| S0382 | Pass | Providing honorary designations of certain transportation facilities in specified counties; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers; providing for "The Hope and Healing Highway" designation, notwithstanding a specified pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Chapter No. 2018-161 |
| S1392 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Corrections to include information in its annual report on inmate admission based on offense type and recidivism rate; encouraging local communities and public or private educational institutions to implement prearrest div...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-02
Chapter No. 2018-127 |
| S0186 | Pass | Requiring an officer who qualifies for federal public office to resign from the office he or she presently holds if the terms, or any part thereof, run concurrently; prescribing requirements for the written resignation; providing for an automatic irr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-02
Chapter No. 2018-126 |
| S0376 | Pass | Providing that, under certain circumstances, posttraumatic stress disorder suffered by a first responder is an occupational disease compensable by workers' compensation benefits; specifying that benefits do not require a physical injury and are not s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
Chapter No. 2018-124 |
| S7028 | Pass | Ratifying a specified rule relating to emergency environmental control for assisted living facilities for the sole and exclusive purpose of satisfying any condition on effectiveness pursuant to s. 120.541(3), F.S., which requires ratification of any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
Chapter No. 2018-122 |
| S0566 | Pass | Revising factors that establish a person as a transient occupant of residential property; authorizing a former transient occupant, under certain circumstances, to bring a civil action for damages or recovery of personal belongings, etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-26
Chapter No. 2018-83 |
| S0872 | Pass | Creating the Florida Young Farmer and Rancher Advisory Council within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; requiring the department to establish a clearinghouse on its website for resources to assist young and beginning farmers and ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-26
Chapter No. 2018-85 |
| S0740 | Pass | Specifying the methodology for the assessment of certain structures in horticultural production; revising permitting requirements and operating standards for water vending machines; requiring certain liquefied petroleum gas dealers to provide notice ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-26
Chapter No. 2018-84 |
| S1552 | Pass | Allowing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to distribute proceeds from the Invest in Children license plate annual use fee on a statewide basis; deleting provisions authorizing the Department of Juvenile Justice to develop evening r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-26
Chapter No. 2018-86 |
| S0100 | Pass | Exempting certain persons and businesses from business taxes and fees; repealing provisions relating to exemptions allowed for disabled veterans of any war or their unremarried spouses; deleting fees for adding the word "Veteran" to an identification...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-26
Chapter No. 2018-80 |
| S0168 | Pass | Requiring the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to establish a pilot program for the eradication of priority invasive species; specifying procedures for the capture and disposal of animals that belong to priority invasive species, etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-26
Chapter No. 2018-82 |
| S0140 | Pass | Providing that a marriage license may not be issued to a person under the age of 18 years except under certain circumstances; requiring parties to a marriage to file a written and signed affidavit with the county court judge or clerk of the circuit c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-26
Chapter No. 2018-81 |
| S1576 | Pass | Requiring specified entities that take receivership of lost or stray dogs or cats to adopt written policies and procedures to ensure that every reasonable effort is made to quickly and reliably return owned animals to their owners; authorizing a cour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-26
Chapter No. 2018-87 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| S0402 | Fail | Revising the composition of the Pinellas County Construction Licensing Board; authorizing the board to regulate local licensure and discipline local contractors; subjecting the board to periodic audits; specifying the board is eligible for state fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Community Affairs |
| S1008 | Fail | Providing for the relief of Ruth Arizpe by the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners; providing for an appropriation to compensate her for injuries sustained as a result of the negligence of an employee of Palm Beach County; providing a lim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Special Master on Claim Bills |
| S1026 | Fail | Requiring counties to develop a plan for implementing a text-to-911 system and have a system to receive E911 text messages by a specified date, etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Governmental Oversight and Accountability |
| S1240 | Fail | Authorizing certain employees to elect to participate in the Florida Retirement System during a specified period; revising limitations on the maximum length of participation in the Deferred Retirement Option Program for certain instructional personne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Education |
| S1672 | Fail | Revising the fiscal responsibility requirements for the charter school application and review process; requiring private property taken by eminent domain for a public school purpose or use to be used only for traditional public schools; authorizing, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Education |
| S1312 | Fail | Providing that the Florida Building Code must require state-subsidized developments to have an operational emergency power source, etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Community Affairs |
| S1570 | Fail | Specifying that county ordinances regulating the transportation, composting, or land application of sewage within the St. Lucie River watershed are not duplicate regulations, etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Environmental Preservation and Conservation |
| S0196 | Fail | Prohibiting the sale or transfer of an assault weapon or large-capacity magazine; specifying circumstances in which the manufacture or transportation of assault weapons or large-capacity magazines is not prohibited; providing enhanced criminal penalt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Judiciary |
| S0832 | Fail | Removing a provision prohibiting state funds for the operation of postsecondary workforce programs from being used for the education of state or federal inmates, etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Education |
| S0974 | Fail | Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to authorize the Legislature, by general law, to exempt certain permanently installed standby generators from the tangible personal property tax and prohibit the consideration of such generators in deter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Community Affairs |
| S1198 | Fail | Requiring the Florida Virtual School to give enrollment priority to dependent children of certain active duty military personnel; requiring that certain examinations and assessments be available to all Florida Virtual School students; requiring that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Education |
| S0050 | Fail | Providing for the relief of Colton Merville; providing an appropriation to compensate him for injuries and damages sustained as result of the negligence of the Department of Corrections in connection with the shooting death of his mother, Camilla Cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Special Master on Claim Bills |
| S0542 | Fail | Prohibiting state-financed constructors from commencing construction of certain structures in coastal areas without first conducting a sea level impact projection study and having such study published and approved by the Department of Environmental P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Environmental Preservation and Conservation |
| S1384 | Fail | Authorizing certain Supreme Court Justices to have an appropriate facility in their district of residence designated as their official headquarters; increasing the limit of the amount in controversy in certain actions at law under which the county co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice |
| S1484 | Fail | Removing a requirement that supervisors of elections work with certain communities to develop public-private programs for a certain purpose; prohibiting a supervisor of elections from authorizing certain entities or persons to recruit, supply, or oth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Ethics and Elections |
| S1618 | Fail | Removing an obsolete date, etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Rules |
| S1492 | Fail | Revising duties and responsibilities of the Agency for Health Care Administration relating to issuance of licenses to health care facilities and health service providers; revising health-care-related projects subject to agency review for a certificat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Health Policy |
| S0024 | Fail | Providing for the relief of the Justice-2-Jesus Charitable Trust; providing an appropriation to compensate the trust for injuries and damages sustained as a result of the negligence and inaction of state government, etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Died in Special Master on Claim Bills |
