APA Florida Bill Tracking Report 3.3.24
Ordered by Bill Number
SB 0032 Mangrove Replanting and Restoration by Garcia (I)
Mangrove Replanting and Restoration; Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to adopt rules for mangrove replanting and restoration; providing requirements for the rules; requiring the department, in consultation with the Division of Insurance Agent and Agency Services, to conduct a statewide feasibility study regarding the use of mangroves and other nature-based solutions in order to improve a local government’s community rating for flood insurance purposes, etc. Effective Date: 7/1 /2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Environment and Natural Resources
Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
Senate Rules (Current Reference)
Actions
01/12/2024 SENATE On Committee agenda - Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 01/17/24, 1:30 pm, 110 S
01/17/2024 SENATE Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; 10 Yeas, 0 Nays
01/17/2024 SENATE Now in Rules
SB 0036
Comprehensive Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan by Stewart
Comprehensive Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan; Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to develop a comprehensive waste reduction and recycling plan for this state by a specified date, based on certain department recommendations; specifying minimum requirements for the comprehensive plan; requiring the department to submit a report to the Legislature upon completion of the comprehensive plan, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Environment and Natural Resources
Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government (Current Reference)
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
11/27/2023
12/06/2023
SB 0038
SENATE On Committee agenda - Environment and Natural Resources, 12/06/23, 11:00 am, 301 S
SENATE Favorable by Environment and Natural Resources; 7 Yeas, 0 Nays
12/06/2023 SENATE Now in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
Flood Zone Disclosures for Dwelling Units by Stewart
Flood Zone Disclosures for Dwelling Units; Requiring landlords or persons authorized to enter into rental agreements on behalf of landlords to make specified disclosures relating to flood zones before the commencement of a tenancy; requiring landlords to notify current tenants of a change in a dwelling unit’ s flood zone designation, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Judiciary (Current Reference)
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Rules
Actions
09/18/2023 SENATE Filed
10/10/2023 SENATE Referred to Judiciary; Community Affairs; Rules
HB 0047 Municipal Water and Sewer Utility Rates by Robinson (F)
Municipal Water and Sewer Utility Rates: Requires municipality to charge consumers receiving its utility services in another municipality same rates, fees, & charges as it charges consumers within its own municipal boundaries under certain circumstances. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House Commerce Committee
Actions
02/13/2024 HOUSE On Committee agenda - Commerce Committee, 02/15/24, 9:00 am, 212 K
02/15/2024 HOUSE Favorable by Commerce Committee; 17 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/15/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
HB 0057
County Commissioner Term Limits by Salzman
County Commissioner Term Limits: Establishes term limits for county commissioners; prohibits specified persons from seeking certain offices until after specified timeframe; requires certain counties to hold referendum election on specified date; provides for referendum election; provides form for ballot title & referendum question. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House Ethics, Elections & Open Government Subcommittee
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
02/14/2024 HOUSE Favorable with CS by State Affairs Committee; 13 Yeas, 7 Nays
02/15/2024 HOUSE Committee Substitute Text (C2) Filed
02/16/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
SB 0104
Municipal Water and Sewer Utility Rates by Jones
Municipal Water and Sewer Utility Rates; Requiring a municipality to charge customers receiving its utility services in another municipality the same rates, fees, and charges as it charges consumers within its municipal boundaries under certain circumstances, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Regulated Industries
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Rules (Current Reference)
Actions
02/06/2024 SENATE Favorable with CS by Community Affairs; 8 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/08/2024 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C1) Filed
02/08/2024 SENATE Now in Rules
HB 0109
Charter Schools by Andrade
Charter Schools: Revises requirements for application for conversion charter school; authorizes municipalities to apply for conversion of specified public schools to charter schools; authorizes Charter School Review Commission to solicit & review applications for conversion charter schools; requires certain school district real property be designated as surplus; provides requirements for use of such surplus real property. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Choice & Innovation Subcommittee
House PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Education & Employment Committee
Actions
01/25/2024 HOUSE Favorable with CS by Choice & Innovation Subcommittee; 12 Yeas, 5 Nays
01/25/2024 HOUSE Committee Substitute Text (C1) Filed
01/26/2024 HOUSE Now in PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee
SB 0112
Healthy Food Financing Initiative Program by Jones
Healthy Food Financing Initiative Program; Providing program eligibility requirements for nonprofit organizations and revising eligibility requirements for community development financial institutions; revising requirements for program applicants and projects; revising the purposes for which project funding may be used; requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to review the program and collected data after a specified timeframe and provide the Legislature with a specified report, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Agriculture (Current Reference)
Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
10/04/2023 SENATE Filed
10/17/2023 SENATE Referred to Agriculture; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy
HB 0119
Trespass on Commercial Agricultural Property by Melo
Trespass on Commercial Agricultural Property: Provides enhanced criminal penalties for trespass with specified intent on certain commercial agricultural property. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
No committees referenced
Actions
10/17/2023 HOUSE Referred to Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee; Criminal Justice Subcommittee; Infrastructure Strategies Committee
10/17/2023 HOUSE Now in Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee
01/02/2024 HOUSE Withdrawn prior to introduction
SB 0122
Trees on Residential Property by Stewart
Trees on Residential Property; Repealing a provision relating to tree pruning, trimming, or removal on such property, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs (Current Reference)
SB 0134
Senate Judiciary
Senate Rules
Actions
10/09/2023 SENATE Filed
10/17/2023 SENATE Referred to Community Affairs; Judiciary; Rules
Crimes Evidencing Prejudice by Berman
Crimes Evidencing Prejudice; Expanding grounds for the reclassification of crimes to include acts of prejudice based on the gender or gender identity of any person; specifying that the reclassification must occur if the crime was based in whole or in part on the race, color, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, homeless status, advanced age, gender, or gender identity of any person; specifying that the reclassification of a certain crime must occur if the crime was based in whole or in part on a disability of any person, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Criminal Justice (Current Reference)
Senate Judiciary
Senate Rules
Actions
10/09/2023 SENATE Filed
10/17/2023 SENATE Referred to Criminal Justice; Judiciary; Rules
HB 0137
Gay and Transgender Panic Legal Defenses by Harris
Gay and Transgender Panic Legal Defenses: Prohibits individuals from using nonviolent sexual advance or specified perceptions or beliefs about another individual as defense to criminal offense, to excuse or justify conduct of an individual who commits criminal offense, or to mitigate severity of criminal offense. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Criminal Justice Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Judiciary Committee
Actions
10/10/2023 HOUSE Filed
10/17/2023 HOUSE Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee
10/17/2023 HOUSE Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
HB 0141
Economic Development by Abbott
Economic Development: Removes requirement that certain grants received by regional economic development organization must be matched in certain manner; removes certain demonstration requirements of program applicants; removes requirement that interest be deposited in specified manner; provides that specified earnings may be retained & used to make specified awards or for administrative costs. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
House Ways & Means Committee
House Commerce Committee
Actions
03/01/2024 HOUSE Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 112 Yeas / 0 Nays)
03/01/2024 SENATE In Messages
HB 0143
SB 0144
03/01/2024
SENATE Received; Referred to Fiscal Policy
Tax-exempt Private Activity Bonds by Sirois
Tax-exempt Private Activity Bonds: Urges Congress to add spaceports as qualified tax-exempt category of private activity bonds.
Committees of Reference
House Transportation & Modals Subcommittee
House Ways & Means Committee
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Actions
01/11/2024 HOUSE On Committee agenda - Infrastructure Strategies Committee, 01/16/24, 1:00 pm, 404 H
01/16/2024 HOUSE Favorable by Infrastructure Strategies Committee; 20 Yeas, 0 Nays
01/16/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
State Renewable Energy Goals by Berman
State Renewable Energy Goals; Revising the definitions of the terms “biomass” and “renewable energy”; prohibiting the drilling or exploration for, or production of, oil, gas, or other petroleum products in certain locations; providing legislative intent that all electricity used in this state be generated by renewable energy by a specified date; creating the Renewable Energy Workforce Development Advisory Committee in the Office of Energy, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Environment and Natural Resources (Current Reference)
Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
10/09/2023 SENATE Filed
10/17/2023 SENATE Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy
SB 0148
Antisemitism by Berman
Antisemitism; Defining the term “antisemitism”; providing contemporary examples of antisemitism, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Judiciary
Senate Rules
Actions
02/14/2024 SENATE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
02/26/2024 SENATE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/28/24
02/28/2024 SENATE Read Second Time; Substituted for HB 0187; Laid on Table, Refer to HB 0187
SB 0156
Gay and Transgender Panic Legal Defenses by Book
Gay and Transgender Panic Legal Defenses; Citing this act as the “Gay and Transgender Panic Legal Defenses Prohibition Act.”; prohibiting individuals from using a nonviolent sexual advance or specified perceptions or beliefs about another individual as a defense to a criminal offense, to excuse or justify an individual’s conduct, or to mitigate the severity of an offense, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
HB 0157
Senate Criminal Justice (Current Reference)
Senate Judiciary
Senate Rules
Actions
10/10/2023 SENATE Filed
10/17/2023 SENATE Referred to Criminal Justice; Judiciary; Rules
Governing Body Meetings by Caruso
Governing Body Meetings: Authorizes governing bodies of municipalities to convene meetings & conduct official business via teleconferencing or other technological means if certain conditions are met; provides limitations on such meetings; provides limitations placed on such meetings may be suspended upon state of emergency. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Ethics, Elections & Open Government Subcommittee
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
10/12/2023 HOUSE Filed
11/02/2023
SB 0160
HB 0163
HOUSE Referred to Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee; Ethics, Elections & Open Government Subcommittee; State Affairs Committee
11/02/2023 HOUSE Now in Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
Marriage Between Persons of the Same Sex by Polsky
Marriage Between Persons of the Same Sex; Deleting a prohibition on the recognition of same-sex marriages; deleting a prohibition on the state and its agencies and subdivisions giving effect to a public act, record, or judicial proceeding that respects a same-sex marriage or relationship or a claim arising from such marriage or relationship, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Judiciary (Current Reference)
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Rules
Actions
10/10/2023 SENATE Filed
10/17/2023 SENATE Referred to Judiciary; Community Affairs; Rules
Dredging and Beach Restoration Projects by Gossett-Seidman
Dredging and Beach Restoration Projects: Directs DEP to require, as condition of permits issued for certain dredging & beach restoration projects, that any adverse impact analysis conducted for activity meet certain requirements; requires local government to provide notice of its intent to conduct analysis to certain adjacent local governments; provides fine for violations. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Actions
10/16/2023 HOUSE Filed
11/02/2023
HB 0165
HB 0167
HB 0169
HOUSE Referred to Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee; Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee; Infrastructure Strategies Committee
11/02/2023 HOUSE Now in Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee
Sampling of Beach Waters and Public Bathing Spaces by Gossett-Seidman
Sampling of Beach Waters and Public Bathing Spaces: Revises provisions related to bacteriological sampling of beach waters & public bathing places, including rule adoption & enforcement; issuance of health advisories; closure of beach waters & public bathing places; & notification & signage requirements. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee
House Appropriations Committee
House Health & Human Services Committee
Actions
02/23/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
02/27/2024 HOUSE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/24
03/01/2024 HOUSE Read Second Time; Placed on Third Reading, 03/04/24
Repeal of Marriage Definition by Basabe
Repeal of Marriage Definition: Proposes repeal of provision in State Constitution which defines a marriage as the legal union of only one man & one woman as husband & wife & invalidates any other legal union treated as marriage or substantial equivalent.
Committees of Reference
House Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
House Judiciary Committee
Actions
10/16/2023 HOUSE Filed
11/02/2023 HOUSE Referred to Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee; Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee
11/02/2023 HOUSE Now in Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee
Marriage Between Persons of the Same Sex by Basabe
Marriage Between Persons of the Same Sex: Removes prohibition on recognition of same-sex marriages; removes prohibition on state & its agencies & subdivisions giving effect to public act, record, or judicial proceeding that respects same-sex marriage or relationship or claim arising from such marriage or relationship. Effective Date: on the effective date of the amendment to the State Constitution proposed by HJR 167 or a similar joint resolution having substantially the same specific intent and purpose
Committees of Reference
House Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
House Judiciary Committee
Actions
10/16/2023 HOUSE Filed
11/02/2023 HOUSE Referred to Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee; Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee
11/02/2023 HOUSE Now in Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee
HB 0187 Antisemitism by Gottlieb
Antisemitism: Defines term "antisemitism"; provides contemporary examples of antisemitism. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Criminal Justice Subcommittee
House Judiciary Committee
Actions
02/29/2024 HOUSE Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
02/29/2024 HOUSE Engrossed Text (E1) Filed
02/29/2024 HOUSE Enrolled Text (ER) Filed
SB 0188 Trespass on Commercial Agricultural Property by Brodeur
Trespass on Commercial Agricultural Property; Providing enhanced criminal penalties for trespass with specified intent on certain commercial agricultural property; defining the term “commercial agricultural property”, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Criminal Justice
Senate Agriculture (Current Reference)
Senate Rules
Actions
12/05/2023 SENATE Favorable by Criminal Justice; 6 Yeas, 1 Nay
12/05/2023 SENATE Now in Agriculture
02/09/2024 Bill to be Discussed During the Office of EDR's Criminal Justice Impact Conference, 02/12 /24, 10:00 am, 117 K (No Votes Will Be Taken)
HB 0193
State Renewable Energy Goals by Eskamani
State Renewable Energy Goals: Prohibits drilling or exploration for, or production of, oil, gas, or other petroleum products & permitting & construction of certain related structures; requires statewide renewable energy electricity & carbon emission reductions by specified dates; directs Office of Energy within DACS to develop unified statewide plan & submit plan to Governor & Legislature; creates Renewable Energy Advisory Committee; directs Commissioner of Agriculture to submit annual report to Legislature. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee
House Commerce Committee
Actions
10/17/2023 HOUSE Filed
11/02/2023 HOUSE Referred to Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee; Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee; Commerce Committee
11/02/2023 HOUSE Now in Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee
SB 0196
Economic Development by Simon
HB 0217
Economic Development; Deleting the requirement that certain grants received by a regional economic development organization must be matched in a certain manner; removing a provision requiring a certain consideration; removing certain demonstration requirements of program applicants, etc.
Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Commerce and Tourism
Senate Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
02/15/2024 SENATE Favorable by Fiscal Policy; 17 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/16/2024 SENATE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
02/29/2024 SENATE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/24
College Campus Facilities in Areas of Critical State Concern by Mooney, Jr.
College Campus Facilities in Areas of Critical State Concern: Revises authorized uses of revenue from capital improvement fees to include certain college campus facilities & revises number of beds certain FCS institutions may provide to certain persons; revises which funds may be used for construction of dormitories; & requires Division of Bond Finance to conduct analysis of financing before issuance of specified bonds. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Postsecondary Education & Workforce Subcommittee
House Appropriations Committee
Actions
02/28/2024 SENATE Received; Referred to Appropriations
03/01/2024
SB 0222
SB 0224
SENATE Withdrawn from Appropriations; Placed on Calendar, on 2nd Reading; Substituted for SB 0222; Read Second Time; Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 29 Yeas / 0 Nays)
03/01/2024 HOUSE Ordered enrolled
College Campus Facilities in Areas of Critical State Concern by Rodriguez
College Campus Facilities in Areas of Critical State Concern; Providing that beds for health care workers may be included in the construction of dormitories on the campus of a Florida College System institution; revising the number of beds that may be provided in such dormitories for employees, educators, health care workers, and first responders; revising which funds may be used for construction of dormitories, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Education Postsecondary
Senate Appropriations Committee on Education
Senate Appropriations
Actions
02/15/2024 SENATE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
02/28/2024 SENATE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/24
03/01/2024 SENATE Read Second Time; Substituted for HB 0217; Laid on Table, Refer to HB 0217
Citizen Volunteer Advisory Committees by Wright
Citizen Volunteer Advisory Committees; Authorizing specified regional citizen volunteer advisory committees to conduct public meetings and workshops by means of communications media technology; requiring that such technology allow all persons to audibly communicate; providing notice requirements
SB 0246
for public meetings or workshops conducted by means of communications media technology, etc.
Effective Date: Upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability
Senate Rules
Actions
02/08/2024 SENATE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/14/24
02/14/2024 SENATE Read Second Time; Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 39 Yeas / 0 Nays); Immediately certified
02/14/2024
HOUSE In Messages
Conversion Charter Schools by Harrell
Conversion Charter Schools; Revising the requirements for an application for a conversion charter school; authorizing municipalities to apply for the conversion of specified public schools to charter schools; authorizing the Charter School Review Commission to solicit and review applications for conversion charter schools, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Education Pre-K - 12 (Current Reference)
Senate Appropriations Committee on Education
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
10/20/2023 SENATE Filed
11/07/2023 SENATE Referred to Education Pre-K -12; Appropriations Committee on Education; Fiscal Policy
SB 0266
Transportation by Hooper
Transportation; Prohibiting the Department of Transportation from annually committing more than a certain percentage of revenues derived from state fuel taxes and motor vehicle license-related fees to public transit projects; authorizing the Department of Transportation to enter into comprehensive agreements with private entities or the consortia thereof for the building, operation, ownership, or financing of transportation facilities; prohibiting a local governmental entity from adopting certain standards or specifications concerning asphalt pavement material; requiring the department to receive three letters of interest before proceeding with requests for proposals for certain contracts, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Transportation
Senate Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
Senate Appropriations
Actions
02/26/2024 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C3) Filed
02/26/2024 SENATE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
03/01/2024 SENATE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/05/24
HB 0267
Building Regulations by Esposito
Building Regulations: Requiring the Florida Building Commission to modify provisions in the Florida Building Code relating to replacement windows, doors, or garage doors; providing requirements for such modifications; revising the timeframes in which local building officials must issue permits or provide
SB 0276
certain written notice if certain private providers affix their professional seal to an affidavit; providing requirements for such written notices; deeming a permit application approved under certain circumstances; prohibiting local building code enforcement agency's from auditing the performance of private providers until the local building code enforcement agency creates a manual for standard operating audit procedures; providing requirements for such manual; requiring the manual to be publicly available online or printed; requiring certain audit results to be readily accessible; specifying when a permit application is deemed complete and approved; requiring the commission to review and consider certain provisions of law and technical amendments thereto and report its findings to the Legislature by a specified date, etc. Effective Date: January 1, 2025
Committees of Reference
House Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House Commerce Committee
Actions
02/27/2024 HOUSE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/24
03/01/2024 HOUSE Read Second Time; Amendment Adopted (768561); Placed on Third Reading, 03 /04/24
03/01/2024 HOUSE Engrossed Text (E1) Filed
Review of Advisory Bodies by Avila
Review of Advisory Bodies; requiring certain executive agencies to annually upload a report to a specified website maintained by the Executive Office of the Governor by a specified date; providing requirements for such report; providing that specified provisions are subject to repeal, unless reviewed and saved from repeal by the Legislature within a specified timeframe, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Rules
Actions
01/09/2024 SENATE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/10/24
01/10/2024 SENATE Read Second Time; Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 39 Yeas / 0 Nays); Immediately certified
01/10/2024
HOUSE In Messages
SB 0280
Vacation Rentals by DiCeglie
Vacation Rentals; Requiring advertising platforms to collect and remit specified taxes for certain vacation rental transactions; defining the term “advertising platform”; adding licensing to the regulated activities of public lodging establishments and public food service establishments which are preempted to the state; requiring advertising platforms to require that persons placing advertisements or listings for vacation rentals include certain information in the advertisements or listings and attest to certain information; authorizing the division to revoke, refuse to issue or renew, or suspend vacation rental licenses under certain circumstances, etc. APPROPRIATION: $4,321,901 Effective Date: Except as otherwise expressly provided in this act, this act shall take effect July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Regulated Industries
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
02/01/2024 SENATE Read Second Time; Amendments Adopted (408426, 537920); Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 27 Yeas / 13 Nays); Immediately certified
02/01/2024 SENATE Engrossed Text (E1) Filed
02/01/2024
HOUSE In Messages
HB 0287
Transportation by Esposito
Transportation: limiting the amount of certain revenues in the State Transportation Trust Fund which the Department of Transportation may annually commit to public transit projects; revising provisions relating to a traffic and revenue study provided by a private entity; requiring the department to notify the Division of Bond Finance before entering into an interim or comprehensive agreement; etc. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Transportation & Modals Subcommittee
House Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Actions
03/01/2024 HOUSE Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 95 Yeas / 11 Nays)
03/01/2024 SENATE In Messages
03/01/2024 SENATE Received; Referred to Appropriations
HB 0293
Hurricane Protections for Homeowners' Associations by Sirois
Hurricane Protections for Homeowners' Associations: Requires board or committee of homeowners' association to adopt hurricane protection specifications; requires such specifications conform to applicable building codes; prohibits board or committee of association from denying application for installation, enhancement, or replacement of certain hurricane protection; authorizes requirement to adhere to certain guidelines regarding external appearance of structure or improvement on parcel. Effective Date: upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
House Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
House Civil Justice Subcommittee
House Commerce Committee
Actions
02/28/2024 SENATE Received; Referred to Rules
03/01/2024
SB 0298
SENATE Withdrawn from Rules; Placed on Calendar, on 2nd Reading; Substituted for SB 0600; Read Second Time; Amendment Adopted (364222); Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 32 Yeas / 0 Nays)
03/01/2024 HOUSE In returning messages
Saltwater Intrusion Vulnerability Assessments by Polsky
Saltwater Intrusion Vulnerability Assessments; Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to provide coastal counties, beginning on a specified date, with Resilient Florida Grant Program grants to fund saltwater intrusion vulnerability assessments; requiring the department to update the comprehensive statewide flood vulnerability and sea level rise data set and make certain information received from the saltwater intrusion vulnerability assessments publicly available on its website; requiring the department to provide cost-share funding up to a specified amount for awarded grants, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
Senate Environment and Natural Resources
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
03/01/2024
SENATE Read Second Time; Amendment Adopted (869936); Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 26 Yeas / 0 Nays)
03/01/2024 SENATE Engrossed Text (E1) Filed
SB 0328
HB 0329
03/01/2024
Affordable Housing by Calatayud
Affordable Housing; Prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from restricting the floor area ratio of certain proposed developments under certain circumstances; authorizing counties and municipalities, respectively, to restrict the height of proposed developments under certain circumstances; requiring counties and municipalities, respectively, to maintain a certain policy on their websites; revising conditions for when multifamily projects are considered property used for a charitable purpose and are eligible to receive an ad valorem property tax exemption, etc. APPROPRIATION:
$100,000,000 Effective Date: Upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
02/28/2024 HOUSE Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 112 Yeas / 1 Nay)
02/28/2024 SENATE Ordered enrolled
02/28/2024 SENATE Enrolled Text (ER) Filed
Financial Assistance for Homeowners by Edmonds
Financial Assistance for Homeowners: Creates Homeowners' Assistance Fund within Department of Commerce for specified purposes; provides expenses that qualify under fund; requires secretary of department to allocate certain amount of funds for administrating & overseeing fund, to provide technical assistance to eligible entities, & to inspector general of department to oversee certain programs; specifies how secretary must allocate funds to eligible entities; requires eligible entities to request funds within certain time period; requires secretary to disburse & reallocate funds within certain time period. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee
House Commerce Committee
Actions
11/03/2023 HOUSE Filed 11/22/2023
HOUSE Referred to Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee; Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee; Commerce Committee
HOUSE Now in Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
HB 0331
Limitation on Property Tax Assessments by Garcia (A)
Limitation on Property Tax Assessments: Proposes amendment to State Constitution to eliminate an exception for school district levies from the constitutional limitations on real property assessment increases on specified nonhomestead real property.
Committees of Reference
House Ways & Means Committee (Current Reference)
House Appropriations Committee
Actions 11/22/2023 HOUSE Now in Ways & Means Committee 11/29/2023 Bill to be Discussed During the Office of EDR's Revenue Estimating Impact Conference, 12/01/23, 9:00 am, 117 K (No Votes Will Be Taken)
HB 0333
HB 0335
12/06/2023 Bill to be Discussed During the Office of EDR's Revenue Estimating Impact Conference, 12/08/23, 1:30 pm, 117 K (No Votes Will Be Taken)
School District Levies by Garcia (A)
School District Levies: Requires school district levies for certain properties to be assessed in same manner as other levies. Effective Date: on the effective date of the amendment to the State Constitution proposed by HJR 331
Committees of Reference
House Ways & Means Committee (Current Reference)
House Appropriations Committee
Actions
11/22/2023
11/29/2023
HOUSE Now in Ways & Means Committee
Bill to be Discussed During the Office of EDR's Revenue Estimating Impact Conference, 12/01/23, 9:00 am, 117 K (No Votes Will Be Taken)
12/06/2023 Bill to be Discussed During the Office of EDR's Revenue Estimating Impact Conference, 12/08/23, 1:30 pm, 117 K (No Votes Will Be Taken)
Requiring Broader Public Support for Constitutional Amendments or Revisions by Roth
Requiring Broader Public Support for Constitutional Amendments or Revisions: Proposes amendment to State Constitution to increase percentage of elector votes required to approve amendment to or revision of State Constitution from 60 percent to 66.67 percent.
Committees of Reference
House Ethics, Elections & Open Government Subcommittee
House Judiciary Committee (Current Reference)
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
01/25/2024
01/29/2024
01/29/2024
SB 0338
HOUSE On Committee agenda - Ethics, Elections & Open Government Subcommittee, 01 /29/24, 3:00 pm, 102 H
HOUSE Favorable by Ethics, Elections & Open Government Subcommittee; 11 Yeas, 6 Nays
HOUSE Now in Judiciary Committee
Sampling of Beach Waters and Public Bathing Spaces by Berman
Sampling of Beach Waters and Public Bathing Spaces; Requiring, rather than authorizing, the Department of Health to adopt and enforce certain rules; directing the department to require closure of beach waters and public bathing places under certain circumstances; requiring that such closures remain in effect for a specified period; preempting the issuance of certain health advisories for public bathing places to the state; specifying a timeframe within which the department must notify the municipality or county, the local office of the Department of Environmental Protection, and the local affiliates of national television networks of areas affected by a health advisory against swimming issued by the department, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Health Policy
Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government (Current Reference)
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
02/06/2024 SENATE Favorable with CS by Health Policy; 10 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/07/2024 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C1) Filed
02/08/2024
HB 0339
SB 0370
SB 0386
HB 0397
SENATE Now in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
Agritourism by Roth
Agritourism: Prohibits local governments from adopting ordinances, regulations, rules, or policies that require certificates of use for certain agricultural lands, facilities, & venues or limit certain activities associated with agritourism; provides for termination, expiration, extension, & renewal of specified local government ordinances, rules, & measures. Effective Date: upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
House Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Actions
11/03/2023 HOUSE Filed
11/22/2023 HOUSE Referred to Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee; Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee; Infrastructure Strategies Committee
11/22/2023 HOUSE Now in Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee
Spaceports by Wright
Spaceports; Urging Congress to add spaceports as a qualified tax-exempt category of private activity bonds, etc.
Committees of Reference
Senate Commerce and Tourism
Senate Rules
Actions
02/14/2024
HOUSE In Messages
03/01/2024 HOUSE Received; Bill referred to House Calendar
03/01/2024 HOUSE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/24
Affordable Housing Parking Requirements by Osgood
Affordable Housing Parking Requirements; Requiring counties and municipalities, respectively, to reduce parking requirements for certain developments if they are located within a specified distance of a major transportation hub; defining the term “major transportation hub”, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs (Current Reference)
Senate Transportation
Senate Rules
Actions
11/08/2023 SENATE Filed 11/15/2023 SENATE Referred to Community Affairs; Transportation; Rules
Urban Agriculture Pilot Projects by Cross
Urban Agriculture Pilot Projects: Redefines term "urban agriculture." Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Actions
11/09/2023 HOUSE Filed
11/22/2023 HOUSE Referred to Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee; Infrastructure Strategies Committee
11/22/2023 HOUSE Now in Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee
SB 0404 Urban Agriculture Pilot Projects by Rouson
Urban Agriculture Pilot Projects; Redefining the term “urban agriculture” to include both noncommercial and new commercial agricultural uses, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Agriculture (Current Reference)
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Rules
Actions
11/09/2023 SENATE Filed
11/28/2023 SENATE Referred to Agriculture; Community Affairs; Rules
SB 0406
Statewide Environmental Resource Permitting Rules by Rodriguez
Statewide Environmental Resource Permitting Rules; Requiring that stormwater management systems be designed with side slopes that meet a certain minimum design requirement; superseding certain side slope rules and authorizing their repeal by a specified publication of notice and a specified filing, etc.
Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Environment and Natural Resources
Senate Fiscal Policy (Current Reference)
Senate Rules
Actions
01/05/2024
HB 0413
SENATE On Committee agenda - Environment and Natural Resources, 01/10/24, 10:30 am, 301 S
01/10/2024 SENATE Favorable by Environment and Natural Resources; 7 Yeas, 0 Nays
01/10/2024 SENATE Now in Fiscal Policy
Public Meetings and Workshops for Regional Advisory Committees by Altman
Public Meetings and Workshops for Regional Advisory Committees: Authorizes certain regional advisory committees to conduct public meetings & workshops by means of communications media technology; provides that advisory committee member who participates in public meeting or workshop using such technology is deemed present; provides requirements for use of communications media technology; provides notice requirements for such meetings & workshops. Effective Date: upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
02/12/2024 HOUSE On Committee agenda - State Affairs Committee, 02/14/24, 9:00 am, 212 K
02/14/2024 HOUSE Favorable by State Affairs Committee; 17 Yeas, 0 Nays
SB 0438
02/14/2024
HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
Term Limits by Ingoglia
Term Limits; Requiring specified counties to hold a certain referendum election on a specified date; authorizing certain counties to hold additional referendum elections that coincide with any future general election under specified circumstances; establishing term limits for county commissioners; prohibiting initiatives or referendum processes regarding term limits which are not specifically provided for by the act, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Ethics and Elections
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Rules (Current Reference)
Actions
02/21/2024 SENATE On Committee agenda - Rules, 02/26/24, 2:00 pm, 412 K
02/26/2024 SENATE Favorable with CS by Rules; 18 Yeas, 2 Nays
02/28/2024 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C2) Filed
HB 0451 Land Acquisition Trust Fund by Bell
Land Acquisition Trust Fund: Provides annual appropriation to DEP to implement Heartland Headwaters Protection & Sustainability Act; requires funds to be used & distributed for specified purposes. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee
House Appropriations Committee
Actions
11/14/2023
HOUSE Filed
11/22/2023 HOUSE Referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee; Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee; Appropriations Committee
11/22/2023 HOUSE Now in Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee
SB 0452
Land Acquisition Trust Fund by Burton
Land Acquisition Trust Fund; Providing an annual appropriation to the Department of Environmental Protection to implement the Heartland Headwaters Protection and Sustainability Act, etc.
APPROPRIATION: Indeterminate Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Environment and Natural Resources
Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government (Current Reference)
Senate Appropriations
Actions
01/05/2024 SENATE On Committee agenda - Environment and Natural Resources, 01/10/24, 10:30 am, 301 S
01/10/2024 SENATE Favorable by Environment and Natural Resources; 7 Yeas, 0 Nays
01/10/2024 SENATE Now in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
HB 0455
Comprehensive Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan by Casello
HB 0479
Comprehensive Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan: Requires DEP to develop comprehensive waste reduction & recycling plan by specified date, convene technical assistance group, & submit report to Legislature. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee
House Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Senate Fiscal Policy (Current Reference)
Actions
02/15/2024 HOUSE Read Second Time; Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 119 Yeas / 0 Nays)
02/15/2024 SENATE In Messages
02/16/2024 SENATE Received; Referred to Fiscal Policy
Alternative Mobility Funding Systems by Robinson (W) Jr.
Alternative Mobility Funding Systems: Authorizes local governments to adopt alternative mobility plan & fee system; provides requirements for application of adopted alternative system; prohibits alternative system from imposing responsibility for funding existing transportation deficiency upon new development; prohibits local governments that do not issue building permits from charging for transportation impacts associated with development; requires local governments that issue building permits to collect for extrajurisdictional impacts; prohibits local governments from assessing multiple charges for same transportation impact; revises requirements for calculation of impact fees by local governments & special districts. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House Ways & Means Committee
House Commerce Committee
Actions
02/28/2024 HOUSE Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 115 Yeas / 0 Nays)
02/28/2024 SENATE In Messages
02/28/2024 SENATE Received; Referred to Rules
SB 0480
Energy Infrastructure Investment by DiCeglie
Energy Infrastructure Investment; Authorizing the Public Service Commission to establish an experimental mechanism that meets certain requirements to facilitate certain energy infrastructure investment in gas; providing requirements for gas infrastructure investments; authorizing the commission to make certain determinations regarding the experimental mechanism, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Regulated Industries
Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
02/16/2024 SENATE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/21/24
02/21/2024 SENATE Read Second Time; Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 35 Yeas / 2 Nays); Immediately certified
02/21/2024 HOUSE In Messages
SB 0484
Flood Disclosure in the Sale of Real Property by Bradley
SB 0498
Flood Disclosure in the Sale of Real Property; Requiring a seller of residential real property to provide specified information to a prospective purchaser at or before the sales contract is executed; specifying how such information must be disclosed, etc. Effective Date: 10/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Judiciary
Senate Fiscal Policy
Senate Rules
Actions
02/29/2024 SENATE Retained on Special Order Calendar
03/01/2024 SENATE Temporarily Postponed on Second Reading
03/01/2024 SENATE Retained on Special Order Calendar
Preemption of Recyclable and Polystyrene Materials by Stewart
Preemption of Recyclable and Polystyrene Materials; Removing the preemption of local laws regarding the regulation of auxiliary containers, wrappings, or disposable plastic bags; removing the preemption of local laws regarding the use or sale of polystyrene products to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Commerce and Tourism (Current Reference)
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Rules
Actions
11/16/2023 SENATE Filed
11/28/2023 SENATE Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Community Affairs; Rules
HB 0503
Limitation on Local Fees for Virtual Offices by Fabricio
Limitation on Local Fees for Virtual Offices: Prohibits county, municipality, or local governmental entity from imposing, levying, or collecting certain fees relating to utilization of virtual office. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House Ways & Means Committee
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
02/19/2024 HOUSE On Committee agenda - State Affairs Committee, 02/21/24, 8:00 am, 212 K
02/21/2024 HOUSE Favorable by State Affairs Committee; 20 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/21/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
HB 0527
Land and Water Management by Maggard
Land and Water Management: Requires certain buffer zones for land or water delineations established by county or municipality to be acquired by county or municipality through eminent domain; preempts regulation of specified dredge & fill activities to state; repeals land management review teams. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
HB 0557
Actions
11/17/2023 HOUSE Filed
11/30/2023
HOUSE Referred to Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee; Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee; Infrastructure Strategies Committee
11/30/2023 HOUSE Now in Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee
Movable Tiny Homes by Stevenson
Movable Tiny Homes: Provides requirements for construction & inspection of movable tiny home; requires movable tiny home to have sticker or other documentation certifying compliance therewith; requires Florida Building Commission to review updates to certain codes which pertain to requirements for movable tiny homes. Effective Date: October 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
House Transportation & Modals Subcommittee
House Commerce Committee (Current Reference)
Actions
01/29/2024 HOUSE On Committee agenda - Transportation & Modals Subcommittee, 01/31/24, 2:00 pm, 404 H
01/31/2024 HOUSE Favorable by Transportation & Modals Subcommittee; 14 Yeas, 0 Nays
01/31/2024 HOUSE Now in Commerce Committee
SB 0566
Land Acquisition Trust Fund by Rodriguez
Land Acquisition Trust Fund; Requiring an annual appropriation from the Land Acquisition Trust Fund to the Department of Environmental Protection to implement the Florida Keys Stewardship Act or to acquire land within the Florida Keys Area of Critical State Concern for specified purposes; prohibiting the department from using the appropriated funds to implement wastewater management projects or programs, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Environment and Natural Resources
Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government (Current Reference)
Senate Appropriations
Actions
01/05/2024 SENATE On Committee agenda - Environment and Natural Resources, 01/10/24, 10:30 am, 301 S
01/10/2024 SENATE Favorable by Environment and Natural Resources; 7 Yeas, 0 Nays
01/10/2024
SB 0578
SENATE Now in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
Limitation on Local Fees for Virtual Offices by Ingoglia
Limitation on Local Fees for Virtual Offices; Prohibiting a county, municipality, or local governmental entity from imposing, levying, or collecting certain fees relating to the utilization of a virtual office, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs (Current Reference)
Senate Commerce and Tourism
Senate Rules
Actions
11/27/2023 SENATE Filed
12/05/2023 SENATE Referred to Community Affairs; Commerce and Tourism; Rules
01/17/2024
HB 0579
Bill to be Discussed During the Office of EDR's Revenue Estimating Impact Conference, 01/19/24, 9:15 am, 117 K (No Votes Will Be Taken)
Use of Private Providers for Plans Review and Inspection by Griffitts Jr.
Use of Private Providers for Plans Review and Inspection: Requires private provider firms to qualify as business organizations; authorizes owner or contractor to file complaint with Department of Commerce against local jurisdiction if certain fees are not reduced; requires local jurisdiction to immediately refund fees; authorizes DOC to assess certain fines; prohibits local persons & entities from conducting its own plans review or inspections if private provider is retained; requires local building official to issue permit or provide specified written notice within certain time period. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Appropriations Committee
House Commerce Committee
Actions
11/30/2023 HOUSE Now in Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
01/12/2024 HOUSE On Committee agenda - Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee, 01/17/24, 8:00 am, 212 K
01/17/2024
HOUSE Temporarily Postponed by Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
SB 0586 Cultivated Meat by Yarborough
Cultivated Meat; Defining the term “cultivated meat”; prohibiting the manufacture, sale, holding or offering for sale, or distribution of cultivated meat in this state; providing that such products are subject to an immediate stop-sale order, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
Senate Agriculture (Current Reference)
Senate Commerce and Tourism
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
11/28/2023 SENATE Filed
12/05/2023 SENATE Referred to Agriculture; Commerce and Tourism; Fiscal Policy
SB 0592
Historical Preservation Programs by Burgess
Historical Preservation Programs; Requiring the Department of State to partner with the Florida African American Heritage Preservation Network for a specified purpose; specifying preservation efforts that may be undertaken through the partnership; requiring the network to submit a list of member museums to the department, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability
Senate Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
02/29/2024 HOUSE In Messages
SB 0594
HB 0599
03/01/2024 HOUSE Received; Bill referred to House Calendar
03/01/2024 HOUSE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/24
Public Works Projects by Grall
Public Works Projects; Revising the definition of the term “public works project”; deleting a prohibited activity of the state or a political subdivision that contracts for a public works project; authorizing political subdivisions that are the sole source of funding for a public works project to prevent certain contractors and subcontractors and material suppliers or carriers from participating in the bidding process for that project based on the geographic location of the company headquarters or offices or the residences of their employees, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
No committees referenced
Actions
12/05/2023 SENATE Referred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Fiscal Policy; Rules
12/06/2023 SENATE Withdrawn from Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Fiscal Policy; Rules
12/06/2023 SENATE Withdrawn prior to introduction
Gender Identity Employment Practices by Chamberlin
Gender Identity Employment Practices: Specifies employment policy of state relating to person's sex; prohibits employees & contractors of certain employers from being required to use, from providing, & from being asked to provide certain titles & pronouns; prohibits employees & contractors from being penalized or subjected to certain actions for not providing certain titles & pronouns; prohibits adverse personnel action on basis of deeply held religious or biology-based beliefs; provides administrative & civil remedies; provides that it is unlawful employment practice for nonprofit organization to require certain training, instruction, or activity. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
11/21/2023 HOUSE Filed
11/30/2023
SB 0608
HOUSE Referred to Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee; Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee; State Affairs Committee
11/30/2023 HOUSE Now in Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee
Dredging and Beach Restoration Projects by Rodriguez
Dredging and Beach Restoration Projects; Directing the Department of Environmental Protection to require that, as a condition of permits issued for certain dredging and beach restoration projects, any adverse impact analysis conducted for the activity meet certain requirements; requiring a local government to provide notice of its intent to conduct an analysis to certain adjacent local governments, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Environment and Natural Resources (Current Reference)
Senate Fiscal Policy
Senate Rules
Actions
HB 0609
HB 0643
11/28/2023
SENATE Filed
12/05/2023 SENATE Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Fiscal Policy; Rules
Local Business Taxes by Botana
Local Business Taxes: Revising provisions related to local business taxes including conditions imposed on taxing authorities governing levies, modification of ordinances, reclassification of businesses, prohibitions on revenues over a specified value, and audits. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Ways & Means Committee
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
02/14/2024 HOUSE Favorable with CS by State Affairs Committee; 12 Yeas, 7 Nays
02/15/2024 HOUSE Committee Substitute Text (C2) Filed
02/16/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
Prohibited Discrimination Based on Hairstyle in the Education System by Driskell
Prohibited Discrimination Based on Hairstyle in the Education System: Prohibits discrimination based on protected hairstyle in Florida K-20 public education system; provides that term "race" includes protected hairstyles for purposes of United States Code within public & private education system. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Education Quality Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Civil Justice Subcommittee
House Education & Employment Committee
Actions
11/21/2023
HOUSE Filed
11/30/2023 HOUSE Referred to Education Quality Subcommittee; Civil Justice Subcommittee; Education & Employment Committee
11/30/2023 HOUSE Now in Education Quality Subcommittee
SB 0664
Land and Water Management by Burgess
Land and Water Management; Requiring certain buffer zones for land or water delineations established by a county or municipality to be purchased by the county or municipality; preempting regulation of specified dredge and fill activities to the Department of Environmental Protection; repealing provisions relating to land management review teams, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Environment and Natural Resources (Current Reference)
Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
12/01/2023 SENATE Filed
12/13/2023 SENATE Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy
HB 0665
Expedited Approval of Residential Building Permits by McClain
Expedited Approval of Residential Building Permits: Requires governing bodies to create or update program to expedite process for issuing residential building permits; authorizes applicants to use private
provider; requires governing body to establish registry of qualified contractors for specified purpose; authorizes governing body to issue addresses & temporary parcel identification numbers; requires governing body to issue specified number or percentage of building permits; provides applicant has vested rights when conditions are met; prohibits governing body from making changes to preliminary plat without written consent; requires applicant to indemnify & hold harmless certain entities & persons.
