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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Following the latest Legislative league successful Florida, authorities lawmakers and Gov. Ron DeSantis person approved dozens of caller laws.
Many of these pieces of authorities took effect connected July 1, covering topics similar education, authorities parks, crime, money, and overmuch more.
In total, implicit 120 caller laws were slated to instrumentality effect connected Tuesday.
WKMG in Orlando compiled a afloat database of these caller laws:
HB 85 — Hazardous Walking Conditions
House Bill 85 expands the criteria for identifying “hazardous walking conditions” for nationalist simple schoolhouse students walking to and from school.
The designation applies to walkways that are either parallel oregon perpendicular to a road, and this caller instrumentality extends the explanation to constricted entree facilities (ex: freeways, interstates, expressway ramps).
HB 209 — State Parks
House Bill 209 requires that authorities parks and preserves beryllium managed for conservation-based recreation.
As a result, the instrumentality forbids play courses, tennis courts, pickleball courts, shot fields, oregon immoderate different sports facilities from being built connected these lands.
Instead, the instrumentality allows these lands to beryllium utilized for activities similar fishing, camping, biking, hiking, swimming, boating and jogging — outdoor activities that don’t importantly infringe connected the environment.
In addition, the instrumentality allows for campsites and cabins to beryllium built with authorities approval, truthful agelong arsenic they don’t person excessively overmuch interaction connected the surrounding environment.
HB 211 — Farm Products
House Bill 211 amends the explanation of “farm product” to see plants and works products, careless of whether these plants and works products are edible.
In addition, the instrumentality prohibits section governments from regulating a workplace from collecting, storing, processing and distributing workplace products connected cultivation land.
HB 255 — Animal Cruelty Database
House Bill 255 establishes harsher penalties for carnal cruelty, which includes intentionally torturing an carnal to death.
In addition, the instrumentality requires the FDLE to station a searchable database connected its website arsenic of Jan. 1, 2026, with the names of those who person been convicted of carnal cruelty.
Dubbed “Dexter’s Law,” the authorities was brought astir aft a structure canine named “Dexter” was adopted and aboriginal recovered beheaded successful Fort DeSoto Park.
HB 259 — Fentanyl Awareness Day
House Bill 259 designates Aug. 21 arsenic “Fentanyl Awareness and Education Day.”
The caller designation is aimed astatine expanding consciousness of the dangers of fentanyl and imaginable overdoses.
HB 279 — Swatting Calls
House Bill 279 prohibits radical from causing idiosyncratic other to telephone 911 with a mendacious study (i.e. “swatting”).
If thing similar this happens and the 911 effect ends with wounded oregon death, the caller tin look felony charges nether this caller law.
In addition, idiosyncratic convicted of misusing 911 oregon giving mendacious accusation to instrumentality enforcement volition beryllium required to wage the costs of prosecution, investigation, and restitution to immoderate victims.
HB 307 — Property Appraisers
House Bill 307 allows region spot appraisers to wage hiring oregon retention bonuses to employees.
To bash so, the bonus indispensable beryllium approved by the authorities successful the spot appraiser’s budget.
HB 351 — Dangerous Speeding
House Bill 351 establishes a caller transgression nether Florida law: “dangerous excessive speeding.”
The discourtesy refers to situations wherever drivers:
Go astatine slightest 50 mph implicit the velocity limit
Speed astatine 100 mph oregon much successful a mode that threatens the radical oregon spot astir them
Under this law, first-time violators tin person up to 30 days successful jailhouse and a good of up to $500. Subsequent offenses tin output up to 90 days successful jailhouse and a good of up to $1,000.
HB 383 — Gun Purchases (Law Enforcement)
House Bill 383 exempts instrumentality enforcement officers, correctional officers and work members from the three-day mandatory waiting play aft buying a firearm.
As such, these figures whitethorn instrumentality contiguous possession of a purchased firearm aft a palmy inheritance check, which is successful enactment with rules for those who clasp a concealed weapons license.
HB 429 — Florida Dealership Act
House Bill 429 revises the Florida Motor Vehicle Dealership Act, which governs licenses for and contracts betwixt dealers, manufacturers and distributors.
More specifically, the caller instrumentality prohibits licensees from retaliating against a centrifugal conveyance trader owed to the dealership asserting oregon testifying that the licensee violated the centrifugal conveyance franchise law.
HB 443 — Education
House Bill 443 allows charter schools to follow their ain codes of pupil conduct.
Under this law, charter schoolhouse governing boards indispensable follow procedures related to pupil payment and parental rights.
In addition, a high-performing charter schoolhouse volition beryllium allowed to presume the charter of different charter schoolhouse successful the aforesaid district.
HB 447 — Disability History
House Bill 447 — dubbed the “Evin B. Hartsell Act” — applies to schoolhouse districts that thatch astir disablement past and consciousness during the archetypal 2 weeks of October.
Under this law, these schools are required to see the pursuing worldly successful their instruction:
For Kindergarten done Grade 3: Conversations astir bullying, including what students should bash if they are being bullied oregon spot idiosyncratic being bullied
For Grades 4 - 6: Information astir autism spectrum disorder
For Grades 7 - 9: Information astir proceeding impairments
For Grades 10 - 12: Information connected antithetic types of learning and intelligence disabilities
HB 513 — Electronic Court Orders
House Bill 513 requires clerks of tribunal to electronically taxable the pursuing wrong six hours of being issued to a section sheriff’s office:
A tribunal bid for involuntary examination
A summons related to a petition for involuntary services
A tribunal bid requiring a proceeding to beryllium held connected a petition for a hazard extortion order, a transcript of the petition, and a announcement of hearing
A transcript of announcement of hearing, the petition, and the impermanent ex parte hazard extortion bid oregon last hazard extortion order
HB 515 — Cryptocurrencies
House Bill 515 establishes a baseline model to fto creditors unafraid liens against integer assets that are owned by debtors.
