| H0361 | Pass | Authorizes specified persons to visit, during certain hours, all juvenile facilities operated or overseen by DJJ or county; authorizes such persons to visit juvenile facilities outside of certain hours pursuant to DJJ rules; prohibits DJJ from unreas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
Chapter No. 2018-47 |
| H0617 | Pass | Authorizes certain parcel owners of a community not subject to HOA to use specified procedures to revive certain covenants or restrictions; revises interests & rights protected by filing for record within specified timeframe; revises & provides provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
Chapter No. 2018-55 |
| H0155 | Pass | Abrogates scheduled repeal of state saltwater reptile & state horse designations; designates Florida Cracker Cattle as official state heritage cattle breed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
Chapter No. 2018-43 |
| H7059 | Pass | Requires DOH to license applicant for licensure & certification as optometrist when applicant meets specified requirements; removes requirements for examination fees for certification & licensure; requires fee for licensure; revises application requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
Chapter No. 2018-78 |
| H7011 | Pass | Removes scheduled repeal of exemption from public record requirements for personal identifying information of applicants for or participants in school food & nutrition service program; removes applicability of exemption to such information held by DC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
Chapter No. 2018-74 |
| S0622 | Pass | Providing that a designated facility owned or operated by a public health trust and located within the boundaries of a municipality is under the exclusive jurisdiction of the county creating the public health trust; eliminating state licensure requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-24 |
| H7031 | Pass | Removes scheduled repeal of public meetings exemption for certain portions of meetings by duly constituted criminal justice commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-40 |
| S0660 | Pass | Revising criteria under which a nonprofit religious organization that facilitates the sharing of contributions among its participants for financial, physical, or medical needs is exempt from requirements of the code, etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-25 |
| H0085 | Pass | Authorizes DOS to become member of nongovernmental entity to verify voter registration information; establishes requirements for such memberships; requires DHSMV to provide specified information to DOS; establishes reporting requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-32 |
| H0623 | Pass | Provides additional circumstances in which an out-of-country foreign judgment need not be recognized.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-37 |
| H0087 | Pass | Provides exemption from public records requirements for certain information received by DOS from another state or District of Columbia which is confidential or exempt pursuant to laws of that jurisdiction; provides for release of such information to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-33 |
| S0512 | Pass | Providing language that may be used to waive spousal homestead rights concerning devise restrictions, etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-22 |
| S0498 | Pass | Abrogating the scheduled repeal of provisions governing a direct-support organization established under the Office of Public and Professional Guardians within the Department of Elderly Affairs, etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-20 |
| S0268 | Pass | Providing an exemption from public records requirements for certain identifying and location information of current or former public guardians, employees with fiduciary responsibility, and the spouses and children thereof; providing for future legisl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-16 |
| S0510 | Pass | Defining the term "adverse incident"; requiring licensed physicians, certified nurse midwives, and licensed midwives to report an adverse incident and a medical summary of events to the Department of Health within a specified timeframe; requiring the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-21 |
| S1712 | Pass | Authorizing state universities to use specified moneys to pay debt service on revenue bonds if required by a specified federal program, etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-28 |
| S0220 | Pass | Authorizing lienholders to use certain documents as an admission in an action to foreclose a mortgage; providing that submission of certain documents in a foreclosure action creates a rebuttable presumption that the defendant has waived any defenses ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-15 |
| H0429 | Pass | Requires DOH to develop & publish on its website an educational pamphlet relating to certain tissue transplants; requires educational pamphlet to include specified information relating to risks & benefits of human cells, tissue, & cellular & tissue-b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-36 |
| S0386 | Pass | Revising a provision relating to the maximum delinquency charge that may be charged for consumer finance loans; revising a requirement relating to installment repayments for consumer finance loans, etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-17 |
| S1132 | Pass | Providing rulemaking authority to the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission regarding expiration and design of safety inspection decals, etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-27 |
| S0472 | Pass | Requesting the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress to approve the replacement of the statue of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith in the National Statuary Hall Collection with a statue of Mary McLeod Bethune; providing for the transfer of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-19 |
| H0405 | Pass | Revises definition of "development" to exclude certain utility work on rights-of-way or corridors & creation or termination of distribution & transmission corridors; requires DEP to consider certain variance standard for certification of power plants...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-34 |
| H7029 | Pass | Removes scheduled repeal of exemption from public record requirements for certain criminal history records ordered expunged that are retained by FDLE.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-39 |
| H0053 | Pass | Establishes Southeast Florida Coral Reef Ecosystem Conservation Area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-30 |
| H7035 | Pass | Ratifies specified rule relating to implementation of district's prevention strategy to address Silver Springs minimum flows & water levels, for sole & exclusive purpose of satisfying any condition on effectiveness pursuant to s. 120.541(3), F.S....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-41 |
| H0413 | Pass | Deletes requirement that trust & its terms be for benefit of trust's beneficiaries; revises provisions relating to notice or sending of trust documents to include posting on secure electronic account or website; tolls specified limitations period...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-35 |
