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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
Enrolled
4/30/25
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
Engrossed
5/2/25
Enrolled
5/2/25
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
Engrossed
4/9/25
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.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0174
Introduced
2/25/25
Refer
2/28/25
Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to authorize the Legislature, by general law, to prohibit the consideration of any change or improvement made to homestead property to mitigate flood damage in determining the assessed value of such property for ad valorem taxation purposes, to limit the transfer of such value to new homestead property, and to provide an effective date, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0176
Introduced
2/25/25
Refer
2/28/25
Requiring that changes, additions, or improvements that replace or are made to elevate homestead property be assessed in a specified manner; specifying how such assessment must be calculated under certain conditions; authorizing property appraisers to require certain evidence, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0178
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/28/25
Engrossed
4/9/25
Requiring Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University to conduct an agronomic study on emerging crops in this state, subject to legislative appropriation; requiring Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date, etc.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0180
Introduced
2/27/25
Refer
2/28/25
Engrossed
4/9/25
Refer
4/28/25
Engrossed
5/2/25
Enrolled
5/2/25
Prohibiting certain local governments from adopting ordinances for substantial improvements or repairs to a structure which include cumulative substantial improvement periods; prohibiting certain entities from assessing impact fees for specified replacement structures; revising public hurricane shelter funding prioritization requirements for the Division of Emergency Management; authorizing certain servicemembers to provide medical care in specified circumstances; revising requirements for the state comprehensive emergency management plan, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0182
Introduced
2/27/25
Refer
2/28/25
Engrossed
4/9/25
Providing a credit against oil and gas production taxes under the Home Away From Home Tax Credit beginning on a specified date; providing a credit against sales taxes payable by direct pay permitholders under the Home Away From Home Tax Credit beginning on a specified date; providing a credit against the corporate income tax under the Home Away From Home Tax Credit beginning on a specified date; providing a credit against excise taxes on certain alcoholic beverages under the Home Away From Home Tax Credit beginning on a specified date, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0184
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/24/25
Engrossed
4/9/25
Refer
4/29/25
Engrossed
5/1/25
Authorizing a landlord to accept reusable tenant screening reports and require a specified statement; requiring, rather than authorizing, local governments to adopt, by a specified date, an ordinance to allow accessory dwelling units in certain areas; authorizing a local government to provide a density bonus incentive to landowners who make certain real property donations to assist in the provision of affordable housing for military families; requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to evaluate the efficacy of using mezzanine finance and the potential of tiny homes for specified purposes, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0186
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/24/25
Defining the terms "motor vehicle," "trunk," and "vessel"; requiring persons who store or leave firearms or ammunition in motor vehicles or vessels under their control to keep the firearms or ammunition locked inside specified locations within the motor vehicles or vessels while not in the motor vehicles or vessels; providing criminal penalties, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0188
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/24/25
Prohibiting the possession or use of a firearm in a sensitive location; providing criminal penalties; providing exceptions, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0190
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/24/25
Providing requirements for storage of handguns in private conveyances and vessels; requiring law enforcement agencies to engage in a specified promotional campaign; requiring counties to adopt, by a date certain, specified ordinances concerning the parents of children who have been found to have stolen a handgun from a conveyance or vessel, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0192
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/24/25
Replacing the term "tax assessor" with the term "property appraiser"; revising the definitions of the terms "ad valorem tax" and "assessed value of property"; prohibiting the levy of non-ad valorem assessments on agricultural lands under certain circumstances; specifying that non-ad valorem assessments may become delinquent and bear penalties in the same manner as county taxes; authorizing non-ad valorem assessments to be levied to pay certain bonds issued, etc.