Florida 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 4)

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Florida 2025 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1482

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Requiring the Department of Health to adopt evidence-based parent education materials that describe the dangers of abusive head trauma, including shaken baby syndrome; requiring the department to implement a multi-year phase-in plan for the distribution of the parent education materials, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1530

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Citing this act as the "Smart Living Curriculum Act"; requiring students in grade 8 to take the Smart Living Course for promotion to high school beginning in a specified school year; requiring that a curriculum known as "Smart Living" be included in required instruction as two stand-alone courses beginning in a specified school year; revising the number of credits certain students must earn to be awarded a standard high school diploma beginning in a specified year, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1520

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Providing evidence that is admissible to demonstrate past and future medical expenses in personal injury and wrongful death actions, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1492

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Providing exceptions to a provision prohibiting the court from appointing the public defender to represent certain persons who are not indigent; providing that the opinion of a qualified professional, rather than that of a psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse practicing within the framework of an established protocol with a psychiatrist, may be the basis for the court to grant a petition for the appointment of a guardian advocate; authorizing a qualified professional, rather than a physician or the patient's psychiatric nurse, to restrict a patient's access to his or her clinical records if the qualified professional believes such access to the records is harmful to the patient; requiring the qualified professional who assessed the patient, rather than the treating physician or psychiatric nurse practicing within the framework of an established protocol with a psychiatrist, to document in the patient's clinical record that the patient is able to give express and informed consent for admission, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1518

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Authorizing certain special districts to jointly enter into, participate in, establish, or control specified joint relationships or collaborations if a certain determination is made by such districts; authorizing such districts to exercise such powers regardless of certain consequences as a result of exercising such power, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1522

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Revising which subsystem the Chief Financial Officer reports from; specifying that the department is the functional owner of the Financial Management Subsystem; authorizing the department to accept a credit card payment for a specified down payment; revising the circumstances under which a licensing authority must issue a license by endorsement to practice funeral directing; requiring owners and users to install a carbon monoxide detector or alarm on certain boilers and fire pressured vessels; creating the Florida Firefighter Recruitment Bonus Payment Program for a specified purpose, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1528

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Engrossed
4/28/25  
Requiring that strategies addressed in specified memoranda of agreement between school districts and military installations include the development and implementation of a specified training module; requiring the Department of Education to provide the training module to each district school board, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1480

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Revising the circumstances used to determine intestate succession involving certain persons born out of wedlock, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1486

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Requiring that a certain notice be posted on affected municipalities' websites; requiring the Secretary of State to consider certain sectors when assessing the impact on their jurisdiction and the ability of voters to participate in elections; requiring the Division of Elections to maintain a specified number of strategic elections equipment reserves in specified locations; providing that the use of the uniform statewide ballot application may not be required for requests for vote-by-mail ballots from certain voters, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1526

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Prohibiting a contract between a health insurer and a physician from containing certain restrictions on payment methods; requiring a health insurer to make certain notifications and obtain a physician's consent before paying a claim to the physician through electronic funds transfer; prohibiting a health insurer from charging a fee to transmit a payment to a physician through Automated Clearing House (ACH) transfer unless the physician has consented to such fee; prohibiting a health insurer from denying a certain claims submitted by a physician, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1532

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Revising policies regarding equal employment opportunity in state government; repealing a provision relating to utilization of minority business enterprises in contracts for public construction works; revising provisions governing preferences for Florida-based businesses in procurement; repealing a provision relating to the certification of minority business enterprises; authorizing the Attorney General to bring a civil action against a vendor or affiliate that violates specified provisions, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1504

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Citing this act as the "Florida Religious Liberty Awareness and Activation Act"; creating the "Florida Student and School Personnel Religious Liberties Act"; prohibiting a school district from discriminating against students, parents, or school personnel on the basis of religious viewpoints or religious expression; authorizing a student to wear clothing, accessories, and jewelry that display religious messages or symbols; authorizing a student to pray or engage in religious activities or expression; authorizing a student to organize prayer groups, religious clubs, and other religious gatherings, etc.
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Florida Senate Bill S0946

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Prohibiting state or local governmental entities from approving permits for specified waste facilities, etc.
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Florida Senate Bill S0950

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Prohibiting a jail or other facility intended or used for the detention of adults from holding a child who has been transferred to adult court for criminal prosecution before a specified hearing to determine whether the child should be prosecuted as an adult, unless the child waives his or her right to such hearing; deleting provisions requiring a state attorney to request a court to transfer and certify a child for prosecution as an adult or to provide written reasons to the court for not making such request, or to proceed under a specified provision; requiring a court to advise a child and his or her parent or legal guardian of the child's right to a due process evidentiary hearing before a judge upon the filing by a state attorney of an information transferring the child to adult court, etc.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S0942

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Specifying that certain restrictive covenants in employment agreements relating to certain licensed physicians are not supported by a legitimate business interest; declaring that such restrictive covenants are void and unenforceable, etc.