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FLS0060Intro

Prefile
Citing this act as the "Child Safety and Custody Compliance Act"; specifying that every Child Protection Team investigator employed by the Department of Children and Families is required to perform all specified duties; requiring the department to ve...
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2024-11-21
Filed
FLS1198PassProviding that a defective corporate action is not void or voidable in certain circumstances; requiring the board of directors to take certain action to ratify a defective corporate action; providing quorum and voting requirements for the ratificatio...
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2024-06-26
Chapter No. 2024-265
FLH0775PassAuthorizes parent to surrender infant with medical staff or licensed healthcare professional at hospital after delivery; authorizes parent to surrender infant by dialing 911 to request that EMS provider meet surrendering parent at specified location;...
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2024-05-30
Chapter No. 2024-213
FLH1083PassRevises & creates provisions relating to dependent children, including criminal history records checks, removing children from court-ordered placement, evidence required to amend case plans, Guardianship Assistance Program, notice requirements, revie...
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2024-05-13
Chapter No. 2024-177; companion bill(s) passed, see SB 958 (Ch. 2024-90)
FLH0305PassIncreases maximum age of child victim of specified acts whose out of court statements may be admissible in certain circumstances; provides that first offense of specified sex trafficking offenses involving minors requires designation of defendant as ...
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2024-04-11
Chapter No. 2024-71
FLS1224PassRequiring the Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office and circuit guardian ad litem offices to participate in the development of a certain state plan; requiring the court to appoint a guardian ad litem for a child at the earliest possible time; requiring ...
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2024-04-11
Chapter No. 2024-70
FLH7001PassRemoves scheduled repeal of exemption from public records requirements for other identifying information with respect to any person reporting child abuse, abandonment, or neglect.
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2024-03-22
Chapter No. 2024-38
FLS0214FailExpanding the types of reports that the Department of Children and Families must refer to Child Protection Teams, etc.
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2024-03-08
Died in Fiscal Policy
FLS0306FailDefining the term "community-based care lead agency"; requiring community-based care lead agencies to establish and maintain a specified registry; prohibiting the community-based care lead agency from transferring certain costs to prospective adoptiv...
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2024-03-08
Died in Fiscal Policy
FLH0327FailRequires community-based care lead agencies to maintain specified registry; requires that certain information be removed from registry; prohibits lead agency from transferring certain costs to prospective adoptive parents; revises entity responsible ...
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2024-03-08
Died in Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
FLH0365Intro

Sine Die
Provides respondent has right to be represented by attorney in risk protection order proceeding & right to have attorney appointed if he or she cannot afford one; requires specified notice; specifies compensation for private counsel appointed to repr...
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2024-03-08
Died on Second Reading Calendar
FLH0555FailExpands types of reports that DCF must refer to Child Protection Teams.
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2024-03-08
Died in Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
FLS0638FailRequiring law enforcement officers who investigate an alleged incident of domestic violence to administer a lethality assessment under certain circumstances; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to consult with specified entities, and authoriz...
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2024-03-08
Died in Messages
FLH0729FailRequires law enforcement officers who investigate incident of domestic violence to administer lethality assessment; requires FDLE to consult with specified entities to develop & implement assessment; requires training for officers; provides required ...
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2024-03-08
Died in Judiciary Committee
FLS1432Intro

Sine Die
Requiring the Department of Children and Families to include individual-level child placement assessment data in its annual report to the Legislature on the commercial sexual exploitation of children; requiring the department to provide the Legislatu...
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2024-03-08
Died on Calendar
FLS1494FailProhibiting an agency from charging a certain fee under a specified circumstance; providing that custodians of public records may rely solely on certain required safeguards to determine whether records are partly or wholly exempt from disclosure; inc...
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2024-03-08
Died in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
FLS1496FailProhibiting a court from denying or restricting certain parental rights based solely on a parent's medical marijuana use; prohibiting the presumption of neglect or child endangerment based solely on a parent's medical marijuana use, etc.
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2024-03-08
Died in Judiciary
FLS1722FailProhibiting the initiation of a child protective investigation or removal of a child from his or her residence solely based on a parent's religious beliefs or ideology; requiring the investigator to submit a written summary to the subject of the inve...
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2024-03-08
Died in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
FLH1463FailProhibits DCF & either party to dissolution of marriage proceeding from filing petition for termination of parental rights solely because parent of child is qualified patient using medical marijuana; prohibits court from granting petition for termina...
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2024-03-08
Died in Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
FLH1663FailRevises the definition of "abuse"; prohibits DCF from initiating protective investigation based solely on parent's religious beliefs or ideology; requires child protective investigator to provide brief summary, verbal notification, & verbal or wr...
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2024-03-08
Died in Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
FLH0185Intro

Sine Die
Revises laws relating to dependent children including requiring GAL for each child; authorizes GALs to represent child in other proceedings; access records, request continuances, & receive notices; provides duties & responsibilities of GALs; requirin...
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2024-03-05
Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/CS/SB 1224
FLS1486Intro

Sine Die
Requiring the Department of Children and Families to conduct a criminal history records check of certain persons; authorizing specified persons to initiate a proceeding if both parents of a child are deceased or the last known living parent is deceas...
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2024-03-05
Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/CS/HB 1083
FLS0852Intro

Sine Die
Revising a requirement that petitions for injunction for protection against domestic violence, repeat violence, sexual violence, or dating violence, and stalking, respectively, be verified, rather than sworn to; revising the form for such petitions f...
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2024-03-04
Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 761
FLH1189Intro

Sine Die
Provides defective corporate action is not void or voidable in certain circumstances; requires board of directors to take action to ratify defective corporate action; provides quorum & voting requirements for ratification of defective corporate actio...
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2024-03-04
Laid on Table
FLS0312Intro

Sine Die
Increasing the maximum age of a child victim of specified acts whose out-of-court statements may be admissible in certain circumstances; providing that a first offense of specified sex trafficking offenses involving minors requires designation of the...
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2024-02-21
Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 305
FLS0074PassDeleting provisions that have expired, have become obsolete, have had their effect, have served their purpose, or have been impliedly repealed or superseded; removing inconsistencies, redundancies, and unnecessary repetition in the statutes; and impr...
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2024-02-21
Chapter No. 2024-2
FLS0790Intro

Sine Die
Changing the term "newborn infant" to "infant"; increasing the age at which a child is considered an infant; authorizing a parent to leave an infant with medical staff or a licensed health care professional at a hospital after the delivery of the inf...
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2024-02-21
Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 775
FLS7036Intro

Sine Die
Amending a provision which provides a public records exemption for identifying information of persons reporting child abuse, abandonment, or neglect; abrogating the scheduled repeal of the exemption and the reversion of specified statutory text, etc.
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2024-02-15
Laid on Table, refer to HB 7001
FLH7029Intro

Sine Die
Deletes provisions that have expired, have become obsolete, have served their purpose, or have been impliedly repealed or superseded; replaces incorrect cross-references & citations; corrects grammatical, typographical, & like errors; removes inconsi...
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2024-01-17
Laid on Table, refer to SB 74
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