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2025 Florida Legislative Session Dates:

March 4, 2025 - Regular Session Convenes

May 2, 2025 - 60th Day - Last Day of Regular Session



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SB 0048 Alternative Judicial Procedures García 02/28/25
Alternative Judicial Procedures; Requiring, rather than authorizing, that specified sales procedures be followed for certain sales of real or personal property unless a court orders the use of other sales procedures; creating the "Transparency in Alternative Judicial Sales Procedures Act"; requiring parties that want to use an alternative sales procedure to file a motion with the court where the action is pending; authorizing persons to serve as auctioneers or in other roles, under specified conditions, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2025
11/20/24 SENATE Filed
01/15/25 SENATE Referred to Judiciary; Community Affairs; Rules
02/03/25 SENATE On Committee agenda - Judiciary, 02/11/25, 4:00 pm, 110 S
02/11/25 SENATE Favorable with CS by Judiciary; 10 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/13/25 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C1) Filed
02/13/25 SENATE Reference to Community Affairs removed; Reference to Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice added; Remaining references: Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Rules
02/13/25 SENATE Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
02/28/25 SENATE On Committee agenda - Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 03/05/25, 11:00 am, 37 S

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HB 1375Judicial Sales Procedures by Basabe


HB 0093 Residential Swimming Pool Requirements López (J) 01/15/25
Residential Swimming Pool Requirements: Requires swimming pools located on residential real property that is transferred or sold on or after specified date to meet certain pool safety & pool barrier requirements; requires certain persons to report violations of law to local law enforcement agency. Effective Date: July 1, 2025
01/03/25 HOUSE Filed
01/15/25 HOUSE Referred to Industries & Professional Activities Subcommittee; Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee; Commerce Committee
01/15/25 HOUSE Now in Industries & Professional Activities Subcommittee

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SB 0604Residential Swimming Pool Requirements by Smith (C)


HB 0097 Service of Process in Proceedings for Protection of Vulnerable Adults Steele 03/03/25
Service of Process in Proceedings for Protection of Vulnerable Adults: Authorizes use of substitute service on unascertainable respondents; requires that any proposed transfer of funds or property in dispute be held for specified time period. Effective Date: July 1, 2025
01/03/25 HOUSE Filed
01/15/25 HOUSE Referred to Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee; Insurance & Banking Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee
01/15/25 HOUSE Now in Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee
03/03/25 HOUSE On Committee agenda - Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee, 03/05/25, 1:00 pm, 404 H

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SB 0106Exploitation of Vulnerable Adults by Martin


SB 0106 Exploitation of Vulnerable Adults Martin 02/27/25
Exploitation of Vulnerable Adults; Authorizing the use of substitute service on unascertainable respondents; requiring the court to enter an order providing for specified service when a petitioner files the sworn affidavit; requiring that any proposed transfer of funds or property in dispute be held for a specified time period, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2025
12/18/24 SENATE Filed
01/15/25 SENATE Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Judiciary; Rules
02/27/25 SENATE On Committee agenda - Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/04/25, 4:00 pm, 301 S

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HB 0097Service of Process in Proceedings for Protection of Vulnerable Adults by Steele


HB 0157 Service of Process Redondo 03/03/25
Service of Process: Expands hours during which registered agents are required to keep designated registered office; specifies that certain registered agents may be served process in specified manner; authorizes service of process by personally serving receiver for specified domestic entities in receivership during pendency of receivership; requires that certain substituted service of process be issued in name of party to be served in care of SOS; authorizes use of specified substituted service method; provides that SOS & DOS are not parties to lawsuits & may not be served additional court filings by reason of specified substituted service; authorizes substituted service on SOS in specified circumstances; provides retroactive application. Effective Date: upon becoming a law
01/14/25 HOUSE Filed
01/22/25 HOUSE Referred to Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee
01/22/25 HOUSE Now in Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee
03/03/25 HOUSE On Committee agenda - Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee, 03/05/25, 1:00 pm, 404 H

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SB 0576Service of Process by Leek


