Florida Senator Carlos Smith [D]

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FLS0168Enroll
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Citing this act as the "Tristin Murphy Act"; expanding the programs and diversion initiatives supported by implementation or expansion grants to include training for 911 public safety telecommunicators and emergency medical technicians for certain pu...
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2025-06-18
Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
FLS0076FailDefining the term "paid parental leave"; requiring the state to provide paid parental leave to certain employees for a specified period of time; prohibiting the state from refusing to grant such leave, etc.
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2025-06-16
Died in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
FLS0070FailRevising the instructional hours required to be delivered in the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program for school-year and summer programs, etc.
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2025-06-16
Died in Education Pre-K - 12
FLS0074FailRequiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, subject to the appropriation of funds by the Legislature, to establish and operate a program to provide universal free school breakfast and lunch meals to all public school students; dele...
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2025-06-16
Died in Agriculture
FLS0324FailCiting this act as the "Construction Disruption Assistance Act"; establishing the Construction Impact Relief Revolving Loan Program within the Department of Commerce; requiring the department to provide specified financial assistance to eligible smal...
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2025-06-16
Died in Fiscal Policy
FLS0412FailCreating the "Motorized Wheelchair Right to Repair Act"; requiring an original equipment manufacturer to make available any documentation, parts, and tools required for the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of a motorized wheelchair and parts for the...
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2025-06-16
Died in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
FLS0252FailCiting this act as the "Responsible Gun Ownership Act"; requiring background checks on all persons involved in a firearm sale or other transfer; specifying requirements for firearm sales or transfers through licensed dealers; providing criminal penal...
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2025-06-16
Died in Criminal Justice
FLS0604FailRequiring that swimming pools located on residential real property that is transferred or sold on or after a specified date meet certain pool safety and pool barrier requirements; requiring certain persons to report violations of the law to a local l...
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2025-06-16
Died in Regulated Industries
FLS0778FailRevising the list of qualifying medical conditions for the medical use of marijuana to include an addiction to or dependence on an opioid drug, etc.
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2025-06-16
Died in Health Policy
FLS0398FailRequiring the Department of Elderly Affairs to contract for the development and implementation of the Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Program; requiring the Alzheimer's Disease Advisory Committee to evaluate the program and make certain recommendations...
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2025-06-16
Died in Messages
FLS0836FailRemoving the state preemption on the regulation of certain auxiliary containers, wrappings, and disposable plastic bags, etc.
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2025-06-16
Died in Environment and Natural Resources
FLS0864FailProposing an amendment to the State Constitution to decrease the percentage of elector votes required from 60 percent to 50 percent to approve an amendment to or a revision of the State Constitution, etc.
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2025-06-16
Died in Ethics and Elections
FLS0862FailRequiring the Social Services Estimating Conference to develop specified information related to the home and community-based services Medicaid waiver program, etc.
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2025-06-16
Died in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
FLS0860FailCiting this act as the "Broadcast Freedom Protection Act"; prohibiting elected and appointed officials from using or threatening to use their official authority, position, and influence to compel, coerce, induce, or intimidate broadcasters to air or ...
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2025-06-16
Died in Ethics and Elections
FLS0934FailRevising contract requirements for the Florida Pregnancy Care Network, Inc.; requiring the Department of Health to conduct annual visits to each organization within the network; providing requirements for the visits, etc.
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2025-06-16
Died in Health Policy
FLS0926FailCiting this act as the "Public Resource Election Neutrality Act"; prohibiting state agencies from producing, disseminating, or funding certain public service announcements; prohibiting state agencies from using funds, resources, or personnel to influ...
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2025-06-16
Died in Ethics and Elections
FLS1040FailCiting this act as the "Homeless Persons Dignity Act"; prohibiting the denial or abridgment of a person's ability to access public services solely because he or she is homeless; providing that a person experiencing homelessness has specified rights; ...
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2025-06-16
Died in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
FLS1056FailProviding legislative findings; creating the Veterans' Rental Assistance Grant Program; authorizing the Florida Housing Finance Corporation to provide certain grants to eligible applicants for a specified purpose; providing eligibility requirements f...