HB 531 — Background Screening
House Bill 531 requires the Agency for Health Care Administration to make a nationalist webpage to supply acquisition and consciousness of attraction supplier inheritance screening.
HB 547 — Medical Debt
House Bill 547 provides an objection to requirements that hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers supply 30 days’ announcement earlier selling a consumer’s debt.
The objection applies if the installation and indebtedness purchaser person a declaration that states the indebtedness won’t beryllium taxable to interest, fees, oregon different bonzer postulation actions.
HB 549 — Gulf of America (Schools)
House Bill 549 requires that instructional materials successful nationalist schools bespeak the caller national designation of “Gulf of America.”
HB 551 — Fire Prevention
House Bill 551 expands the types of occurrence alarm strategy projects that are eligible for a simplified gathering licence process.
More specifically, the enlargement present includes projects to regenerate an existing occurrence alarm sheet with the aforesaid marque and model.
Under this law, contractors whitethorn commencement enactment instantly aft submitting a completed simplified gathering licence application.
HB 575 — Gulf of America (State Agencies)
House Bill 575 requires authorities agencies to update their geographic materials to bespeak the caller national designation of “Gulf of America.”
HB 593 — Dangerous Dogs
House Bill 593 — dubbed the “Pam Rock Act” — establishes caller rules for owners of unsafe dogs.
Under this law, these dogs indispensable beryllium microchipped and spayed/neutered, and their owners indispensable get astatine slightest $100,000 of liability insurance.
Furthermore, owners with dogs that person “dangerous propensities” are required to securely confine the animals successful a due enclosure arsenic though they were deemed dangerous.
HB 597 — Diabetes Management
House Bill 597 allows schools to petition prescriptions for glucagon from a region wellness section oregon healthcare practitioner to dainty students with diabetes.
HB 615 — Electronic Notice to Tenants
House Bill 615 allows landlords to present notices to tenants electronically if some parties hold to the method.
Under this law, some tenants and landlords are allowed to revoke specified an statement simply by providing written announcement to the different party.
HB 633 — Managing Entities
House Bill 633 requires the Department of Children and Families to execute audits of behavioral health managing entities that assistance supply definite intelligence wellness services for uninsured people.
Because these managing entities are contracted by the DCF to plan, subcontract for, and coordinate these services, the instrumentality aims to guarantee they’re operating appropriately.
HB 647 — Registered Nurses
House Bill 647 aims to alteration authorities statutes surrounding precocious signifier registered nurses.
While authorities instrumentality lets definite wellness attraction practitioners record a decease certificate and implicit a aesculapian certification of origin of death, these nurses person not been allowed to execute these functions.
As a result, this caller instrumentality extends those permissions to precocious signifier registered nurses providing hospice attraction and acting wrong an established protocol with a licensed physician.
HB 653 — Capital Felonies
House Bill 653 lets juries see caller aggravating factors erstwhile determining whether idiosyncratic convicted of a superior felony should person the decease penalty.
More specifically, this instrumentality lets juries analyse whether the transgression was committed against a caput of authorities — specified arsenic the U.S. president oregon authorities politician — arsenic an aggravating factor.
HB 669 — Israeli Bonds
House Bill 669 prohibits a section government’s concern argumentation from requiring a minimum enslaved standing for investing successful bonds issued by the Israeli government.
HB 681 — Apprenticeships
House Bill 681 requires authorities officials to make caller standards regarding apprenticeship programs successful the state.
Under this law, these policies indispensable code negotiations betwixt schools and their registered apprenticeship partners to guarantee that each parties cognize the responsibilities and full magnitude of backing for these apprenticeship programs.
HB 683 — Construction Regulations
House Bill 683 establishes a assortment of caller rules regarding operation standards successful the state.
Some of these rules are arsenic follows:
Requires the authorities to follow standards for installing synthetic turf successful residential areas
Mandates that only one support obstruction successful an elevator indispensable beryllium continuous and astatine slightest 42 inches long, arsenic opposed to all interior enactment rails
Exempts instrumentality from the Florida Building Code if it’s located astatine a spaceport that is utilized for abstraction motorboat vehicles, payloads oregon spacecraft
Prohibits section gathering departments from requiring copies of contracts and related documents successful bid to person a gathering permit
HB 711 — Spectrum Alert
House Bill 711 establishes a “Spectrum Alert” — a statewide alert strategy to assistance find missing children with autism.
Under this law, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement has until July 1, 2026, to get the alert strategy up and running.
HB 733 — Brownfields Program
House Bill 733 makes respective changes to the Brownfields Program, which incentivizes section governments and individuals to voluntarily cleanable up and redevelop polluted properties (i.e. “brownfield sites”).
Some of the changes effected by the instrumentality are arsenic follows:
Streamlines a process that requires definite sites to get support from the EPA to enactment successful the program
Allows larger brownfield properties to beryllium subdivided into smaller parcels of onshore erstwhile it comes to brownfield tract rehabilitation
HB 735 — Water Access Facilities
House Bill 735 lets marine manufacturers enactment successful the state’s Clean Marina Program, which gives participating facilities a 10% discount connected their yearly lease interest for sovereign submerged lands.
In addition, the instrumentality expands a authorities program to supply grants for boating projects, specified arsenic publicly-owned parking for boat-hauling vehicles and trailers.
HB 751 — Health Insurance (Law Enforcement)
House Bill 751 expands employer-paid wellness security benefits to screen instrumentality enforcement and correctional officers who endure a “catastrophic” wounded during an authoritative grooming workout oregon successful the enactment of duty.
The instrumentality is dubbed the “Deputy Andy Lahera Act,” named for a Citrus County lawman who was struck by a car portion connected work successful 2023, which near him with a traumatic encephalon injury.
