information to supervisors of elections; deleting provisions prohibiting persons providing voter registration services for a driver license office from making changes to an applicant's party affiliation without the applicant's consent and separate signature; deleting obsolete language; making technical changes; amending s. 97.0575, F.S.; revising the information a third-party voter registration organization is required to provide to the Division of Elections of the Department of State; deleting a provision that provides for the expiration of such organization's registration at the conclusion of the general election cycle for which the organization is registered; deleting provisions requiring such organizations to provide a specified receipt to applicants; revising the timeframe within which such organizations must deliver completed applications to the division or a supervisor of elections; revising certain penalties; revising the aggregate limit of such penalties; deleting provisions providing criminal penalties for the unlawful copying of voter registration applications or retaining of a voter's personal information; deleting provisions providing criminal and administrative penalties; deleting provisions requiring the division to adopt certain rules; deleting provisions that prohibit providing applicants a pre-filled voter registration application and a specified fine for such action; deleting provisions providing for retroactive application; creating part III of ch. 97, F.S., entitled "Florida Voting Rights Act"; creating s. 97.21, F.S.; prohibiting local governments, state agencies, and state officials from implementing, imposing, or enforcing election policies, practices, or actions that result in, will result in, or are intended to result in specified disparities or impairments; providing that it is not a violation if such entities demonstrate by a specified evidentiary standard certain conditions; providing that it is always a violation if specified circumstances exist; prohibiting local governments from employing methods of election that have the effect, will likely have the effect, or are motivated in part by the intent of diluting the vote of protected class members; providing the requirements to establish a violation; providing the relevant factors to evaluate the totality of circumstances related to voter suppression and vote dilution; providing construction; providing that such factors are most probative under a specified condition; providing the circumstances used to determine whether elections in the local government exhibit racially polarized voting; providing construction; providing the circumstances that are never relevant to violations of specified provisions; providing that a state interest in preventing voter fraud or bolstering voter confidence in the integrity of elections is relevant under specified circumstances; providing that evidence concerning the intent of electors, elected officials, and public officials is not required for such violations; providing that voting habits of protected class members may be relevant to certain violations; requiring a prospective plaintiff, before filing a certain action against a local government, to send a notification letter, by specified means, to the local government; prohibiting a party from filing an action under specified circumstances; authorizing a local government to adopt a specified resolution within a specified timeframe; providing that if the proposed remedy in such resolution is barred by state or local law, or a legislatively body lacks the authority or the local government is a covered jurisdiction, the proposed remedy may be approved by the Florida Voting Rights Act Commission if certain conditions are met; authorizing a party that sent a notification letter to seek reimbursement from the local government under specified circumstances; authorizing a party to bring a cause of action for a specified violation under specified circumstances; requiring local governments to take certain action; requiring the commission to post notification letters and resolutions on its website; authorizing the commission to adopt certain rules; prohibiting local governments from asserting specified defenses; authorizing specified entities to file certain enforcement actions; prohibiting certain entities from being compelled to disclose the identity of a member; providing construction; creating s. 97.22, F.S.; creating the Florida Voting Rights Act Commission within the Department of State; providing that such commission is a separate budget entity and must submit a budget in accordance with specified provisions; providing duties and responsibilities of the commission; providing for the composition of the commission; providing that such commissioners serve staggered terms; requiring that commissioners be compensated at a specified hourly rate; requiring the formation of a nominating committee; providing for the appointment and removal of nominating committee members; requiring the nominating committee to select a chair; requiring that commissioners be selected using a specified process; requiring that commissioners initially be selected by lot and randomly assigned term lengths for purposes of achieving staggered terms; authorizing the commission to take specified actions in any action or investigation to enforce specified provisions; authorizing the commission to hire staff and make expenditures for a specified purpose; authorizing the commission to adopt rules; creating s. 97.23, F.S.; requiring the commission to enter into agreements with one or more postsecondary educational institutions to create the Florida Voting and Elections Database and Institute for a specified purpose; requiring the parties to the agreement to enter into a memorandum of understanding that includes the process for selecting a director; authorizing the database and institute to perform specified actions; requiring the database and institute to make election and voting data records for a specified timeframe available to the public at no cost and to maintain such records in an electronic format; requiring the database and institute to use certain methodologies when preparing estimates; specifying the data and records that must be maintained; requiring state agencies and local governments to provide any information requested by the director of the database and institute; requiring local governments to transmit specified information to the database and institute within a certain timeframe; requiring specified entities to provide data, statistics, and other information annually to the database and institute; authorizing specified entities to file enforcement actions; prohibiting certain entities from being compelled to disclose the identity of a member for a certain purpose; providing construction; providing that enforcement actions may be filed in accordance with the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure or in a specified venue; requiring the database and institute to publish a certain report; requiring the database and institute to provide nonpartisan technical assistance to specified entities; providing that a rebuttable presumption exists that data, estimates, or other information from the database and institute is valid; creating s. 97.24, F.S.; defining terms; requiring the Florida Voting Rights Act Commission to designate languages other than English for which language assistance must be provided by a local government, if certain conditions exist; providing the circumstances under which the commission must designate languages other than English for voting and elections; requiring the commission to publish specified information annually on its website and distribute such information to local governments; requiring local governments to provide language assistance for specified purposes if the commission makes a certain determination; specifying the materials that must be provided in such language; requiring that certain information be given orally to voters; requiring that translated materials convey a specified intent and meaning; prohibiting local governments from relying on automatic translation services; requiring that live translation be used if available; requiring the commission to establish a specified review process; providing requirements for such review process; authorizing specified entities to file enforcement actions; prohibiting certain entities from being compelled to disclose the identity of a member for a certain purpose; providing construction; requiring that enforcement actions be filed in accordance with the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure or in a specified venue; creating s. 97.25, F.S.; providing that the enactment or implementation of a covered policy by a covered jurisdiction is subject to preclearance by the commission; specifying actions by a local government which are covered policies; requiring that if a covered jurisdiction does not make changes to its method of election, such method is deemed a covered policy that must be submitted to the commission; specifying which local governments are covered jurisdictions; requiring the commission to determine and publish annually a list of local governments that are covered jurisdictions on its website; requiring a covered jurisdiction, if seeking preclearance, to submit the covered policy to the commission in writing; requiring the commission to review the covered policy and grant or deny preclearance; providing that the covered jurisdiction bears the burden of proof in the preclearance process; providing that the commission may deny