2026 Legislative Session

Saving Special Places • Building Better Communities

The 2026 Florida Legislative Session officially ended on June 16 with final approval of the state’s budget for the year beginning July 1. This session saw 1,989 proposed pieces of legislation introduced between both houses, with 269 passing through both chambers completely. 1000 Friends of Florida worked with allies and supporters to oppose harmful legislation and support beneficial legislation regarding conservation and community planning. If you would like to learn more about our work during the session, feel free to watch our free Legislative Preview, Update, and Wrap Up webinars.

Check out our legislative tracker below to see which bills passed and were approved by the Governor.

2026 Florida Legislative Session


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COMMUNITY PLANNING

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S1738 Transportation Concurrency
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Transportation Concurrency


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S1730 Affordable housing (APPROVED 6/23)
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Affordable housing (APPROVED 6/23)


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S1622 Recreational Customary use of Beaches (APPROVED 6/24)
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Recreational Customary use of Beaches (APPROVED 6/24)


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S1572 Adaptive Reuse of Land
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Adaptive Reuse of Land


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S1322 Tax Credits for Investment in Rural Communities
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Tax Credits for Investment in Rural Communities


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S1304 Solar Facilities
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Solar Facilities


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S1264 Rural and Urban Business Enterprises
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Rural and Urban Business Enterprises


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S1242 Community Redevelopment Agencies
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Community Redevelopment Agencies


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S1128 Building Permits for a Single-family Dwelling
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Building Permits for a Single-family Dwelling


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S1118 Land Use and Development Regulations
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Land Use and Development Regulations


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S1080 Local Government Land Regulation (APPROVED 6/24)
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Local Government Land Regulation (APPROVED 6/24)


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S1074 Transportation Concurrency
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Transportation Concurrency


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S1036 Conversion of Hotels into Residential Housing
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Conversion of Hotels into Residential Housing


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S986 Special Districts
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Special Districts


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S838 Florida Building Code
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Florida Building Code


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S700 Smith
S700 Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (APPROVED 5/15)
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Providing that a state of emergency renewed by the Governor expires within a specified timeframe; authorizing the Legislature to extend the state of emergency under specified circumstances; requiring the Governor to immediately issue a certain executive order or proclamation consistent with the Legislature's concurrent resolution terminating a state of emergency; requiring the Auditor General to update quarterly a specified audit, rather than annually, etc.


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S634 DiCeglie
S634 Land Use and Zoning
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Providing that the limitations on the required annual rate increases for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation coverage do not apply to new policies issued by the corporation on or after a specified date and to subsequent renewals of such policies, etc.


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S582 Gaetz
S582 Unlawful Demolition of Historical Buildings and Structures
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Requiring the office to create specified reports on insurers, licensees, registrants, and their related entities, including the compensation of their executive officers; requiring the office to use a reliable and up-to-date methodology and software to create specified reports and review such methodology and software for accuracy; specifying that certain data are not considered trade secrets and may be used for certain purposes, etc.


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S482 Local Government
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Local Government


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S374 Trumbull
S374 Farm Products
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Deleting the requirement that a supervising physician notify the Department of Health in writing of any delegation of prescribing authority to a physician assistant; deleting the requirement that a supervising physician's name be included in the prescription issued by a physician assistant; revising requirements for the drug formulary for physician assistants; revising the drug formulary requirements for advanced practice registered nurses authorized to prescribe medications, etc.


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S284 Bernard
S284 Recreational Customary Use of Beaches
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Providing that real property owned and used for commercial purposes by small businesses will be assessed at just value after a certain date; prohibiting the annual change in assessed value from exceeding a specified amount; requiring that the assessed value of the property be lowered to the just value of the property under certain circumstances; providing that a change in ownership or control of the property will cause the property to be assessed at just value, etc.


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S192 Martin
S192 Revenue Administration
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Deleting the limitation on the amount of patient funds a chiropractic physician may hold in trust for specified purposes, etc.


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S184 Garcia
S184 Affordable Housing
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Requiring seaports to maintain an onsite fire station that is staffed and operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; requiring fire stations to have a certified hazardous materials response team with specified capabilities; requiring seaports to maintain a specified number of operational fireboats able to respond to fires and hazardous materials incidents in specified areas, etc.


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S180 Polsky
S180 Emergency Preparedness and Response (APPROVED 6/26)
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Revising the standard by which adults and minors are considered criminally negligent in the storage of a firearm under specified circumstances; revising an exception to the prohibition on storing or leaving a loaded firearm within the reach or easy access of a minor who obtains it and commits a specified violation; revising the definition of the term "minor"; revising requirements for the safe storage of loaded firearms; providing criminal penalties if a person is found to have failed to properly secure or store a firearm, resulting in a minor gaining access to the weapon, etc.


