Bills

Education on Congenital Cytomegalovirus; Requiring the Department of Health, in consultation with medical experts identified by the department, to develop educational materials on congenital cytomegalovirus for distribution to expectant and new parents or caregivers; requiring certain hospitals, birth centers, and obstetrics and gynecology physician practices to provide the educational materials to such parents and …

Veterinarian Licensure by Endorsement; Revises requirements for licensure by endorsement as veterinarian.

Elections During Emergencies; Requiring that elections, in the event of an emergency, be conducted in accordance with specified provisions and carried out in a certain manner; authorizing supervisors of elections to request approval from the Secretary of State to take specified actions under specified conditions; requiring that notice of a rescheduled election be posted on any social media account controlled by the …

Elections During Emergencies; Requires that elections, in event of emergency, be conducted in accordance with specified provisions & carried out in certain manner; authorizes supervisors of elections to request approval from Secretary of State to take specified actions under specified conditions; requires that supervisors submit all such requests at once, to extent practicable; authorizes submission of revised or ad…

Testing of Cosmetics on Animals; Citing this act as the “Sickles High School Ought to be a Law Cosmetic Animal Testing Act of 2026”; prohibiting manufacturers from using animal testing as part of the cosmetics manufacturing process; prohibiting manufacturers from repackaging, selling, holding, or offering for sale cosmetics that have been tested on animals; providing that manufacturers, upon issuance of a cosmetic m…

Testing of Cosmetics on Animals; Provides that it is unlawful for person to manufacture, repackage, sell, hold, or offer for sale cosmetics that have been tested on animals as part of manufacturing process; prohibits manufacturers from using animal testing as part of cosmetics manufacturing process; prohibits manufacturers from repackaging, selling, holding, or offering for sale cosmetics that have been tested on an…

Elections; Requires that Secretary of State be elected, rather than appointed, & serve specified term; requires Florida Commission on Offender Review to develop & maintain database for specified purpose; provides that driver license or ID card applications, driver license or ID card renewal applications, & applications for changes of address for existing driver licenses or ID cards submitted to DHSMV serve as voter …

Local Utility Revenues; Prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from transferring for specified purposes revenues collected from providing utility services; requiring revenue surpluses to be returned to the ratepayers; requiring county and municipal utilities, respectively, to develop budget forecasts and strategies that meet certain requirements; prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively,…

Accessing Personnel Files of Law Enforcement Officers; Requiring the employing agency of a law enforcement officer to maintain in the personnel file or other public record a log documenting the name, address, and identification presented of any person requesting and receiving from the employing agency such files or records of such officer, etc.

Cattle Grazing on State Land; Requires land managing entities to identify existing grazable lands and consider whether leasing portions of such land to private entities for cattle grazing is appropriate based on certain goals; requires land managing entities to consider certain information when determining such appropriateness; provides requirements for land management plan if such lands are determined to be appropr…

Coral Reefs; Revising legislative findings; providing a legislative designation, etc.

Surface Waters; Requires DEP to incorporate habitat equivalency analysis in uniform mitigation assessment method; requires that permits for dredging & filling include certain requirements; requires permitted entities to bear full cost & responsibility for any damage or destruction caused by dredging, filling, or related activities; designates coral reefs as critical natural infrastructure & nature-based solutions.

Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsperson; Creating the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsperson within the Department of Corrections; establishing the Corrections Oversight Committee; authorizing the office to subpoena department records, employees, or contractors; requiring the office to conduct periodic inspections of department facilities; requiring the office to create an electronic famil…

Presumption Against Liability for Owners and Principal Operators of Multifamily Residential Properties; Prohibits owner or principal operator of multifamily residential property from receiving presumption against liability if certain number of specified crimes were reported to have occurred at property to owner or principal operator within specified timeframe.

Multifamily Residential Properties; Prohibiting the owner or principal operator of a multifamily residential property from receiving a presumption against liability if a certain number of specified crimes were reported to have occurred at the property within a specified timeframe, etc.

Portable Benefits Accounts for Independent Contractors and Sole Proprietors; Creating the “Voluntary Portable Benefits Act”; authorizing certain parties to make voluntary contributions to portable benefits accounts for independent contractors and sole proprietors; prohibiting contributions to a portable benefits account from being used as a criterion for determining a worker’s employment classification, etc.