HB 791 — Surrendered Infants
House Bill 791 allows definite hospitals and occurrence stations to usage “infant information devices” to judge surrendered infants.
Under this bill, specified a instrumentality would person to beryllium equipped with a surveillance strategy to show the instrumentality 24 hours a day.
HB 797 — Nursing Home Beds
House Bill 797 lets definite licensed nursing facilities designate circumstantial beds exclusively for veterans and their spouses, perchance expanding the fig of VA beds successful Florida.
This applies if the admitted residents conscionable the criteria for admittance to a authorities veterans’ nursing location and the beds run per authorities requirements.
HB 809 — School Social Workers
House Bill 809 provides an exemption for schoolhouse societal workers, making it truthful they’re nary longer required to conscionable definite cognition requirements to person their pedagogue certification.
More specifically, schoolhouse societal workers volition nary longer person to conscionable “mastery of wide knowledge” and “subject country knowledge” requirements, arsenic authorities licensure is deemed an capable objection of mastery.
HB 847 — DNA Testing
House Bill 847 creates the Expedited DNA Testing Grant Program, which gives backing to instrumentality enforcement to assistance trial grounds for DNA.
HB 867 — Rail Transportation
House Bill 867 establishes the Coastal Link Commuter Rail Service Act.
Under this law, the authorities and section governments that person an statement with Brightline to run a commuter obstruction work connected the Coastal Link corridor whitethorn instrumentality connected indemnification and security obligations.
As such, the instrumentality provides a model nether authorities instrumentality for lawsuits involving situations that popular up owed to commuter obstruction services similar Brightline.
HB 897 — Community Associations
House Bill 897 exempts assemblage relation managers (CAM) from definite requirements regarding conflicts of interest.
This applies if the CAM manages a timeshare program governed by the Timeshare Act and provides conflict-of-interest disclosures covered nether that act.
HB 901 — Court-Appointed Psychologists
House Bill 901 provides that earlier a genitor tin record an administrative ailment against a court-appointed psychologist, the genitor indispensable archetypal determination the tribunal successful his/her household instrumentality lawsuit to disqualify the scientist and regenerate him/her.
HB 903 — Execution Methods
House Bill 903 makes a fewer changes related to the Department of Corrections.
One of the large changes this instrumentality brings allows the decease punishment to beryllium carried retired utilizing immoderate method not deemed unconstitutional, specified arsenic with firing squads and lethal gas.
HB 907 — Pediatric Rare Diseases
House Bill 907 codifies the Florida Institute for Pediatric Rare Diseases as a statewide assets for probe and attraction related to conditions that interaction less than 200,000 children nationally.
Under this law, the institute is required to found a five-year aviator programme that offers opt-in newborn familial screening.
The institute indispensable besides support a database of accusation from this aviator programme truthful that the de-identified information whitethorn beryllium utilized for research.
HB 913 — Condominium Associations
House Bill 913 makes respective changes regarding condominium associations (COAs) and cooperatives, including the following:
Allows definite COAs to person a structural integrity reserve survey (SIRS) completed by Dec. 31, 2025 (pushed backmost from 2024)
Increases replacement outgo of repairs required to beryllium reserved and considered successful the SIRS from $10,000 to $25,000 to prioritize much captious repairs
Provides COAs to usage alternate backing methods to fulfill reserve backing obligations
Gives COA boards and portion owners much powerfulness to terminate contracts if a manager fails to travel requirements of authorities condo laws
HB 915 — Immigration Services
House Bill 915 prohibits notary publics who aren’t authorized to correspond idiosyncratic successful migration matters from utilizing presumption similar “notario público” successful advertising.
In addition, the instrumentality requires radical who connection migration services but aren’t allowed to signifier instrumentality to station a disclaimer connected the main website of their business.
HB 929 — Firefighter Safety
House Bill 929 amends state statutes to adhd occupational diseases and termination to the health/safety risks that the authorities indispensable show and address.
Under this law, occurrence departments indispensable acquisition cogwheel escaped of hazardous chemicals erstwhile it becomes commercially available, and employers indispensable notify firefighters whether their existent cogwheel contains toxic substances.
In addition, modular firefighter shifts are constricted to 42 hours per week to trim burnout.
HB 987 — Highway Designations
House Bill 987 designates 20 caller stretches of roadworthy crossed the authorities for memorial and honorary purposes.
HB 1053 — Department of Law Enforcement
House Bill 1053 makes respective changes related to the Department of Law Enforcement.
Some of these changes are arsenic follows:
Expands the scope of and renames the “Crimes Against Children Criminal Profiling Program” to the “Child Exploitation and Crimes Against Children Program”
Revises rank and reporting requirements of the Domestic Security Oversight Council
Revises reporting requirements of the Chief of Domestic Security
Increases yearly reimbursements disposable to erstwhile handlers and adopters of retired constabulary dogs for veterinary attraction done the Care for Retired Police Dogs Program
HB 1089 — Newborn Screenings
House Bill 1089 requires the state Newborn Screening Program to surface newborns for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) starting connected Jan. 1, 2027 (subject to funding).
DMD is simply a uncommon familial information that affects astir 1 successful each 5,000 unrecorded antheral births.
Symptoms see progressive skeletal and musculus weakness, with galore children losing the quality to determination astir connected their ain earlier they deed 10 years old. The information tin effect successful decease by their aboriginal 20s.
HB 1091 — Mental Health Services
House Bill 1091 requires the DCF to supply oversight of the 988 Lifeline call centers.
In addition, the instrumentality requires objective psychologists to person astatine slightest 3 years of objective acquisition to transportation a diligent from voluntary to involuntary status.
HB 1099 — Arrest Rules
House Bill 1099 specifies that a instrumentality enforcement serviceman tin usage his/her discretion erstwhile determining whether to instantly apprehension idiosyncratic with a important aesculapian condition.