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S110 Arrington
S110 Rural Communities
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Revising the circumstances under which a person may be deemed to have legal or beneficial and equitable title to certain property for homestead exemption purposes, etc.


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S84 Berman
S84 Housing for Legally Verified Agricultural Workers
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Creating the advisory council within the Office of Insurance Regulation of the Financial Services Commission for specified purposes; requiring the office to provide the advisory council with staffing and administrative assistance; providing for expiration of the advisory council, etc.


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H6043 Recreational Customary Use of Beaches
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Recreational Customary Use of Beaches


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H6001 Skidmore
H6001 Recreational Customary Use of Beaches
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Repeals provisions relating to pregnancy support and wellness services.


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H1595 Solar Facilities
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Solar Facilities


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H1561 Adoption of Comprehensive Plan Amendments
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Adoption of Comprehensive Plan Amendments


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H1535 Emergencies
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Emergencies


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H1427 Rural Communities
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Rural Communities


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H1209 Land Use and Development Regulations
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Land Use and Development Regulations


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H1125 Regional Planning and Economic Development
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Regional Planning and Economic Development


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H1035 Building Permits for Single-family Dwellings
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Building Permits for Single-family Dwellings


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H995 Areas of Critical State Concern
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Areas of Critical State Concern


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H991 Community Redevelopment Agencies
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Community Redevelopment Agencies


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H973 Special Districts
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Special Districts


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H943 Real Property and Land Use and Development
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Real Property and Land Use and Development


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H923 Housing
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Housing


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H717 Unlawful Demolition of Historical Buildings and Structures
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Unlawful Demolition of Historical Buildings and Structures


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H685 Conversion of Hotels into Residential Housing
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Conversion of Hotels into Residential Housing


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H665 Local Government Impact Fees and Development Permits and Orders
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Local Government Impact Fees and Development Permits and Orders


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H617 Overdorf
H617 Local Government Approval of Affordable Housing Property Tax Exemptions
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Assessment of Property Used for Residential Purposes


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H579 Bartleman
H579 Development Permits and Orders
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Requires private schools participating in FES Program to provide specified information in writing to certain parents before their student's initial enrollment in school; & provides private school requirements relating to certain services.


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H409 Giallombardo
H409 Adaptive Reuse of Land
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Requires school districts to observe Veterans' Day as school holiday.


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H401 Sirois
H401 Residential Land Use Development Regulations ("The Strengthening Home Ownership in Florida Act")
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Requires FDLE to provide certain candidates with protective security detail for specified time period.


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H363 Chaney
H363 Community Redevelopment Plans
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Authorizes Medicaid to reimburse for dental services provided by certain mobile dental units; creates Council on Dental Therapy; specifies licensure requirements, services, limitations, & prohibitions relating to practice of dental therapy; requires DOH, in consultation with Board of Dentistry & AHCA, to submit reports to Legislature.


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H247 Campbell
H247 Affordable housing
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Provides exemption from public records requirements for personal identifying & location information of current & former municipal clerks & their staff, spouses, & children; provides for future legislative review & repeal; provides for retroactive application; provides statement of public necessity.


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H211 Overdorf
H211 Farm Products
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Proposes amendment to State Constitution to increase the maximum value of the accrued Save-Our-Homes benefit which may be transferred to a new homestead for all levies other than school district levies, prohibit counties and municipalities from reducing total funding for law enforcement, and provide an effective date.


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H203 Miller
H203 Transportation Concurrency
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Proposes amendment to State Constitution to increase the exemption for homestead property from all ad valorem taxation other than school district levies annually for 10 years by a certain amount, to make homestead property exempt from all ad valorem taxation other than school district levies beginning in a specified year, to prohibit counties and municipalities from reducing total funding for law enforcement, and provide an effective date.


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H89 Brackett
H89 Food Insecure Areas
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Requires veterinarian to inform client of right to receive written prescription to provide certain options to client regarding filling of such prescription; provides requirements therefor; provides exceptions.


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RESILIENCE

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S1580 Resilience Planning
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Resilience Planning


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S1320 Resilient Florida Trust Fund/Department of Environmental Protection
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Resilient Florida Trust Fund/Department of Environmental Protection


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S948 Real Property and Condominium Flood Disclosures (APPROVED 6/20)
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Real Property and Condominium Flood Disclosures (APPROVED 6/20)


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S62 Arrington
S62 Resilient Buildings
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Specifying that a person seeking to qualify for office as a candidate must be a registered member of a political party, or registered without any party affiliation, for 365 consecutive days preceding the beginning of qualifying for an election; authorizing qualified candidates or certain political parties to challenge compliance with specified provisions by filing suit in a specified circuit court; prohibiting a person from being qualified as a candidate for nomination or election and appearing on the ballot under specified circumstances, etc.


