Florida 2024 2024 Regular Session

Florida House Bill H0081 Introduced / Bill

Filed 09/27/2023

                       
 
HB 81  	2024 
 
 
 
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F L O R I D A H O U S E O F R E P	R E S E N T A T I V E	S 
 
 
 
A bill to be entitled 1 
An act relating to civil penalties under The Gas 2 
Safety Law of 1967; amending s. 368.061, F.S.; 3 
increasing the civil penalty amount for violating The 4 
Gas Safety Law of 1967; making grammatical changes; 5 
providing an effective date. 6 
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 8 
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 Section 1.  Subsection (1) of section 368.061, Florida 10 
Statutes, is amended to read: 11 
 368.061  Penalty.— 12 
 (1)  Any person who violates any provision of this part, or 13 
any regulation issued under this part hereunder, is shall be 14 
subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $257,664 $25,000 for 15 
each violation for each day that the such violation persists, 16 
except that the maximum civil penalty may shall not exceed 17 
$2,576,627 $500,000 for any related series of violations. 18 
 Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2024. 19