preclearance only if it makes a certain determination; providing that if preclearance is denied, the covered policy may not be enacted or implemented; requiring the commission to provide a written explanation for a denial; authorizing a covered jurisdiction to immediately enact or implement a covered policy granted preclearance; providing that such determination is not admissible and may not be considered by a court in a subsequent action challenging the covered policy; providing that a covered policy is deemed precleared and may be implemented or enacted by the covered jurisdiction if the commission fails to approve or deny the covered policy within specified timeframes; requiring the commission to grant or deny preclearance within specified timeframes; authorizing the commission to invoke a specified number of extensions of a specified timeframe to determine preclearance; providing that any denial of preclearance may be appealed only by the covered jurisdiction in a specified venue; authorizing specified entities to enjoin the enactment or implementation of specified policies and seek sanctions against covered jurisdictions in specified circumstances; authorizing specified entities to file enforcement actions; prohibiting certain entities from being compelled to disclose the identity of a member for a certain purpose; providing construction; specifying that enforcement actions must be filed in accordance with the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure or in a specified venue; requiring the commission to adopt rules; creating s. 97.26, F.S.; prohibiting a person from engaging in acts of intimidation, deception, or obstruction or any other tactic that has the effect, or will reasonably have the effect, of interfering with another person's right to vote; specifying acts that are deemed a violation; providing a rebuttable presumption; authorizing specified entities to file a civil action to enforce specified provisions; prohibiting certain entities from being compelled to disclose the identity of a member for a certain purpose; providing construction; requiring that courts order specified remedies; creating s. 97.27, F.S.; providing construction; providing applicability; creating s. 97.28, F.S.; requiring a court to order specified appropriate remedies for violations of the act; requiring the court to consider remedies proposed by specified parties; prohibiting the court from giving deference to a remedy proposed by the state or local government; providing that the court is empowered to require local governments to implement certain remedies under specified conditions; requiring the courts to grant a temporary injunction or other preliminary relief requested under specified conditions; requiring the court to award attorney fees and litigation costs in actions to enforce specified provisions; amending s. 98.045, F.S.; conforming a cross-reference; amending s. 98.255, F.S.; revising the standards the Department of State is required to prescribe by rule for nonpartisan voter education; requiring that supervisors provide public-facing voter information in plain language to be understood by certain persons; creating s. 100.51, F.S.; establishing General Election Day as a paid holiday; providing that a voter may absent himself or herself from service or employment at a specific time on General Election Day and may not be penalized or have salary or wages deducted for such absence; creating s. 101.016, F.S.; requiring the Division of Elections to maintain a strategic elections equipment reserve of voting systems and other equipment for specified purposes; requiring that such reserve include specified equipment; authorizing the division to contract with specified entities rather than physically maintain such reserve; repealing s. 101.019, F.S., relating to the prohibition of ranked- choice voting; amending s. 101.048, F.S.; providing that a voter may cast a provisional ballot at any precinct in the county in which the voter claims to be registered; making technical changes; amending s. 101.62, F.S.; providing that a request for a vote-by- mail ballot is valid until the voter cancels the request; revising the timeframe during which the supervisor must mail vote-by-mail ballots before election day; deleting requirements for a person designated by a voter to pick up the voter's vote-by- mail ballot; providing for extension of deadlines under certain conditions; amending s. 101.64, F.S.; requiring supervisors of elections to enclose a postage prepaid mailing envelope with each vote-by- mail ballot; providing that vote-by-mail ballot voter certificates may be signed with the last four digits of the voter's social security number; making technical changes; amending s. 101.65, F.S.; revising the instructions that must be provided with a vote-by- mail ballot; amending s. 101.68, F.S.; requiring supervisors of elections to compare the signature or last four digits of the social security number on a voter's certificate with the signature or last four digits of the social security number in the registration books or precinct register when canvassing a vote-by-mail ballot; requiring a canvassing board to compare the signature or last four digits of the social security number on a voter's certificate or vote-by-mail ballot cure affidavit with the signature or last four digits of the social security number in the registration books or precinct register when canvassing a vote-by-mail ballot; deleting the authorization for certain persons to file a protest against the canvass of a ballot; amending s. 101.69, F.S.; deleting provisions providing that specified secure ballot intake stations be used only during specified timeframes and be monitored by an employee of the supervisor's office; requiring that secure ballot intake stations be monitored by the supervisor's office during specified timeframes instead of continuously monitored in person by an employee; deleting a provision authorizing a certain civil penalty; making technical changes; amending s. 104.42, F.S.; conforming a provision to changes made by the act; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0701 | Local Housing Assistance Plans | An act relating to local housing assistance plans; amending s. 420.9072, F.S.; authorizing a county or an eligible municipality to expend certain funds on lot rental assistance for mobile home owners for a specified time period; amending s. 420.9075, F.S.; requiring counties and eligible municipalities to develop certain strategies in their local housing assistance plans; providing that lot rental assistance is an approved home ownership activity for certain purposes; authorizing certain funds to be provided to mobile home owners for rehabilitation and emergency repairs; removing a prohibition that only a certain percentage of funds may be used for manufactured housing; amending s. 420.9071, F.S.; conforming a cross-reference; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0019 | Victims of Domestic Violence and Dating Violence | An act relating to victims of domestic violence and dating violence; providing definitions; requiring the Division of Telecommunications within the Department of Management Services to consult with certain entities to conduct a feasibility study regarding a specified alert system; providing requirements for such alert system; requiring the division to report to the Legislature the results of the feasibility study by a specified date; amending s. 741.401, F.S.; revising legislative findings to include victims of dating violence; amending s. 741.402, F.S.; defining the term "dating violence"; amending s. 741.403, F.S.; authorizing victims of dating violence to apply to participate in the Attorney General's address confidentiality program; amending s. 741.408, F.S.; requiring the Attorney General to designate certain entities to assist victims of dating violence applying to be address confidentiality program participants; amending ss. 741.4651 and 960.001, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H1471 | Housing | An act relating to housing; providing a short title; creating s. 20.71, F.S.; creating the Department of Housing and Tenant Rights; requiring the secretary, the head of the department, to be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate; providing duties of the secretary; providing the purpose of the department; requiring a report on the implementation of an empty homes tax to be provided to the Governor and Legislature by a specified date; providing government reorganization for certain chapters of law; amending s. 83.43, F.S.; revising the definitions of the terms "rent" and "tenant"; creating s. 83.455, F.S.; providing requirements for rental agreements; requiring rental agreements to include certain information; amending s. 83.46, F.S.; providing requirements relating to a written notice of a planned rent increase provided to tenants; amending s. 83.47, F.S.; providing that certain provisions in a rental agreement are void and unenforceable; amending s. 83.49, F.S.; providing requirements relating to security deposits; removing the option for a landlord to deposit certain money into a non-interest-bearing account; revising written notice requirements to tenants; providing for damages if a landlord fails to meet certain requirements; creating s. 83.495, F.S.; providing a short title; prohibiting landlords from requiring prospective tenants to pay certain fees; providing construction; amending s. 83.51, F.S.; requiring a landlord to inspect a dwelling unit at a specified time to ensure compliance with applicable