Public Employee Housing Benefits; Authorizing specified public employers to provide a one-time payout of sick leave and annual leave to certain employees for a specified purpose; requiring the employer to remit payment and disburse funds in a specified manner; requiring an escrow agent to return funds under certain circumstances, etc.

Voluntary Trial Resolution; Authorizing parties to civil cases, family law cases, or probate cases to, by written agreement or stipulation, agree to the appointment of a voluntary trial resolution judge, subject to certain exceptions; authorizing the parties to file such written agreement or stipulation with the clerk of the court any time after the action is filed and to file a joint motion requesting such appointm…

Voluntary Trial Resolution; Removes provisions relating to voluntary trial resolution; authorizes parties to civil cases, family law cases, or probate cases to agree to or stipulate appointment of voluntary trial resolution judge; requires parties to promptly serve copy of joint motion & form on presiding judge; requires presiding judge to enter specified order within certain time period; requires appointed voluntar…

Office of the Corrections Ombudsman; Creates Office of Corrections Ombudsman within legislative branch; provides for staff; specifies duties of office; provides for appointment of Corrections Ombudsman; requires that Ombudsman meet certain criteria; requires Legislature to establish Corrections Oversight Committee on or before certain date; provides duties & membership of committee; requires DOC to provide Ombudsman…

Consultant Pharmacists ; Revises definition of "health care facility"; authorizes consultant pharmacists to provide medication management services in clinics owned by hospital or by one or more physicians who are employed by or contracted with hospital.

Pharmacy; Revising the definition of the term “health care facility” to include health care clinics owned by a hospital or physicians who work for a hospital; defining the term “covered prescription drug”; revising requirements for provider contracts between pharmacy benefit managers and certain licensed pharmacies to allow for the administration and dispensing of covered prescription drugs offsite, as well as onsit…

Redesignations of State University and Florida College System Institution Roads; Requiring state university and Florida College System institution boards of trustees to redesignate specified roads or portions of roads to certain names relating to Charlie James Kirk within a specified time period; requiring that state funds be withheld for any university or institution that fails to redesignate a road or portion of a…

Redesignations of State University and Florida College System Institution Roads; Requires state university & FCS institution boards of trustees to redesignate specified roads or portions of roads to certain names relating to Charlie James Kirk within specified time period; requires state funds to be withheld for any university & institution that fails to redesignate road or portion of roadway within such time period.

Petroleum Cleanup Programs; Removes 2025-2026 fiscal year limitation on prohibiting certain deductibles and copays, prohibiting enforcement of certain monetary caps, requiring that certain costs be absorbed at the expense of the Inland Protection Trust Fund, and providing exceptions.

Interception and Disclosure of Oral Communications; Authorizing a person to intercept and record an oral communication if the person is a party to the communication and certain conditions are met; limiting the use of the intercepted communication to evidencing an act of domestic violence, etc.

Conversion Charter Schools; Provides that specified mediation requirements apply to disputes between district school board & conversion charter school regarding mutual management plans; & authorizes conversion charter schools that meet specified criteria to be eligible for capital outlay funding.

Ad Valorem Tax Exemption for Nonprofit Homes for the Aged; Revising an eligibility requirement for Florida limited partnerships applying for ad valorem tax exemptions for nonprofit homes for the aged, etc.

Pregnancy Support and Wellness Services; Repeals provisions relating to pregnancy support and wellness services.

Portable Benefits Accounts for Independent Contractors and Sole Proprietors; Authorizes certain parties to make voluntary contributions to portable benefits accounts for independent contractors & sole proprietors; provides requirements for such contributions.

Public Employee Housing Benefits; Provides requirements for receipt of Heroes Reward benefit; authorizes accrued sick leave & annual leave balances be combined in certain circumstances; provides that leave balances for Heroes Reward benefit are counted separately from other programs & leave balances are updated at time of payment; requires that payments be made using employee's current base pay; authorizes public em…

State Medicaid Program; Authorizes AHCA to conduct retrospective reviews & audits of certain claims under state Medicaid program for specified purpose; requires agency, in coordination with DCF, to implement mandatory work & community engagement requirements for able-bodied adults as condition of obtaining & maintaining Medicaid coverage; specifies types of activities which may satisfy work & community engagement …

