Florida 2023 Regular Session All Bills (Page 7)

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Florida 2023 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1420

Introduced
3/2/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Authorizing counties and municipalities, respectively, to access sanitary sewer laterals within their jurisdictions for specified purposes; requiring counties and municipalities to notify private property owners within a specified timeframe if the county or municipality intends to access the owner's sanitary sewer lateral; specifying requirements for counties and municipalities repair work; authorizing a program established by a county or a municipality to evaluate and rehabilitate sanitary sewer laterals on residential and commercial properties to use state or local funds allocated for environmental preservation or the protection of water quality, etc.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session

Florida House Bill H1343

Introduced
3/2/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Refer
3/29/23  
Refer
3/29/23  
Refer
4/13/23  
Refer
4/20/23  
Engrossed
4/28/23  
Refer
4/28/23  
Engrossed
5/4/23  
Engrossed
5/5/23  
Prohibits counties from levying specified special assessments on lands classified as agricultural; provides exception; authorizes construction or installation of housing for agricultural employees on certain lands; provides requirements for such housing; exempts such housing from certain local government approval; prohibits county or municipality from requiring removal or relinquishment of agricultural land classification for certain lands; requires landowners to provide county or municipality with certain written notice regarding such lands.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session

Florida House Bill H1339

Introduced
3/2/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Requires licensed child-placing agencies to maintain specified registry; requires that certain information be removed from registry; prohibits child-placing agency from transferring certain costs to prospective adoptive parents; requires licensed child-placing agencies to immediately place surrendered newborn infant in physical custody of identified prospective adoptive parent; provides that prospective adoptive parent becomes guardian of such infant under certain conditions for certain period of time; requires court to require child-placing agency to make certain reasonable efforts to identify appropriate prospective adoptive parent; provides requirements for licensed child-placing agencies once they take physical custody of surrendered newborn infant.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1424

Introduced
3/2/23  
Revising the responsibilities of the Just Read, Florida! Office; providing that a charter school application must include certain reading instructional strategies; providing that district school board instructional materials must include certain reading instructional strategies; revising requirements for an individualized progress monitoring plan; requiring a school district to evaluate the students at the end of each grading period for a mathematics deficiency; revising training requirements for reading coaches, classroom teachers, and school administrators to include certain instructional strategies, etc.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1426

Introduced
3/2/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Requiring manufacturers of tablets or smartphones to manufacture such devices so that a filter meeting certain requirements is enabled upon activation of the device in this state; subjecting such manufacturer to civil and criminal liability for certain acts of noncompliance; providing an exception; providing civil liability for individuals who enable a password to remove the required filter on a device in the possession of a minor under certain circumstances, etc.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S0236

Introduced
3/2/23  
Creating a rebuttable presumption that a lodestar fee is a sufficient and reasonable attorney fee in most civil actions; reducing the statute of limitations for negligence actions; providing standards for bad faith actions; providing for the distribution of proceeds when two or more third-party claims arising out of a single occurrence exceed policy limits; providing standards for the admissibility of evidence to prove the cost of damages for medical expenses in certain civil actions; requiring the trier of fact to consider the fault of certain persons who contribute to an injury, etc.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1418

Introduced
3/2/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Engrossed
4/28/23  
Refer
5/1/23  
Enrolled
5/3/23  
Passed
5/11/23  
Renaming the E911 Board as the Emergency Communications Board; authorizing the board to establish schedules for implementing certain NG911 systems and improvements; revising the composition of a committee that reviews requests for proposals from the board regarding independent accounting firm selections; extending the date by which the Division of Telecommunications within the Department of Management Services must develop a plan to upgrade 911 public safety answering points, etc.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1452

Introduced
3/2/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Requiring the benefits of a Florida Retirement System member killed in the line of duty to be paid to the member's parents, if certain conditions exist; declaring that the act fulfills an important state interest, etc.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1456

Introduced
3/2/23  
Adding the conviction for committing or the attempt to commit a felony offense of human trafficking to the list of offenses during the commission of which if a person possesses a firearm, destructive device, a semiautomatic firearm and its high-capacity detachable box magazine, or a machine gun, such person is subject to a specified mandatory minimum term of imprisonment; increasing the maximum number of days of detention that a minor who violates specified provisions for a first, second, or subsequent offense may serve in a secure detention facility; increasing the criminal penalties and providing that it is grand theft of the second degree if the property stolen is a firearm and the offender has previously been convicted for grand theft of a firearm under a specified provision; authorizing a court to extend the length of secure detention if a child is charged with an offense involving the possession or use of a firearm, etc.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1468

Introduced
3/2/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Requiring the Department of Education to identify career-themed courses that are appropriate for middle school students; encouraging school districts to offer such courses at middle schools within the district, etc.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session

Florida House Bill H1363

Introduced
3/2/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Removes provisions for fee for costs of care or supervision of certain children & for assessment & collection of such fees; provides such fees may not be ordered, balances owed for such fees may not be collected, unpaid civil judgments for such fees are void & unenforceable, warrants issued solely based on alleged failure to pay such fees are void & any person whose driver license was suspended for failure to pay such fees shall be eligible for reinstatement.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session

Florida House Bill H1353

Introduced
3/2/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Refer
4/20/23  
Engrossed
4/26/23  
Refer
4/26/23  
Engrossed
5/4/23  
Enrolled
5/4/23  
Passed
6/23/23  
Requires providers that consummate commercial financing transactions to provide specified written disclosures; prohibits brokers from taking specified actions; provides exclusive authority of Attorney General to enforce specified provisions.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1496

Introduced
3/2/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Creating the trust fund within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; providing the purpose of the trust fund and source of funds; requiring that the balance of the trust fund remain in the fund at the end of the year and be available for the purposes of the trust fund; providing for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund, etc.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1466

Introduced
3/2/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Providing criminal and civil immunity to health care workers of hospitals and nursing home facilities, respectively, who carry out directives of a supervising health care practitioner or entity; providing an exception; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to provide a report on the success of the personal care attendant program to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date each year; providing requirements for the report; requiring the agency to add a quality metric to its Quality Incentive Program for a specified purpose, etc.
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Florida 2023 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1464

Introduced
3/2/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Citing this act as the "Public Safety in Urban and Inner-City Communities Act"; creating the Commission on Public Safety in Urban and Inner-City Communities; specifying duties; providing for powers; authorizing the commission to seek assistance from state agencies and to access certain exempt or confidential and exempt information or records, etc.