Under the law, a idiosyncratic with a “significant aesculapian condition” refers to a diligent oregon nonmigratory of a hospital, nursing location facility, oregon assisted surviving installation — including aged radical and disabled adults.
To beryllium specific, an serviceman whitethorn see whether the idiosyncratic is an progressive menace to themselves oregon others erstwhile determining whether to marque an arrest.
HB 1103 — Disability Services
House Bill 1103 expands the state’s Intellectual Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Pilot Program.
Under this law, those eligible for the IDD are required to marque an affirmative prime earlier being enrolled, and the authorities is prohibited from automatically enrolling them.
HB 1105 — Education Rules
House Bill 1105 provides a assortment of caller provisions regarding acquisition successful Florida. These changes see the following:
Cell Phones (K-8): Prohibits students from utilizing compartment phones during the time successful grades K-8, with immoderate exceptions
Cell Phones (High School): Requires a aviator survey to look astatine prohibiting precocious schoolhouse students from utilizing compartment phones
Career Education: Requires the DOE to make integrated courses to fto students gain recognition successful some vocation acquisition courses and required classes for precocious schoolhouse graduation
High School Diplomas: Eliminates the certificate of completion and requires notification for students who neglect to gain a precocious schoolhouse diploma
Bright Futures Scholarships: Expands eligibility for the Bright Futures Scholarship Program to students who graduated from an out-of-state precocious schoolhouse if they unrecorded with a genitor who retired from the subject wrong 12 months earlier the graduation
Charter Schools: Eliminates provisions that necessitate 50% of teachers astatine a schoolhouse to enactment a conversion into a charter school, alternatively leaving it solely to parental support
HB 1123 — Sewer Systems
House Bill 1123 allows a section authorities that operates a sewer work to usage gross from the work to grow the sewage system.
HB 1137 — Fuel Source Restrictions
House Bill 1137 prohibits section governments from restricting the types of substance sources for vigor accumulation that tin beryllium utilized by a wide array of inferior companies.
In addition, the instrumentality prevents these section governments from prohibiting the usage of an appliance — specified arsenic a grill oregon stove — that uses those types of substance sources.
HB 1143 — Drilling Permits
House Bill 1143 requires the DEP to execute a “balancing test” erstwhile determining whether to assistance a licence for lipid and state drilling successful the state.
This trial indispensable measurement the measures that are already successful spot to support earthy resources, arsenic good arsenic the imaginable harm to the situation successful the lawsuit of a blowout from a drilling activity.
In addition, the instrumentality prohibits lipid and state accumulation successful respective agrarian counties if the projected tract is wrong 10 miles of a nationalist estuarine probe reserve (NERR).
There are 3 of these reserves successful the state: the Apalachicola NERR, the Guana Tolomato NERR, and the Rookery Bay NERR.
HB 1145 — Workforce Education
House Bill 1145 allows charter schools to person backing nether the Workforce Development Capitalization Incentive Grant Program.
This programme provides grants to schoolhouse districts and colleges to money vocation and method acquisition for students.
HB 1195 — Fentanyl Testing
House Bill 1195 — dubbed “Gage’s Law” — requires hospitals conducting urine tests for imaginable cause overdoses to trial for fentanyl.
The measure is named for Gage Taylor, who died of an overdose successful 2022 aft taking a cause helium didn’t recognize was laced with fentanyl. At the time, the infirmary didn’t trial for the drug.
As a result, instrumentality enforcement agents were initially incapable to complaint Taylor’s suspected cause dealer.
HB 1237 — Human Trafficking
House Bill 1237 requires the authorities to place a escaped grooming programme astir quality trafficking consciousness by December.
Public schoolhouse unit volition past beryllium required to person grooming astir quality trafficking awareness.
HB 1255 — Education Rules (Part Two)
House Bill 1255 revises the explanation of “economically disadvantaged” for families seeking School Readiness services, utilizing “state median income” alternatively of “federal poorness level.”
The instrumentality besides makes a myriad of different changes, specified arsenic requiring definite backstage schools to instrumentality the aforesaid inheritance screening requirements arsenic nationalist schools for employees.
In addition, the instrumentality requires that schoolhouse districts that let corporal punishment indispensable get parental consent earlier it tin beryllium administered.
HB 1299 — Department of Health
House Bill 1299 expands the Patient’s Bill of Rights to prohibit favoritism connected the ground of vaccination status.
HB 1313 — Trust Funds
House Bill 1313 re-creates the Resilient Florida Trust Fund for the associated authorities assistance program.
HB 1353 — Home Healthcare Services
House Bill 1353 provides location wellness agencies much flexibility to find however to administer duties among personnel.
HB 1359 — Pawn Shop Database
House Bill 1359 requires the authorities to look into the anticipation of creating a statewide pawn information database for instrumentality enforcement to use.
“Pawn data” refers to accusation astir income and purchases astatine secondhand dealers similar pawn shops.
Such accusation is already required nether authorities instrumentality to beryllium reported to section instrumentality enforcement, though this imaginable database would beryllium connected crossed each agencies successful the state.
The feasibility survey is slated to beryllium finished by Jan. 1, 2026, which is erstwhile authorities officials volition bring the results of the survey to lawmakers.
HB 1371 — Law Enforcement Officers
House Bill 1371 makes respective changes related to instrumentality enforcement officers (LEOs) and different personnel.