Effective Date: upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
House Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House Commerce Committee
Actions
02/12/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
02/26/2024 HOUSE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/29/24
02/29/2024 HOUSE Temporarily Postponed on Second Reading
HB 0683 Energy Infrastructure Investment by Yeager
Energy Infrastructure Investment: Authorizes PSC to establish experimental mechanism to facilitate certain energy infrastructure investment & to make determinations regarding such mechanism. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee
House Commerce Committee (Current Reference)
Actions
01/30/2024 HOUSE Committee Substitute Text (C1) Filed
01/31/2024 HOUSE Reference to Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee removed; Remaining reference: Commerce Committee
01/31/2024 HOUSE Now in Commerce Committee
SB 0684
Residential Building Permits by DiCeglie
Residential Building Permits; Requiring the Florida Building Commission to modify a specific provision of the Florida Building Code to state that sealed drawings by a design professional are not required for replacement and installation of certain construction; removing provisions relating to acquiring building permits for certain residential dwellings; revising the timeframes for approving, approving with conditions, or denying certain building permits; authorizing local governments to use certain fees for certain technology upgrades, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Fiscal Policy
Senate Rules (Current Reference)
Actions
02/23/2024 SENATE On Committee agenda - Rules, 02/26/24, 2:00 pm, 412 K
02/26/2024 SENATE Favorable with CS by Rules; 18 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/27/2024 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C3) Filed
SB 0686
Prohibited Discrimination Based on Hairstyle by Powell
Prohibited Discrimination Based on Hairstyle; Citing this act as the "Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act" or "CROWN Act"; prohibiting discrimination based on protected hairstyle in the K-20 public education system; defining the terms “race” and “protective hairstyles” for purposes of
SB 0688
antidiscrimination requirements for private schools participating in the state school choice scholarship program, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Judiciary (Current Reference)
Senate Education Pre-K - 12
Senate Rules
Actions
12/05/2023 SENATE Filed
12/13/2023 SENATE Referred to Judiciary; Education Pre-K -12; Rules
Alternative Mobility Funding Systems and Impact Fees by Martin
Alternative Mobility Funding Systems and Impact Fees; Requiring a local government to allow an applicant for a certain development permit to satisfy transportation concurrency requirements if the applicant offers to enter into a good faith binding agreement that the project is considered to have mitigated its transportation impacts if the applicant meets certain conditions and requirements; prohibiting a local government from preventing an applicant from proceeding if the applicant has satisfied specified requirements; authorizing certain local governments to adopt an alternative transportation system meeting specified requirements under certain circumstances, etc. Effective Date: 10/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Transportation
Senate Rules
Actions
02/27/2024 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C1) Filed
03/01/2024 SENATE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
03/01/2024 SENATE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/24
SB 0696
Agritourism by Rodriguez
Agritourism; Prohibiting local governments from adopting ordinances, regulations, rules, or policies that require certificates of use for certain agricultural lands, facilities, and venues or that limit certain activities associated with agritourism; providing for the termination, expiration, extension, and renewal of specified local government ordinances, rules, and measures, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
Senate Agriculture (Current Reference)
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Rules
Actions
12/05/2023 SENATE Filed
12/13/2023 SENATE Referred to Agriculture; Community Affairs; Rules
SB 0698
Regulation of Single-use Plastic Products by Rodriguez
Regulation of Single-use Plastic Products; Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to submit updated retail bag reports with conclusions and recommendations to the Legislature by specified dates; defining the term “coastal community”; authorizing coastal communities to establish pilot programs to regulate single-use plastic products, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
Senate Commerce and Tourism (Current Reference)
SB 0702
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Rules
Actions
12/05/2023 SENATE Filed
12/13/2023 SENATE Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Community Affairs; Rules
Attorney Fees and Costs by Martin
Attorney Fees and Costs; Defining the term “property rights”; requiring courts to award reasonable attorney fees and costs to a prevailing defendant in certain civil actions under specified circumstances, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
Senate Judiciary
Senate Rules
Actions
01/30/2024 SENATE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/01/24
02/01/2024 SENATE Read Second Time; Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 40 Yeas / 0 Nays); Immediately certified
02/01/2024 HOUSE In Messages
HB 0705
Public Works Projects by Shoaf
Public Works Projects: Revising the definition of the term "public works project"; revising applicability of a provision that prohibits the state or a political subdivision that contracts for a public works project from taking certain actions under specified circumstances, etc. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
02/28/2024 HOUSE Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 80 Yeas / 32 Nays)
02/28/2024 SENATE In Messages
02/28/2024 SENATE Received; Referred to Rules
SB 0714
Seaports by Wright
Seaports; Revising the minimum amount of funds to be made available for the Florida Seaport Transportation and Economic Development Program from the State Transportation Trust Fund beginning in a specified fiscal year; revising the amount the Department of Transportation is required to include in its annual legislative budget request for the program; revising the amount of funds to be made available from the State Transportation Trust Fund to fund the Strategic Port Investment Initiative beginning in a specified fiscal year, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Transportation (Current Reference)
Senate Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
Senate Appropriations
Actions
12/05/2023 SENATE Filed
12/15/2023 SENATE Referred to Transportation; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Appropriations
HB 0723
Everglades Protection Area by Busatta Cabrera
Everglades Protection Area: Requires comprehensive plans & plan amendments that apply to certain lands within or near Everglades Protection Area to follow state coordinated review process; provides duties of DEP relating to such plans & plan amendments; provides additional limitation for compliance determination of such plans & plan amendments; prohibits & provides requirements for adoption of certain development amendments within Everglades Protection Area. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee
House Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Actions
01/25/2024 HOUSE On Committee agenda - Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee, 01/29/24, 11:30 am, 404 H
01/29/2024 HOUSE Favorable by Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee; 17 Yeas, 0 Nays
01/29/2024 HOUSE Now in Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee
SB 0734
Government Accountability by Ingoglia
Government Accountability; Prohibiting specified individuals from soliciting or accepting anything of value from a foreign country of concern; prohibiting a person from lobbying a county, municipality, or special district unless he or she is registered as a lobbyist with the Commission on Ethics; requiring the commission to investigate a lobbyist or principal upon receipt of a sworn complaint containing certain allegations; requiring the commission to provide the chief executive officer of the county or municipality or the governing body of the special district with a report on the findings and recommendations arising out of the investigation, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Ethics and Elections
Senate Appropriations (Current Reference)
Actions
02/05/2024 SENATE Favorable with CS by Ethics and Elections; 8 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/07/2024 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C2) Filed
02/07/2024 SENATE Now in Appropriations
HB 0735
Government Accountability by Andrade
Government Accountability: Prohibits individuals from soliciting or accepting anything of value from foreign country of concern; establishing registration requirements; requiring the commission to make lobbyist registrations available to the public on its website; prohibiting the governing body of a county from renewing or extending the employment contract of the county attorney during a specified timeframe; etc. Effective Date: January 1, 2025
Committees of Reference
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
02/27/2024 HOUSE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/24
03/01/2024 HOUSE Read Second Time; Amendment Adopted (052843); Placed on Third Reading, 03 /04/24
03/01/2024 HOUSE Engrossed Text (E1) Filed
SB 0738
Environmental Management by Burgess
Environmental Management; Requiring that nonindustrial stormwater management systems be designed with side slopes that meet certain minimum design requirements; revising construction relating to causes of action for damages to real or personal property directly resulting from certain discharges or other conditions of pollution, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Environment and Natural Resources
Senate Judiciary
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
02/29/2024 SENATE Read Second Time; Amendment Adopted (396758); Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 26 Yeas / 7 Nays)
02/29/2024 SENATE Engrossed Text (E1) Filed
02/29/2024
HOUSE In Messages
SB 0742
Public Works Projects by Grall
Public Works Projects; Revising the definition of the term “public works project”; revising applicability of a provision that prohibits the state or a political subdivision that contracts for a public works project from taking certain actions under specified circumstances, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability
Senate Rules
Actions
02/28/2024 SENATE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/24
03/01/2024 SENATE Temporarily Postponed on Second Reading
03/01/2024 SENATE Retained on Special Order Calendar
HB 0749
Flood Damage Prevention by Basabe
Flood Damage Prevention: Provides maximum voluntary freeboard requirements for new construction & substantial improvements to existing construction; prohibits voluntary freeboard from being used in calculation of maximum allowable height for certain construction; authorizes local governments to adopt by ordinance minimum freeboard requirement or maximum voluntary freeboard that exceeds minimum requirements; requires Florida Building Commission to adopt by rule minimum freeboard requirements & to incorporate such requirements into next edition of FBC; requires commission to review freeboard requirements every 5 years. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
House Commerce Committee
Actions
12/06/2023 HOUSE Filed
12/19/2023 HOUSE Referred to Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee; State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee; Commerce Committee
12/19/2023 HOUSE Now in Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
HB 0777
Municipal Water or Sewer Utility Rates, Fees, and Charges by Brackett
HB 0781
Municipal Water or Sewer Utility Rates, Fees, and Charges: Removes provision authorizing certain municipalities serving consumers outside their boundaries to add specific surcharges to rates, fees, & charges; removes provision which does not require public hearing for adding specific surcharges; requires certain municipalities to conduct rate studies by specified dates which evaluate future capital needs, whether rates are expected to generate sufficient revenues to cover costs & support investments, & whether costs are equitably distributed. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Commerce Committee
Actions
01/11/2024 HOUSE Now in Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
01/29/2024 HOUSE On Committee agenda - Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee, 01/31/24, 2:00 pm, 17 H
01/31/2024 HOUSE Temporarily Postponed by Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
Unsolicited Proposals for Public-private Partnerships by Clemons, Sr.
Unsolicited Proposals for Public-private Partnerships: Authorizes, rather than requires, responsible public entity to publish notice of unsolicited proposal for qualifying project in specified manner & that other proposals for same project will be accepted; authorizes responsible public entity to proceed with unsolicited proposal for qualifying project without public bidding process if responsible public entity holds public meeting that meets certain requirements & holds a subsequent public meeting at which responsible public entity makes certain determination; requires responsible public entity to consider certain factors; requires responsible public entity to publish certain report in Florida Administrative Register for certain period in certain circumstances; revises certain determinations that responsible public entity must make before approving comprehensive agreement. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
02/21/2024
HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
02/27/2024 HOUSE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/24
03/01/2024 HOUSE Read Second Time; Placed on Third Reading, 03/04/24
HB 0789
Environmental
Management by Overdorf
Environmental Management: Requires that nonindustrial stormwater management systems be designed with side slopes that meet certain minimum design requirements; provides exception; superseding certain side slope rules; revises construction relating to causes of action for damages to real or personal property directly resulting from certain discharges or other conditions of pollution. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee
House Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Actions
02/15/2024 HOUSE Favorable with CS by Infrastructure Strategies Committee; 16 Yeas, 7 Nays
02/15/2024 HOUSE Committee Substitute Text (C2) Filed
02/16/2024
HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
HB 0791
Development Permits and Orders by Overdorf
Development Permits and Orders: Requires counties & municipalities to meet specified requirements regarding minimum information necessary for certain zoning applications; revises timeframes for processing applications for approvals of development permits or development orders; defines "substantive change"; provides refund parameters in situations where county or municipality fails to meet certain timeframes. Effective Date: October 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House Commerce Committee
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
02/12/2024
HOUSE On Committee agenda - State Affairs Committee, 02/14/24, 9:00 am, 212 K
02/14/2024 HOUSE Favorable by State Affairs Committee; 18 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/14/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
HB 0799
Easements Affecting Real Property Owned by Same Owner by Robinson (W) Jr.
Easements Affecting Real Property Owned by Same Owner: Authorizes owner of real property to create easement, servitude, or other interest in owner's real property & providing that such easement, servitude, or other interest is valid; providing legislative intent; etc. Effective Date: upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
House Civil Justice Subcommittee
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
House Judiciary Committee
Actions
02/27/2024 HOUSE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/24
03/01/2024
HB 0805
HOUSE Read Second Time; Amendment Adopted (856091); Placed on Third Reading, 03 /04/24
03/01/2024 HOUSE Engrossed Text (E1) Filed
Traffic Infraction Detectors by Borrero
Traffic Infraction Detectors: Proposes amendment of State Constitution to prohibit use of traffic infraction detectors within this state.
Committees of Reference
House Transportation & Modals Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Actions
12/08/2023 HOUSE Filed
12/27/2023
SB 0812
HOUSE Referred to Transportation & Modals Subcommittee; Infrastructure Strategies Committee
12/27/2023 HOUSE Now in Transportation & Modals Subcommittee
Expedited Approval of Residential Building Permits by Ingoglia
Expedited Approval of Residential Building Permits; Requiring certain governing bodies, by a date certain, to each create a program to expedite the process for issuing residential building permits before a final plat is recorded; requiring a governing body to create certain processes for purposes of the
SB 0814
program; authorizing a governing body to issue addresses and temporary parcel identification numbers for specified purposes; prohibiting a governing body from making substantive changes to a preliminary plat without written consent, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Regulated Industries
Senate Rules
Actions
02/28/2024 SENATE Engrossed Text (E1) Filed
02/28/2024 HOUSE In Messages
02/28/2024 HOUSE Bill referred to House Calendar
Real Property Ownership by Yarborough
Real Property Ownership; Revising the definition of the term “foreign principal”; revising the ownership interest that a foreign principal may have in agricultural land; requiring certain foreign principals to register the ownership of a controlling interest in agricultural land owned before a certain date; authorizing criminal penalties for certain sales and purchases of controlling interests in agricultural land; revising the ownership interest that a foreign principal may have in real property on or near military installations or critical infrastructure facilities, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
Senate Judiciary
Senate Rules
Actions
02/21/2024 SENATE Favorable with CS by Rules; 15 Yeas, 2 Nays
02/22/2024 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C1) Filed
02/22/2024 SENATE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
SB 0836
Mitigation Areas and Assessments by Simon
Mitigation Areas and Assessments; Specifying conditions under which the degree of risk may not be considered when a uniform mitigation assessment method is being applied; providing that certain encumbrances of real property may not be required for mitigation areas that meet specified criteria; providing an exception, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
No committees referenced
Actions
01/04/2024 SENATE Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Community Affairs; Rules 01/05/2024 SENATE Withdrawn from Environment and Natural Resources; Community Affairs; Rules 01/05/2024 SENATE Withdrawn prior to introduction
SB 0854 Airports by Martin
Airports; Requiring commercial airport authorities created by the Legislature as dependent special districts to prohibit aircraft from landing at certain airports unless the aircraft meet certain requirements; specifying that aircraft meeting certain requirements are authorized to land at certain airports; authorizing an airport authority to require that an aircraft, before its initial landing and on an annual basis thereafter, meet certain requirements, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Transportation (Current Reference)
HB 0863
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Rules
Actions
12/12/2023 SENATE Filed
01/04/2024 SENATE Referred to Transportation; Community Affairs; Rules
Management and Storage of Surface Waters by Killebrew
Management and Storage of Surface Waters: Provides exemption from surface water management & storage regulations for implementation of measures & practices for environmental activities & water quality improvements on specified agricultural lands & government-owned lands; provides condition & requirements for measures & practices; removes requirements for adverse impacts on water resources, certain notification by DEP & water management districts, & activity commencement; prohibits use of exemption for certain mitigation purposes. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Actions
12/27/2023 HOUSE Referred to Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee; Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee; Infrastructure Strategies Committee
12/27/2023 HOUSE Now in Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee
01/03/2024 HOUSE Withdrawn prior to introduction
HB 0867
North River Ranch Improvement Stewardship District, Manatee County by Robinson (W) Jr.
