All Bills - Florida 2022 Regular Session
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Florida 2022 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0684
Introduced
10/27/21
Refer
11/16/21
Failed
3/14/22
Citing this act as the "Truth in Government Act"; deleting provisions regarding the administration of oaths and affirmations to witnesses appearing before legislative committees, and associated penalties, to conform to changes made by the act; requiring that persons addressing a legislative committee take an oath or affirmation of truthfulness; providing exceptions; requiring that the committee chair or other member of the committee administer the oath or affirmation; providing criminal penalties for certain false statements before a legislative committee, etc.
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Florida 2022 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0686
Introduced
10/27/21
Refer
11/16/21
Failed
3/14/22
Creating the pilot program within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; providing the purpose of the pilot program; providing for the issuance of grants to offset costs relating to onsite solar energy storage systems for certain facilities; providing requirements for the application process; directing the department to conduct or contract to conduct a specified study, publish the study on its website, and provide copies of the study to the Governor and Legislature by a specified date; providing for expiration of the pilot program; providing an appropriation, etc.
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Florida 2022 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0688
Introduced
10/27/21
Refer
11/16/21
Failed
3/14/22
Creating the "Florida Family and Medical Leave Act"; requiring an employer to allow certain employees to take family and medical leave to bond with a minor child upon the child's birth, adoption, or foster care placement; prohibiting an employer from taking adverse action against an employee who requests or obtains family and medical leave; requiring that family and medical leave be taken concurrently with any leave taken under federal family and medical leave law; requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to create a model notice that specifies an employee's rights related to family and medical leave and family and medical leave insurance benefits, etc.
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Florida 2022 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0690
Introduced
10/27/21
Refer
11/16/21
Failed
3/14/22
Authorizing specified resilience-related advisory committees to conduct public meetings and workshops by means of communications media technology; providing that use of such technology by a committee member constitutes that member's presence at such meeting or workshop; requiring that such technology allow the public to audibly communicate, etc.
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Florida 2022 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0692
Introduced
10/27/21
Refer
11/16/21
Engrossed
2/23/22
Refer
3/7/22
Enrolled
3/10/22
Passed
6/3/22
Chaptered
6/6/22
Defining the term "female genitals" and revising the definitions of the terms "sexual battery" and "sexual bestiality"; requiring that HIV test results performed on inmates arrested for sexual offenses involving female genital penetration be disclosed under certain circumstances, etc.
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Florida 2022 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0694
Introduced
10/27/21
Refer
11/16/21
Failed
3/14/22
Requiring the supervisor of elections to enclose a postage paid mailing envelope with each vote-by-mail ballot, etc.
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Florida 2022 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0696
Introduced
10/27/21
Refer
11/16/21
Failed
3/14/22
Providing a limitation on certain fees charged by airports or seaports; prohibiting certain airports and seaports from removing, degrading, or impeding access to certain services, benefits, or infrastructure, etc.
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Florida 2022 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0698
Introduced
10/27/21
Refer
11/16/21
Failed
3/14/22
Adding a new requirement for the award of a standard high school diploma to Academically Challenging Curriculum to Enhance Learning students; requiring students, beginning with those entering grade 9 in a specified school year, to submit a Free Application for Federal Student Aid in order to be awarded a standard high school diploma; providing an exemption, etc.
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Florida 2022 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0700
Introduced
10/28/21
Refer
11/16/21
Failed
3/14/22
Requiring licensed nurse registries to ensure specified requirements are met if they allow registered nurses to delegate certain tasks to certified nursing assistants or home health aides; authorizing registered nurses to delegate to certified nursing assistants and home health aides the administration of certain medications to nurse registry patients and patients in county detention facilities under certain circumstances; authorizing certified nursing assistants to administer certain medication to nurse registry patients and patients in county detention facilities under certain circumstances, etc.
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Florida 2022 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0702
Introduced
10/28/21
Refer
11/16/21
Failed
3/14/22
Defining the terms "school bus" and "side stop signal arm enforcement system"; authorizing school districts to install and operate side stop signal arm enforcement systems on school buses; requiring school districts to enter into interlocal agreements with certain law enforcement agencies for certain purposes; providing that recorded images evidencing a violation of the act are admissible in any judicial or administrative proceeding for a certain purpose; specifying requirements of and prohibitions on the use of recorded video and still images captured by the side stop signal arm enforcement system, etc.
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Florida 2022 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0704
Introduced
10/28/21
Refer
11/16/21
Engrossed
2/3/22
Refer
3/1/22
Enrolled
3/7/22
Passed
4/6/22
Chaptered
4/8/22
Revising the types of expenditures for district programs and services which are eligible for state payment; requiring service provider applicants to include the names and locations of certain recovery residences in their license application; requiring service providers to record specified information in the Department of Children and Families' Provider Licensure and Designations System after a specified date; requiring certified recovery residence administrators to demonstrate the ability to meet specified requirements; requiring service providers to return an individual's personal effects upon the individual's discharge, etc.
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Florida 2022 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0706
Introduced
10/28/21
Refer
11/16/21
Engrossed
2/17/22
Refer
3/1/22
Enrolled
3/7/22
Passed
5/18/22
Chaptered
5/19/22
Revising provisions specifying when school concurrency is deemed satisfied; requiring a district school board to notify a local government that capacity is available for development within a certain timeframe; specifying that proportionate-share mitigation must be set aside and not spent if an improvement has not been identified, etc.
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Florida 2022 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0708
Introduced
10/29/21
Refer
11/16/21
Failed
3/14/22
Requiring that a high school equivalency examination administered in any language other than English be given the same weight as a high school equivalency examination administered in English; requiring written portions of the coordinated screening and progress monitoring program for students in the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program through grade 3 to be in specified native languages; revising requirements of the statewide, standardized assessment program to include native language versions of related assessments, etc.
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Florida 2022 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0710
Introduced
10/29/21
Refer
11/16/21
Failed
3/14/22
Establishing the Early Learning Scholarship program, administered by the Division of Early Learning; specifying eligibility criteria; providing that a student who receives a scholarship remains eligible to participate until the student is admitted to kindergarten or attains the age of 6 years by a specified date; requiring the division to contract with an independent contractor to evaluate the program; requiring the division to submit a written copy of the evaluation to the Legislature and certain state agencies by a specified date; exempting the state from liability; providing that the program does not expand the regulatory authority of the state, etc.
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Florida 2022 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0712
Introduced
11/1/21
Refer
11/16/21
Failed
3/14/22
Defining the term "small business"; providing that small businesses are not required to collect the sales and use tax on the retail sale of certain items of tangible personal property during a specified timeframe; authorizing certain dealers to opt out of participating in the tax holiday, subject to certain requirements, etc.