All Bills - Florida 2025 Regular Session
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0538
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/20/25
Engrossed
4/3/25
Revising the availability of judges to require at least one circuit judge in each circuit to be available for hearings with limited notice; revising the duty of the Florida Clerks of Court Operations Corporation to provide an annual budget request to be pursuant to specified provisions; deleting the per diem cap for arbitrators who participate in court-ordered, nonbinding arbitration; authorizing judges to authenticate a jurat, or certificate of proof or acknowledgment, by affixing their signature and printing their name, title, and court, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0540
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/20/25
Citing this act as the "Evin B. Hartsell Act"; requiring the Department of Education to develop specified curricula; authorizing the department to consult with the Evin B. Hartsell Foundation to further develop such curricula, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0542
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/20/25
Revising priority areas for project proposals under the Closing the Gap grant program to include those addressing racial and ethnic disparities in morbidity and mortality rates relating to mental health and substance use disorders; requiring priority be given to proposals for areas with the greatest documented racial and ethnic disparities in the provision of mental health and substance abuse services, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0544
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/20/25
Authorizing certain payments to relatives or nonrelatives who have a child placed with them in out-of-home care and who obtain a child-specific level I foster license within a specified timeframe; making technical changes, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0546
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/20/25
Authorizing certain qualified patients to apply to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for a certificate to cultivate up to two cannabis plants for personal consumption; requiring the department to adopt rules related to such certificates, including rules for inspection and registration of each cannabis plant; providing that no more than two cannabis plants may be cultivated at a single residence regardless of the number of eligible qualified patients who reside there, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0548
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/20/25
Revising the list of places into which a person may not carry a handgun or a concealed weapon or concealed firearm to allow judges and magistrates to carry concealed weapons and concealed firearms into any courthouse in the circuit in which they serve in such capacity, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0550
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/20/25
Authorizing the Chief Financial Officer to make investments in Bitcoin and other digital assets for a certain purpose; requiring the Chief Financial Officer to maintain flexibility in certain investment decisions; authorizing the Chief Financial Officer to invest money in Bitcoin from certain public funds; authorizing the Trustees of the State Board of Administration to invest and reinvest available funds of the System Trust Fund in Bitcoin; providing that investments of public funds in Bitcoin are exempt from certain security requirements, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0552
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/20/25
Specifying additional medical conditions that qualify an individual to receive medical marijuana and medical marijuana delivery devices; revising the frequency with which qualified physicians must evaluate existing qualified patients for a physician certification for the medical use of marijuana; requiring the Department of Health to establish procedures and processes for certain nonresidents to register as visiting qualified patients and be issued identification cards within a specified timeframe, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0554
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/20/25
Revising the calculation that the Chief Financial Officer performs to set the rate of interest payable on judgments or decrees; requiring the Office of Insurance Regulation of the Financial Services Commission to create specified reports on related entities and compensation of executive officers for insurers, licensees, and registrants; revising the facts the office must consider in determining whether a rate is excessive, inadequate, or unfairly discriminatory; requiring insurers to send policyholders a written estimate of the amount of loss under certain circumstances, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0556
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/20/25
Requiring owners of resale-restricted affordable housing to submit a specified application to the property appraiser; requiring that resale-restricted affordable housing be assessed under a specified law; specifying that resale-restricted affordable housing is a land-use regulation and subject to a certain limitation, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0558
Introduced
2/10/25
Refer
2/20/25
Authorizing certain parties to enter into a written contract for postadoption contact which permits contact between an adopted child and his or her birth parent and siblings; requiring that the contract be filed with, approved by, and entered into a certain final judgment by the court under certain circumstances; authorizing and providing requirements for enforcement, modification, or termination of the contract; prohibiting enforcement of the contract in certain circumstances, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0560
Introduced
2/10/25
Refer
2/20/25
Beginning on a specified date, prohibiting a food establishment from manufacturing, selling, or distributing food that contains specified chemical additives, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0562
Introduced
2/10/25
Refer
2/20/25
Prohibiting the use of artificial intelligence to detect firearms in public areas; providing criminal penalties, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0564
Introduced
2/10/25
Refer
2/20/25
Revising the definition of the term "practice of chiropractic medicine" to include the ordering, storing, possessing, prescribing, and administering of articles of natural origin under certain circumstances by certain chiropractic physicians; authorizing pharmacists to fill the orders of such chiropractic physicians; revising limitations on medical benefits in insurance policies providing personal injury protection, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Florida Senate Bill S0566
Introduced
2/10/25
Refer
2/20/25
Revising legislative findings and intent to include palliative care for progressive illnesses; providing a purpose and requirements for a patient-directed medical order; requiring that certain health care services be provided to the principal regardless of the decision to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging procedures; authorizing physicians, physician assistants, and certain advanced practice registered nurses to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging procedures under certain circumstances without penalty, etc.