codes; amending s. 83.54, F.S.; requiring certain records to be removed from a tenant's credit report under certain circumstances; amending s. 83.56, F.S.; revising and specifying grounds for termination of a rental agreement; requiring landlords to provide certain tenants a specified amount of time to vacate the premises before bringing a specified action; amending s. 83.60, F.S.; removing a requirement that certain money be paid into the registry of the court; creating s. 83.626, F.S.; authorizing tenants, mobile home owners, mobile home tenants, and mobile home occupants who are defendants in certain eviction proceedings to file a motion with the court to have the records of such proceedings sealed and to have their names substituted on the progress docket under certain conditions; requiring the court to grant such motions without a hearing if certain requirements are met; authorizing that such relief be granted only once; requiring tenants, mobile home owners, mobile home tenants, or mobile home occupants to submit a specified sworn statement; requiring the court to substitute a defendant's name on the progress docket under certain circumstances; prohibiting certain defendants from being eligible for such relief; providing for retroactive applicability; amending s. 83.63, F.S.; conforming a cross-reference; amending s. 83.67, F.S.; prohibiting a landlord from engaging in certain conduct; providing definitions; creating s. 83.675, F.S.; providing definitions; requiring a landlord to give tenants the opportunity to purchase the dwelling unit or premises under certain circumstances; providing requirements for an offer of sale; authorizing a tenant to challenge an offer of sale; creating s. 83.676, F.S.; providing definitions; prohibiting a landlord from evicting a tenant or terminating a rental agreement because the tenant or the tenant's minor child is a victim of actual or threatened domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, or stalking; specifying that a rental agreement may not include certain provisions; authorizing a victim of such actual or threatened violence or stalking to terminate a rental agreement under certain circumstances; requiring certain documentation and written notice to be provided to the landlord; providing for liability for unpaid rent for the tenant and the perpetrator, if applicable; specifying that a tenant does not forfeit certain money paid to the landlord for terminating the rental agreement under certain circumstances; requiring a landlord to change the locks of the dwelling unit within a specified time period under certain circumstances; authorizing the tenant to change the locks under certain circumstances; prohibiting certain actions by a landlord under certain circumstances; authorizing the filing of a civil action and an award of damages, fees, and costs under certain circumstances; prohibiting the waiver or modification of certain provisions; creating 83.685, F.S.; prohibiting the purchase of single-family homes for a specified purpose in certain circumstances; authorizing civil investigations and actions; authorizing the award of certain relief; requiring joinder of certain parties in certain circumstances for specified purposes; providing for joint and several liability; providing construction; defining the terms "affiliate" and "person"; amending s. 163.31801, F.S.; authorizing local governments and special districts to adopt a specified impact fee; requiring that the revenue generated from such impact fee be used for a specified purpose; creating s. 166.0452, F.S.; providing definitions; authorizing municipalities to create community land bank programs for a certain purpose; requiring certain municipalities to develop and annually adopt a community land bank plan; providing requirements for such plan; requiring a public hearing on the proposed plan before its adoption; requiring notice to certain entities; requiring the proposed plan to be made public within a certain timeframe before the public hearing; providing requirements for the sale of certain property to land banks; providing that such sale is for a public purpose; prohibiting certain persons from challenging the market value of property under certain circumstances; requiring written notice of a sale of such property to be provided to certain persons in a certain manner within a specified timeframe; authorizing the owner of certain property to contest the sale of such property and requiring such property to be sold in a different manner; specifying that the owner of certain property is not entitled to proceeds from the sale and is not liable for certain deficiencies; authorizing land banks to buy certain property for less than market value under certain circumstances; conveying the right, title, and interest in certain property to land banks; requiring land banks to offer qualified organizations a right of first refusal to purchase certain property; providing requirements for the right of first refusal; providing conditions for the subsequent resale of property acquired by land banks; requiring certain deed restrictions on certain property; providing requirements for such deed restrictions; authorizing the modification of or addition to deed restrictions; requiring land banks to maintain certain records; requiring land banks to file annual audited financial statements within a certain timeframe; requiring land banks to submit an annual performance report to a municipality by a certain date; providing requirements for such report; requiring copies of such report to be provided to certain entities and made available for public review; providing applicability; amending s. 196.061, F.S.; providing that rental of certain homestead property does not constitute abandonment in specified circumstances; creating s. 201.025, F.S.; providing the amount of documentary stamp tax imposed on purchases of certain property by certain entities; requiring revenue generated by such tax to be deposited into the Florida Affordable Housing Trust Fund; providing exceptions; creating s. 220.1851, F.S.; providing definitions; authorizing a tax credit for certain projects; providing the maximum value of such credit; authorizing the Florida Housing Finance Corporation to allocate the tax credit among certain projects; authorizing the tax credit to be transferred by the recipient; requiring the Department of Revenue to adopt rules; creating s. 420.50931, F.S.; creating the Retail-to-residence Tax Credit Program for a certain purpose; requiring the corporation to determine which projects are eligible for the tax credit; requiring the corporation to establish and adopt certain procedures and to prepare a specified annual plan; requiring such plan to be approved by the Governor; authorizing the corporation to exercise certain powers; requiring the board of directors of the corporation to administer certain procedures and determine allocations on behalf of the corporation; providing requirements for certain procedures; requiring taxpayers to submit an application with certain information to the corporation; authorizing the corporation to request additional information; providing requirements for the approval of an application for a project; creating s. 420.5098, F.S.; creating the Affordable Housing Construction Loan Program for a certain purpose; providing the corporation with certain powers and responsibilities relating to the program; providing requirements for the program; providing rulemaking authority; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H1367 | School Attendance | An act relating to school attendance; amending s. 1003.01, F.S.; providing and revising definitions; amending s. 1003.02, F.S.; prohibiting an out-of- school suspension as a punishment for a student's attendance record; amending s. 1003.04, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 1003.21, F.S.; requiring the State Board of Education to adopt rules relating to a certificate of exemption from school attendance requirements; amending s. 1003.24, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 1003.26, F.S.; requiring the state board to adopt a statewide attendance policy; providing requirements for such policy; revising the school district and public school duties and responsibilities relating to the promotion and enforcement and of regular school attendance, including required actions for students who are absent for a specified amount of days or classes; amending ss. 1003.436, 1003.52, and 1006.08, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending ss. 11.45, 39.0016, 327.371, 414.1251, 446.54, 553.865, 984.151, 1001.11, 1002.01, 1002.20, 1002.3105, 1002.33, 1002.394, 1002.395, 1002.42, 1002.43, 1002.44, 1003.03, 1003.4282, 1003.573, 1003.575, 1006.0626, 1006.07, 1008.24, and 1012.2315, F.S.; conforming cross-references to changes made by the act; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H1013 | Crisis Care Coordination | An act relating to crisis care coordination; creating s. 394.6581, F.S.; requiring the Department of Children and Families to implement, subject to appropriation, Crisis Care Coordination Pilot Programs in specified counties for certain purposes; providing requirements for the pilot programs; requiring the department to contract for an independent evaluation of the pilot programs and submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date; providing rulemaking authority; providing for expiration of the pilot programs; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H1083 | Patient Access to Records | An act relating to patient access to records; amending