Florida 2024 2024 Regular Session

Florida House Bill H0433 Enrolled / Bill

Filed 03/12/2024

                            
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An act relating to employment regulations; amending s. 2 
218.077, F.S.; prohibiting political subdivisions from 3 
maintaining a minimum wage other than a state or 4 
federal minimum wage; prohibiting political 5 
subdivisions from controlling, affecting, or awarding 6 
preferences based on the wages or employment benefits 7 
of entities doing business with the political 8 
subdivision; revising and providing applicability; 9 
creating s. 448.077, F.S.; prohibiting a local 10 
government from adopting or enforcing certain measures 11 
regulating scheduling by private employers, except as 12 
otherwise authorized or required by law; creating s. 13 
448.106, F.S.; defining terms; prohibiting a political 14 
subdivision from requiring employers to meet or 15 
provide heat exposure requirements beyond those 16 
required by law; prohibiting a political subdivision 17 
from giving preference to or considering or seeking 18 
information from an employer in a competitive 19 
solicitation based on or relating to an employer's 20 
heat exposure requirements; providing construction; 21 
providing applicability; providing an effective date. 22 
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 24 
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 Section 1.  Section 448.106, Florida Sta tutes, is created 26 
to read: 27 
 448.106  Workplace heat exposure requirements. — 28 
 (1)  As used in this section, the term: 29 
 (a)  "Competitive solicitation" means an invitation to bid, 30 
a request for proposals, or an invitation to negotiate. 31 
 (b)  "Heat exposure r equirement" means a standard to 32 
control an employee's exposure to heat or sun, or to otherwise 33 
address or moderate the effects of such exposure. The term 34 
includes, but is not limited to, standards relating to any of 35 
the following: 36 
 1.  Employee monitoring and protection. 37 
 2.  Water consumption. 38 
 3.  Cooling measures. 39 
 4.  Acclimation and recovery periods or practices. 40 
 5.  Posting or distributing notices or materials that 41 
inform employees how to protect themselves from heat exposure. 42 
 6.  Implementation and maintenance of heat exposure 43 
programs or training. 44 
 7.  Appropriate first -aid measures or emergency responses 45 
related to heat exposure. 46 
 8.  Protections for employees who report that they have 47 
experienced excessive heat exposure. 48 
 9.  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements. 49 
 (c)  "Political subdivision" means a county, municipality, 50          
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department, commission, district, board, or other public body, 51 
whether corporate or otherwise, created by or under state law. 52 
 (2)(a)  A political subdivision may not e stablish, mandate, 53 
or otherwise require an employer, including an employer 54 
contracting to provide goods or services to the political 55 
subdivision, to meet or provide heat exposure requirements not 56 
otherwise required under state or federal law. 57 
 (b)  A political subdivision may not give preference in a 58 
competitive solicitation to an employer based on the employer's 59 
heat exposure requirements and may not consider or seek 60 
information relating to the employer's heat exposure 61 
requirements. 62 
 (3)  This section does not limit the authority of a 63 
political subdivision to establish or otherwise provide heat 64 
exposure requirements not otherwise required under state or 65 
federal law for direct employees of the political subdivision. 66 
 (4)  This section does not apply if it is determined that 67 
compliance with this section will prevent the distribution of 68 
federal funds to a political subdivision or would otherwise be 69 
inconsistent with federal requirements pertaining to receiving 70 
federal funds, but only to the extent necessary to allow a 71 
political subdivision to receive federal funds or to eliminate 72 
inconsistency with federal requirements. 73 
 Section 2.  Effective September 30, 2026, subsection (2) 74 
and paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section 218.077, Florida 75          
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Statutes, are amende d to read: 76 
 218.077  Wage and employment benefits requirements by 77 
political subdivisions; restrictions. — 78 
 (2)(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), a 79 
political subdivision may not establish, mandate, maintain, or 80 
otherwise require an employer to pay a minimum wage, other than 81 
a state or federal minimum wage, to apply a state or federal 82 
minimum wage to wages exempt from a state or federal minimum 83 
wage, or to provide employment benefits not otherwise required 84 
by state or federal law. 85 
 (b)  A political subdivision may not through its purchasing 86 
or contracting procedures seek to control or affect the wages or 87 
employment benefits provided by its vendors, contractors, 88 
service providers, or other parties doing business with the 89 
political subdivision. 90 
 (c)  A political subdivision may not through the use of 91 
evaluation factors, qualification of bidders, or otherwise award 92 
preferences on the basis of wages or employment benefits 93 
provided by vendors, contractors, service providers, or other 94 
parties doing business with the political subdivision. 95 
 (3)  This section does not: 96 
 (a)  Limit the authority of a political subdivision to 97 
establish a minimum wage other than a state or federal minimum 98 
wage or to provide employment benefits not otherwise required 99 
under state or federal law: 100          
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 1.  For the employees of the political subdivision; or 101 
 2.  For the employees of an employer contracting to provide 102 
goods or services for the political subdivision, or for the 103 
employees of a subcontractor of such an employer, under the 104 
terms of a contract with the political subdivision; or 105 
 2.3. For the employees of an employer receiving a direct 106 
tax abatement or subsidy from the political subdivision, as a 107 
condition of the direct tax abatement or subsidy. 108 
 Section 3.  The amendments to s. 218.077, Florida Statutes, 109 
by this act, do not impair any contract entered into before 110 
September 30, 2026. 111 
 Section 4.  Section 448.077, Florida Statutes, is created 112 
to read: 113 
 448.077  Preemption of employee scheduling regulation. — A 114 
local government may not adopt or enforce any ordinance, 115 
resolution, order, rule, policy, or contract requirement 116 
regulating scheduling, including predictive scheduling, by a 117 
private employer except as expressly authorized or required by 118 
state or federal law, rule, or regulation or pursuant to federal 119 
grant requirements. 120 
 Section 5.  Except as otherwise provided, this act shall 121 
take effect July 1, 2024. 122