HB 0173 Interest on Trust Accounts Program Interest Rates Brackett 01/22/25
Interest on Trust Accounts Program Interest Rates : Requires CFO to establish quarterly two interest rate alternatives applicable to Interest on Trust Accounts (IOTA) Program to determine interest paid to Funding Florida Legal Aid (FFLA) by participating financial institutions; requires such institutions to select one of two rate alternatives annually; requires that each rate alternative be set at specified rate; requires CFO to inform FFLA of rate alternatives established for each upcoming quarter; provides applicability. Effective Date: July 1, 2025
01/15/25 HOUSE Filed
01/22/25 HOUSE Referred to Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee; Insurance & Banking Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee
01/22/25 HOUSE Now in Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee

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SB 0498Interest Rates Applicable to the Interest on Trust Accounts Program by Grall


HB 0213 Unlawful Actions Concerning Real Property Gossett-Seidman 01/30/25
Unlawful Actions Concerning Real Property: Authorizes property owner or agent to request sheriff in county in which owner's commercial real property is located to immediately remove persons unlawfully occupying commercial real property; requires owners or agents to submit specified completed & verified complaint; authorizes sheriff to arrest unauthorized person for legal cause; prohibits unlawfully detaining, or occupying or trespassing upon, commercial real property; prohibits certain listing or advertising for sale, or renting or leasing, real property. Effective Date: July 1, 2025
01/21/25 HOUSE Filed
01/30/25 HOUSE Referred to Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee
01/30/25 HOUSE Now in Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee

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SB 0322Property Rights by Rodriguez


HB 0231 Pub. Rec./Medical Examiners Kendall 02/06/25
Pub. Rec./Medical Examiners: Provides public records exemption for personal identifying & location information of current & former medical examiners & spouses & children of such medical examiners; provides for future legislative review & repeal; provides for retroactive application. Effective Date: upon becoming a law
01/24/25 HOUSE Filed
02/06/25 HOUSE Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee; Government Operations Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee
02/06/25 HOUSE Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee

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SB 0746Public Records/Medical Examiners by Yarborough


SB 0262 Trusts Berman 02/21/25
Trusts; Revising how an authorized trustee may exercise the power to invade principal as an authorized trustee administering a trust; providing that property devised to or from a revocable trust which is devised, given, or distributed to a donee by a settlor during the settlor’s lifetime is treated as a satisfaction of devise to that donee if certain criteria are met; providing that homestead property transferred by one or both settlor spouses to a community property trust will not be treated as a change of ownership for the purposes of reassessing the property, etc. Effective Date: Upon becoming a law
01/14/25 SENATE Filed
01/29/25 SENATE Referred to Judiciary; Community Affairs; Rules
02/10/25 SENATE On Committee agenda - Judiciary, 02/18/25, 4:00 pm, 110 S
02/18/25 SENATE Favorable with CS by Judiciary; 9 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/20/25 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C1) Filed
02/21/25 SENATE Now in Community Affairs

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HB 0385Trusts by Oliver


SB 0268 Public Records/Public Officers Jones 02/21/25
Public Records/Public Officers; Providing exemptions from public records requirements for the partial home addresses and telephone numbers of current public officers, their spouses, and their adult children and the names, home addresses, telephone numbers, and dates of birth of, and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by, the minor children of such officers; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing methods for maintenance of an exemption; providing for retroactive application of the exemptions; providing a statement of public necessity, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2025
01/15/25 SENATE Filed
01/29/25 SENATE Referred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Community Affairs; Rules
02/10/25 SENATE On Committee agenda - Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 02/18/25, 1:45 pm, 110 S
02/18/25 SENATE Favorable with CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; 7 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/19/25 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C1) Filed
02/21/25 SENATE Now in Community Affairs

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HB 0789Pub. Rec./Public Officers by Valdés


SB 0300 Public Records/Appellate Court Clerks and their Spouses and Children Rouson 02/18/25
Public Records/Appellate Court Clerks and their Spouses and Children; Defining the term “appellate court”; providing an exemption from public records requirements for the personal identifying and location information of current appellate court clerks and the spouses and children of such appellate court clerks; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing for retroactive application of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2025
01/17/25 SENATE Filed
01/29/25 SENATE Referred to Judiciary; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules
02/10/25 SENATE On Committee agenda - Judiciary, 02/18/25, 4:00 pm, 110 S
02/18/25 SENATE Favorable by Judiciary; 9 Yeas, 1 Nay
02/18/25 SENATE Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability

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HB 0373Pub. Rec/Appellate Court Clerks by Gottlieb


SB 0310 Historic Cemeteries Program Sharief 02/03/25
Historic Cemeteries Program; Requiring local governments to approve applications from historic African-American cemeteries to change the land use category and zoning district of excess vacant land if the cemetery sells or enters into a contract to sell such land in order to provide for the cemetery’s long-term maintenance and upkeep, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2025
01/17/25 SENATE Filed
02/03/25 SENATE Referred to Community Affairs; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules

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SB 0316 Limited Liability Companies Berman 02/18/25
Limited Liability Companies; Defining the terms “registered foreign protected series of a foreign series limited liability company” and “registered foreign series limited liability company”; specifying that certain limited liability companies are considered a nonresident under certain circumstances; creating the “Uniform Protected Series Provisions”; providing for powers and prohibitions for protected series of series limited liability companies; authorizing domestic limited liability companies to establish protected series, etc. Effective Date: 1/1/2026
01/17/25 SENATE Filed
02/03/25 SENATE Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Judiciary; Rules
02/10/25 SENATE On Committee agenda - Commerce and Tourism, 02/18/25, 8:30 am, 110 S
02/18/25 SENATE Favorable by Commerce and Tourism; 7 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/18/25 SENATE Now in Judiciary

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HB 0403Limited Liability Companies by Persons-Mulicka


SB 0322 Property Rights Rodriguez 02/28/25
Property Rights; Authorizing a property owner or his or her authorized agent to request the sheriff in the county in which the owner’s commercial real property is located to immediately remove persons unlawfully occupying the owner’s commercial real property if specified conditions are met; authorizing the sheriff to arrest an unauthorized person for legal cause; prohibiting unlawfully detaining or occupying or trespassing upon commercial real property and intentionally causing a specified amount of damage, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2025
01/21/25 SENATE Filed
02/03/25 SENATE Referred to Judiciary; Criminal Justice; Rules
02/10/25 SENATE On Committee agenda - Judiciary, 02/18/25, 4:00 pm, 110 S
02/18/25 SENATE Favorable with CS by Judiciary; 9 Yeas, 0 Nays
02/20/25 SENATE Committee Substitute Text (C1) Filed
02/21/25 SENATE Reference to Criminal Justice removed; Reference to Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice added; Remaining references: Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Rules
02/21/25 SENATE Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
02/28/25 SENATE On Committee agenda - Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 03/05/25, 11:00 am, 37 S

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HB 0213Unlawful Actions Concerning Real Property by Gossett-Seidman


SB 0368 Community Associations García 02/03/25
Community Associations; Creating the Condominium and Homeowners’ Association Economic Crime, Fraud, and Corruption Investigation Pilot Program within the Department of Legal Affairs; authorizing the department to contract with a private entity to achieve the program’s purpose; requiring that the pilot program be funded from the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes Trust Fund; requiring the division to monitor condominium associations’ compliance with requirements relating to maintenance of certain insurance or fidelity bonding of certain persons, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2025
01/27/25 SENATE Filed
02/03/25 SENATE Referred to Regulated Industries; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy

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HB 0983Homeowners' Associations by Porras
SB 1118Land Use and Development Regulations by McClain
HB 1209Land Use and Development Regulations by Steele


HB 0403 Limited Liability Companies Persons-Mulicka 03/03/25
Limited Liability Companies: Creates and revises provisions addressing certain domestic and foreign limited liability companies, series, and protected series, including registered series and protected series. Effective Date: effect January 1, 2026
02/05/25 HOUSE Filed
02/12/25 HOUSE Referred to Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee; Industries & Professional Activities Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee
02/12/25 HOUSE Now in Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee
03/03/25 HOUSE On Committee agenda - Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee, 03/05/25, 1:00 pm, 404 H

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SB 0316Limited Liability Companies by Berman


SB 0496 Timeshare Management Firms McClain 02/20/25
Timeshare Management Firms; Revising applicability for provisions governing conflicts of interest between community association managers or community association management firms and certain persons with a financial interest in such associations; deleting a provision requiring managing entities that perform community association management to comply with certain provisions related to community association management firms; requiring the board of administration of a timeshare condominium to meet once per year, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2025
02/05/25 SENATE Filed
02/20/25 SENATE Referred to Regulated Industries; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy

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HB 0897Timeshare Plan Management by Berfield


SB 0604 Residential Swimming Pool Requirements Smith (C) 02/20/25
Residential Swimming Pool Requirements; Requiring 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 law enforcement agency; providing a criminal penalty, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2025
02/10/25 SENATE Filed
02/20/25 SENATE Referred to Regulated Industries; Community Affairs; Rules

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HB 0093Residential Swimming Pool Requirements by López (J)


SB 0826 Service of Process Fine 02/28/25
Service of Process; Requiring that all process be served by the sheriff of the county where the person to be served is found; authorizing sheriffs to serve spouses with certain substituted service at any place in the county; repealing a provision relating to certified process servers authorized by sheriffs; repealing a provision relating to certification of process servers authorized by judges, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2025
02/18/25 SENATE Filed
02/28/25 SENATE Referred to Judiciary; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy

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HB 0913 Condominium Associations Lopez (V) 03/02/25
Condominium Associations: Revises provisions of Condominium Act relating to voting interests; amending declaration; criminal penalties; levying of special assessments & obtaining loans; voting & election procedures & disputes; accountings & reserve accounts; recall agreements; delinquent payments of assessments; attorney fees; removal or reinstallation of hurricane protection; termination of condominium; electronic voting; & shared expenses; requires department to submit specified report to Legislature. Effective Date: July 1, 2025
02/23/25 HOUSE Filed
03/02/25 HOUSE Referred to Housing, Agriculture & Tourism Subcommittee; Budget Committee; Commerce Committee
03/02/25 HOUSE Now in Housing, Agriculture & Tourism Subcommittee

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SB 1600Community Associations by Arrington
SB 1742Condominium and Cooperative Associations by Bradley


HB 1281 Department of Financial Services Berfield 02/27/25
Department of Financial Services: Revises provisions relating to duties & responsibilities of & entities regulated by DFS & CFO, including compensation, payments, financial management & accounting programs, public depositories, health care providers, Special Disabilities Trust Fund, stop-work orders, funeral homes, cemeteries, boilers, insurance agents, title insurance agencies, insurers, firefighting, insurance contracts, & bail bond agents. Effective Date: July 1, 2025
02/27/25 HOUSE Filed

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SB 1522Department of Financial Services by McClain


SB 1522 Department of Financial Services McClain 02/27/25
Department of Financial Services; Revising which subsystem the Chief Financial Officer reports from; specifying that the department is the functional owner of the Financial Management Subsystem; authorizing the department to accept a credit card payment for a specified down payment; revising the circumstances under which a licensing authority must issue a license by endorsement to practice funeral directing; requiring owners and users to install a carbon monoxide detector or alarm on certain boilers and fire pressured vessels; creating the Florida Firefighter Recruitment Bonus Payment Program for a specified purpose, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2025
02/27/25 SENATE Filed

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HB 1281Department of Financial Services by Berfield


SB 1742 Condominium and Cooperative Associations Bradley 02/28/25
Condominium and Cooperative Associations; Revising the methods of delivery for a copy of the most recent association financial report to include electronic delivery via the Internet; authorizing a unit-owner-controlled association to obtain a line of credit in lieu of maintaining reserves for budgets adopted on or before a specified date upon a majority vote of the association; revising the disclosures that must be included in a contract for the sale and resale of a residential unit; requiring a board to use best efforts to make prudent investment decisions in fulfilling its duty to manage operating and reserve funds of the association, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2025
02/28/25 SENATE Filed

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HB 0913Condominium Associations by Lopez (V)


HB 6005 Statute of Repose for Actions by Condominium Associations Snyder 01/30/25
Statute of Repose for Actions by Condominium Associations: Removes statute of repose for certain actions. Effective Date: July 1, 2025
01/17/25 HOUSE Filed
01/30/25 HOUSE Referred to Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee; Housing, Agriculture & Tourism Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee
01/30/25 HOUSE Now in Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee

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SB 0586Actions by Condominium Associations by Leek


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