s. 394.4615, F.S.; requiring a service provider to furnish and provide access to records within a specified timeframe after receiving a request for such records; requiring that certain service providers furnish such records in the manner chosen by the requester; amending s. 395.3025, F.S.; removing provisions requiring a licensed facility to furnish patient records only after discharge to conform to changes made by the act; revising provisions relating to the appropriate disclosure of patient records without consent; amending s. 397.501, F.S.; requiring a service provider to furnish and provide access to records within a specified timeframe after receiving a request from an individual or the individual's legal representative; requiring that certain service providers furnish such records in the manner chosen by the requester; amending s. 400.145, F.S.; revising the timeframe within which a nursing home facility must provide access to and copies of resident records after receiving a request for such records; creating s. 408.833, F.S.; defining the term "legal representative"; requiring a provider to furnish and provide access to records within a specified timeframe after receiving a request from a client or the client's legal representative; requiring that certain providers furnish such records in the manner chosen by the requester; authorizing a provider to impose reasonable terms necessary to preserve such records; providing exceptions; amending s. 456.057, F.S.; requiring certain licensed health care practitioners to furnish and provide access to copies of reports and records within a specified timeframe after receiving a request from a patient or the patient's legal representative; requiring that certain licensed health care practitioners furnish such reports and records in the manner chosen by the requester; defining the term "legal representative"; authorizing such licensed health care practitioners to impose reasonable terms necessary to preserve such reports and records; amending ss. 316.1932, 316.1933, 395.4025, 429.294, 440.185, and 456.47, F.S.; conforming cross- references; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H1609 | Waste Incineration | An act relating to waste incineration; amending ss. 403.706 and 403.707, F.S.; prohibiting a local government or the Department of Environmental Protection, respectively, from issuing a construction permit for a certain new solid waste disposal facility or a waste-to-energy facility in specified areas; providing applicability; conforming cross-references; amending ss. 403.703, 403.7049, and 403.705, F.S.; conforming cross-references; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H1119 | Health Care Patient Protection | An act relating to health care patient protection; amending s. 395.1012, F.S.; requiring hospital emergency departments to develop and implement policies and procedures, conduct training, record weights in a certain manner, designate a pediatric emergency care coordinator, and conduct specified assessments; authorizing a hospital with an emergency department to conduct the National Pediatric Readiness Project's Open Assessment under certain conditions; amending s. 395.1055, F.S.; requiring the agency to adopt certain rules for comprehensive emergency management plans, and, in consultation with the Florida Emergency Medical Services for Children State Partnership Program, establish minimum standards for pediatric patient care in hospital emergency departments; amending s. 408.05, F.S.; requiring the agency to collect and publish the results of specified assessments submitted by hospitals by specified dates; providing requirements for the collection and publication of such assessment scores; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H1309 | Reading Interventions and Instruction | An act relating to reading interventions and instruction; amending s. 1001.215, F.S.; requiring the Just Read, Florida! Office to work with the Florida Center for Reading Research to identify specified personnel to receive training in the delivery of specified reading instruction and interventions; amending s. 1003.4201, F.S.; requiring intensive reading instruction to be provided to certain students; providing requirements for such instruction; revising the requirements of school district reading instruction plans to include the deployment of specified personnel; revising the duties of the Department of Education relating to such plans; amending s. 1004.645, F.S.; requiring the Florida Center for Reading Research, contingent upon funding, to develop specified content relating to training for certain personnel; amending s. 1012.98, F.S.; revising the requirements for school district professional learning systems to include the delivery of specified instruction and interventions; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0633 | Behavioral Health Managing Entities | An act relating to behavioral health managing entities; amending s. 394.9082, F.S.; requiring the Department of Children and Families to contract biennially for specified functions; requiring the department to contract for recommendations for certain transparency improvements; requiring the department to prepare and present to the Governor and Legislature a specified final report by a specified date; requiring managing entities to report required data to the department in a standardized electronic format; providing requirements for such format; requiring managing entities to electronically submit to the department certain documents in a specified format and with specified metadata; requiring managing entities to submit certain specific measures to the department; requiring the department to post and maintain such measures on its website by a specified date every month; providing an exception; providing requirements for such measures; requiring managing entities to report each measure using a standard methodology determined by the department; providing requirements for such measures; providing that implementation of specified requirements is contingent on certain appropriations; providing an effective date. hb633 -02-erLegislature | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H0777 | Offenses Involving Children | An act relating to offenses involving children; creating s. 787.001, F.S.; providing that ignorance of a victim's age, misrepresentation of a victim's age, and a bona fide belief concerning a victim's age are not defenses to certain offenses in which the victim's age is an element of the offense; providing an exception; amending s. 787.025, F.S.; revising the age of the victim involved in luring or enticing offenses to include any child under the age of 14; prohibiting a person from luring or enticing a child under the age of 14 out of a structure, dwelling, or conveyance for other than a lawful purpose; revising the classification of specified offenses involving luring or enticing a child; revising an affirmative defense; amending s. 921.0022, F.S.; ranking offenses on the offense severity ranking chart of the Criminal Punishment Code; providing an effective date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H1103 | Services for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities | An act relating to services for individuals with developmental disabilities; amending s. 393.0662, F.S.; requiring the Agency for Person with Disabilities to provide a list of all qualified organizations located within the region in which the client resides and to post its quarterly reconciliation reports on its website within specified timeframes; amending s. 393.065, F.S.; requiring the agency to participate in transition planning activities and to post the total number of individuals in each priority category on its website; amending s. 393.502, F.S.; establishing the Statewide Family Care Council; providing for the purpose, membership, and duties of the council; requiring local family care councils to report to the statewide council policy changes and program recommendations in an annual report; providing for appointments of local council members; providing for the creation of family-led nominating committees; providing duties of the agency relating to the statewide council and local councils; amending s. 409.972, F.S.; providing for a method of voluntarily choosing to enroll in Medicaid managed care; amending s. 409.9855, F.S.; revising implementation and eligibility requirements of the hb1103 -03-er2025 Legislature pilot program for individuals with developmental disabilities; providing for a method of voluntarily choosing to enroll in the pilot program; requiring the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to transmit to the Agency for Health Care Administration weekly data files of specified clients; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to provide a call center for specified purposes and to coordinate with the Department of Children and Families and the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to disseminate information about the pilot program; revising pilot program benefits; revising provider qualifications; requiring participating plans to conduct an individualized assessment of each enrollee within a specified timeframe for certain purposes and to offer certain services to such enrollees; providing pilot program implementation requirements for selected plans; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to conduct monitoring and evaluations and require corrective actions or payment of penalties under certain circumstances; removing coordination requirements for the agency when