Bills

Homestead Assessment Limitation Transfer; Conforming provisions to align with the State Constitution, etc.

Relief of the Estate of Danielle Maudsley by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; Providing for the relief of the Estate of Danielle Maudsley; providing an appropriation to compensate the estate for Ms. Maudsley’s death as a result of the alleged negligence of Trooper Daniel Cole and the Florida Highway Patrol, a division of the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; providing a limitation …

Relief/L.P./Department of Children and Families; Provides appropriation to compensate L.P. for injuries & damages sustained due to negligence of employees & caseworkers of department; & provides limitation on compensation & payment of fees & costs. CLAIM WITH APPROPRIATION: $28,000,000

Relief of L.P. by the Department of Children and Families; Providing for the relief of L.P., a minor, by the Department of Children and Families; providing an appropriation to compensate L.P. for injuries and damages sustained due to the negligence of employees and caseworkers of the department; providing a limitation on compensation and the payment of fees and costs, etc. CLAIM WITH APPROPRIA…

Relief/H.H./Department of Children and Families; Provides for the relief of H.H. by DCF; provides an appropriation to compensate H.H. for injuries and damages sustained as a result of the negligence of DCF; provides legislative intent; provides limitation on compensation and payment of certain fees & costs. CLAIM WITH APPROPRIATION: $14,926,640

Relief of Maury Hernandez by the Department of Corrections; Providing for the relief of Maury Hernandez; providing an appropriation to compensate former Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy Maury Hernandez for injuries and damages sustained as a consequence of the Department of Corrections’ failures to enforce probation laws, regulations, and policies; providing legislative intent that certain liens be waived; providing …

Relief/Max Giannikos/City of Clearwater; Provides relief of Maximus Giannikos by City of Clearwater; provides for appropriation to compensate Maximus Giannikos for injuries sustained as result of negligence of City of Clearwater; provides limitation on payment of compensation & attorney fees. CLAIM: Indeterminate

Relief/Sean Hurley/Orange County Sheriff's Office; Provides for appropriation to compensate Sean Hurley for injuries sustained as result of negligence of Orange County Sheriff's Office; provides limitation on payment of compensation & attorney fees. CLAIM: Indeterminate

Relief/Jose Correa/Miami-Dade County; Provides relief of Jose Correa; provides appropriation to compensate Jose Correa for injuries sustained as result of negligence of employee of Miami-Dade County; provides limitation on payment of compensation & certain fees. CLAIM: $4,100,000

Relief of Jose Correa by Miami-Dade County; Providing for the relief of Jose Correa by Miami-Dade County; providing an appropriation to compensate Mr. Correa for injuries sustained as a result of the negligence of an employee of Miami-Dade County; providing a limitation on the payment of compensation and certain fees, etc. CLAIM: $4,100,000

Descendants and Estates of Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, and Ernest Thomas; Provides that certain facts are found & declared to be true; provides that sum is appropriated from General Revenue Fund to DOS for specified relief; provides that specified persons are ineligible for further compensation. CLAIM WITH APPROPRIATION: Indeterminate

Compensation of the Descendants of Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, and Ernest Thomas; Providing that certain facts are found and declared to be true; providing that a sum is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of State for specified relief; requiring that a specified percentage of such relief be provided to certain individuals and estates; providing that specified persons ar…

OGSR/Persons Provided Public Emergency Shelter; Amending a provision which provides an exemption from public records requirements for the addresses and telephone numbers of persons provided public emergency shelter and held by the agency that provided the emergency shelter; deleting the scheduled repeal of the exemption, etc.

OGSR/Small Business Loan Program Information; Removes scheduled repeal of exemption from public record requirements for certain information held by economic development agency.

OGSR/Public Service Commission; Removes scheduled repeal of exemption from public meetings requirements for portions of hearing before PSC wherein certain proprietary confidential business information is discussed.

Roth Contribution Plans in Deferred Compensation Programs; Authorizing the state deferred compensation plan and any deferred compensation plan offered by a county, a municipality, or other political subdivision, or a county constitutional officer, to offer a qualified Roth contribution program; ratifying the actions of the Chief Financial Officer which permitted contributions to a qualified Roth contribution program…

OGSR/Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; Removes scheduled repeal of exemption from public record requirements for information received by DHSMV as result of investigation or examination conducted pursuant to certain provisions.