North River Ranch Improvement Stewardship District, Manatee County: Revises boundaries of district. Effective Date: upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
02/22/2024 HOUSE Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 115 Yeas / 0 Nays)
02/22/2024 SENATE In Messages
02/23/2024 SENATE Received; Referred to Rules
SB 0870
Unsolicited Proposals for Public-private Partnerships by Boyd
Unsolicited Proposals for Public-private Partnerships; Authorizing, rather than requiring, a responsible public entity to publish notice of an unsolicited proposal for a qualifying project in a specified manner and that other proposals for the same project will be accepted; authorizing a responsible public entity to proceed with an unsolicited proposal for a qualifying project without a public bidding process if the responsible public entity holds a public meeting that meets certain requirements and holds a subsequent public meeting at which it makes a certain determination; requiring the responsible public entity to consider certain factors; requiring the responsible public entity to publish a certain report in the Florida Administrative Register for a certain period of time in certain circumstances, etc. Effective Date: 7 /1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Rules
SB 0894
Actions
02/29/2024 SENATE Retained on Special Order Calendar
03/01/2024 SENATE Temporarily Postponed on Second Reading
03/01/2024 SENATE Retained on Special Order Calendar
Governing Body Meetings by Bradley
Governing Body Meetings; Authorizing governing bodies of municipalities to convene meetings and conduct official business via teleconferencing or other technological means if certain conditions are met; providing limitations on such meetings; providing that certain limitations placed on such meetings may be suspended by the Governor, for a specified timeframe, upon a declared state of emergency impacting the municipality in which the meeting would occur, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability
Senate Rules (Current Reference)
Actions
02/06/2024 SENATE Favorable with CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; 6 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/07/2024 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C1) Filed
02/08/2024 SENATE Now in Rules
SB 0928
SB 0980
Required Instruction in the History of the Holocaust and the History of African Americans by Thompson
Required Instruction in the History of the Holocaust and the History of African Americans; Authorizing the Department of Education to contract with specified entities to develop specified training and resources; requiring the department to annually verify that school districts, charter schools, and specified private schools implement certain instruction relating to the history of the Holocaust and the history of African Americans and providing requirements therefor; requiring certain statewide, standardized assessments to include curricula content from the history of the Holocaust and the history of African Americans, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Education Pre-K - 12 (Current Reference)
Senate Appropriations Committee on Education
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
12/13/2023 SENATE Filed
01/04/2024 SENATE Referred to Education Pre-K -12; Appropriations Committee on Education; Fiscal Policy
Traffic and Pedestrian Safety by Perry
Traffic and Pedestrian Safety; Requiring that all plans submitted on or after a specified date for construction of a pedestrian crosswalk on a public highway, street, or road which is located at any point other than at an intersection with another public highway, street, or road must include traffic control signal devices and pedestrian control signals that conform to specified requirements; providing coordination requirements for such devices and signals requiring that such devices and signals be coordinated to meet specified requirements, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Transportation (Current Reference)
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Appropriations
Actions
12/18/2023 SENATE Filed
01/04/2024 SENATE Referred to Transportation; Community Affairs; Appropriations
HB 0981 Aviation by Bankson
Aviation: Requires owner or lessee of proposed vertiport to comply with specified requirements; requires DOT to conduct specified inspection of vertiport; provides duties of DOT with respect to vertiports, advanced air mobility, & other advances in aviation technology; requires report to Governor & Legislature; requires airports to competitively bid vertiport operator contracts; revises requirements for adoption of airport land use compatibility zoning regulations. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Transportation & Modals Subcommittee
House Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Actions
02/22/2024 HOUSE Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 118 Yeas / 0 Nays)
02/22/2024 SENATE In Messages
02/23/2024 SENATE Received; Referred to Fiscal Policy
HB 0985 Housing by Eskamani
Housing: Creates Department of Housing & Tenant Rights; provides for secretary be appointed by Governor & confirmed by Senate; provides purpose of department; requires department submit a report; revises provisions relating to residential tenancies, landlords, & tenants, including requirements for rental agreements, security deposits, notices, evictions, rights to purchase, rent control, impact fees, abandonment of property, & documentary stamp taxes. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House State Affairs Committee (Current Reference)
House Appropriations Committee
House Judiciary Committee
Actions
12/21/2023 HOUSE Filed
01/08/2024 HOUSE Referred to State Affairs Committee; Appropriations Committee; Judiciary Committee
01/08/2024 HOUSE Now in State Affairs Committee
SB 0986
Management and Storage of Surface Waters by Burton
Management and Storage of Surface Waters; Providing an exemption from surface water management and storage regulations for the implementation of certain measures and practices for environmental restoration, enhancement, and creation activities and water quality improvements on specified agricultural and government-owned lands; deleting requirements relating to adverse impacts on water resources, certain notification by the department and water management districts, and commencement of activities, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Environment and Natural Resources (Current Reference)
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Rules
Actions
SB 0994
HB 1029
12/18/2023
SENATE Filed
01/04/2024 SENATE Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Community Affairs; Rules
Student Transportation Safety by Burgess
Student Transportation Safety; Revising requirements for signage posted on the rear of a school bus indicating the use of a school bus infraction detection system; requiring a law enforcement agency to send a notice of violation to the registered owner involved in a violation within a specified timeframe after receiving certain information; prohibiting the use of school bus infraction detection systems for remote surveillance; requiring that certain civil penalties be remitted to a participating school district operating a school bus with a school bus infraction detection system to be used for certain purposes, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
Senate Transportation
Senate Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
02/23/2024 SENATE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
02/28/2024 SENATE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/24
03/01/2024 SENATE Read Second Time; Placed on Third Reading, 03/04/24
My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program by Lopez (V)
My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program: Establishes My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program within DFS; provides requirements for DFS, wind certification entities, hurricane mitigation inspectors & inspections, inspection & grant applications, mitigation grant eligibility, grant matching & maximum grant amounts, mitigation projects & use of grant funds, contracts, & annual report. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
House State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
House Commerce Committee
Actions
02/29/2024 HOUSE Read Second Time; Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 116 Yeas / 0 Nays)
02/29/2024 SENATE In Messages
03/01/2024 SENATE Received; Referred to Appropriations
SB 1032
Transportation by Gruters
Transportation; Revising provisions requiring a person approaching a railroad-highway grade crossing to stop within a certain distance from the nearest rail; revising the membership of the Center for Urban Transportation Research advisory board; revising the membership of the Implementing Solutions from Transportation Research and Evaluating Emerging Technologies (I-STREET) Living Lab advisory board; prohibiting the designation of additional metropolitan planning organizations (M.P.O.’s) after a specified date except in certain urbanized areas, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Transportation
Senate Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
Senate Appropriations (Current Reference)
Actions
SENATE Favorable with CS by Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism,
SB 1042
HB 1051
02/20/2024 and Economic Development; 4 Yeas, 1 Nay
02/22/2024 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C2) Filed
02/22/2024 SENATE Now in Appropriations
Traffic Infraction Detectors by Garcia (I)
Traffic Infraction Detectors; Proposing the creation of Section 33 of Article X of the State Constitution to prohibit the state or its political subdivisions from placing and operating traffic infraction detectors for specified purposes, etc.
Committees of Reference
Senate Transportation (Current Reference)
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
12/20/2023 SENATE Filed
01/04/2024 SENATE Referred to Transportation; Community Affairs; Fiscal Policy
Housing for Agricultural Workers by Tuck
Housing for Agricultural Workers: Prohibits governmental entity from inhibiting construction of housing for legally verified agricultural workers on certain agricultural land; provides requirements for construction or installation of specified housing; authorizes adoption of local land use regulations that are less restrictive than certain regulations; provides requirements for property owners & record maintenance; provides for suspension & removal of use of certain housing units; authorizes continued use of certain housing sites constructed if certain conditions are met. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee
House State Affairs Committee
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Actions
02/26/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
02/26/2024 HOUSE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/29/24
02/29/2024 HOUSE Temporarily Postponed on Second Reading
SB 1052
Inactive Special Districts by Hutson
Inactive Special Districts; Dissolving special districts that have been declared inactive and repealing their enabling laws; dissolving the Sunny Isles Reclamation and Water Control Board and repealing the judicial order establishing the district, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Rules
Actions
02/14/2024 SENATE Favorable by Rules; 17 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/15/2024 SENATE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
02/29/2024 SENATE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/24
SB 1056
Economic Development in Gaming Concentrated Counties by Ingoglia
Economic Development in Gaming Concentrated Counties; Designating certain sections as the “Prospect Del Vista Infrastructure and Investment Act”; creating Prospect Del Vista, Inc., as a nonprofit
SB 1058
corporation which is not a unit or entity of the state government; requiring Prospect Del Vista, Inc., to create and administer an investment fund for a certain purpose in a certain manner; requiring the Auditor General to annually audit the investment fund and Prospect Del Vista, Inc.; authorizing Prospect Del Vista, Inc., to make certain awards to certain projects or programs, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
Senate Regulated Industries (Current Reference)
Senate Fiscal Policy
Senate Rules
Actions
12/21/2023 SENATE Filed
01/04/2024 SENATE Referred to Regulated Industries; Fiscal Policy; Rules
Special Districts by Hutson
Special Districts; Prohibiting the creation of new safe neighborhood improvement districts after a date certain; providing term limits for elected members of governing bodies of independent special districts; providing the method for changing boundaries of an independent special district; providing additional criteria for declaring a special district inactive, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Rules
Actions
02/14/2024 SENATE Favorable by Rules; 17 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/15/2024 SENATE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
02/29/2024 SENATE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/24
HB 1071
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services by Alvarez
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services: Revises, repeals, & creates various provisions relating to electric vehicle charging stations; pest control & fumigation; commercial landscaping & wildlife management; weapons & firearms; charitable organizations & professional solicitors; cultivated meat & saw palmetto berries; motor vehicle repair shops; Florida Agricultural Museum; trespass on & theft of property; weights & measures; household moving & shipping services; agricultural school activities; hunter ID program; & penalties for various violations. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
House Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Actions
02/22/2024 HOUSE Favorable with CS by Infrastructure Strategies Committee; 13 Yeas, 10 Nays
02/26/2024 HOUSE Committee Substitute Text (C2) Filed
02/27/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
SB 1072
Tourist Development by Avila
Tourist Development; Providing an exception to the authorized uses of revenues received by counties imposing the tourist development tax; specifying uses of tax revenues received by certain counties imposing the tourist development tax; requiring that charter county convention development moneys be distributed to the governing boards of municipalities for specified purposes; revising the purposes for which a county may use charter county convention development moneys, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
HB 1073
Committees of Reference
Senate Commerce and Tourism
Senate Finance and Tax (Current Reference)
Senate Appropriations
Actions
01/25/2024 SENATE On Committee agenda - Commerce and Tourism, 01/30/24, 9:00 am, 110 S
01/30/2024 SENATE Favorable by Commerce and Tourism; 5 Yeas, 0 Nays
01/30/2024 SENATE Now in Finance and Tax
Mitigation by Truenow
Mitigation: Revises entities to & purposes for which water quality enhancement credits may be sold; requires DEP & WMDs to authorize such sale & use; provides circumstances under which basins are considered to be credit-deficient; authorizes local governments with land in such basins to consider proposals from private-sector applicants to establish mitigation banks on such lands; requires specified agreements between local governments & applicants for mitigation banks; provides requirements for determining amount of credits awarded to such mitigation banks. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee
House Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Actions
02/22/2024 HOUSE Favorable with CS by Infrastructure Strategies Committee; 22 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/26/2024 HOUSE Committee Substitute Text (C2) Filed
02/27/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
HB 1075
Soil and Water Conservation Districts by Truenow
Soil and Water Conservation Districts: Dissolving specified soil & water conservation districts & transferring district assets & liabilities to DACS & specified counties; revises, creates, & repeals various provisions for soil & water conservation districts relating to Soil & Water Conservation Council, regional soil & water conservation districts, district board supervisors, district governing boards, & reassignment of assets of certain dissolved districts. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee (Current Reference)
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
01/26/2024 HOUSE Committee Substitute Text (C1) Filed
01/29/2024
HB 1079
HOUSE References to Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee; Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee removed; Reference to Infrastructure Strategies Committee added; Remaining references: Infrastructure Strategies Committee; State Affairs Committee
01/29/2024 HOUSE Now in Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Coastal Construction and Assessments by McFarland
Coastal Construction and Assessments: Provides that only coastal counties & coastal municipalities that received written authorization from DEP may establish construction zoning & building code exceptions to coastal construction control lines; prohibits DEP from delegating authority to coastal counties & coastal municipalities that did not receive such authorization; authorizes DEP to award grants to coastal
counties for certain saltwater intrusion vulnerability assessments & provide certain cost-share funding; requires DEP to update certain data & make certain information available on its website. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee
House Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Actions
01/25/2024 HOUSE On Committee agenda - Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee, 01/29/24, 11:30 am, 404 H
01/29/2024 HOUSE Favorable by Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee; 16 Yeas, 0 Nays
01/29/2024 HOUSE Now in Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee
HB 1081 Tourist Development by Porras
Tourist Development: Requires certain counties to use revenue received from tourist development tax in specified manner; requires that charter county convention development moneys be distributed to certain entities for specified purposes; deletes specified notification requirement. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
House Ways & Means Committee (Current Reference)
House Commerce Committee
Actions
02/02/2024 HOUSE On Committee agenda - Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee, 02/06/24, 8:00 am, 212 K
02/06/2024
SB 1082
SB 1084
HOUSE Favorable by Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee; 12 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/06/2024 HOUSE Now in Ways & Means Committee
Housing for Legally Verified Agricultural Workers by Collins
Housing for Legally Verified Agricultural Workers; Defining the terms “legally verified agricultural worker” and “housing site”; prohibiting a governmental entity from adopting or enforcing any legislation to inhibit the construction of housing for legally verified agricultural workers on agricultural land operated as a bona fide farm; authorizing governmental entities to adopt local land use regulations that are less restrictive; authorizing the continued use of housing sites constructed before the effective date of the act if certain conditions are met, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Agriculture
Senate Rules
Actions
02/29/2024 HOUSE In Messages
03/01/2024 HOUSE Received; Bill referred to House Calendar
03/01/2024 HOUSE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/24
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services by Collins
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Preempting the regulation of electric vehicle charging stations to the state; prohibiting local governmental entities from enacting or enforcing such
SB 1088