submitting certain reports, establishing specified measures, and conducting quality assurance monitoring of the pilot program; revising specified dates for submitting hb1103 -03-er2025 Legislature certain status reports; requiring the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to contract for a specified study and provide to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives a specified report by specified date; providing an effective date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H1353 | Home Health Care Services | An act relating to home health care services; amending s. 400.476, F.S.; revising provisions relating to administrator management; amending s. 400.487, F.S.; authorizing individuals under contract with a home health agency to provide specified services; amending s. 400.52, F.S.; revising Excellence in Home Health Program criteria requirements; providing an effective date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H0929 | Firefighter Health and Safety | An act relating to firefighter health and safety; amending s. 633.506, F.S.; revising legislative intent; amending s. 633.508, F.S.; requiring the Division of State Fire Marshal within the Department of Financial Services to adopt certain rules; requiring the division to assist in decreasing the frequency of fatalities; defining the term "readily available"; amending s. 633.520, F.S.; requiring the division to adopt rules relating to education on chemical hazards or toxic substances and mental health best practices; amending ss. 633.522 and 633.526, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; providing an effective date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H0733 | Brownfields | An act relating to brownfields; amending s. 376.303, F.S.; deleting a provision requiring certain property owners to provide information regarding institutional controls to the local government for mapping purposes; deleting local government requirements for such mapping; requiring that sites issued a site rehabilitation completion order without institutional controls be removed from the registry of all contaminated sites located in a brownfield area; amending s. 376.30781, F.S.; revising the conditions under which an applicant who has rehabilitated a contaminated site may submit and claim certain tax credits; specifying a timeframe within which such tax credit application must be submitted; revising the criteria for determining applicants who are redeveloping brownfield sites who may be eligible for certain tax credits; deleting the definition of the term "monetary compensation"; revising the date by which the Department of Environmental Protection must issue annual site rehabilitation tax credit certificate awards; revising the amount of time the department has to respond to a tax credit applicant regarding a certain notice; amending s. 376.78, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; hb733 -01-erLegislature amending s. 376.79, F.S.; revising and providing definitions; amending s. 376.81, F.S.; providing legislative findings; prohibiting the department or a delegated local pollution control program from denying a specified status or refusing to issue a specified order for certain brownfield sites that are only a portion of larger contaminated sites; providing applicability; amending s. 376.82, F.S.; revising the persons and sites eligible for participation in the brownfield program; revising requirements for such participation; requiring that completion of the performance of remediation obligations at the brownfield site be evidenced by a site rehabilitation completion order; revising the information necessary from the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the department for a person's participation in the program; specifying that certain brownfield sites are eligible to participate in the brownfield program under certain circumstances; amending ss. 196.1995 and 288.1175, F.S.; conforming cross-references; reenacting s. 1004.53(1), F.S., relating to the Center for Brownfield Rehabilitation Assistance, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 376.79, F.S., in a reference thereto; providing an effective date. hb733 -01-erLegislature | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H6017 | Recovery of Damages for Medical Negligence Resulting in Death | An act relating to recovery of damages for medical negligence resulting in death; amending s. 768.21, F.S.; deleting a provision that precluded certain persons from recovering damages for medical negligence resulting in death; amending ss. 400.023, 400.0235, and 429.295, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; providing an effective date. | Vetoed |
H0209 | State Land Management | An act relating to state land management; providing a short title; amending s. 253.034, F.S.; requiring public hearings for all updated conservation and nonconservation land management plans; requiring the Division of State Lands of the Department of Environmental Protection to make available to the public, within a specified timeframe, electronic copies of land management plans for parcels of a certain size and for parcels located in state parks; making technical changes; amending s. 258.004, F.S.; revising the duties of the Division of Recreation and Parks of the Department of Environmental Protection; specifying requirements for the management of parks and recreational areas held by the state; defining the term "conservation-based recreational uses"; prohibiting the construction of certain facilities within the boundaries of state parks for the protection of certain resources; providing construction; making technical changes; amending s. 258.007, F.S.; requiring the division to comply with specified provisions when granting certain privileges, leases, concessions, and permits; authorizing the division to acquire, install, or permit the installation or operation at state parks of campsites hb209 -03-e1and cabins that meet certain requirements; prohibiting the division from authorizing certain uses or construction activities within a state park; prohibiting the division from installing or permitting the installation of any lodging establishment within the boundaries of a state park; providing construction; creating s. 258.152, F.S.; designating the St. Marks River Preserve State Park as Ney Landrum State Park; amending s. 259.032, F.S.; requiring that individual management plans for parcels located within state parks be developed with input from an advisory group; requiring that the advisory group's required public hearings be noticed to the public within a specified timeframe; requiring the department to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date; specifying requirements for the report; providing an effective date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H1099 | Arrest and Detention of Individuals with Significant Medical Conditions | An act relating to arrest and detention of individuals with significant medical conditions; creating s. 901.1501, F.S.; defining the term "person with a significant medical condition"; providing that a law enforcement officer may use his or her discretion in determining whether to make an immediate arrest of such person; providing construction; providing an effective date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H0989 | Licensure of Family Foster Homes | An act relating to licensure of family foster homes; amending s. 409.175, F.S.; requiring the Department of Children and Families to adopt rules to streamline the licensure application process for licensed foster parents who relocate within this state; requiring such rules to include priority review of applications, expedited home studies and background checks, and recognition of prior foster parent training coursework; providing an effective date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H0593 | Dangerous Dogs | An act relating to dangerous dogs; providing a short title; amending s. 767.01, F.S.; requiring certain dog owners to securely confine their dogs in a proper enclosure; making technical changes; amending s. 767.10, F.S.; revising legislative findings relating to dangerous dogs; reordering and amending s. 767.11, F.S.; revising definitions; amending s. 767.12, F.S.; requiring, rather than authorizing, that dogs subject to certain dangerous dog investigations which have killed or bitten a human being to a certain severity be immediately confiscated, placed in quarantine if necessary, impounded, and held; requiring, rather than authorizing, that such dogs be held until the completion of certain actions; authorizing dogs that are the subject of multiple dangerous dog investigations to be immediately confiscated, placed in quarantine, impounded, and held; requiring that certain dogs not impounded with the animal control authority be confined in a proper enclosure by the owner; requiring the owner of a dog subject to a dangerous dog investigation to provide certain information to an animal control authority; requiring the owner of a dog classified as dangerous to obtain a certificate of registration for the dog from a certain hb593 -02-e1animal control authority and renew the certification annually; authorizing an animal control authority to issue certain certificates of registration to certain persons if certain conditions have been met, including implantation of a microchip, spaying or neutering the dog, and obtaining limited liability insurance; requiring the owner of a dog classified as a dangerous dog to obtain dangerous dog liability insurance coverage and provide