Some of these changes are arsenic follows:
Creates the Florida Medal of Valor and the Florida Blue/Red Heart Medal
Prohibits the usage of conveyance termination switches unless the idiosyncratic is the vehicle’s proprietor oregon a LEO trying to halt a felony
Requires a mandatory minimum condemnation of 25 years successful situation if idiosyncratic is convicted of attempted first-degree execution against LEOs, authorities attorneys, nationalist defenders oregon judges
Encourages a “pro-prosecution policy” if idiosyncratic is accused of making a mendacious study of a crime
Allows amputee archetypal responders to inactive service arsenic a archetypal responder if he/she meets authorities requirements without an accommodation
HB 1487 — Emergency Services
House Bill 1487 revises the criteria required for faith-based, nonprofit, unpaid ambulance services to get an exemption from the certificate of nationalist convenience and necessity (COPCN) requirement.
More specifically, the instrumentality increases the minimum requirements for years of acquisition and the fig of unpaid exigency work technicians and paramedics to person this exemption.
HB 1525 — Rideshare Drivers
House Bill 1525 prohibits the impersonation of rideshare drivers, specified arsenic those with Uber and Lyft.
Doing truthful counts arsenic a second-degree misdemeanor, and impersonating a operator to perpetrate a abstracted discourtesy is considered a third-degree felony nether this law.
HB 1545 — Parkinson’s Disease
House Bill 1545 creates a probe programme consortium astatine the University of South Florida to analyse the causes of and imaginable treatments for Parkinson’s disease.
HB 1549 — Financial Services
House Bill 1549 implements respective caller rules regarding fiscal services successful the state.
Some of these rules are arsenic follows:
Allows the Office of Financial Regulation to contented a certificate of acquisition to an acquiring fiscal instauration aft definite criteria are met
Repeals the request for recognition unions to support a regular reserve and modifies the explanation of the word “equity” to region notation to “regular reserve”
Removes a timeframe for definite requirements by directors of a projected caller slope oregon spot company
Modifies the play successful which a projected slope indispensable unfastened and behaviour a wide commercialized bank
HB 1559 — Vexatious Lawsuits
House Bill 1559 was approved to strengthen Florida’s Vexatious Litigant Law, which aims to tamp down connected meritless lawsuits to debar abuses of the tribunal system.
Under HB 1559, this instrumentality volition use to household instrumentality matters and tiny claims courts.
In addition, HB 1559 expands the explanation of a “vexatious litigant” to see immoderate enactment who represents himself/herself and:
Keeps trying to litigate the validity of a assertion against idiosyncratic aft an enactment has been yet decided against the litigant
Repeatedly files motions that person already been the taxable of erstwhile rulings by the court
Repeatedly files motions without merit oregon engages successful frivolous tactics to origin unnecessary delays
Has been recovered to beryllium a vexatious litigant successful different authorities oregon national court
HB 1567 — Administering Insulin
House Bill 1567 allows direct-support professionals and household members to administer insulin to radical with developmental disabilities.
More specifically, the instrumentality authorizes this successful radical location facilities, permitting the usage of sliding-scale insulin therapy, insulin pens, and epinephrine via an insulin pen.
HB 1607 — Cardiac Emergencies
House Bill 1607 requires schoolhouse districts to supply basal first-aid grooming (including CPR) successful secondary schools arsenic portion of a P.E. oregon wellness class.
This acquisition indispensable let students to signifier performing CPR and larn however to usage an AED.
In addition, each nationalist schoolhouse indispensable make a program to respond to incidents of abrupt cardiac arrest. And by July 1, 2027, schools indispensable person astatine slightest 1 AED connected schoolhouse grounds.
HB 4051 — Pasco County
House Bill 4051 amends the charter of the Pasco County Mosquito Control District to person the district’s committee from being elected at-large to being elected by single-member districts.
In addition, the instrumentality establishes a word bounds of 2 four-year presumption for committee members.
SB 56 — Weather Modification
Senate Bill 56 prohibits radical from dispersing chemicals oregon different substances to effort to modify the weather, including factors similar temperature, clime oregon sunlight intensity.
This prohibition besides extends to geoengineering methods similar unreality seeding and Solar Radiation Modification.
SB 68 — Health Facilities
Senate Bill 68 expands the explanation of a “health facility” nether authorities law, extending it to screen definite LLCs that are organized arsenic oregon different controlled by a nonprofit.
SB 106 — Exploiting Vulnerable Adults
Senate Bill 106 amends state statutes regarding the maltreatment of aged radical and disabled adults.
The instrumentality allows the usage of a substitute work for respondents successful these cases whose identities can’t beryllium ascertained owed to communicating with a unfortunate done a means that makes tracing their individuality “impractical.”
SB 108 — Administrative Procedures
Senate Bill 108 amends the Administrative Procedure Act, which acts arsenic a model for however authorities agencies tin marque rules.
Many of these amendments are method changes for however these agencies indispensable process rulemaking measures going forward.
SB 116 — Veteran Healthcare
Senate Bill 116 expands suicide prevention programs to see aboriginal designation of notation wellness conditions, arsenic opposed to conscionable exigency intervention.
The instrumentality besides requires the FDVA to acceptable up a program to found big time healthcare facilities serving veterans and their families.
SB 248 — Student Sports
Senate Bill 248 allows homeschooled students to enactment successful interscholastic diversion teams astatine immoderate nationalist schoolhouse wrong their schoolhouse district.
Similarly, middle- and high-school students astatine a backstage schoolhouse tin enactment successful interscholastic sports astatine a subordinate public/private schoolhouse if their ain schoolhouse doesn’t connection their athletics of interest.
SB 282 — Warranty Associations
Senate Bill 282 revises fiscal requirements for work warranty and location warranty associations.
Under authorities law, warranty associations whitethorn forego securing liability security and complying with premium penning ratios if they conscionable the pursuing criteria:
Have a nett worthy of astatine slightest $100 million;
Provide the OIR with specified audited fiscal statements; and
Provide the OIR with specified filings made with the SEC
But this instrumentality volition alternatively let these associations to supply audited fiscal statements or specified SEC filings, allowing associations that aren’t publically traded to beryllium eligible for the exemptions.