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2025-06-16
Died in Community Affairs
FLS1114FailLimiting the total amount of tourist development tax revenues that must be spent annually to promote and advertise tourism in order for any tourist development tax revenues to be used for a specified purpose, etc.
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2025-06-16
Died in Commerce and Tourism
FLS1110FailDefining the term "large-scale county destination marketing organization"; requiring a large-scale county destination marketing organization to register with the Department of State; requiring the department to maintain a list of large-scale county d...
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2025-06-16
Died in Commerce and Tourism
FLS1116FailAuthorizing proceeds of the tourist development tax to be used to fund public safety improvements, affordable housing, and workforce housing, etc.
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2025-06-16
Died in Commerce and Tourism
FLS1340FailCiting this act as the "Gay and Transgender Panic Legal Defenses Prohibition Act"; prohibiting individuals from using a nonviolent sexual advance or specified perceptions or beliefs about another individual as a defense to a criminal offense, to excu...
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2025-06-16
Died in Criminal Justice
FLS1332FailRequiring landlords or persons authorized to enter into rental agreements on behalf of landlords to make specified disclosures relating to flood zones before the commencement of a tenancy; requiring landlords to notify current tenants of a change in ...
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2025-06-16
Died in Judiciary
FLS1338FailProhibiting the sale or transfer of an assault weapon or a large-capacity magazine; prohibiting possession of an assault weapon or a large-capacity magazine; providing criminal penalties; providing conditions for continued possession of such weapons ...
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2025-06-16
Died in Criminal Justice
FLS1390FailRevising the sales tax exemption for the sale of marijuana and marijuana delivery devices to apply only to purchases by qualified patients and caregivers; revising background screening requirements for caregivers; authorizing MMTCs licensed to cultiv...
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2025-06-16
Died in Health Policy
FLS1366FailProviding a discount for certain veteran-owned businesses on payment of tolls for the use of toll facilities under a pilot program established by the Department of Transportation; providing eligibility requirements for the pilot program; requiring th...
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2025-06-16
Died in Transportation
FLS1562FailProhibiting a security deposit paid in connection with a residential tenancy which is collected before occupancy from exceeding the equivalent of 1 month's rent; prohibiting such security deposit that is paid during the term of the lease from exceedi...
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2025-06-16
Died in Judiciary
FLS1552FailCreating the Division of Labor Standards within the Department of Commerce for specified purposes; specifying that the department is the state's chief agency for employee protection; requiring the department to support and protect the state's workfor...
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2025-06-16
Died in Commerce and Tourism
FLS1670FailEstablishing the Task Force on Universal Health Care for Florida for a specified purpose; directing all agencies of state government to assist the task force, including furnishing information and advice deemed necessary by the task force; requiring t...
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2025-06-16
Died in Banking and Insurance
FLS1706FailRequiring certain employers to establish and administer a safety committee; requiring an employer to provide a specified written description to each employee within a specified time period; requiring an employer to establish, maintain, and preserve s...
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2025-06-16
Died in Commerce and Tourism
FLS1686FailCiting this act as "Economic Self-Sufficiency for Working Individuals with Disabilities"; contingent upon federal approval, requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to implement and administer a Medicaid buy-in program for specified indivi...
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2025-06-16
Died in Health Policy
FLS1680FailSpecifying circumstances when deactivation may occur; requiring a transportation network company (TNC) to establish and maintain a deactivation policy; requiring TNCs to review an appeal and make a determination on the appeal within a certain timefra...
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2025-06-16
Died in Transportation
FLS1668FailCiting this act as the "Florida Economic Prosperity and Immigration Act"; establishing the Office for New Americans in the Department of Commerce; deleting a provision authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to require applica...
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2025-06-16
Died in Commerce and Tourism
FLS1676FailRequiring the Department of Health to create and maintain a website; authorizing a pharmacist to prescribe and dispense a 30-day supply of insulin drugs, glucagon drugs, diabetes devices, and diabetic ketoacidosis devices under certain circumstances;...