regulations; providing that a pest control operator’s certificate, a special identification card, and certain limited certifications for pesticide applicators, respectively, expire a specified length of time after issuance; authorizing the department to take disciplinary action against a person who swears to or affirms a false statement on certain applications, cheats on a required examination, or violates certain procedures under certain circumstances; authorizing Class “G” licensees to qualify for multiple calibers of firearms in one requalification class under certain circumstances; prohibiting the manufacture for sale, sale, holding or offering for sale, or distribution of cultivated meat in this state, etc. Effective Date: Except as otherwise expressly provided in this act and except for this section, which shall take effect upon this act becoming a law, this act shall take effect July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Agriculture
Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
02/29/2024 SENATE Read Second Time; Amendment Failed (343968); Amendments Adopted (626714, 875192); Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 26 Yeas / 10 Nays)
02/29/2024 SENATE Engrossed Text (E1) Filed
02/29/2024 HOUSE In Messages
Municipal Water or Sewer Utility Rates, Fees, and Charges by Martin
Municipal Water or Sewer Utility Rates, Fees, and Charges; Removing a provision that authorizes certain municipalities serving consumers outside their boundaries to add specific surcharges to the rates, fees, and charges; removing a provision that does not require a public hearing for adding specific surcharges; requiring certain municipalities to conduct rate studies at certain times, etc. Effective Date: 7 /1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Regulated Industries (Current Reference)
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Rules
Actions
12/27/2023 SENATE Filed
01/04/2024 SENATE Referred to Regulated Industries; Community Affairs; Rules
SB 1098
Department of Financial Services by DiCeglie
Department of Financial Services; Creating the federal tax liaison position within the department; requiring the Chief Financial Officer to appoint the federal tax liaison; renaming the Division of Investigative and Forensic Services in the Department of Financial Services as the Division of Criminal Investigations; specifying that licensed and appointed general lines agents, rather than general lines agents, may engage in certain activities while also licensed and appointed as surplus lines agents; revising the prohibition relating to the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Plan accepting new claims, etc. Effective Date: Except as otherwise expressly provided in this act, this act shall take effect upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
Senate Banking and Insurance
Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
02/26/2024 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C3) Filed
02/26/2024 SENATE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
SB 1110
03/01/2024
SENATE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/05/24
Land Development by DiCeglie
Land Development; Revising the scope of power and responsibility of municipalities and counties under the Community Planning Act; revising exceptions from provisions governing credits against local impact fees; revising procedures regarding local government review of changes to previously approved developments of regional impact; authorizing changes to multimodal pathways, or the substitution of such pathways, in previously approved developments of regional impact if certain conditions are met, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs (Current Reference)
Senate Transportation
Senate Rules
Actions
12/28/2023 SENATE Filed
01/08/2024 SENATE Referred to Community Affairs; Transportation; Rules
HB 1125 Economic Development in Gaming Concentrated Counties by Rizo
Economic Development in Gaming Concentrated Counties: Creating Prospect Del Vista, Inc. as nonprofit corporation which is not unit or entity of state government; requires Prospect Del Vista, Inc., to create & administer investment fund for certain purpose in certain manner; requires Prospect Del Vista, Inc., to establish trust account for certain purpose; provides that Prospect Del Vista, Inc., is subject to certain public records & meetings requirements; providing for board of directors of Prospect Del Vista, Inc.; authorizes Prospect Del Vista, Inc., to make certain awards to certain projects or programs; requires scope of certain audits to include funds awarded by Prospect Del Vista, Inc. Effective Date: upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
House Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Appropriations Committee
House Commerce Committee
Actions
01/03/2024
01/09/2024
01/09/2024
HB 1143
HOUSE Filed
HOUSE Referred to Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee; Appropriations Committee; Commerce Committee
HOUSE Now in Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
My Safe Florida Home Program by Cross
My Safe Florida Home Program: Provides for home inspections for flood damage under My Safe Florida Home Program; requires DFS to contract with flood certification entities to provide mitigation inspections; provides requirements for flood certification entities to qualify for selection by department; provides requirements for flood mitigation grants; authorizes flood mitigation inspectors to participate as mitigation contractors under program; requires matching fund grants to be made available to certain entities for projects that reduce flood damage. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Insurance & Banking Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
House Commerce Committee
Actions
01/03/2024
HOUSE Filed
01/09/2024 HOUSE Referred to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee; State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee; Commerce Committee
01/09/2024 HOUSE Now in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
SB 1144 Local Business Taxes by DiCeglie
Local Business Taxes; Repealing provisions relating to local business taxes, etc. Effective Date: 7/1 /2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs (Current Reference)
Senate Finance and Tax
Senate Appropriations
Actions
01/02/2024 SENATE Filed
01/08/2024 SENATE Referred to Community Affairs; Finance and Tax; Appropriations
SB 1150
Development Permits and Orders by Perry
Development Permits and Orders; Requiring counties and municipalities, respectively, to meet specified requirements regarding the minimum information necessary for certain zoning applications; revising required duties that a county or municipality, respectively, must perform upon receipt of an application for approval of a development permit; revising timeframes for processing certain applications for approvals of development permits or development orders, etc. Effective Date: 10/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Judiciary (Current Reference)
Senate Rules
Actions
01/17/2024 SENATE On Committee agenda - Community Affairs, 01/22/24, 4:00 pm, 401 S
01/22/2024 SENATE Favorable by Community Affairs; 7 Yeas, 1 Nay
01/23/2024 SENATE Now in Judiciary
HB 1153
Advanced Wastewater Treatment by Cross
Advanced Wastewater Treatment: Requires DEP, in consultation with water management districts & sewage disposal facilities, to submit to Governor & Legislature reports on permitted sewage disposal facilities in state, priority ranking process for implementing advanced wastewater treatment upgrades at such facilities & implementation status of such upgrades. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Actions
01/03/2024
HOUSE Filed
01/09/2024 HOUSE Referred to Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee; Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee; Infrastructure Strategies Committee
01/09/2024 HOUSE Now in Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee
HB 1159 Food Recovery by Roth
Food Recovery: Providing definitions; directing the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services,
SB 1166
subject to legislative appropriation, to implement a pilot program to provide incentives to food recovery entities to negotiate the price for fresh food products; providing shipping requirements; authorizing food recovery entities to reject certain fresh food products; requiring the department to reimburse food recovery entities for certain costs; etc. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee
House Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Actions
02/27/2024 HOUSE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/24
03/01/2024 HOUSE Read Second Time; Amendment Adopted (104477); Placed on Third Reading, 03 /04/24
03/01/2024 HOUSE Engrossed Text (E1) Filed
Florida Main Street Program and Historic Preservation Tax Credits by DiCeglie
Florida Main Street Program and Historic Preservation Tax Credits; Citing this act as the "Main Street Historical Tourism and Revitalization Act"; specifying eligibility requirements for receiving specified tax credits; specifying requirements for the Department of Revenue relating to approving and denying certain applications and granting credits; authorizing the department to make certain information available to the Division of Historical Resources and the Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior for specified purposes; revising the order in which tax credits against the corporate income tax or the franchise tax are applied, etc. Effective Date: Except as otherwise expressly provided in this act and except for this section, which shall take effect upon becoming a law, this act shall take effect July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Commerce and Tourism
Senate Finance and Tax (Current Reference)
Senate Appropriations
Actions
01/16/2024 SENATE Favorable with CS by Commerce and Tourism; 5 Yeas, 0 Nays
01/17/2024 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C1) Filed
01/18/2024 SENATE Now in Finance and Tax
HB 1167
Attorney Fees and Costs in Property Rights Disputes by Yarkosky
Attorney Fees and Costs in Property Rights Disputes: Authorizes courts to award reasonable attorney fees & costs to prevailing defendant in certain civil actions. Effective Date: upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
House Civil Justice Subcommittee
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House Judiciary Committee
Actions
02/19/2024 HOUSE On Committee agenda - Judiciary Committee, 02/21/24, 8:00 am, 404 H
02/21/2024 HOUSE Favorable by Judiciary Committee; 18 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/21/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
HB 1177
Land Development by Duggan
Land Development: Revises powers of counties to include hearing appeals from municipal historic preservation boards; prohibits local governments from requiring specified documents or fee for tree
HB 1183
pruning, trimming, or removal; prohibits local governments from requiring property owners to replant trees; modifies requirements for local governments implementing transportation concurrency system; revises procedures regarding local government review of changes to previously approved developments of regional impact; authorizes changes to multimodal pathways in previously approved developments of regional impact. Effective Date: upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House Ways & Means Committee
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
02/21/2024 HOUSE Favorable with CS by State Affairs Committee; 15 Yeas, 1 Nay
02/21/2024 HOUSE Committee Substitute Text (C3) Filed
02/22/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
Florida Main Street Program and Historic Preservation Tax Credits by Barnaby
Florida Main Street Program and Historic Preservation Tax Credits: Specifies eligibility requirements for receiving specified tax credits for taxpayers that rehabilitate certified historic structures; specifies requirements for DOR relating to applications & credits; specifies requirements for such tax credits; authorizes carryforward, sale, & transfer of tax credits; provides limitation; revises order in which tax credits against corporate income tax credit or franchise tax are applied; revises order in which tax credits & deductions against insurance premium tax are applied. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Ways & Means Committee (Current Reference)
House Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
House Commerce Committee
Actions
01/03/2024 HOUSE Filed
01/09/2024 HOUSE Referred to Ways & Means Committee; Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee; Commerce Committee
01/09/2024 HOUSE Now in Ways & Means Committee
SB 1184
Land Use and Development Regulations by Ingoglia
Land Use and Development Regulations; Revising the types of data upon which comprehensive plans and plan amendments must be based; requiring that future land use plans be based on data that includes elements related to the amount of land required to accommodate anticipated growth for specified types of development and the amount of certain land located outside of urban service areas; requiring local land development regulations to establish minimum lot sizes in certain districts and infill development standards for specified housing units, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs (Current Reference)
Senate Judiciary
Senate Rules
Actions
01/02/2024 SENATE Filed
01/08/2024
SENATE Referred to Community Affairs; Judiciary; Rules
HB 1195
Millage Rates by Garrison
Millage Rates: Prohibits certain increases in millage rate from going into effect until it has been
SB 1200
approved by specified vote. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Ways & Means Committee
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
03/01/2024 HOUSE Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 85 Yeas / 21 Nays)
03/01/2024 SENATE In Messages
03/01/2024 SENATE Received; Referred to Appropriations
Enforcement of the Florida Building Code by Rodriguez
Enforcement of the Florida Building Code; Revising local governments’ responsibilities in enforcing the Florida Building Code to include any process or enforcement related to obtaining and finalizing a building permit; revising a local government’s prohibition on funding certain activities, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs (Current Reference)
Senate Regulated Industries
Senate Rules
Actions
01/03/2024 SENATE Filed
01/08/2024 SENATE Referred to Community Affairs; Regulated Industries; Rules
SB 1202
Referendums to Increase Millage by Ingoglia
Referendums to Increase Millage; Prohibiting any increase in a taxing authority’s millage rate from going into effect until it has been approved by a specified, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
No committees referenced
Actions
01/03/2024 SENATE Filed
01/05/2024 SENATE Withdrawn prior to introduction
SB 1208
My Safe Florida Home Program by Martin
My Safe Florida Home Program; Providing for home inspections for flood damage under the program; requiring the Department of Financial Services to contract with flood certification entities to provide mitigation inspections; authorizing flood mitigation inspectors to participate as mitigation contractors under the program under certain circumstances; requiring that matching fund grants be made available to certain entities for projects that reduce flood damage, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Banking and Insurance (Current Reference)
Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
01/03/2024 SENATE Filed
01/08/2024 SENATE Referred to Banking and Insurance; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy
HB 1211
Review of Advisory Bodies by Botana
Review of Advisory Bodies: Requires executive agencies to annually upload report to specified website maintained by EOG; provides requirements for such report; provides that specified provisions are subject to repeal unless reviewed & saved from repeal by Legislature. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
02/05/2024 HOUSE On Committee agenda - State Affairs Committee, 02/07/24, 10:00 am, 212 K
02/07/2024 HOUSE Favorable by State Affairs Committee; 20 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/07/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
SB 1218 Broadband by Burgess
Broadband; Extending the date through which a promotional rate and related terms for certain wireline attachments of broadband facilities to municipal electric utility poles are effective, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
Senate Regulated Industries
Senate Commerce and Tourism
Senate Rules
Actions
02/08/2024 SENATE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
02/15/2024 SENATE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/22/24
02/22/2024 SENATE Read Second Time; Substituted for HB 1147; Laid on Table, Refer to HB 1147
HB 1221
Land Use and Development Regulations by McClain
Land Use and Development Regulations: Revises types of data that comprehensive plans & plan amendments must be based on; revises means by which application of methodology used in data collection or whether particular methodology is professionally accepted & evaluated; revises elements that must be included in comprehensive plan; revises criteria for adopting small scale development amendment; revises content requirements for local land development regulations; revises mechanisms by which applications for infill development must be administratively approved; authorizes appeal of final order or decision regarding historically significant property made by locally established historic preservation board or commission to board of county commissioners; revises powers & duties of county commissions. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House Commerce Committee
Actions
02/08/2024 HOUSE Favorable with CS by Commerce Committee; 11 Yeas, 4 Nays
02/12/2024 HOUSE Committee Substitute Text (C2) Filed
02/13/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
SB 1226
Department of Transportation by DiCeglie
Department of Transportation; Revising the list of areas of program responsibility within the Department of Transportation; requiring that a specified amount of recurring funds from the State Transportation Trust Fund be made available for the Intermodal Logistics Center Infrastructure Support Program; revising provisions relating to the department’s mission, goals, and objectives; requiring governmental
HB 1239
entities that propose certain projects to conduct a traffic study; revising the length of time before which an inactive prepaid toll account becomes unclaimed property, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Transportation
Senate Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
Senate Fiscal Policy (Current Reference)
Actions
02/22/2024 SENATE On Committee agenda - Fiscal Policy, 02/27/24, 9:00 am, 412 K
02/27/2024 SENATE Favorable with CS by Fiscal Policy; 19 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/28/2024 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C3) Filed
Affordable Housing by Lopez (V)
Affordable Housing: Prohibits counties & municipalities from restricting floor area ratio; authorizes counties & municipalities to restrict height; prohibits counties & municipalities from using public hearings or any other quasi-judicial board or reviewing body to approve proposed development; prohibits counties & municipalities from restricting maximum lot size below specified size; requires counties & municipalities to maintain certain policy on their websites; requires counties & municipalities to reduce parking requirements; provides requirements for developments located within transit-oriented development or area; prohibits review or approval by county or municipality of application for development permit or order from being conditioned upon waiver, forbearance, or abandonment of any development right. Effective Date: upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
House State Affairs Committee
House Appropriations Committee
Actions
02/22/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
02/22/2024 HOUSE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/27/24
02/27/2024 HOUSE Read Second Time; Substituted for SB 0328; Laid on Table, Refer to SB 0328
SB 1244
Housing by Torres, Jr.