OGSR/Social Media Platform and Antitrust Investigations; Extends scheduled repeal of exemption from public records requirements for certain information received in investigations by Attorney General or law enforcement agency into social media platform activities & certain information received in investigations by DLA or law enforcement agency into violations by certain social media platforms.

OGSR/Trade Secrets; Removes scheduled repeal of exemption from public records requirements for certain trade secrets held by agency; removes references to trade secrets from public records exemptions.

Child Welfare; Renaming the Step into Success Workforce Education and Internship Pilot Program as the Step into Success Workforce Education and Internship Program; requiring the department’s Office of Continuing Care to develop certain cohorts within specified regions, collaborate with certain organizations and recruit mentors and organizations, and provide eligible former foster youth with internship placement oppo…

Health; Requiring the Social Services Estimating Conference to develop certain official information relating to the pilot program for individuals with developmental disabilities; authorizing the Department of Children and Families, as authorized by and consistent with appropriated funding, to contract with a specified organization to provide grief support services to help certain children and youth; revising the mon…

OGSR/Department of Military Affairs; Extends scheduled repeal of exemption from public record requirements for certain information held by the Department of Military Affairs stored in a United States Department of Defense system of records, transmitted using a United States Department of Defense network or communications device, or pertaining to the United States Department of Defense.

OGSR/Aquaculture Records Held by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Amending a provision which provides an exemption from public record requirements for certain aquaculture records held by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; removing the scheduled repeal of the exemption, etc.

OGSR/Aquaculture Records; Removes scheduled repeal of exemption from public record requirements for certain aquaculture records held by DACS.

OGSR/Examination and Assessment Instruments; Expands exemption from public record requirements for examination & assessment instruments to include such instruments when held by certain entities; requires SBE & BOG to adopt certain rules & regulations governing retention & disposal process for specified record; authorizes specified entities to disclose exempt information to certain entities; requires specified entiti…

OGSR/Cybersecurity; Revises, creates, & removes public records exemptions relating to specified cybersecurity process, practices, information, & reports, certain login credentials & information, & other cypersecurity-related information & meetings; provides statement of public necessity.

Florida Statutes; Adopts Florida Statutes 2026 & designates portions that are official law of state; provides Florida Statutes 2026 shall be effective immediately upon publication; provides general laws enacted during 2025 regular session & prior thereto & not included in Florida Statutes are repealed; provides general laws enacted after 2025 regular session are not repealed by this adoption act.

Florida Statutes; Adopting the Florida Statutes 2026 and designating the portions thereof that are to constitute the official law of the state; providing that the Florida Statutes 2026 shall be effective immediately upon publication; providing that general laws enacted during the 2025 regular session and prior thereto and not included in the Florida Statutes 2026 are repealed; providing that general laws enacted aft…

Florida Statutes; Deletes provisions that have expired, have become obsolete, have served their purpose, or have been impliedly repealed or superseded; replaces incorrect cross-references & citations; corrects grammatical, typographical, & like errors; removes inconsistencies, redundancies, & unnecessary repetition in statutes; & improves clarity of statutes & facilitates their correct interpretation.

Florida Statutes; Deleting provisions that have expired, have become obsolete, have had their effect, have served their purpose, or have been impliedly repealed or superseded; replacing incorrect cross-references and citations; correcting grammatical, typographical, and like errors; removing inconsistencies, redundancies, and unnecessary repetition in the statutes; and improving the clarity of the statutes and facil…

Retirement; Authorizing an elected officer, except while serving as a legislator, to remain in elective office and receive accumulated Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP) proceeds after the officer attains a certain age; requiring the Division of Retirement or the State Board of Administration, as appropriate, to take steps to recoup from the elected officer any DROP proceeds distributed in accordance with a s…

Public Records/Investigations by the Department of Legal Affairs; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for information held by the Department of Legal Affairs relating to notifications or investigations of certain companion chatbot violations; providing an exemption from public records requirements for information held by the department relating to notifications or investigations of certain bot-re…

Fleet Management; Repealing a provision relating to the purchase or lease of motor vehicles, watercraft, or aircraft and prior approval of the Department of Management Services; authorizing state agencies to purchase vehicles from nonstate term contract vendors under a specified condition; deleting the requirement that the Department of Management Services approve the purchase of motor vehicles for certain departmen…