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2025-06-16
Died in Health Policy
FLS1780FailCiting this act as the "Early Education Workforce Support and Access Act"; establishing the Early Education Workforce Support Pilot Program within the Department of Education for a specified period; providing the purpose of and funding for the progra...
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2025-06-16
Died in Education Pre-K - 12
FLS1754FailAuthorizing specified entities to enter into a partnership to design, construct, and operate and manage the Florida Museum of History at the Town of Eatonville; specifying the duties of the partnership and the governing board of the Florida Museum of...
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2025-06-16
Died in Community Affairs
FLS1786FailProviding that certain long-term prison sentences are parole-eligible under certain circumstances; providing conditions of parole for such persons; providing for disposition of savings produced by such a program of parole, etc.
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2025-06-16
Died in Criminal Justice
FLS1810FailDefining the terms "business entity" and "single-family residential property"; prohibiting certain business entities from purchasing, acquiring, or otherwise obtaining certain property and subsequently leasing or renting such property; specifying tha...
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2025-06-16
Died in Commerce and Tourism
FLS0190FailProviding requirements for storage of handguns in private conveyances and vessels; requiring law enforcement agencies to engage in a specified promotional campaign; requiring counties to adopt, by a date certain, specified ordinances concerning the p...
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2025-06-16
Died in Criminal Justice
FLS0186FailDefining the terms "motor vehicle," "trunk," and "vessel"; requiring persons who store or leave firearms or ammunition in motor vehicles or vessels under their control to keep the firearms or ammunition locked inside specified locations within the mo...
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2025-06-16
Died in Criminal Justice
FLS0330FailProhibiting an electric utility, a public utility, or a water utility from disconnecting service to residential customers for nonpayment of bills or fees under specified circumstances; requiring such utilities to waive reconnection fees and late fees...
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2025-06-16
Died in Regulated Industries
FLS0288FailRevising the definition of the term "fatal fetal abnormality"; providing that one physician, rather than two physicians, must make specified medical determinations for purposes of specified medical exceptions to the limitation on termination of pregn...
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2025-06-16
Died in Health Policy
FLS0870FailProhibiting physicians from knowingly performing or inducing a termination of pregnancy after determining that the fetus is sustainable outside the womb through standard medical measures, with exceptions, etc.
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2025-06-16
Died in Health Policy
FLS0208FailRequiring a statewide popular election for President and Vice President of the United States; establishing a procedure for appointing presidential electors in member states; providing that the agreement becomes effective upon the occurrence of specif...
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2025-06-16
Died in Ethics and Elections
FLS0206FailCiting this act as "Ava's Law"; requiring that, upon her request, every female arrested and not released on bond within 72 hours after arrest be administered a pregnancy test within a specified timeframe; authorizing a sentencing court to stay th...
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2025-06-16
Died in Criminal Justice
FLS1582FailRequiring the Florida Commission on Offender Review to develop and maintain a database for a specified purpose; repealing a provision relating to the Office of Election Crimes and Security; authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehic...
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2025-06-16
Died in Ethics and Elections
FLS0510FailRequiring certain employers to implement an outdoor heat exposure safety program that has been approved by specified departments; providing responsibilities for certain employers and employees; requiring specified annual training on heat illness and ...
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2025-06-16
Died in Commerce and Tourism
FLS0240FailRequiring the Division of Telecommunications within the Department of Management Services to consult with certain entities to conduct a feasibility study regarding a specified alert system; revising legislative findings to include victims of dating v...
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2025-06-16
Died in Fiscal Policy
FLS0308FailReplacing the term "repeat violence" with the term "repeat or serious violence"; defining the term "repeat or serious violence"; expanding the grounds for an existing cause of action for an injunction of protection to include serious violence in addi...
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2025-06-16
Died in Criminal Justice
FLS0304FailProviding an exception to the requirement that the Department of Children and Families immediately forward certain allegations to a law enforcement agency; requiring Child Protection Teams to consult with a licensed physician or advanced practice reg...
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2025-06-16
Died in Messages
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