proof of such insurance to a certain animal control authority; providing requirements for such insurance; requiring and authorizing an animal control authority to humanely euthanize a dangerous dog under certain circumstances; requiring an animal shelter, a humane organization, or certain animal control agencies to provide specified information to potential adopters; revising the conditions under which an owner is authorized to exercise a dangerous dog; revising the civil penalty for violations; providing criminal penalties for persons who resist or obstruct an animal control authority; making technical changes; amending s. 767.13, F.S.; increasing a penalty for the owner of a dog previously declared dangerous which attacks and causes severe injury to or the death of any human; making technical changes; conforming provisions to hb593 -02-e1changes made by the act; amending s. 767.135, F.S.; making technical changes; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 767.136, F.S.; increasing a penalty for the owner of a dog that causes severe injury to, or the death of, a human; providing an effective date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H0447 | Disability History and Awareness Instruction | An act relating to disability history and awareness instruction; providing a short title; amending s. 1003.4205, F.S.; requiring that disability history and awareness instruction include specified material; authorizing the Department of Education to consult with a specified entity to further develop certain material; providing an effective date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H1089 | Newborn Screenings | An act relating to newborn screenings; amending s. 383.14, F.S.; beginning on a specified date, subject to appropriation, providing that the Department of Health's rules must require certain newborns to be screened for Duchenne muscular dystrophy; providing an effective date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H0597 | Diabetes Management in Schools | An act relating to diabetes management in schools; amending s. 1002.20, F.S.; defining terms; authorizing a school district or public school to acquire and maintain a supply of undesignated glucagon; requiring that undesignated glucagon be stored in a secure location that is immediately accessible; authorizing a school district or public school to enter into arrangements with a manufacturer or supplier to obtain glucagon free of charge or at a fair market or reduced price; authorizing a school district or public school to accept donated or transferred glucagon that meets certain requirements; authorizing a school district or public school to obtain monetary donations or apply for grants to purchase glucagon; authorizing a school district or public school to request a prescription for glucagon from a county health department; authorizing a licensed health care practitioner to prescribe glucagon in the name of a school district or public school; authorizing a licensed pharmacist to dispense glucagon pursuant to such prescription; requiring a participating school to make available undesignated glucagon to be administered as ordered in a student's diabetes medical management plan or health care practitioner's orders; requiring an employee to hb597 -03-erCS/ 2025 Legislature call for emergency assistance and provide parental notification after the administration of glucagon; requiring the State Board of Education to adopt rules; providing certain persons and entities with immunity from civil and criminal liability under certain circumstances; providing an effective date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H0791 | Surrendered Infants | An act relating to surrendered infants; amending s. 383.50, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "infant"; defining the term "infant safety device"; authorizing certain hospitals, emergency medical services stations, and fire stations to use infant safety devices to accept surrendered infants if the device meets specified criteria; requiring such hospitals, emergency medical services stations, and fire stations to monitor the inside of the device 24 hours per day and physically check and test the devices at specified intervals; providing additional requirements for certain fire stations using such devices; amending ss. 63.0423, 63.167, 383.51, and 827.035, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; providing an effective date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H1519 | Entities that Boycott Israel | An act relating to entities that boycott Israel; amending s. 215.4725, F.S.; defining terms; revising definitions; requiring the public fund to make its best efforts to identify certain institutions, organizations, agencies, governments, and other entities in which the public fund has direct or indirect holdings; requiring the public fund to compile and make available the Scrutinized Companies or Other Entities that Boycott Israel List; requiring the public fund to quarterly update and make publicly available such list; revising the procedures the public fund must follow for assembling companies or other entities on such list; requiring the Department of Management Services to work with the public fund for a specified purpose; requiring the Department of Management Services to provide specified notice to certain companies; requiring the public fund to file a certain report with each member of the Board of Trustees of the State Board of Administration and with the Legislature which includes such list; requiring the public fund to file a certain report with a summary of correspondence between other entities and the public fund; requiring that specified actions be adopted and incorporated into a certain statement; amending s. 265.286, F.S.; requiring applicants to sign a certification form attesting that they are complying with specified antidiscrimination laws and will not engage in antisemitic discrimination or antisemitic speech in conjunction with the program or project for which their grant is awarded; disqualifying for a specified timeframe grant applicants that engage in boycotts, antisemitic discrimination, or antisemitic speech; requiring recipients found to have engaged in boycotts or antisemitic discrimination in violation of their certification to pay a specified penalty; authorizing individuals to file a written complaint to the Attorney General for not pursuing a cause of action within a specified timeframe; requiring the Attorney General to provide a written response within a specified timeframe; amending s. 287.135, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "awarding body"; revising the contract values that prohibit a company or other entity from being eligible to bid on, submit a proposal for, or enter into or renew a contract with an agency or local governmental entity; requiring agencies and local governmental entities that enter into or renew a contract to include a specific termination provision; authorizing agencies and local governmental entities to bid on, submit a proposal for, or enter into or renew a contract for goods and services with other entities that boycott Israel under specified circumstances; requiring other entities to submit a certain certification at the same time as they submit a bid or proposal or enter into or renew a contract with an agency or local governmental entity; authorizing civil actions against companies and other entities under specified conditions; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0251 | Holocaust Remembrance Day | An act relating to Holocaust Remembrance Day; creating s. 683.196, F.S.; requiring the Governor to proclaim a specified day annually as "Holocaust Remembrance Day"; authorizing "Holocaust Remembrance Day" to be observed in this state's public schools and be observed by public exercise as the Governor may designate; providing construction; authorizing specified instruction; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0879 | Young Adults who are Homeless or were in the Child Welfare System | An act relating to young adults who are homeless or were in the child welfare system; amending s. 409.1452, F.S.; requiring each Florida College System institution and state university, in consultation with the State Office on Homelessness, to develop a plan to prioritize the placement of certain students in residence halls or dormitory residences; providing responsibilities for the Office of Continuing Care, Florida College System institutions, and state universities; requiring that certain institutions and universities give priority to certain students for housing and work-study opportunities; prohibiting institutions and universities from requiring a cosigner or guarantor to obtain housing for certain students; creating s. 409.14525, F.S.; requiring certain entities to administer certain federal programs and vouchers; providing requirements for administering such programs and vouchers; requiring specified entities to document certain actions and provide certain assurances to landlords; providing applicability; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H1439 | Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders | An act relating to mental health and substance use disorders; amending s. 394.457, F.S.; requiring the Department of Children and Families to require certain providers to use a specified assessment tool; revising the minimum standards for a mobile crisis response service; amending s. 394.459, F.S.; requiring facilities to update treatment plans within specified timeframes; amending s. 394.468, F.S.; revising