SB 296 — School Start Times
Senate Bill 296 addresses a 2023 law that changes commencement times successful Florida schools.
The 2023 instrumentality mandated that mediate schools could commencement nary earlier than 8 a.m., and precocious schools could commencement nary earlier than 8:30 a.m. These changes were scheduled to statesman connected July 1, 2026.
But pursuing blowback, this caller instrumentality allows schoolhouse districts to comply with the authorities statutes by alternatively submitting a study to the authorities by June 1, 2026, with the pursuing information:
Start times for schools successful the district
Considered strategies to instrumentality the aboriginal commencement times
Explanations for the interaction of these aboriginal commencement times, specified arsenic fiscal repercussions
Identification of immoderate unintended consequences
SB 312 — IHMC Corporation
Senate Bill 312 modifies requirements related to the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), Inc.
These changes see requiring the IHMC committee of directors to oversee the instauration of nonprofit subsidiaries, alternatively than the Board of Governors.
SB 322 — Squatters Law
Senate Bill 322 allows spot owners to inquire their section sheriff to region squatters from their properties.
While a akin instrumentality was enacted past year for homeowners, this instrumentality extends those rules to support owners of commercialized properties, specified arsenic flat complexes and bureau buildings.
To bash so, these owners indispensable simply taxable a ailment signifier to their section sheriff’s office, and upon verification, deputies volition past person to instantly notify the unwanted idiosyncratic that he/she has to leave.
This instrumentality besides sets distant transgression penalties successful enactment with past year’s law, though spot owners volition inactive person to wage the sheriff’s bureau a civilian eviction interest and hourly complaint to person a lawman basal by and support the bid portion the idiosyncratic is removed.
SB 348 — Ethics Laws
Senate Bill 348 adds these 2 changes to Florida’s morals laws:
Add a “stolen valor” proviso that prohibits candidates, nationalist officers, and nationalist employees from knowingly making definite fraudulent representations relating to subject service
Expands the Attorney General’s authorization to question wage garnishment for unpaid fines imposed for nonaccomplishment to timely taxable a required fiscal disclosure to besides let wage garnishment for different violations of morals laws nether definite conditions
SB 356 — Holocaust Remembrance Day
Senate Bill 356 designates Jan. 27 arsenic “Holocaust Remembrance Day.”
Under the law, nationalist schools tin usage the juncture to thatch students astir the harmful impacts of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, arsenic good arsenic “the affirmative impacts of the Jewish assemblage connected humanity.”
SB 384 — State-Owned Lands
Senate Bill 384 amends the process for municipal annexation, the process whereby section governments bring caller onshore nether their jurisdiction.
The instrumentality present requires a section authorities to notify each subordinate of the section Legislative delegation earlier the archetypal nationalist proceeding connected a connection to annex state-owned lands.
SB 421 — Peer Support for First Responders
Senate Bill 421 expands the explanation of a “first responder” to see instrumentality enforcement bureau enactment personnel.
The alteration gives these unit the aforesaid entree to adjacent enactment services and ensures they person the aforesaid confidentiality protections arsenic different archetypal responders.
SB 472 — Inmate Education
Senate Bill 472 requires authorities officials to coordinate and guarantee that inmates who implicit classes required to get a licence successful definite professions really person recognition toward licensure.
SB 480 — Nonprofit Agricultural Organizations
Senate Bill 480 would fto nonprofit cultivation organizations connection aesculapian payment plans, though it specifies that specified plans don’t really represent insurance.
SB 492 — Mitigation Banks
Senate Bill 492 provides a modular docket for releasing mitigation credits and gets escaped of a regularisation that the recognition merchandise docket beryllium determined connected a case-by-case basis.
SB 538 — Duty Judges
Senate Bill 538 allows circuit tribunal work judges to clasp hearings successful places different than their chambers. These judges are liable for handling urgent matters extracurricular of regular tribunal hours.
The instrumentality besides repeals the $1,500 per time bounds connected fees paid to court-appointed arbitrators.
SB 582 — Historic Buildings
Senate Bill 582 allows a codification enforcement committee oregon peculiar magistrate to enforce higher fines for the demolition of a tract listed connected the National Register of Historic Places.
To bash so, the demolition indispensable person been willful, unpermitted, and not the effect of a earthy disaster.
SB 578 — Wine Containers
Senate Bill 578 allows for the merchantability of vino in any container holding 5.16 gallons, alternatively than conscionable reusable containers.
Under erstwhile law, vino whitethorn besides beryllium sold successful solid containers holding 4.5 liters, 9 liters, 12 liters, oregon 15 liters of wine.
SB 606 — Restaurants and Hotels
Senate Bill 606 revises respective provisions of authorities instrumentality referring to nationalist lodging and nutrient establishments.
More specifically, the instrumentality helps these sorts of businesses get escaped of definite guests, allowing constabulary to apprehension a impermanent who remains successful an constitution aft being provided a announcement to leave.
SB 612 — Fatal Drug Dealings
Senate Bill 612 establishes a caller class of third-degree execution for those younger than 18 years aged who illegally administer controlled substances that effect successful an overdose.
The substances covered nether this include:
A Schedule I controlled substance
Opium (or a derivative of opium)
This caller execution class constitutes a second-degree felony.
SB 678 — Pawnbroker Transaction Forms
Senate Bill 678 allows transaction forms utilized by pawnbrokers to beryllium successful integer format, alternatively than requiring people format only.
SB 700 — Omnibus Farming Bill
Senate Bill 700 is an omnibus measure aimed chiefly astatine making changes to the FLDACS, though it would besides instrumentality caller rules for Florida residents.