Ratification of Rules of the Department of Environmental Protection; Ratifying a specified rule relating to the Lower Santa Fe and Ichetucknee Rivers and Priority Springs minimum flows and recovery strategy for the sole and exclusive purpose of satisfying any condition on effectiveness pursuant to s. 120.541(3), F.S., which requires ratification of any rule exceeding the specified thresholds for likely adverse impac…

Education; Providing that district school boards are not subject to the requirements for rules in chapter 120 when making and adopting rules with public input at a public meeting; authorizing a student to carry a United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved epinephrine delivery device, rather than an epinephrine auto-injector; revising requirements for attendance reporting by private prekindergarten pro…

Requirements for a Standard High School Diploma; Provides that completion of 2 years of marching band satisfies both physical education & performing arts requirements for standard high school diploma & that students with disabilities may participate in Special Olympics to meet physical education requirement for standard high school diploma.

Education; Requiring each Florida College System institution and state university to waive tuition and fees for members of the Florida State Guard if certain conditions are met; requiring entities that offer fee-based services to individuals who are blind or visually impaired to disclose in writing whether the service may be obtained elsewhere at no cost; authorizing school district career centers to use alternative…

Public Postsecondary Safety Policies and Procedures; Requires state universities & FCS institutions to adopt & implement specified policies & procedures relating to safety; provides requirements for policies & procedures; & requires annual review & updates policies & procedures.

Public Records/Custodians of Gold Coin and Silver Coin; Expanding a public records exemption for certain information obtained by the Office of Financial Regulation concerning or during the course of an investigation or examination conducted by the office, including customer and consumer complaints, to incorporate the inclusion of money transmitters acting as custodians of gold coin and silver coin as authorized by c…

Pub. Rec./Office of Financial Regulation; Expanding a public records exemption for certain information obtained by the Office of Financial Regulation concerning or during the course of an investigation or examination conducted by the office, including customer and consumer complaints, to incorporate the inclusion of documents relating to virtual currency businesses, qualified payment stablecoin issuers, and money tr…

Taxation; Prohibiting counties, municipalities, and special districts, respectively, from levying certain special assessments against more than a specified square footage amount per recreational vehicle parking space or campsite; prohibiting a taxpayer from being assessed certain penalties or interest under certain circumstances; revising a specified finding that a taxing authority must make in order to elect not to…

Assessments Levied on Recreational Vehicle Parks; Provides that certain special assessments on recreational vehicle parks levied by counties, municipalities, & special districts, respectively, may not be levied against certain portion of recreational vehicle parking space or campsite; requires counties, municipalities, & special districts, respectively, to consider recreational vehicle park's occupancy rates for cer…

Temporary Cash Assistance Eligibility; Providing that benefits may not be denied to certain persons solely on the basis of a drug trafficking conviction under certain circumstances, etc.

Temporary Cash Assistance Eligibility; Provides that benefits may not be denied to certain individuals solely on basis of drug trafficking conviction.

Recovery of Damages for Medical Negligence Resulting in Death; Deleting a provision that precludes certain persons from recovering damages for medical negligence resulting in death, etc.

Public School Personnel Compensation; Provides that cost-of-living adjustments are for employees with direct student contact; provides that such adjustments do not preclude district school boards from providing other adjustments; removes limitation on such adjustments; revises requirement for use of advanced degrees when setting salary schedules for instructional personnel & school administrators; removes certain li…

Financial Fraud; Creates Financial Crimes Intelligence Center within DLA; specifies purposes of center; authorizes certain agreements; requires agreement relating to appointment of director of center; specifies qualifications of director; provides that certain information is intellectual property of department; specifies powers & duties of center; authorizes center to take certain actions; requires annual report by …

Application Stores; Requiring an app store provider to take certain steps to verify the ages of individuals who create or who have existing accounts with the app store provider; providing parental consent requirements for accounts created or held by minors; requiring app store providers to take certain steps to protect specified personal information; authorizing minors, or the parents of minors, to bring civil actio…

Restrictions on Local Government Regulations After a Hurricane; Revises circumstances under which certain land use regulations may be enforced; revising persons authorized to bring certain civil actions; requires certain pending applications to be processed in a specified manner.

Food and Plastic Waste Reduction; Requiring the Department of Education to develop a specified pilot program in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; requiring that the pilot program be offered in a certain percentage of schools, beginning in a specified school year; requiring each participating school district to submit a report to the Department of Education by a specified date, etc.