All Bills - Florida 2025 Regular Session
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0144
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/24/25
Repealing provisions relating to marriage between persons of the same sex; deleting a prohibition on the recognition of same-sex marriages; deleting a prohibition on the state and its agencies and subdivisions giving effect to a public act, record, or judicial proceeding that respects a same-sex marriage or relationship or a claim arising from such marriage or relationship, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0146
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/24/25
Prohibiting a court from denying or restricting certain parental rights based solely on a parent's status as a qualified patient for purposes of medical marijuana use; prohibiting the presumption of neglect or child endangerment based solely on a parent's status as a qualified patient for purposes of medical marijuana use, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0148
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/24/25
Defining the term "contingency fee"; prohibiting the Department of Legal Affairs from entering into certain contracts until the Attorney General makes a specified written determination; requiring the Attorney General to request proposals from private attorneys after making such determination; providing that the request for proposals and the contract award are not subject to challenge under the Administrative Procedure Act, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0150
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/24/25
Engrossed
3/19/25
Refer
4/28/25
Enrolled
4/29/25
Citing this act as "Trooper's Law"; providing criminal penalties for restraining a dog outside during a natural disaster and thereafter abandoning the dog, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0152
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/24/25
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, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0154
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/24/25
Deleting the requirement that the Florida Commission on Human Relations send certain information to certain persons by registered mail, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0156
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/24/25
Citing this act as the "Safe Waterways Act"; requiring the Department of Health and the Department of Environmental Protection to submit to the Governor and the Legislature, by a specified date, certain recommendations relating to the transfer of duties related to the bacteriological sampling of beach waters and public bathing places; requiring the departments to enter into an interagency agreement, by a specified date, that meets certain requirements; requiring municipalities and counties to notify the department of any incident that may affect the quality of beach waters and public bathing places within their respective jurisdictions, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0158
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/24/25
Engrossed
3/27/25
Engrossed
3/27/25
Refer
4/28/25
Enrolled
4/29/25
Prohibiting the state group insurance program from imposing any cost-sharing requirement upon an enrollee with respect to coverage for diagnostic breast examinations or supplemental breast examinations, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0160
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/24/25
Engrossed
3/19/25
Authorizing the Board of Accountancy to competitively procure contracted services with certain corporations not for profit for the performance of certain duties assigned to the Division of Certified Public Accounting of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation; revising the education and work experience requirements for a certified public accountant license; revising requirements for the approval of providers who administer continuing education on ethics for certified public accountants, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0162
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/24/25
Prohibiting persons from engaging in specified actions to evade the requirements of ch. 516, F.S.; providing that consumer finance loans made in violation of such prohibitions are void and uncollectible; providing construction relating to when a person is deemed to be a lender subject to such prohibitions, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0164
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/20/25
Engrossed
4/3/25
Refer
4/29/25
Defining the term "vessel owner"; providing a penalty for a person anchoring, mooring, or allowing certain vessels to occupy the waters of this state if an officer of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission or a law enforcement agency finds that specified conditions exist; requiring the commission to issue, at no cost, a permit for the long-term anchoring of a vessel which includes specified information; requiring the commission to use an electronic application and permitting system; requiring that a vessel subject to a specified number of violations within a 24-month period which result in certain dispositions be declared a public nuisance, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0166
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/20/25
Engrossed
4/3/25
Exempting district school boards from requirements for adopting certain rules; deleting a requirement for a district school board to employ an internal auditor in certain circumstances; requiring innovation schools of technology to comply with specified provisions relating to instructional multiyear contracts, in addition to annual contracts, for instructional personnel in addition to annual contracts; revising requirements relating to district school board attendance policies for Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Programs; revising requirements for assessments needed for a student to earn a high school diploma; providing requirements for advanced degrees which may be used to set salary schedules for instructional personnel and school administrators hired after a specified date; revising eligibility requirements for individuals to participate in the Teacher Apprenticeship Program, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0168
Introduced
2/24/25
Refer
2/25/25
Engrossed
4/9/25
Refer
4/29/25
Citing this act as the "Tristin Murphy Act"; expanding the programs and diversion initiatives supported by implementation or expansion grants to include training for 911 public safety telecommunicators and emergency medical technicians for certain purposes and to include veterans treatment court programs; encouraging communities to apply for specified grants to establish misdemeanor or ordinance violation mental health diversion programs; encouraging communities to apply for specified grants to establish pretrial felony mental health diversion programs; expanding eligibility for the Forensic Hospital Diversion Pilot Program to include Hillsborough County, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0170
Introduced
2/25/25
Refer
2/25/25
Reviving, reenacting, and amending a provision relating to consumer satisfaction surveys; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to develop user-friendly consumer satisfaction surveys for nursing home facilities; requiring medical directors of nursing home facilities to obtain, or to be in the process of obtaining, certain qualifications by a specified date; requiring nursing home facilities to conduct biennial patient safety culture surveys; requiring nursing home facilities that maintain certain electronic health records to make available certain data to the agency's Florida Health Information Exchange program for a specified purpose; exempting nursing homes operated by state agencies from certain financial reporting requirements, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0172
Introduced
2/24/25
Refer
2/25/25
Engrossed
4/9/25
Providing circumstances under which the Department of Health may issue a notice to cease and desist and pursue other remedies upon finding probable cause; prohibiting the use of specified titles and designations by health care practitioners not licensed as physicians or osteopathic physicians, as applicable, with an exception; providing that the use of such titles and designations constitutes the unlicensed practice of medicine or osteopathic medicine, as applicable; authorizing the department to pursue specified remedies for such violations, etc.