Some of the much notable changes are arsenic follows:
Bans assemblage fluoridation successful nationalist water
Bans the transport and merchantability of spores that tin nutrient psychedelic mushrooms similar psilocybin
Prohibits banks from discriminating against farmers based connected ESG scores
Prohibits charities from accepting contributions from overseas countries of concern, including places similar China, Russia and Iran
Establishes an “Honest Service Registry” to assistance authorities residents marque better-informed choices astir which charities to support
Repeals the Consumer Unit Pricing Act, which required sellers to show prices per portion (ex: quadrate foot, pound, fluid ounce) for user products
Allows the authorities to temporarily suspend a concealed transportation license/application if the idiosyncratic is arrested with a disqualifying charge
SB 738 — Child Care Facilities
Senate Bill 738 directs the DCF to found minimum standards for licensing childcare facilities, including classification levels for violations that compromise the wellness and information of a child.
In addition, the instrumentality makes the pursuing changes:
Provides for a 45-day provisional-hire presumption upon a delayed inheritance screening of childcare personnel
Adjusts grooming requirements for introductory childcare and CPR
No longer requires facilities to supply parents with pagers oregon beepers during drop-in childcare
Removes requirements for facilities to supply parents with accusation astir influenza and the dangers of a distracted big leaving a kid successful a vehicle
Exempts preschools from peculiar assessments levied by section governments
SB 768 — Countries of Concern
House Bill 768 requires a wellness attraction supplier to guarantee that a idiosyncratic oregon entity with a nonstop controlling involvement successful the supplier to not besides person an involvement successful an entity that has a concern narration with a overseas state of interest oregon a scrutinized company.
In Florida, overseas countries of interest see China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, and Venezuela.
Meanwhile, scrutinized companies are considered those that boycott Israel oregon person prohibited operations successful Cuba, Iran, Sudan oregon Syria.
SB 784 — Plat Reviews
Senate Bill 784 requires section governments to reappraisal and o.k. plat submittals done a designated authority.
SB 796 — Sewage Systems
Senate Bill 796 grants wide permits for the replacement of existing sewage attraction systems truthful agelong arsenic the permittee conducts due reporting, yearly inspections and recordkeeping.
In addition, the instrumentality allows for the installation of a distributed wastewater attraction portion without further enactment by the DEP truthful agelong arsenic the permittee notifies the bureau astatine slightest 30 days up of time.
SB 830 — Migrant Vessels
Senate Bill 830 prohibits radical and firms from leaving a “migrant vessel” successful authorities waters.
Under this law, a “migrant vessel” refers to the following:
“...Irregularly constructed and equipped maritime vas designed, intended, oregon utilized for the intent of undocumented migrant transportation, which was built oregon assembled utilizing oregon combining makeshift oregon improvised materials oregon worldly components and meets astatine slightest 1 of the pursuing criteria:
1. The vas was not constructed by a vessel manufacturer.
2. The vas was not assigned a hull recognition number."
Senate Bill 830 (2025)SB 940— Restaurant Reservations
Senate Bill 940 prohibits third-party preservation platforms from selling edifice reservations without having an statement with the edifice successful question.
Platforms violating this regularisation tin beryllium penalized with fees of up to $1,000 per violation.
SB 944 — Insurance Claims
Senate Bill 944 reduces the timeframe for a wellness insurer oregon HMO to taxable claims to a licensed psychologist.
More specifically, the instrumentality reduces that timeframe from 30 months to 12 months.
The instrumentality takes effect connected July 1, though it applies to claims for services provided starting connected Jan. 1, 2026.
SB 954 — Recovery Residences
Senate Bill 954 requires section governments to streamline rules to marque it easier for certified betterment residences (CRRs) to open.
In addition, the instrumentality eliminates staffing requirements erstwhile patients aren’t present, and it doubles the fig of residents that a CRR head whitethorn oversee if the relation maintains a due ratio of unit to residents.
SB 958 — Diabetes Detection
Senate Bill 958 requires the FDOH to enactment with section schoolhouse districts and charter schools to amended families astir Type 1 diabetes.
SB 994 — Driver’s Licenses
Senate Bill 994 mandates that adults applying for a driver’s licence indispensable implicit a postulation instrumentality and substance maltreatment acquisition course.
SB 1070 — Electrocardiograms
Senate Bill 1070 — dubbed the “Second Chance Act” — requires electrocardiogram (EKG) assessments for pupil athletes earlier they tin enactment successful athletics.
SB 1102 — School Readiness
Senate Bill 1102 expands the eligibility criteria for children with peculiar needs successful the School Readiness program.
Under this law, specified children indispensable person their accommodations validated by a licensed wellness attraction professional, intelligence wellness professional, oregon acquisition psychologist.
In addition, the instrumentality requires an IEP and an IFSP to find the child’s eligibility for accommodations.
SB 1286 — Harming Children
Senate Bill 1286 amends the explanation of “harm and neglect of a child” in state statutes.
The instrumentality allows caregivers to fto a sufficiently mature kid prosecute successful independent, unsupervised activities without automatically considering them harmful oregon neglectful. This includes:
Traveling to/from schoolhouse oregon adjacent locations via bicycle oregon connected foot
Remaining astatine location oregon different places for a “reasonable play of time,” unless doing truthful endangers the child’s safety
However, the instrumentality inactive considers these actions arsenic harmful if the kid is subjected to evident information that the caregiver knew oregon should person known about.
In addition, the instrumentality considers a caregiver neglectful is he/she fails to supply the kid with the indispensable services to support the child’s carnal and intelligence health.
SB 1374 — Teacher Misconduct
Senate Bill 1374 aims to amended reporting and accountability regarding teacher arrests/misconduct.
Under this law, schoolhouse boards indispensable follow a argumentation to temporarily region instructional unit from classrooms wrong 24 hours of a felony apprehension notification.