| H0041 | Pass | Requires DOH to contract with not-for-profit statewide alliance of organizations to provide pregnancy support & wellness services through subcontractors; provides duties of department; provides contract requirements; requires services to be provided ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-29 |
| H6021 | Pass | Abrogates future repeal of provisions related to guardian ad litem direct-support organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-38 |
| S0394 | Pass | Requiring the Division of State Fire Marshal to establish specified courses as a part of firefighter and volunteer firefighter training and certification; specifying the division's authority to adopt rules for training related to cancer and mental he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-18 |
| H0067 | Pass | Establishes Florida Slavery Memorial; provides for administration of memorial by DMS; directs DMS to develop specified plan & submit such plan to Governor & Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-31 |
| S0146 | Pass | Designating this act as the "Pro Bono Matters Act of 2018"; requiring the payment of due process costs of litigation of all pro bono attorneys appointed to represent dependent children with certain special needs, subject to appropriations and review ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-14 |
| S0920 | Pass | Specifying the maximum face amount of checks that may be taken for deferred presentment installment transactions, exclusive of fees; specifying the maximum rate and frequency of fees that deferred presentment providers or their affiliates may charge ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-26 |
| S0568 | Pass | Revising the definition of the term "telephonic sales call" to include voicemail transmissions; prohibiting the transmission of voicemails to specified persons who communicate to a telephone solicitor that they would not like to receive certain voice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
Chapter No. 2018-23 |
| H0021 | Pass | Requiring certain boards to require certain registered practitioners to complete a specified board-approved continuing education course to obtain authorization to prescribe controlled substances as part of biennial license renewal and before a specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
Chapter No. 2018-13 |
| H5001 | Pass | Provides moneys for annual period beginning July 1, 2018, & ending June 30, 2019, & supplemental appropriations for period ending June 30, 2018, to pay salaries & other expenses, capital outlay-buildings & other improvements, & for other specified pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
Chapter No. 2018-9 |
| H5003 | Pass | Implements specific appropriations of General Appropriations Act for 2018-2019 fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
Chapter No. 2018-10 |
| H5005 | Pass | Providing for the resolution of specific collective bargaining issues at impasse between the State of Florida and certified bargaining units of state employees; providing for all other mandatory collective bargaining issues at impasse that are not sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
Chapter No. 2018-11 |
| H5007 | Pass | Revises required employer retirement contribution rates for members of certain membership classes & subclasses of FRS; provides finding of important state interest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
Chapter No. 2018-12 |
| H7001 | Pass | Proposes amendment to State Constitution to prohibit a state tax or fee from being imposed or raised except through legislation approved by two-thirds of each house of legislature; requires a state tax or fee imposed or raised to be contained in sepa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-16
Signed by Officers and filed with Secretary of State |
| H0029 | Pass | Citing this act as the "Don Hahnfeldt Veteran and Military Family Opportunity Act"; revising licensure eligibility requirements; requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to waive certain fees; authorizing the licensing authority ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-14
Chapter No. 2018-7 |
| H0075 | Pass | Authorizes FCS institutions to waive portion of certain postsecondary fees for active duty members of U.S. Armed Forces using military tuition assistance; requires FCS institutions to report to SBE number & value of such fee waivers granted annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-14
Chapter No. 2018-8 |
| H1279 | Pass | Revises duties of Auditor General; revises provisions relating to Office of Inspector General, district school boards, school district superintendents, Commission on Ethics, & DOE duties & responsibilities; provides appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-12
Chapter No. 2018-5 |
| H7055 | Pass | Revises provisions relating to Commissioner of Education, DOE, school districts, school district superintendents, statewide, standardized assessments, charter schools, educational scholarship programs, principal autonomy pilot program initiative, dua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-12
Chapter No. 2018-6 |
| S0004 | Pass | Citing this act as the "Florida Excellence in Higher Education Act of 2018"; revising the preeminent state research universities program graduation rate requirements and funding distributions; authorizing a public institution of higher education to c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-12
Chapter No. 2018-4 |
| H1457 | Pass | Extends 2018 Regular Session of Florida Legislature under authority of Section 3(d), Article III of State Constitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-11
Signed by Officers and filed with Secretary of State |
| S0828 | Fail | Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution to establish public policy against certain types of well stimulation in order to protect the state's water resources and to prohibit extreme well stimulation, etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Environmental Preservation and Conservation |
| S0874 | Fail | Exempting the State Housing Trust Fund and the Local Government Housing Trust Fund from a provision authorizing the Legislature, in the General Appropriations Act, to transfer unappropriated cash balances from specified trust funds to the Budget Stab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development |
| S1634 | Fail | Authorizing the consumer advocate appointed by the Chief Financial Officer to intervene as a party in certain proceedings relating to the regulation of workers' compensation insurance or to seek review of certain agency actions relating to workers' c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Banking and Insurance |
| H1413 | Fail | Provides legislative intent regarding certain professionals who evacuated from Puerto Rico during 2017; authorizes specified professionals to obtain 2-year temporary license or certificate to work in state; provides requirements for obtaining such li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Careers and Competition Subcommittee |
| H5203 | Fail | Revises certain lodging rates for the purpose of reimbursement to specified employees; authorizes employee to expend his or her own funds for certain lodging expenses; provides DMS rulemaking authority; creates the statewide travel management system;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Governmental Oversight and Accountability |