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S50 Gaetz
S50 Nature-based Methods for Improving Coastal Resilience
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Revising the admissions process for veterans treatment court programs; authorizing the court, in consultation with the multidisciplinary team, to determine eligibility for veterans treatment court programs; authorizing sentencing courts to divert defendants to veterans treatment court programs under certain circumstances, etc.


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H1345 Infrastructure and Resiliency
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Infrastructure and Resiliency


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H1313 Trust Funds/Re-creation/Resilient Florida Trust Fund/DEP
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Trust Funds/Re-creation/Resilient Florida Trust Fund/DEP


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H1015 Real Property and Condominium Flood Disclosures
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Real Property and Condominium Flood Disclosures


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H371 Snyder
H371 Nature-based Methods for Improving Coastal Resilience
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Requires each district school board to adopt rules to require display of portraits of George Washington & Abraham Lincoln in certain classrooms; & requires DOE to select portraits & make them available to each school district.


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H143 Tendrich
H143 Resilient Buildings
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Requires reclassification of offenses evidencing prejudice based on political ideology of victim; provides penalties.


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CONSERVATION

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WATER

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S7002 Water Management Districts
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Amending a provision which provides an exemption from public records requirements for certain information held by the Department of Military Affairs stored in a United States Department of Defense system of records, transmitted using a United States Department of Defense network or communications device, or pertaining to the United States Department of Defense; deleting the scheduled repeal of the exemption, etc.


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S1822 Waste Management
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Waste Management


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S1300 Permits for Drilling, Exploration, and Extraction of Oil and Gas Resources
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Permits for Drilling, Exploration, and Extraction of Oil and Gas Resources


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S1228 Spring Restoration (APPROVED 6/19)
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Spring Restoration (APPROVED 6/19)


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S978 Advanced Wastewater Treatment
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Advanced Wastewater Treatment


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S492 Arrington
S492 Mitigation Banking
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Providing minimum penalties for certain unlawful actions, etc.


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S290 Truenow
S290 DACS Omnibus
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Prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from enacting or enforcing any law that restricts or prohibits the use of gasoline-powered farm equipment or gasoline-powered landscape equipment or that distinguishes such equipment from any other equipment under certain circumstances; requiring the Acquisition and Restoration Council to determine whether certain surplused lands are suitable for bona fide agricultural purposes; establishing the Food Animal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program; revising the Florida Forest Service powers, authority, and duties; authorizing the Forest Service to manage the Welaka Training Center; establishing the Farmers Feeding Florida Program for specified purposes; limiting the number of incorporated state fair associations per county; prohibiting the possession, manufacture, sale, importation, distribution, or use of a signal jamming device, etc.


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H1175 Mitigation Banks
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Mitigation Banks


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H1143 Permits for Drilling, Exploration, and Extraction of Oil and Gas Resources
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Permits for Drilling, Exploration, and Extraction of Oil and Gas Resources


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H861 Advanced Wastewater Treatment
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Advanced Wastewater Treatment


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H691 Spring Restoration
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Spring Restoration


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H565 Tant
H565 Regulation of Auxiliary Containers
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Requires level 2 employment screening for all employees of residential facilities & adult day training programs; provides background screening requirements for such employees; removes provision requiring organization to implement certain mentoring program to be qualified; revises administrative fine requirements,


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H287 McFarland
H287 Building and Plumbing Permits for the Use of Onsite Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems
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Provides exemption from public records requirements for personal identifying & location information of current & former owners & operators of family foster homes & names & personal identifying & location information of spouses & children of such owners & operators; provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemption; provides statement of public necessity.


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TRANSPORTATION

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S966 Rapid Rail Transit Compact
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Rapid Rail Transit Compact


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S650 Bernard
S650 Hazardous Walking Conditions
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Repealing provisions relating to local business taxes; authorizing certain counties to continue to impose a business tax; authorizing such counties to revise the definition of the term "merchant" in a specified manner; prohibiting such counties from revising a specified tax rate, etc.


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S462 Rodriguez
S462 Department of Transportation
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Revising requirements for clinical privileges for certain certified registered nurse anesthetists; authorizing certain certified registered nurse anesthetists to perform specified acts under certain circumstances; authorizing certain autonomous advanced practice registered nurses to perform specified acts as part of their autonomous practice, etc.


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H1397 Transportation
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Transportation


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H833 Rapid Rail Transit Compact
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Rapid Rail Transit Compact


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H567 Chaney
H567 Transportation
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Revises certain continuing education requirements to apply to certain persons; provides legislative findings & intent; authorizes podiatric physicians to perform stem cell therapy; provides requirements for stem cells obtained & used by physician; provides advertising requirements for stem cell therapies; requires physician to obtain signed consent form before performing stem cell therapy; provides requirements for consent form.


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H85 Kendall
H85 Hazardous Walking Conditions
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Revises age requirements for children receiving voucher through Swimming Lesson Voucher Program.


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