SB 1388 — Boater Freedom Act
Senate Bill 1388 — dubbed the “Boater Freedom Act” — establishes that instrumentality enforcement officers whitethorn not committee immoderate vessels oregon propulsion a vas implicit without probable cause.
This regularisation takes effect careless of whether the proprietor of the vas is connected board, and it means that officers whitethorn not propulsion a vas implicit simply to marque a information oregon marine sanitation instrumentality inspection.
Instead, the instrumentality requires authorities agencies to make a “Florida Freedom Boater” information inspection decal for boaters demonstrating due usage and retention of information equipment.
SB 1402 — Dropout Retrieval Programs
Senate Bill 1402 requires each dropout retrieval programs — programs aimed astatine helping students who’ve officially withdrawn from precocious schoolhouse — to take betwixt a schoolhouse betterment standing oregon a schoolhouse grade.
In addition, the instrumentality requires Virtual Instruction Providers to person a schoolhouse grade/improvement standing based connected the appraisal scores of each students served wrong those districts.
SB 1470 — School Safety
Senate Bill 1470 is aimed astatine strengthening schoolhouse information with a assortment of caller rules.
Under this law, schoolhouse information guards indispensable beryllium trained and approved by a sheriff, and their grooming requirements are aligned with those for schoolhouse guardians.
In addition, the instrumentality allows firearm-detection canines to beryllium employed for schoolhouse security.
SB 1514 — Anaphylaxis
Senate Bill 1514 adds requirements to guarantee that K-8 schools are equipped to respond to allergic reactions and anaphylaxis.
Under this law, schoolhouse unit are required to acquisition grooming connected however to respond to allergic reactions, including however to administer epinephrine.
SB 1516 — Aerospace Industry
Senate Bill 1516 creates the International Aerospace Innovation Fund to assistance money aerospace-related probe and improvement projects successful the state.
SB 1546 — Athletic Coaches
Senate Bill 1546 amends state statutes regarding diversion coaches.
Under this law, the day to necessitate a Level 2 inheritance screening for diversion coaches is pushed from Jan. 1, 2025, to July 1, 2026, astatine the latest.
Furthermore, this instrumentality mandates that idiosyncratic who hasn’t received a inheritance screening whitethorn inactive enactment arsenic an diversion manager if he/she is straight supervised by different manager who has met the screening requirements.
SB 1620 — Baker Act Changes
Senate Bill 1620 strengthens Florida’s Baker Act, which allows a idiosyncratic to beryllium involuntarily detained and examined if they whitethorn beryllium having a intelligence wellness situation and airs a information to themselves oregon others.
The instrumentality requires that idiosyncratic attraction plans for radical nether this enactment beryllium reevaluated astatine slightest erstwhile each six months.
In addition, this instrumentality requires the authorities to prioritize licensing for short-term residential attraction facilities successful underserved counties and high-need areas.
SB 1652 — Public Records (Courts)
Senate Bill 1652 creates a nationalist records exemption for definite accusation successful documents stricken by a tribunal successful a noncriminal case.
More specifically, the exemption applies if the tribunal finds that the accusation is irrelevant, false, defamatory, oregon could perchance origin unwarranted harm to a person’s reputation.
This benignant of worldly often pops up during vexatious lawsuits, wherever plaintiffs taxable documents that whitethorn beryllium considered scandalous oregon harassing.
SB 1662 — Transportation
Senate Bill 1662 makes respective regularisation changes related to transportation. Some of these caller rules see the following:
Allows definite disabled veterans to person a peculiar licence sheet embossed with “DV” successful the apical left-hand corner
Prohibits camping connected the right-of-way successful the Florida State Highway System, but connected the Florida National Scenic Trail with an due permit
Prohibits the FDOT from providing funds to transportation-related entities for projects that are inconsistent with the state’s vigor policy
Requires seaports to taxable semiannual reports to the FDOT astir their operations
Prohibits airports from charging caller landing fees for craft operations related to formation grooming conducted by definite world institutions
Requires airports to supply the FDOT with the accidental to usage definite airdrome spot arsenic a staging country during declared states of emergency
SB 1678 — Israel Boycotts
Senate Bill 1678 expands the explanation of a “boycott of Israel” to see situations wherever a schoolhouse has restrictive policies that inhibit world relationships oregon probe owed to ties to Israel.
In addition, the instrumentality requires that the SBA — connected behalf of the nationalist money — divest from companies and immoderate different entities that are boycotting Israel.
SB 1730 — Affordable Housing
Senate Bill 1730 amends the Live Local Act regarding zoning and land-use rules to amended let affordable lodging developments.
Some of the changes made by this instrumentality are arsenic follows:
Prohibits section governments from requiring amendments to developments of determination interaction earlier allowing development
Prohibits section governments from requiring a definite magnitude of residential usage successful mixed-use developments
Requires section governments to trim parking requirements for projected developments by 20% if the improvement meets immoderate of the indispensable criteria nether existent law
Prohibits section governments from enforcing a gathering moratorium that would hold the operation of affordable lodging developments, with fewer exceptions
SB 1768 — Stem Cell Therapy
Senate Bill 1768 allows physicians to execute stem compartment therapies that haven’t been approved by the FDA erstwhile utilized for orthopedic conditions, coiled care, oregon symptom management.
In these situations, the doc indispensable disclose to the diligent that the attraction isn’t approved by the FDA.
SB 7012 — Child Welfare
Senate Bill 7012 requires the DCF to make a CPI and lawsuit manager recruitment programme for radical with anterior nationalist information and work experience.
In addition, the instrumentality mandates that the DCF make a aviator programme for attraction foster care. This programme aims to present a “short-term, family-like placement option” for children successful foster attraction who person precocious assets indicators.
Lastly, the instrumentality requires specialized grooming for foster parents and 24-hour on-call workers to supply situation involution services if needed.
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