Medical Coverage Assistance Program for Working Individuals with Disabilities; Requires AHCA to implement & administer Medicaid buy-in program for specified working individuals with disabilities; provides requirements for program; requires agency to seek by specified date federal approval through Medicaid waiver or state plan amendment to implement program; requires agency to implement & administer program upon rece…

Medical Coverage Assistance Program for Working Individuals with Disabilities; Citing this act as the "Economic Self-Sufficiency for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act"; contingent upon federal approval, requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to implement and administer a Medicaid buy-in program for specified individuals with disabilities under certain circumstances; requiring the agency to deter…

Statewide Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Unit; Requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to establish and administer a Statewide Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Unit at a specified location; requiring that a team from the unit be assigned to and aligned with each regional domestic security task force; specifying unit duties; requiring the department to create a team by a specified date to serve …

Grand Jury Testimony and Materials; Authorizing a court to disclose certain grand jury testimony and materials in certain circumstances to further justice; requiring the clerk of court to take possession of and preserve certain grand jury materials; requiring the clerk of court to maintain a certain chain of custody list for such materials during a grand jury proceeding in a specified manner; requiring the state att…

Grand Jury Testimony and Materials; Authorizes court to disclose certain grand jury testimony & materials in certain circumstances to further justice; requires clerk of court to take possession of & preserve certain grand jury materials; prohibits person from disposing of or destroying such materials; specifies materials required to be preserved; requires clerk of court to maintain chain of custody list for such mat…

Agency for Health Care Administration; Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to require certain background screening for certain persons; providing eligibility requirements for admission to a medically complex children’s home; providing for the denial, suspension, and revocation of a license; requiring the agency, by a specified date, to review and determine eligibility for specified criminal history c…

Residential Homes for Medically or Technologically Dependent Children; Provides licensure & application requirements; requires AHCA to require certain background screening for certain persons; requires access to medically complex children's home at reasonable times for certain persons; requires agency to issue provisional license to newly licensed provider for specified timeframe; authorizes agency to issue conditio…

Dispute Resolutions Involving Citizens Property Insurance Corporation; Deleting provisions relating to the authorization of dispute resolution of claim determinations in proceedings before the Division of Administrative Hearings, etc.

Tax Referendums; Defines "local government spending analysis"; requires local government spending analysis be included on certain referendums.

Pregnancy Support and Wellness Services; Repealing a provision relating to pregnancy support and wellness services, etc.

Public Records/Office of Financial Regulation; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for information received by the Office of Financial Regulation pursuant to certain cybersecurity event provisions relating to information systems and customer information of loan originators, mortgage brokers, and mortgage lenders and for information received by the office as a result of investigations and examinat…

Virtual Currency Kiosks; Revising the definition of the term “money services business”; revising the requirements for certain rules adopted by the Financial Services Commission; revising the actions by money services businesses, authorized vendors, or affiliated parties which constitute grounds for disciplinary action; prohibiting persons from engaging in certain business unless they are registered or exempt from re…

Aggravated Stalking; Creating the offense of aggravated stalking if a person willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows, harasses, or cyberstalks another person and in the course of such conduct commits specified acts, etc.

Representation by Counsel in Hearings on Petitions for Risk Protection Orders; Provides respondent has right to be represented by an attorney in risk protection order proceeding & right to have counsel appointed if he or she is indigent & desires representation; authorizes appointed private attorney to be compensated; requires specified notice to respondent; authorizes public defender or regional counsel to represen…

Interception and Disclosure of Oral Communications; Authorizes person to intercept & record oral communication if person is party to communication & certain conditions are met; limits use of intercepted communication to evidencing act of domestic violence.

Arbitration for Disputes with Citizens Property Insurance Corporation; Requires notification of arbitration before Division of Administrative Hearings as option for dispute resolution procedures under Citizens Property Insurance Corporation.

Boating Safety; Revises conditions upon which DHSMV must include certain symbol on ID cards & driver licenses; requires DHSMV to issue ID cards & driver licenses that include certain symbol without charging specified fee; requires that ID card & driver license applications indicate whether applicant has obtained FL boating safety ID card &, if so, that copy of card be submitted with application; requires courts to o…

Boating Safety; Revising the conditions upon which the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles must include a certain symbol on identification cards; requiring the department to issue original, renewal, or replacement identification cards that include a certain symbol in certain circumstances; authorizing the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to provide the department with certain information relatin…