Housing; Citing this act as “Keep Floridians Housed Act”; creating the Department of Housing and Tenant Rights as a new department of state government; providing requirements for rental agreements; requiring that a landlord provide written notice of a rent increase to a tenant by a specified time; prohibiting landlords from charging tenants a security deposit that is more than 1 month’s rent; revising and specifying grounds for termination of a rental agreement; authorizing local governments and special districts to adopt a specified impact fee, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Judiciary (Current Reference)
Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability
Senate Appropriations
Actions
01/03/2024 SENATE Filed
01/08/2024 SENATE Referred to Judiciary; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Appropriations
HB 1263
My Safe Florida Home Program by LaMarca
My Safe Florida Home Program: Revises provisions related to My Safe Florida Home Program including legislative intent, eligibility requirements, applications, home inspections, grants, hurricane mitigation, matching fund grants, & priority of applications. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
HB 1275
Committees of Reference
House Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
House State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
House Commerce Committee
Actions
02/22/2024 HOUSE Favorable with CS by Commerce Committee; 17 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/24/2024 HOUSE Committee Substitute Text (C3) Filed
02/26/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
Strategic Transportation Infrastructure Investment by Berfield
Strategic Transportation Infrastructure Investment: Requires DOT to develop Strategic Infrastructure Investment Plan; provides purpose; provides requirements for development; requires plan to contain certain provisions; provides requirements for review, update, timeframe, & strategy & performance metrics of plan; requires Secretary of Transportation to submit plan & specified report biennially to Governor & Legislature; requires DOT to make annual distribution to State Transportation Trust Fund to fund projects identified in plan. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Transportation & Modals Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Actions
01/05/2024 HOUSE Filed
01/13/2024 HOUSE Referred to Transportation & Modals Subcommittee; Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee; Infrastructure Strategies Committee
01/13/2024 HOUSE Now in Transportation & Modals Subcommittee
HB 1277
Municipal Utilities by Busatta Cabrera
Municipal Utilities: Requires certain public meetings as condition precedent to effectiveness of new or extended agreement under which municipality will provide specified utility services in other municipalities or unincorporated areas; specifies matters to be addressed in such public meetings; requires such agreements to be written; requires annual public customer meetings; limits portion of certain utility revenues that municipality may use to fund or finance general government functions; requires excess revenues to be reinvested into municipal utility or returned to customers; requires municipalities that provide specified utility services to report certain information by specified date to PSC on annual basis; requires PSC to compile certain information & submit report containing such information to Governor & Legislature by specified date; revises provisions relating to permissible rates, fees, & charges imposed by municipal water & sewer utilities on customers located outside municipal boundaries. Effective Date: July 1, 2025
Committees of Reference
House Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House Commerce Committee
Actions
02/13/2024 HOUSE On Committee agenda - Commerce Committee, 02/15/24, 9:00 am, 212 K
02/15/2024 HOUSE Favorable by Commerce Committee; 15 Yeas, 2 Nays
02/15/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
HB 1279
Administrative Procedures Committee Review of Agency Rules by Gregory
Administrative Procedures Committee Review of Agency Rules: Requires each agency to annually compile inventory of rules by certain date; requires Administrative Procedures Committee to advise & assist agencies in preparing certain inventories & in achieving certain rule reductions; requires staff director of committee to annually prepare certain historical report by certain date; requires staff director of committee to provide report to committee, publish report in certain manner, & transmit report electronically to Legislature. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
01/05/2024
01/13/2024
01/13/2024
HB 1297
HOUSE Filed
HOUSE Referred to Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee; State Affairs Committee
HOUSE Now in Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee
Affordable Housing in Counties Designated as Areas of Critical State Concern by Mooney, Jr.
Affordable Housing in Counties Designated as Areas of Critical State Concern: Excludes land designated as area of critical state concern from affordable housing provisions; adds requirements to local comprehensive plans relating to hurricane evacuation study; provides requirements for conveying affordable housing homeownership units; excludes land designated as area of critical state concern from award requirements for purpose of providing eligible housing as part of local housing assistance plan; authorizes counties that have been designated as areas of critical state concern to use tourist development tax revenue & tourist impact tax revenue for affordable housing. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House Ways & Means Committee
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
02/22/2024
02/27/2024
03/01/2024
HB 1299
HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
HOUSE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/24
HOUSE Temporarily Postponed on Second Reading
Property Tax Exemptions for Affordable Property by Cross
Property Tax Exemptions for Affordable Property: Authorizes counties & municipalities to exempt certain accessory dwelling units from ad valorem taxation; removes requirement that certain tax exemption expire automatically. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Ways & Means Committee (Current Reference)
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
01/13/2024
01/13/2024
01/24/2024
HOUSE Referred to Ways & Means Committee; Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee; State Affairs Committee
HOUSE Now in Ways & Means Committee
Bill to be Discussed During the Office of EDR's Revenue Estimating Impact Conference, 01/26/24, 9:00 am, 117 K (No Votes Will Be Taken)
HB 1301
Department of Transportation by Abbott
Department of Transportation: Provides & revises DOT authority & responsibilities; revises provisions regarding prepaid toll accounts, Florida DOT Financing Corporation projects, & public transit providers, projects, & vehicles; prohibits certain DOT actions & expenditures; provides responsibilities of DOC & DOT with respect thereto; authorizes DOC & DOT to adopt rules; requires certain unallocated funds for New Starts Transit Program to be reallocated for purpose of Strategic Intermodal System. Effective
Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Transportation & Modals Subcommittee
House Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Actions
02/28/2024 HOUSE Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 82 Yeas / 33 Nays)
02/28/2024 SENATE In Messages
02/28/2024 SENATE Received; Referred to Fiscal Policy
SB 1304
Advanced Wastewater Treatment by Berman
Advanced Wastewater Treatment; Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection, in consultation with the water management districts and sewage disposal facilities, to submit to the Governor and Legislature, by specified dates, reports on certain permitted sewage disposal facilities in this state, a priority ranking process for implementing advanced wastewater treatment upgrades at such facilities, and the implementation status of such upgrades, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Environment and Natural Resources (Current Reference)
Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
01/04/2024 SENATE Filed
01/10/2024 SENATE Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy
SB 1322
Millage Rates by Ingoglia
Millage Rates; Prohibiting certain increases in the millage rate from going into effect until it has been approved by a specified vote, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Finance and Tax
Senate Appropriations (Current Reference)
Actions
02/08/2024 SENATE Favorable with CS by Finance and Tax; 4 Yeas, 2 Nays
02/12/2024 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C1) Filed
02/12/2024 SENATE Now in Appropriations
SB 1326
Review of Agency Rules by DiCeglie
Review of Agency Rules; Requiring each state agency to annually compile a specified report, by a specified date; requiring the Administrative Procedures Committee to advise and assist state agencies with specified actions; requiring the staff director of the committee to prepare a certain report annually,
SB 1330
by a specified date, and to publish such report on the committee’s website and submit such report to the Legislature, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability (Current Reference)
Senate Fiscal Policy
Senate Rules
Actions
01/04/2024 SENATE Filed
01/10/2024 SENATE Referred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Fiscal Policy; Rules
Resilience Districts by Calatayud
Resilience Districts; Designating the “Resilience District Act of 2024”; declaring that this act constitutes the sole authority for resilience districts; providing that the establishment of resilience districts is through a petition by certain persons; specifying requirements for the size of resilience districts; specifying acceptable uses of resilience districts; authorizing the payment of certain fees for project management of resilience districts, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs (Current Reference)
Senate Finance and Tax
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
01/04/2024 SENATE Filed
01/10/2024 SENATE Referred to Community Affairs; Finance and Tax; Fiscal Policy
SB 1362
Aviation by Harrell
Aviation; Beginning on a specified date, requiring the owner or lessee of a proposed vertiport to comply with a specified provision in obtaining certain approval and license or registration; requiring the Department of Transportation to conduct a final physical inspection of the vertiport to ensure compliance with specified requirements; providing duties of the department, within specified resources, with respect to vertiports, advanced air mobility, and other advances in aviation technology, etc.
Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Transportation
Senate Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
02/23/2024 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C3) Filed
02/23/2024 SENATE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
03/01/2024 SENATE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/05/24
SB 1364
Everglades Protection Area by Calatayud
Everglades Protection Area; Requiring that proposed plans and plan amendments that apply to certain lands within or near the Everglades Protection Area follow the state coordinated review process; providing duties of the Department of Environmental Protection relating to such plans and plan amendments; authorizing site-specific text changes for small-scale future land use map amendments; prohibiting the adoption of small-scale development amendments for properties located within or near the Everglades Protection Area, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
SB 1366
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Agriculture
Senate Rules
Actions
02/27/2024 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C2) Filed
03/01/2024 SENATE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
03/01/2024 SENATE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/24
My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program by DiCeglie
My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program; Establishing the My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program within the Department of Financial Services; providing requirements for associations to apply for a certain inspection; authorizing a unit owner to participate in the pilot program under certain circumstances; providing requirements for hurricane mitigation inspectors and inspections, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Banking and Insurance
Senate Appropriations
Actions
02/22/2024 SENATE Favorable with CS by Appropriations; 15 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/26/2024 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C2) Filed
02/26/2024 SENATE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
SB 1386
Department of Environmental Protection by Calatayud
Department of Environmental Protection; Revising the aquatic preserves within which a person may not operate a vessel outside a lawfully marked channel under certain circumstances; defining the term “Florida Flood Hub”; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to conduct enforcement activities for violations of certain onsite sewage treatment and disposal system regulations in accordance with specified provisions; requiring certain facilities and systems to include a domestic wastewater treatment plan as part of a basin management action plan for nutrient total maximum daily loads, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Environment and Natural Resources
Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
02/23/2024 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C2) Filed
02/23/2024 SENATE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
03/01/2024 SENATE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/05/24
HB 1417
Funding for Environmental Resource Management by Buchanan
Funding for Environmental Resource Management: Requires specified Seminole gaming compact revenues be used for land management activities; creates Local Trail Management Grant Program within DEP; authorizes FWCC to enter into wildlife corridor agreements with private landowners; requires Land Management Uniform Accounting Council to submit specified recommendations to Governor & Legislature; revises project prioritization for water quality improvement grant program; requires DEP & SWFMD to coordinate studies with Water School at FGCU & submit reports to Governor & Legislature; provides appropriations. Effective Date: upon becoming a law if HB 7083 or similar legislation is adopted in the same legislative session or an extension thereof and becomes a law Committees of Reference
SB 1422
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
House Appropriations Committee
Actions
02/20/2024 HOUSE Favorable with CS by Appropriations Committee; 28 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/21/2024 HOUSE Committee Substitute Text (C2) Filed
02/22/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
Food Recovery by Burgess
Food Recovery; Directing the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, subject to legislative appropriation, to implement a program to provide incentives to food producers to sell high-quality fresh food products to food recovery entities at a discounted price; requiring food recovery entities to negotiate with food producers; requiring the department to reimburse food recovery entities for certain costs, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Agriculture
Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
02/19/2024 SENATE On Committee agenda - Fiscal Policy, 02/22/24, 12:00 pm, 412 K
02/22/2024 SENATE Favorable by Fiscal Policy; 16 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/23/2024 SENATE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
SB 1440
Affordable Housing Property Tax Exemptions For Accessory Dwelling Units by Calatayud
Affordable Housing Property Tax Exemptions for Accessory Dwelling Units; Authorizing counties and municipalities to exempt certain accessory dwelling units from ad valorem taxation, etc. Effective Date: 7 /1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Finance and Tax (Current Reference)
Senate Appropriations
Actions
01/16/2024 SENATE Favorable with CS by Community Affairs; 8 Yeas, 0 Nays
01/16/2024 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C1) Filed
01/18/2024 SENATE Now in Finance and Tax
SB 1456
Counties Designated as Areas of Critical State Concern by Rodriguez
Counties Designated as Areas of Critical State Concern; Adding certain requirements to local comprehensive plans relating to a hurricane evacuation study; revising the powers of the land authority; excluding land designated as an area of critical state concern within a specified timeframe from award requirements made to specified sponsors or persons for the purpose of providing eligible housing as a part of a local housing assistance plan; requiring that the expenditure of certain funds be subject to approval by a majority vote of the board of county commissioners of an eligible county, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Finance and Tax
Senate Appropriations
HB 1493
Actions
02/29/2024
HOUSE In Messages
03/01/2024 HOUSE Received; Bill referred to House Calendar
03/01/2024 HOUSE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/24
Wind Energy Facility Siting by Altman
Wind Energy Facility Siting: Prohibits construction, operation, or expansion of wind energy facilities & offshore wind energy facilities in state; authorizes injunctive relief; requires DEP to adopt rules. Effective Date: upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
House Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee (Current Reference)
House Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee
House Commerce Committee
Actions
01/08/2024 HOUSE Filed
01/13/2024 HOUSE Referred to Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee; Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee; Commerce Committee
01/13/2024 HOUSE Now in Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee
SB 1532
Mitigation by Brodeur
Mitigation; Defining the term “applicant”; revising the entities to whom and purposes for which water quality enhancement credits may be sold; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection or water management districts to authorize the sale and use of such credits to applicants, rather than to governmental entities, to address adverse water quality impacts of certain activities; authorizing local governments with land in credit-deficient basins to consider bids from private-sector applicants to establish mitigation banks on such lands, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Environment and Natural Resources
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Rules
Actions
02/28/2024 HOUSE In Messages
03/01/2024 HOUSE Received; Bill referred to House Calendar
03/01/2024 HOUSE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/24
HB 1537
Vacation Rentals by Griffitts Jr.
