Florida House Bill 259 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-0)
Status: Failed on May 3 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-05-03 - Died in Civil Justice Subcommittee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Sets fees & costs for dissolution or registration of domestic partnership; requires DOH to examine certificates of domestic partnership & dissolution reports; requires clerk to transmit declarations of domestic partnership; authorizes DOH to issue certified copy of certain vital records to domestic partner; includes domestic partnership within domestic violence provisions; requires DOH to create & distribute forms; provides jurisdiction over partnership proceedings; requires partnership registry; requires form to be filed to form partnership & specifies contents; authorizes partners to retain surnames; provides that any privilege or responsibility granted or imposed by statute, administrative or court rule, policy, common law, or any other law because individual is or was related to another by marriage, or is child of either spouse, is granted on equivalent terms to domestic partners or individuals similarly related to domestic partners; provides exceptions; provides methods to prove existence of partnership when certificate is lost or unavailable; provides for termination of partnership.

Families First

Sen. Lori Berman [D]	Rep. Gwyndolen Clarke-Reed [D]	Sen. Janet Cruz [D]	Rep. Mark Danish [D]
Rep. Dwight Dudley [D]	Rep. Katie Edwards [D]	Rep. Reggie Fullwood [D]	Rep. Mia Jones [D]
Sen. Shevrin Jones [D]	Rep. Kionne McGhee [D]	Rep. Jared Moskowitz [D]	Rep. Sharon Pritchett [D]
Sen. Kevin Rader [D]	Rep. Ricardo Rangel [D]	Rep. Betty Reed [D]	Rep. Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda [D]
Rep. David Richardson [D]	Sen. Darryl Rouson [D]	Rep. Ron Saunders [D]	Rep. Elaine Schwartz [D]
Rep. Irving Slosberg [D]	Rep. Richard Stark [D]	Sen. Linda Stewart [D]	Rep. James Waldman [D]
Rep. Clovis Watson [D]	Rep. Mark Pafford [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-05-03	House	Died in Civil Justice Subcommittee
2013-03-05	House	Introduced
2013-01-30	House	Referred to Civil Justice Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee
2013-01-17	House	Filed

S0196 (Similar To) 2013-05-03 - Died in Judiciary

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
28	101		Amended Code	See Bill Text
28	24		Amended Code	See Bill Text
382	002		Amended Code	See Bill Text
382	003		Amended Code	See Bill Text
382	0085		Amended Code	See Bill Text
382	021		Amended Code	See Bill Text
382	022		Amended Code	See Bill Text
382	023		Amended Code	See Bill Text
382	025		Amended Code	See Bill Text
382	0255		Amended Code	See Bill Text
446	50		Amended Code	See Bill Text
741	28		Amended Code	See Bill Text
921	0024		Amended Code	See Bill Text
943	171		Amended Code	See Bill Text
97	1031		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/259
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/0259/BillText/Filed/PDF