Florida House Bill 319 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: Failed on March 14 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-14 - Died in Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [PDF]

Creates Florida Healthy Marriage Handbook; provides requirements for handbook; provides for distribution of printed copies of the handbook under certain circumstances; requires clerks of court to post electronic copies of handbook on its website & make handbook available to certain applicants; encourages clerks of court to provide list of course providers & websites where certain classes are available; prohibits issuance of marriage license until petitioners verify that both parties have obtained & read Florida Healthy Marriage Handbook or some other presentation of similar information.

Florida Healthy Marriage Handbook

House Civil Justice Subcommittee

Sen. Clay Yarborough [R]

Rep. Anthony Sabatini [R]

Rep. David Smith [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-14	House	Died in Judiciary Committee
2020-03-14	House	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2020-02-12	House	Now in Judiciary Committee
2020-02-12	House	Favorable by Health and Human Services Committee; YEAS 17 NAYS 0
2020-02-10	House	On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Committee, 02/12/20, 10:00 am, Morris Hall
2020-02-07	House	Now in Health and Human Services Committee
2020-02-07	House	CS referred to Health and Human Services Committee; Judiciary Committee
2020-02-07	House	Original reference(s) removed: Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee
2020-02-06	House	CS by Civil Justice Subcommittee read 1st time
2020-02-06	House	Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
2020-02-04	House	CS by Civil Justice Subcommittee; YEAS 13 NAYS 0
2020-01-31	House	On Committee agenda-- Civil Justice Subcommittee, 02/04/20, 3:30 pm, Sumner Hall
2020-01-14	House	Introduced
2019-10-16	House	Referred to Civil Justice Subcommittee; Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee
2019-10-09	House	Filed

S682 (Similar To) 2020-03-14 - Died in Rules

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
741	0307		Amended Code	See Bill Text
741	04		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/319
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/319/BillText/Filed/PDF
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/319/BillText/c1/PDF
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/319/Amendment/393807/PDF