requirements for discharge planning regarding medications; amending s. 394.495, F.S.; requiring use of a specified assessment tool; providing an exception; requiring the Department of Children and Families, in consultation with the Department of Education, to conduct a review biennially of school- based behavioral health access through telehealth; providing requirements for review; requiring the Department of Children and Families to submit to the Governor and the Legislature its findings by a specified date; providing for expiration of the review; amending s. 394.659, F.S.; requiring the Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Technical Assistance Center at the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute at the University of South Florida to disseminate among grantees certain evidence-based practices and best practices; defining the term "person-first language"; amending s. 394.875, F.S.; requiring the Department of Children and Families, in consultation with the Agency for Health Care Administration, to conduct a review biennially to identify needs regarding short-term residential treatment facilities and beds; specifying actions the department must take under certain conditions; amending s. 394.9082, F.S.; requiring managing entities to promote use of person-first language and trauma-informed care and require use of a specified assessment tool; amending s. 1004.44, F.S.; revising the assistance and services the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute is required to provide; revising the requirements of the Florida Center for Behavioral Health Workforce to promote behavioral health professions; amending s. 1006.041, F.S.; revising the plan components for mental health assistance programs; reenacting s. 394.463(2)(g), F.S., relating to involuntary examination, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 394.468, F.S., in a reference thereto; reenacting s. 394.4955(2)(c) and (6), F.S., relating to coordinated system of care and child and adolescent mental health treatment and support, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 394.495, F.S., in references thereto; reenacting s. 1001.212(7), F.S., relating to the Office of Safe Schools, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 1004.44, F.S., in a reference thereto; providing an effective date. | Dead |
H0655 | Pet Insurance and Wellness Programs | An act relating to pet insurance and wellness programs; amending s. 624.604, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "property insurance" to include a pet insurance option; amending s. 626.9541, F.S.; providing that certain practices relating to pet wellness programs are unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices; creating s. 627.71545, F.S.; providing a short title; providing purpose; providing applicability; providing construction; providing definitions; requiring pet insurers that use such defined terms in their pet insurance policies to use and include the statutory definitions in their policies; requiring pet insurers to also make such definitions available on their websites or their program administrators' websites; requiring pet insurers to make certain disclosures to pet insurance applicants and policyholders; requiring pet insurers to provide a summary of their bases or formulas for determination of claim payments under a pet insurance policy on their websites or their program administrators' websites; requiring pet insurers to disclose certain requirements for required medical examinations of a pet by a veterinarian; requiring pet insurers to create a document with a hb655 -00-erLegislature summary of certain disclosures, to post such document on their websites or their program administrators' websites, and, upon issuance or delivery of a policy to a policyholder, to provide such document to the policyholder; requiring additional written disclosures; providing that certain required disclosures are in addition to disclosures required by the Florida Insurance Code or the Financial Services Commission rules; authorizing pet insurance applicants and policyholders to examine and return insurance policies and riders under certain circumstances; requiring that premiums be refunded under certain circumstances; requiring that pet insurance policies and riders have a specified notice printed on or attached to the first page; authorizing pet insurers to issue policies that exclude coverage on the basis of preexisting conditions with appropriate written disclosure to the applicant or policyholder; providing that the pet insurer has a specified burden of proof with regard to such exclusions; authorizing pet insurers to issue new policies that impose a waiting period of up to a specified period of time for specified illnesses, diseases, or conditions; prohibiting pet insurers from issuing policies imposing a waiting period for accidents; requiring pet hb655 -00-erLegislature insurers who issue a policy that imposes a waiting period to include a provision allowing for waiver of the waiting period upon completion of a medical examination of the covered pet by a veterinarian; authorizing pet insurers to require an examination to be conducted by a veterinarian after the purchase of the policy; providing requirements and authorizations relating to such examination; prohibiting a pet insurer from requiring a medical examination of the covered pet to renew a policy; requiring that certain benefits comply with certain provisions of the Florida Insurance Code; prohibiting insurance applicants' eligibility from being based on participation or lack of participation in wellness programs; requiring pet insurers to ensure that their agents are trained on specified topics; providing rulemaking authority; providing an effective date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H0421 | Peer Support for First Responders | An act relating to peer support for first responders; amending s. 111.09, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "first responder" to include specified support personnel for the provision of peer support; providing an effective date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
H0065 | Sale, Transfer, and Storage of Firearms | An act relating to sale, transfer, and storage of firearms; providing a short title; creating s. 790.0653, F.S.; providing definitions; requiring a background check on every sale or other transfer of a firearm; requiring background checks on all persons involved in firearm sales or other transfers; requiring firearm sales or other transfers to be conducted through, and processed by, a licensed dealer; authorizing a fee; providing exceptions; providing criminal penalties; requiring the investing law enforcement agency to report certain violations to the Attorney General; providing applicability; amending s. 790.174, F.S.; revising requirements for the safe storage of firearms; providing and revising definitions; revising criminal penalties for violations; providing exceptions; amending s. 790.175, F.S.; requiring firearms to be sold by dealers with trigger locks or gun cases; providing exceptions; revising warnings to be posted in gun dealerships; requiring certain materials to be given to gun purchasers; requiring a purchaser to sign a specified statement; providing record retention requirements for dealers; providing construction; providing criminal penalties; creating s. 790.223, F.S.; providing hb65-00 HB 65 definitions; prohibiting specified acts involving unfinished firearm frames or receivers; providing criminal penalties; providing applicability; prohibiting certain actions leading to the assembly of a firearm; prohibiting certain activities involving a three-dimensional printer or computer numerical control milling machine that has the primary or intended function of manufacturing or assembling firearms or related items; providing exceptions; providing construction; providing an effective date. | Dead |
Bill | Bill Name | Motion | Vote Date | Vote |
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S7022 | Retirement | House: Third Reading RCS#437 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
S2500 | Appropriations | House: Third Reading RCS#443 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
S2506 | Natural Resources | House: Third Reading RCS#441 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
S2502 | Implementing the 2025-2026 General Appropriations Act | House: Third Reading RCS#435 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
S2504 | Collective Bargaining | House: Third Reading RCS#436 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
S2514 | Health and Human Services | House: Third Reading RCS#438 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
S2510 | Prekindergarten Through Grade 12 Education | House: Third Reading RCS#440 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
S2508 | Judges | House: Third Reading RCS#439 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
H7031 | Taxation | House: Third Reading RCS#432 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
H5015 | State Group Insurance | House: Third Reading RCS#434 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
H5019 | Budget Stabilization Fund | House: Third Reading RCS#431 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
H5017 | Debt Reduction | House: Third Reading RCS#433 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
S2510 | Prekindergarten Through Grade 12 Education | House: Third Reading RCS#428 | 05/13/2025 | Abstain |
