STORAGE NAME: h7015.REC
DATE: 4/2/2025
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FLORIDA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
BILL ANALYSIS
This bill analysis was prepared by nonpartisan committee staff and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.
BILL #: HB 7015 PCB REC 25-01
TITLE: Florida Statutes
SPONSOR(S): Borrero
COMPANION BILL: SB 36 (Passidomo)
LINKED BILLS: None
RELATED BILLS: SB 36 (Passidomo)
Committee References
Orig. Comm.: Rules & Ethics
16 Y, 0 N
SUMMARY
Effect of the Bill:
The bill adopts all statutes of a general and permanent nature passed through the 2024 Regular Session together
with corrections, changes, amendments to, and repeals of the provisions of the 2024 Florida Statutes enacted in
additional Reviser’s bills by the 2025 Legislature.
Fiscal or Economic Impact:
None.
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ANALYSIS
EFFECT OF THE BILL:
The bill prospectively adopts all statutes of a general and permanent nature passed through the 2024 Regular
Session together with corrections, changes, and amendments to and repeals of the provisions of the 2024 Florida
Statutes enacted in additional Reviser’s bill(s) by the 2025 Legislature. This bill adopts as official statutory law of
the state those portions of the statutes that are carried forward from the regular edition published in 2024, which
thus serve as the best evidence of the law.
Laws enacted after the 2024 Regular Session, which will have been enacted since the publication of the 2024
Florida Statutes, are not repealed by the adoption of this act, but shall have full effect as if enacted after its said
adoption and enactment.
Section 1 (adoption) amends s. 11.2421, F.S., to adopt as the official statutory law of the state the 2025 Florida
Statutes, which include the revision, consolidation, and compilation of the public statutes of 2024, and any repeals,
changes, or corrections affected through Reviser’s bills. (Section 1).
Section 2 (repeals) amends s. 11.2422, F.S., to repeal all statutes of a general and permanent nature enacted at or
prior to the 2024 Regular Session that are not included in the 2025 Florida Statutes, as adopted by s. 11.2421, F.S.,
unless recognized and continued in force by reference therein or in ss. 11.2423 and 11.2424. (Section 2).
Section 3 (laws not repealed) amends s. 11.2424, F.S., to clarify that laws enacted during the 2025 Special
Session C are not repealed by the adoption and enactment of the 2025 Florida Statutes, but shall have full effect as
if adopted after the adoption and enactment of the 2025 Florida Statutes. (Section 3).
Section 4 (rights reserved) amends s. 11.2425, F.S., to reserve rights accrued under any law which is repealed by
the adoption and enactment of the 2025 Florida Statutes, provided that the right was accrued before the repeal.
This reservation of rights is also applicable to civil actions where a suit is pending. (Section 4).
Section 5 provides an effective date. The bill takes effect on the 60
th day after adjournment sine die. (Section 5). JUMP TO SUMMARY ANALYSIS RELEVANT INFORMATION BILL HISTORY
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RELEVANT INFORMATION
SUBJECT OVERVIEW:
The Division of Law Revision annually drafts an adoption act to prospectively adopt the Florida Statutes and
designate the portions thereof that are to constitute the official statutory law of the state. The adoption act amends
ss. 11.2421, 11.2422, 11.2424, and 11.2425, F.S., and has the effect of curing any title or single subject defects that
may have existed in an act as originally passed.
1 The adoption act is usually enacted annually during each regular
session.
The adoption act provides a 1-year curing period for title or single subject defects before statutory material
becomes the best evidence of law. This is consistent with the decision by the Legislature, beginning in 2000, to
publish the Florida Statutes on an annual basis and to have the Division of Law Revision submit an adoption act
annually, rather than every 2 years.
The 2025 adoption act prospectively adopts all statutes of a general and permanent nature passed through the
2024 Regular Session together with corrections, changes, and amendments to and repeals of the provisions of the
2024 Florida Statutes enacted in additional Reviser’s bill(s) by the 2025 Legislature. It adopts as official statutory
law of the state those portions of the statutes that are carried forward unchanged from the previous year’s
published edition (2024), which constitutes the best evidence of the law.
Portions of Florida Statutes that have been enacted, amended, or repealed in a session occurring after the
publication of the 2024 edition are prima facie evidence of the law in all courts of the state. For these portions, the
session law (i.e., legislation passed at Special Session C through the 2025 Regular Session) serves as the best
evidence law until adopted by the 2025 Legislature.
Any “statute of a general and permanent nature” enacted before publication of the last adopted regular edition of
the Florida Statutes that does not appear in the current edition stands repealed, both by logic of the system and by
the operation of s. 11.2422, F.S.
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BILL HISTORY
COMMITTEE REFERENCE ACTION DATE
STAFF
DIRECTOR/
POLICY CHIEF
ANALYSIS
PREPARED BY
Orig. Comm.: Rules & Ethics
Committee
16 Y, 0 N 3/20/2025 Havlicak Barrineau
1 The adoption of the Florida Statutes cures title defects that existed in an act as originally passed. See State ex rel. Badgett v. Lee, 156
Fla. 291, 22 So.2d 804 (1945). Thus, general legislation may be attacked on this ground only during the period between its original
enactment and its subsequent adoption as the official law of the state. An act with a title defect is considered valid only from adoption
and not from the date of original enactment. See Thompson v. Intercounty Tel. & Tel. Co., 62 So.2d 16 (Fla. 1952). Analogously, once
reenacted as a portion of the Florida Statutes, a statute is no longer subject to challenge on the ground that it violates the single
subject requirement of s. 6, Art. III of the State Constitution. See State v. Combs, 388 So.2d 1029 (Fla. 1980); Loxahatchee River
Environmental Control District v. School Board of Palm Beach County, 515 So.2d 217 (Fla. 1987); State v. Johnson, 616 So.2d 1 (Fla.
1993).
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See National Bank v. Williams, 38 Fla. 305, 20 So. 931 (1896). Section 11.2423, F.S., provides that no special or local statute, or statute,
local, limited or special in its nature, shall be repealed via reviser’s bill.
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