Vacation Rentals: Authorizes local governments to adopt vacation rental registration programs; requires advertising platforms to require persons placing advertisements or listings for vacation rentals include certain information in advertisements or listings; requires advertising platforms to remove ability to book advertisement or listing & to provide to DBPR list of all vacation rentals which are advertised on their platforms; requires advertising platforms to adopt antidiscrimination policy; requires division to create & maintain vacation rental information system. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
House Commerce Committee
Actions
02/22/2024 HOUSE Favorable with CS by Commerce Committee; 13 Yeas, 5 Nays
HB 1547
SB 1548
02/26/2024 HOUSE Committee Substitute Text (C2) Filed
02/27/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
Local Government Actions by McClure
Local Government Actions: Revises applicability provisions for enactment or adoption of & legal challenges to county & municipal ordinances. Effective Date: October 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
02/19/2024 HOUSE On Committee agenda - State Affairs Committee, 02/21/24, 8:00 am, 212 K
02/21/2024 HOUSE Favorable by State Affairs Committee; 16 Yeas, 5 Nays
02/21/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
Energy by Gruters
Energy; Prohibiting the Department of Transportation from assigning or transferring its permitting rights across transportation rights-of-way operated by the department to certain third parties under certain circumstances; requiring the Public Service Commission to approve targeted storm reserve amounts for public utilities; requiring the Department of Commerce to expand categorical eligibility for the lowincome home energy assistance program to include individuals who are enrolled in certain federal disability programs; requiring the Public Service Commission to conduct or cause to be conducted a feasibility study on the use of small modular nuclear reactors in this state; defining the term “small modular nuclear reactor” or “reactor”, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Regulated Industries (Current Reference)
Senate Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
Senate Fiscal Policy Actions
01/10/2024 SENATE Referred to Regulated Industries; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Fiscal Policy
01/24/2024 SENATE On Committee agenda - Regulated Industries, 01/29/24, 4:00 pm, 401 S
01/29/2024 SENATE Temporarily Postponed by Regulated Industries
SB 1620
Surplus Lands by Collins
Surplus Lands; Requiring the Acquisition and Restoration Council to make certain determinations for lands surplused by a local governmental entity; prohibiting future development rights from being attached to certain local governmental entity surplus lands; prohibiting the attachment of future development rights for certain surplus lands; authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to surplus certain state-owned conservation lands, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Environment and Natural Resources (Current Reference)
Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
Senate Fiscal Policy Actions
01/05/2024 SENATE Filed
01/11/2024 SENATE Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy
SB 1624
Energy Resources by Collins
Energy Resources; Providing that resilience facilities are a permitted use in certain land use categories in local government comprehensive plans and specified districts if certain criteria are met; prohibiting amendments after a specified date to a local government’s comprehensive plan, land use map, zoning districts, or land development regulations if such amendments would conflict with resiliency facility classification; requiring the Department of Management Services to develop a Florida Humane Preferred Energy Products List in consultation with the Department of Commerce and the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; including development districts as a type of political subdivision for purposes of preemption over utility service restrictions, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Regulated Industries
Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
02/27/2024 SENATE Favorable by Fiscal Policy; 13 Yeas, 6 Nays
02/28/2024 SENATE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
03/01/2024 SENATE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/05/24
SB 1628
Local Government Actions by Collins
Local Government Actions; Requiring that certain bond referenda called by a county, district, or municipality be held at a general election; revising applicability provisions for the enactment or adoption of county and municipal ordinances, respectively, etc. Effective Date: 10/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Community Affairs
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
03/01/2024 SENATE Read Second Time; Amendment Adopted (931254); Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 30 Yeas / 1 Nay)
03/01/2024 SENATE Engrossed Text (E1) Filed
03/01/2024 HOUSE In Messages
SB 1638
Funding for Environmental Resource Management by Hutson
Funding for Environmental Resource Management; Requiring the Department of Revenue to deposit into the Indian Gaming Revenue Trust Fund within the Department of Financial Services a specified percentage of the revenue share payments received under the gaming compact between the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the State of Florida; creating the Local Trail Management Grant Program within the Department of Environmental Protection for a specified purpose; authorizing the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to enter into voluntary agreements with private landowners for environmental services within the Florida wildlife corridor, etc. APPROPRIATION: $536,000,000 Effective Date: Upon becoming a law if SB 7080 or similar legislation is adopted in the same legislative session or an extension thereof and becomes a law
Committees of Reference
Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
02/22/2024
HOUSE In Messages
03/01/2024 HOUSE Received; Bill referred to House Calendar
03/01/2024 HOUSE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/24
HB 1645
Energy Resources by Payne
Energy Resources: Allows resiliency facilities in local government comprehensive plans & specified districts; requires electric coops & municipal electric utilities to enter into mutual aid agreement for restoring power after natural disaster; requires public utilities to provide notice to PSC of power plant retirements; authorizes PSC to approve voluntary electric vehicle charging programs; prohibits construction, operation, or expansion of certain wind energy facilities & wind turbines; requires PSC to conduct assessment of state's electric grid & natural gas facilities against physical & cyber threats; requires PSC to evaluate feasibility of using advanced nuclear power technologies; requires DOT to study hydrogen fueling infrastructure to support hydrogen-powered vehicles. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee
House Appropriations Committee
House Commerce Committee
Actions
03/01/2024 HOUSE Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 88 Yeas / 19 Nays)
03/01/2024 SENATE In Messages
03/01/2024 SENATE Received; Referred to Fiscal Policy
SB 1718
Wind Energy Facility Siting by Collins
Wind Energy Facility Siting; Prohibiting construction, operation, or expansion of wind energy facilities and offshore wind energy facilities in this state, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law
Committees of Reference
Senate Regulated Industries (Current Reference)
Senate Rules
Actions
01/05/2024 SENATE Filed
01/11/2024 SENATE Referred to Regulated Industries; Rules
SB 7000
Deregulation of Public Schools/Instructional, Administrative, and Support Personnel by Education Pre-K - 12
Deregulation of Public Schools/Instructional, Administrative, and Support Personnel; Requiring innovation schools of technology to comply with specified provisions of law relating to instructional multiyear contracts for instructional personnel in addition to annual contracts; requiring newly hired prekindergarten instructors to complete specified training within a specified timeframe; requiring the State Board of Education to develop written strategies to address critical teacher shortages; revising requirements for school bus drivers; revising requirements for individuals to participate in the Teacher Apprenticeship Program; requiring the State Board of Education to adopt rules to provide for the transition to or renewal of a 10-year professional certificate in certain situations, etc. Effective Date: 7/1 /2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Education Pre-K - 12
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
01/10/2024
SENATE Read Second Time; Amendments Adopted (365690, 692396); Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 39 Yeas / 0 Nays); Immediately certified 01/10/2024 SENATE Engrossed Text (E1) Filed
01/10/2024 HOUSE In Messages
SB 7002
SB 7004
Deregulation of Public Schools/School District Finance and Budgets, Facilities, and Administration and Oversight by Education Pre-K - 12
Deregulation of Public Schools/School District Finance and Budgets, Facilities, and Administration and Oversight; Providing that district school boards are not subject to certain rule requirements under certain circumstances; requiring a district school board to advertise its intent to adopt a tentative budget on a publicly available website if it does not advertise such intent in a newspaper of general circulation; requiring district school boards to provide personnel access to facilities for emergency management, rather than staffing such facilities, or perform other specified duties as may be required in the county emergency management plan; revising requirements for signage that must be posted on certain school buses; requiring the Department of Education to annually inform district school superintendents that they may petition to receive a specified declaratory statement, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Education Pre-K - 12
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
02/27/2024 HOUSE Substituted for HB 7039; Read Second Time; Amendment Adopted (568137); Placed on Third Reading, 02/28/24
02/28/2024 HOUSE Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 115 Yeas / 0 Nays)
02/28/2024 SENATE In returning messages
Deregulation of Public Schools/Assessment and Accountability, Instruction, and Education Choice by Education Pre-K - 12
Deregulation of Public Schools/Assessment and Accountability, Instruction, and Education Choice; Revising how often a school district or charter school must update its school capacity determination; deleting a requirement for the Commissioner of Education to provide for an annual comparative evaluation of charter technical career centers and public technical centers; deleting a requirement regarding assessment procedures for Department of Juvenile Justice education programs; providing additional options for a school that completes a plan cycle but does not meet certain requirements; deleting a requirement for the Commissioner of Education to review specified feedback reports and submit findings to the State Board of Education, etc. Effective Date: Except as otherwise expressly provided in this act and except for this section, which shall take effect upon this act becoming a law, this act shall take effect July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Education Pre-K - 12
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
02/27/2024 HOUSE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/29/24
02/29/2024 HOUSE Substituted for HB 7025; Read Second Time; Amendment Adopted (471783); Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 117 Yeas / 0 Nays)
02/29/2024 SENATE In returning messages
HB 7011
Inactive Special Districts by Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
Inactive Special Districts: Dissolves special districts that have been declared inactive & repeals their enabling laws; provides exception to general law; dissolves Sunny Isles Reclamation & Water Control Board & repeals judicial order establishing district. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
02/01/2024 HOUSE Read Second Time; Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 113 Yeas / 0 Nays)
HB 7013
SB 7028
02/01/2024
SENATE In Messages
02/02/2024 SENATE Received; Referred to Rules
Special Districts by Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
Special Districts: Prohibits creation of new neighborhood improvement districts after date certain; provides term limits for elected members of governing bodies of independent special districts; provides method for changing boundaries of independent special district; provides additional criteria for declaring special district inactive; provides that district declared inactive may only expend funds as necessary to service outstanding debt & to comply with existing bond covenants & contractual obligations; requires independent special fire control districts to annually report training information to Division of State Fire Marshal; provides boundaries of mosquito control district may only be changed by special act; reducing maximum millage rate for mosquito control districts. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Ways & Means Committee
House State Affairs Committee
Actions
02/01/2024 HOUSE Read Second Time; Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 114 Yeas / 0 Nays)
02/01/2024 SENATE In Messages
02/02/2024 SENATE Received; Referred to Rules
My Safe Florida Home Program by Banking and Insurance
My Safe Florida Home Program; Specifying eligibility requirements for hurricane mitigation inspections under the program; authorizing applicants who meet specified requirements to receive a home inspection under the program without being eligible for, or applying for, a grant; specifying eligibility requirements for hurricane mitigation grants; revising improvements that grants for eligible homes may be used for, etc. APPROPRIATION: $107,000,000 Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Committees of Reference
Senate Banking and Insurance
Senate Fiscal Policy
Actions
02/01/2024 SENATE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/07/24
02/07/2024
02/07/2024
HB 7039
SENATE Read Second Time; Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 40 Yeas / 0 Nays); Immediately certified
HOUSE In Messages
Education by Choice & Innovation Subcommittee
Education: Revises requirements relating to district school board duties & responsibilities, requirements for student management of specified health conditions, prekindergarten instructors postsecondary educator preparation in field experiences, Florida Institute for Charter School Innovation, critical teacher shortages, collective bargaining, Teacher Apprenticeship Program, Dale Hickam Excellent Teaching Program, FCS institution employment equity accountability program, rent or lease of K-12 plants & facilities. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Education Quality Subcommittee
House Education & Employment Committee
Actions
02/02/2024 HOUSE Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
02/22/2024 HOUSE Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/27/24
02/27/2024
HOUSE Read Second Time; Substituted for SB 7002; Laid on Table, Refer to SB 7002
HB 7049 Transportation by Transportation & Modals Subcommittee
Transportation: Requires DOT secretary to establish performance & production measures; revises provisions relating to railroad-highway grade crossings; revises membership of advisory boards; revises & provides M.P.O. & DOT authority, duties, & responsibilities; requires certain M.P.O.'s to exchange best practices; authorizes M.P.O. to execute written agreement with DOT regarding transportation planning requirements; requires establishment of quality performance metrics & performance targets; removes provisions relating to Metropolitan Planning Organization Advisory Council; requires reports to Governor, Legislature, & DOT; requires DHSMV to begin implementation of redesigned registration license plate. Effective Date: July 1, 2024
Committees of Reference
House Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee
House Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Actions
02/29/2024
HOUSE Read Second Time; Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 114 Yeas / 0 Nays)
02/29/2024 SENATE In Messages
03/01/2024 SENATE Received; Referred to Appropriations
TMS1
Transportation by Transportation & Modals Subcommittee
PCB TMS 24-01 – Transportation
Committees of Reference
House Transportation & Modals Subcommittee (Current Reference)
Actions
01/17/2024
01/19/2024
01/19/2024
HOUSE On Committee agenda - Transportation & Modals Subcommittee, 01/19/24, 9:00 am, 404 H
HOUSE Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Transportation & Modals Subcommittee; 18 Yeas, 0 Nays
HOUSE Committee Bill Text Filed as HB 7049
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