Legislative Research: FL S0538 | 2015 | Regular Session

Other Sessions

SessionTitle/DescriptionLast Action
2024
Regular Session

(Failed)
Deleting the definition of the term "burglary"; providing for reclassification of grand theft or forcible felony offenses if the person who commits the offense travels with the intent to commit the offense in a county other than the person's county o...
[S0538 2024 Detail][S0538 2024 Text][S0538 2024 Comments]
2024-03-08
Died in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
2023
Regular Session

(Passed)
Requiring a local licensing agency or the Department of Children and Families, as applicable, to issue a provisional license or registration for a family day care home under certain circumstances, etc.
[S0538 2023 Detail][S0538 2023 Text][S0538 2023 Comments]
2023-06-16
Chapter No. 2023-249
2022
Regular Session

(Introduced - Dead)
Revising the definition of the term "private instructional personnel" to include certain registered behavior technicians; requiring a registered behavior technician to meet specified requirements to provide services, etc.
[S0538 2022 Detail][S0538 2022 Text][S0538 2022 Comments]
2022-03-04
Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 255
2021
Regular Session

(Failed)
Providing that state universities and Florida College System institutions are considered authorized entities for specified purposes relating to the emergency use of epinephrine auto-injectors; requiring, rather than authorizing, public schools to pur...
[S0538 2021 Detail][S0538 2021 Text][S0538 2021 Comments]
2021-04-30
Died in Health Policy
2020
Regular Session

(Passed)
Requiring the Division of Emergency Management to create a list of reportable incidents; requiring such list to include certain events; requiring a political subdivision to report incidents contained on the list to the State Watch Office; authorizing...
[S0538 2020 Detail][S0538 2020 Text][S0538 2020 Comments]
2020-06-22
Chapter No. 2020-53
2019
Regular Session

(Failed)
Deleting a limitation on per-policy fees charged by surplus lines agents for exporting certified policies; requiring that such fees be itemized separately for the customer before purchase and enumerated in the policy; deleting a requirement for surpl...
[S0538 2019 Detail][S0538 2019 Text][S0538 2019 Comments]
2019-05-03
Died in Appropriations, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/HB 301 (Ch. 2019-108)
2018
Regular Session

(Introduced - Dead)
Requiring the State Board of Administration to divest investments, and prohibiting it from investment, in any institution or company or subsidiary of a company domiciled in the United States which does business in or with the government of Venezuela ...
[S0538 2018 Detail][S0538 2018 Text][S0538 2018 Comments]
2018-03-07
Laid on Table, refer to HB 359
2017
Regular Session

(Failed)
Requiring applicants for charter status to demonstrate that they meet certain needs that the local school district does not, or is unable to, meet; authorizing a charter school to share the results of innovative methods and best practices with the sc...
[S0538 2017 Detail][S0538 2017 Text][S0538 2017 Comments]
2017-05-05
Died in Education
2016
Regular Session

(Failed)
Creating an annual sales tax holiday for veterans; specifying items that are eligible for the sales tax holiday; defining the term "veteran" for purposes of the sales tax holiday, etc.
[S0538 2016 Detail][S0538 2016 Text][S0538 2016 Comments]
2016-03-11
Died in Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security
2015
Regular Session

(Passed)
Prohibiting a person from willfully and maliciously sexually cyberharassing another person; authorizing a law enforcement officer to arrest, without a warrant, any person that he or she has probable cause to believe has committed sexual cyberharassme...
[S0538 2015 Detail][S0538 2015 Text][S0538 2015 Comments]
2015-05-15
Chapter No. 2015-24
2014
Regular Session

(Failed)
Providing an exemption from public records requirements for e-mail addresses obtained by the tax collector for the purpose of electronically sending tax notices or obtaining the consent of the taxpayer to the electronic transmission of tax notices; p...
[S0538 2014 Detail][S0538 2014 Text][S0538 2014 Comments]
2014-05-02
Died in Messages
2013
Regular Session

(Failed)
Requiring certain single-county independent special districts to administratively consolidate with the municipality or county in which they are located if such consolidation will result in increased efficiencies; limiting the insurance benefits of di...
[S0538 2013 Detail][S0538 2013 Text][S0538 2013 Comments]
2013-05-03
Died in Ethics and Elections
2012
Regular Session

(Failed)
Citing this act as the "Buy Florida Act"; requiring an agency, university, college, school district, or other political subdivision of the state to grant a specified preference to a vendor located within the state when awarding a contract for printin...
[S0538 2012 Detail][S0538 2012 Text][S0538 2012 Comments]
2012-03-09
Died in Messages, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 7087 (Ch.
2011
Regular Session

(Introduced - Dead)
Proposes an amendment to the State Constitution to disqualify a person who is convicted of a felony from voting only until completion of all sentences imposed and expiration or completion of all conditions of supervision, if any.
[S0538 2011 Detail][S0538 2011 Text][S0538 2011 Comments]
2011-05-07
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2010
Regular Session

(Failed)
Deletes an obsolete provision relating to a report by the South Florida Water Management District and the Department of Environmental Protection on the research and monitoring program within the Everglades Protection Area.
[S0538 2010 Detail][S0538 2010 Text][S0538 2010 Comments]
2010-04-30
Died in Committee on Environmental Preservation and Conservation

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Legislative Citation

APA
FL S0538 | 2015 | Regular Session. (2015, May 15). LegiScan. Retrieved April 19, 2024, from https://legiscan.com/FL/bill/S0538/2015
MLA
"FL S0538 | 2015 | Regular Session." LegiScan. LegiScan LLC, 15 May. 2015. Web. 19 Apr. 2024. <https://legiscan.com/FL/bill/S0538/2015>.
Chicago
"FL S0538 | 2015 | Regular Session." May 15, 2015 LegiScan. Accessed April 19, 2024. https://legiscan.com/FL/bill/S0538/2015.
Turabian
LegiScan. FL S0538 | 2015 | Regular Session. 15 May 2015. https://legiscan.com/FL/bill/S0538/2015 (accessed April 19, 2024).

Same As/Similar To

BillRelationshipDateTitleLast Action
H0151Similar To2015-04-24Sexual CyberharassmentLaid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 538 (Ch. 2015-24)

Code Citations

ChapterArticleSectionCitation TypeStatute Text
784048Amended CodeSee Bill Text
784049Amended CodeSee Bill Text
8470136Amended CodeSee Bill Text
90115Amended CodeSee Bill Text
921244Amended CodeSee Bill Text
93318Amended CodeSee Bill Text

Florida State Sources

TypeSource
Summaryhttp://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/538
Texthttp://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/0538/BillText/Filed/HTML
Texthttp://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/0538/BillText/c1/HTML
Texthttp://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/0538/BillText/c2/HTML
Texthttp://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/0538/BillText/e1/HTML
Texthttp://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/0538/BillText/er/HTML
Amendmenthttp://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/0538/Amendment/595288/HTML
Amendmenthttp://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/0538/Amendment/194958/HTML
Amendmenthttp://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/0538/Amendment/067405/PDF
Roll Callhttp://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/0538/Vote/SenateVote_s0538c2015.PDF
Roll Callhttp://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/0538/Vote/HouseVote_s0538c2358.PDF
Roll Callhttp://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/0538/Vote/SenateVote_s0538c2051.PDF

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