Florida Senate Bill 1570 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 14 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-03-14 - Died in Commerce and Tourism
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requiring the Department of Management Services to encourage agencies to allocate a certain percentage of specified funds to purchase commodities and contractual services from certain businesses; requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to award a specified minimum amount of funds to certain businesses; creating the "Florida Right to Start Act"; prohibiting agencies from requiring eligible new businesses or persons establishing an eligible new business from paying fees relating to licenses or registrations for the business for a specified amount of time; creating the Self-Employment Assistance Program within the Department of Economic Opportunity; requiring that a specified percentage of workforce development funding go to certain individuals and businesses, etc.

Economic Assistance to New Businesses

Sen. Shevrin Jones [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-03-14	Senate	Died in Commerce and Tourism
2022-03-12	Senate	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2022-01-18	Senate	Introduced
2022-01-12	Senate	Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Finance and Tax; Appropriations
2022-01-05	Senate	Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
287	042		Amended Code	See Bill Text
288	006		Amended Code	See Bill Text
288	102		Amended Code	See Bill Text
443	31		Amended Code	See Bill Text
445	004		Amended Code	See Bill Text
542	335		Amended Code	See Bill Text
687	21		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1570
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1570/BillText/Filed/HTML