FL S1780 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Failed on March 8 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-08 - Died in Fiscal Policy
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Failed on March 8 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-08 - Died in Fiscal Policy
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Summary
Requiring that certain articles or broadcasts be removed from the Internet within a specified period to limit damages for defamation; providing persons in certain positions relating to newspapers with immunity for defamation if such persons exercise due care to prevent publication or utterance of such a statement; providing venue for damages for a defamation or privacy tort based on material broadcast over radio or television; providing a rebuttable presumption that a publisher of a false statement acted with actual malice in certain circumstances, etc.
Title
Defamation, False Light, and Unauthorized Publication of Name or Likenesses
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2024-02-05 - Senate - Senate Judiciary (Y: 7 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-08 | Senate | Died in Fiscal Policy |
| 2024-02-06 | Senate | Now in Fiscal Policy |
| 2024-02-06 | Senate | Remaining references corrected to Fiscal Policy |
| 2024-02-06 | Senate | Original reference(s) removed: Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice |
| 2024-02-06 | Senate | CS by Judiciary read 1st time |
| 2024-02-06 | Senate | Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute) |
| 2024-02-05 | Senate | CS by Judiciary; YEAS 7 NAYS 2 |
| 2024-01-31 | Senate | On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 02/05/24, 2:30 pm, 110 Senate Building |
| 2024-01-11 | Senate | Introduced |
| 2024-01-11 | Senate | Referred to Judiciary; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy |
| 2024-01-05 | Senate | Filed |
Same As/Similar To
H757 (Similar To) 2024-03-08 - Died on Second Reading Calendar
S1086 (Similar To) 2024-03-08 - Died in Judiciary
S1086 (Similar To) 2024-03-08 - Died in Judiciary
Code Citations
| Chapter | Article | Section | Citation Type | Statute Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 770 | 02 | Amended Code | See Bill Text | |
| 770 | 04 | Amended Code | See Bill Text | |
| 770 | 05 | Amended Code | See Bill Text | |
| 770 | 06 | Amended Code | See Bill Text | |
| 770 | 07 | Amended Code | See Bill Text | |
| 770 | 08 | Amended Code | See Bill Text | |
| 770 | 107 | Amended Code | See Bill Text | |
| 770 | 11 | Amended Code | See Bill Text | |
| 770 | 15 | Amended Code | See Bill Text |