S0248 | Student Participation in Interscholastic and Intrascholastic Extracurricular Sports | House: Third Reading RCS#419 | 05/02/2025 | Abstain |
H0289 | Boating Safety | House: Third Reading RCS#426 | 05/02/2025 | Abstain |
S0116 | Veterans | House: Third Reading RCS#420 | 05/02/2025 | Abstain |
S0768 | Foreign Countries of Concern | House: Third Reading RCS#407 | 05/02/2025 | Yea |
H0711 | Spectrum Alert | House: Third Reading RCS#421 | 05/02/2025 | Abstain |
H0875 | Educator Preparation | House: Third Reading RCS#408 | 05/02/2025 | Abstain |
S0168 | Mental Health | House: Third Reading RCS#417 | 05/02/2025 | Abstain |
H1115 | Education | House: Third Reading RCS#413 | 05/02/2025 | Nay |
H1105 | Education | House: Third Reading RCS#415 | 05/02/2025 | Yea |
H1101 | Out-of-network Providers | House: Third Reading RCS#409 | 05/02/2025 | Nay |
H1255 | Education | House: Third Reading RCS#414 | 05/02/2025 | Abstain |
H1299 | Department of Health | House: Third Reading RCS#405 | 05/02/2025 | Abstain |
S7012 | Child Welfare | House: Third Reading RCS#418 | 05/02/2025 | Abstain |
S0180 | Emergencies | House: Third Reading RCS#411 | 05/02/2025 | Yea |
H1427 | Nursing Education Programs | House: Third Reading RCS#416 | 05/02/2025 | Yea |
H1445 | Public Officers and Employees | House: Third Reading RCS#422 | 05/02/2025 | Abstain |
H1549 | Financial Services | House: Third Reading RCS#406 | 05/02/2025 | Yea |
H0209 | State Land Management | House: Third Reading RCS#394 | 05/01/2025 | Yea |
H0255 | Aggravated Animal Cruelty | House: Third Reading RCS#400 | 05/01/2025 | Yea |
H0289 | Boating Safety | House: Third Reading RCS#397 | 05/01/2025 | Yea |
H0393 | My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program | House: Third Reading RCS#398 | 05/01/2025 | Yea |
H0443 | Education | House: Third Reading RCS#393 | 05/01/2025 | Nay |
H0711 | Spectrum Alert | House: Third Reading RCS#395 | 05/01/2025 | Yea |
H1103 | Services for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities | House: Third Reading RCS#391 | 05/01/2025 | Yea |
H1205 | Amendments to the State Constitution | House: Third Reading RCS#403 | 05/01/2025 | Nay |
H1205 | Amendments to the State Constitution | House: Third Reading RCS#402 | 05/01/2025 | Yea |
S1730 | Affordable Housing | House: Third Reading RCS#392 | 05/01/2025 | Yea |
H1609 | Waste Incineration | House: Third Reading RCS#401 | 05/01/2025 | Yea |
S0010 | Relief of Sidney Holmes by the State of Florida | House: Third Reading RCS#385 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S0026 | Relief of Kristen and Lia McIntosh by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services | House: Third Reading RCS#384 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S0056 | Geoengineering and Weather Modification Activities | House: Third Reading RCS#388 | 04/30/2025 | Nay |
S0068 | Health Facilities | House: Third Reading RCS#350 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
H0011 | Municipal Water and Sewer Utility Rates | House: Third Reading RCS#364 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S0184 | Housing | House: Third Reading RCS#347 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S0312 | Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Inc. | House: Third Reading RCS#386 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S0384 | Annexing State-owned Lands | House: Third Reading RCS#346 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S0388 | Trust Funds for Wildlife Management | House: Third Reading RCS#343 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S0492 | Mitigation Banks | House: Third Reading RCS#342 | 04/30/2025 | Nay |
S0116 | Veterans | House: Third Reading RCS#361 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S0112 | Children with Developmental Disabilities | House: Third Reading RCS#382 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S7002 | Water Management Districts | House: Third Reading RCS#380 | 04/30/2025 | Nay |
S0606 | Public Lodging and Public Food Service Establishments | House: Third Reading RCS#348 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
H0593 | Dangerous Dogs | House: Third Reading RCS#366 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S0738 | Child Care and Early Learning Providers | House: Third Reading RCS#355 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S0164 | Vessel Accountability | House: Third Reading RCS#363 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
H0687 | Driving and Boating Offenses | House: Third Reading RCS#378 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S0830 | Disposition of Migrant Vessels | House: Third Reading RCS#362 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S0892 | Florida State University Election Law Center | House: Third Reading RCS#387 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
H0777 | Offenses Involving Children | House: Third Reading RCS#370 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S0954 | Certified Recovery Residences | House: Third Reading RCS#349 | 04/30/2025 | Abstain |
H0913 | Condominium and Cooperative Associations | House: Third Reading RCS#377 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S1070 | Electrocardiograms for Student Athletes | House: Third Reading RCS#357 | 04/30/2025 | Abstain |
H0999 | Legal Tender | House: Third Reading RCS#374 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S1080 | Local Government Land Regulation | House: Third Reading RCS#345 | 04/30/2025 | Nay |
H0987 | Transportation Facility Designations | House: Third Reading RCS#375 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S0168 | Mental Health | House: Third Reading RCS#383 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S1156 | Home Health Aide for Medically Fragile Children Program | House: Third Reading RCS#354 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
H1049 | Tampering with, Harassing, or Retaliating against Court Officials | House: Third Reading RCS#369 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
H1091 | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Care | House: Third Reading RCS#371 | 04/30/2025 | Abstain |
H1143 | Permits for Drilling, Exploration, and Extraction of Oil and Gas Resources | House: Third Reading RCS#365 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S1386 | Assault or Battery on a Utility Worker | House: Third Reading RCS#360 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S1388 | Vessels | House: Third Reading RCS#389 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
H1237 | Human Trafficking Awareness | House: Third Reading RCS#368 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S1470 | School Safety | House: Third Reading RCS#358 | 04/30/2025 | Abstain |
S1490 | Children's Medical Services Program | House: Third Reading RCS#353 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S1514 | Anaphylaxis in Public and Charter Schools | House: Third Reading RCS#356 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S7012 | Child Welfare | House: Third Reading RCS#381 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S1574 | Energy Infrastructure Investment | House: Third Reading RCS#344 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S1804 | Capital Human Trafficking of Vulnerable Persons for Sexual Exploitation | House: Third Reading RCS#359 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S1768 | Stem Cell Therapy | House: Third Reading RCS#351 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
H1447 | Trespass | House: Third Reading RCS#367 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S1808 | Refund of Overpayments Made by Patients | House: Third Reading RCS#352 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
H1545 | Parkinson's Disease | House: Third Reading RCS#372 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
H1567 | Insulin Administration by Direct Support Professionals and Relatives | House: Third Reading RCS#373 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
H1607 | Cardiac Emergencies | House: Third Reading RCS#376 | 04/30/2025 | Yea |
S0028 | Relief of Darline Angervil and J.R. by the South Broward Hospital District | House: Third Reading RCS#329 | 04/29/2025 | Yea |
S0022 | Relief of Eric Miles, Jr., and Jennifer Miles by the South Broward Hospital District | House: Third Reading RCS#332 | 04/29/2025 | Yea |
S0008 | Relief of Marcus Button by the Pasco County School Board | House: Third Reading RCS#328 | 04/29/2025 | Yea |
S0020 | Relief of J.N., a Minor, by Hillsborough County | House: Third Reading RCS#331 | 04/29/2025 | Yea |
S0014 | Relief of the Estate of Peniel Janvier by the City of Miami Beach | House: Third Reading RCS#330 | 04/29/2025 | Yea |
S0106 | Exploitation of Vulnerable Adults | House: Third Reading RCS#300 | 04/29/2025 | Yea |
S0118 | Regulation of Presidential Libraries | House: Third Reading RCS#325 | 04/29/2025 | Abstain |
S0130 | Compensation of Victims of Wrongful Incarceration | House: Third Reading RCS#327 | 04/29/2025 | Yea |
S0150 | Abandoning Restrained Dogs During Natural Disasters | House: Third Reading RCS#326 | 04/29/2025 | Abstain |
S0158 | Coverage for Diagnostic and Supplemental Breast Examinations | House: Third Reading RCS#289 | 04/29/2025 | Yea |
S0232 | Debt Collection | House: Third Reading RCS#297 | 04/29/2025 | Yea |
S0234 | Criminal Offenses Against Law Enforcement Officers and Other Personnel | House: Third Reading RCS#322 | 04/29/2025 | Yea |
State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
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FL | Florida House District 098 | House | Democrat | In Office | 11/05/2024 |