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Florida Senate Bill S0004

Introduced
1/26/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Requiring law enforcement agencies to support the enforcement of federal immigration law; requiring, rather than authorizing, law enforcement agencies to transport certain persons securely to a federal facility in this state or to another point of transfer to federal custody outside the jurisdiction of the law enforcement agency, etc.
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Florida House Bill H0001

Introduced
1/26/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Revises definition of term "criminal gang" & defines term "transnational criminal organization"; authorizes penalty enhancement of certain offenses upon finding by factfinder that defendant committed charged offense for specified purposes; specifies that all profits, proceeds, & instrumentalities of hate group activity, terrorist organization activity, & transnational criminal organization activity & all property used or intended or attempted to be used to facilitate such criminal activity are subject to seizure & forfeiture under Florida Contraband Forfeiture Act; provides criminal penalties for persons who knowingly initiate, organize, plan, finance, direct, manage, or supervise hate group's activities, terrorist organization's activities, or transnational criminal organization's activities.
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Florida Senate Bill S0010

Introduced
1/26/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Establishing the Office of Secure Florida within the Department of Commerce, etc.
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Florida Senate Bill S0018

Introduced
1/26/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Revising the criteria that the Attorney General uses when petitioning the Supreme Court for an advisory opinion related to a proposed revision or amendment to the State Constitution; requiring the Division of Elections to create a uniform petition form for candidates to gather signatures for a candidate petition; authorizing a supervisor of elections to verify certain signatures only if a certain petition form is used; requiring sponsors of an initiative amendment to register as political committees before circulating any initiative petition forms to voters; requiring the division to assign initiative petitions a petition number and create a certain form; authorizing that initiative petition forms approved by the Secretary of State may continue to be circulated, etc.
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Florida House Bill H0017

Introduced
1/26/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Provides that specified persons & entities are immune from liability for certain actions; creates civil cause of action for victims of crime committed by aliens against any person who knowingly & willfully aided or assisted alien in entering state; provides criminal penalties for adult aliens who knowingly enter or attempt to enter state after entering US by eluding or avoiding examination or inspection by immigration officers; requires arresting law enforcement agency to notify certain entities; provides criminal penalties for an adult alien who, after having been denied admission, excluded, deported, or removed or having departed US thereafter enters, attempts to enter, or is at any time found in this state; provides criminal penalties for persons who knowingly & willfully assist certain aliens who illegally entered or reentered US; provides affirmative defenses; authorizes defendant who is an alien to have any term of defendant's probationary sentence converted to administrative probation by DOC; requires department to be responsible for coordinating with defendant to arrange transportation; authorizes public funds to be used to procure transportation; requires court to verify certain information in hearing before defendant's departure from US.
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Florida House Bill HB205

Prohibits restraining dog outside during natural disaster & thereafter abandoning dog.
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Florida House Bill HB207

Requires certain properties to install & maintain door alarms on certain doors beginning on specified date; specifies person responsible for installing & maintaining such door alarms; requires door alarms to be inspected annually; requires documentation of such inspection be maintained for certain length of time; requires door alarms to be compliant with Florida Building Code; requires DBPR to enforce this act & authorizes department to use any enforcement action authorized by law; provides administrative fines.
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Florida House Bill HB209

Requiring public hearings for all updated conservation and nonconservation land management plans; requiring the Division of State Lands of the Department of Environmental Protection to make available to the public, within a specified timeframe, electronic copies of land management plans for parcels of a certain size and for parcels located in state parks; revising the duties of the Division of Recreation and Parks of the Department of Environmental Protection; specifying requirements for the management of parks and recreational areas held by the state; requiring the division to comply with specified provisions when granting certain privileges, leases, concessions, and permits; authorizing the division to acquire, install, or permit the installation or operation at state parks of campsites and cabins that meet certain requirements; prohibiting the division from authorizing certain uses or construction activities within a state park; prohibiting the division from installing or permitting the installation of any lodging establishment within the boundaries of a state park; requiring that individual management plans for parcels located within state parks be developed with input from an advisory group; requiring that the advisory group's required public hearings be noticed to the public within a specified timeframe, etc.
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Florida House Bill HB183

Specifies to rehabilitate offender to transition back to community successfully is one of primary purposes of sentencing; reduces minimum sentence that must be served by defendant from 85 percent of sentence to 72 percent; revises provisions concerning gain-time to provide for outstanding deed gain-time, good behavior time, & rehabilitation credits; revises limits on awards.
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Florida House Bill HB185

Specifies rights of inmates in state correctional system; requires written copy of rights to be provided to each inmate; authorizes relief for deprivation of rights; revises definition of "permanently incapacitated inmate" for purposes of conditional medical release.
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Florida House Bill HB187

Requires AHCA to provide coverage for yearly mammograms & yearly supplemental breast cancer screenings for certain women; revises coverages for mammograms under certain individual accident & health insurance policies, group, blanket, & franchise accident & health insurance policies, & health maintenance contracts; requires coverages for supplemental breast cancer screenings under such policies & contracts under certain circumstances.
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Florida House Bill HB189

Authorizes certain private businesses to participate in program to annually report amount of materials they recycle, using specified form; requires DEP to develop comprehensive waste reduction & recycling plan by specified date, based on certain department recommendations; specifies minimum requirements for comprehensive plan; requires department to publish report.
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Florida House Bill HB19

Requires Division of Telecommunications within DMS to consult with certain entities to conduct feasibility study regarding specified alert system; provides requirements for such alert system; requires division to report to Legislature results of feasibility study by specified date; revises legislative findings to include victims of dating violence; defines "dating violence"; authorizes victims of dating violence to apply to participate in Attorney General's address confidentiality program.
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Florida House Bill HB21

Authorizes Medicaid to reimburse for dental services provided by certain mobile dental units; creates Council on Dental Therapy; specifies licensure requirements, services, limitations, & prohibitions relating to practice of dental therapy; requires DOH, in consultation with Board of Dentistry & AHCA, to submit reports to Legislature.
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Florida House Bill HB211

Provides that collection, storage, processing, & distribution of farm product is activity of bona fide farm operation which governmental entity may not prohibit, restrict, regulate, or otherwise limit.