Florida Senator Linda Stewart [D]

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FLS0046Enroll
75%
Providing that tutoring provided through the tutoring program established as part of the Reading Achievement Initiative for Scholastic Excellence Program may be provided after the school day; authorizing school districts that participate in the tutor...
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2024-03-27
Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
FLS1758PassRevising provisions related to programs and services provided by the Agency for Persons with Disabilities; requiring the agency, within available resources, to offer voluntary participation care navigation services to clients and their caregivers at ...
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2024-03-22
Chapter No. 2024-14
FLS0120FailRequiring the Department of Education, subject to legislative appropriation, to establish a program to provide vouchers for child care services to children within a specified age range whose parents meet a specified income limitation, etc.
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2024-03-08
Died in Education Pre-K -12
FLS0058FailDefining the terms "electric bicycle," "electric scooter," and "protective clothing and equipment"; providing a sales tax exemption during specified periods on the retail sale of certain electric bicycles, electric scooters, and protective clothing a...
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2024-03-08
Died in Appropriations
FLS0040FailRequiring employers to provide a current employee with a copy of the employee's employment contract upon request; defining the term "employee", etc.
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2024-03-08
Died in Commerce and Tourism
FLS0124FailRequiring the Department of Health to create an informational poster relating to the treatment of sudden cardiac arrest; providing requirements for such poster, etc.
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2024-03-08
Died in Health Policy
FLS0052FailRequiring the Department of Education to publish on its website each district school board's anaphylaxis policy; requiring each district school board to adopt an anaphylaxis policy; requiring a certain percentage of specified school personnel to rece...
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2024-03-08
Died in Education Pre-K -12
FLS0044FailRequiring the Florida Building Commission to adopt certain requirements in the Florida Building Code for certain public restroom facilities newly constructed or renovated after a specified date, etc.
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2024-03-08
Died in Regulated Industries
FLS0036FailRequiring the Department of Environmental Protection to develop a comprehensive waste reduction and recycling plan for this state by a specified date, based on certain department recommendations; specifying minimum requirements for the comprehensive ...
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2024-03-08
Died in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
FLS0126FailExpressing the Florida Senate's unwavering support for the State of Israel, etc.
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2024-03-08
Died, not introduced
FLS0122FailRepealing a provision relating to tree pruning, trimming, or removal on such property, etc.
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2024-03-08
Died in Community Affairs
FLS0038FailRequiring landlords or persons authorized to enter into rental agreements on behalf of landlords to make specified disclosures relating to flood zones before the commencement of a tenancy; requiring landlords to notify current tenants of a change in ...
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2024-03-08
Died in Judiciary
FLS0504FailProviding disciplinary grounds for the sale of a deceased human body's biometric data under certain circumstances; providing disciplinary grounds for a funeral establishment that fails to provide a legally authorized person with specified disclosures...
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2024-03-08
Died in Banking and Insurance
FLS0500FailIncreasing the minimum surplus requirement for certain new insurers transacting residential property insurance; increasing, during specified intervals, the minimum surplus requirement for certain current residential property insurers, etc.
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2024-03-08
Died in Banking and Insurance
FLS0502FailRequiring the employer at an athletic venue, an entertainment venue, or a convention center with a certain capacity to display a human trafficking public awareness sign in a conspicuous location that is clearly visible to the public and employees; de...
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2024-03-08
Died in Criminal Justice
FLS0498FailRemoving the preemption of local laws regarding the regulation of auxiliary containers, wrappings, or disposable plastic bags; removing the preemption of local laws regarding the use or sale of polystyrene products to the Department of Agriculture an...
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2024-03-08
Died in Commerce and Tourism
FLS0510FailImposing an excise tax upon persons extracting water from waters of the state for commercial or industrial use; requiring that tax proceeds be separately accounted for and used for specified purposes by the Department of Environmental Protection; spe...
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2024-03-08
Died in Environment and Natural Resources
FLS0766FailIncreasing criminal penalties for adults who intentionally lure or entice, or who attempt to lure or entice, children under the age of 12 into a structure, dwelling, or conveyance for other than a lawful purpose; increasing criminal penalties for com...
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2024-03-08
Died in Criminal Justice
FLS0874FailProviding an annual appropriation from the Transportation Disadvantaged Trust Fund to implement a specified grant program beginning in a specified fiscal year; authorizing an agency to apply annually to the Commission for the Transportation Disadvant...
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2024-03-08
Died in Transportation
FLS0872FailAuthorizing proceeds of the tax to be used toward funding incentives for the production of films and television series by certain production companies, etc.
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2024-03-08
Died in Commerce and Tourism
FLS0880FailDefining the term "medical sharps"; requiring the Department of Health, in partnership with the Department of Environmental Protection, to conduct a study of the safe collection and proper disposal of at-home medical sharps; authorizing the departmen...
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2024-03-08
Died in Health Policy
FLS0950FailAuthorizing clerks of court to fund improvements to court technology from filing fees, service charges, court costs, and fines; revising the distribution of a civil penalty, etc.
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2024-03-08
Died in Judiciary
FLS0236FailProviding for enactment of the agreement; providing a method by which a state may become a member state; requiring each member state to conduct a statewide popular election for President and Vice President of the United States; establishing a procedu...
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2024-03-08
Died in Ethics and Elections
FLS1266FailRequiring school districts to annually provide certain students in a juvenile justice program with at least one opportunity to take the high school equivalency examination at no cost to the student, etc.
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2024-03-08
Died in Criminal Justice
FLS1268FailProviding that certain low-income students who are pregnant as a result of rape or incest and who decide to carry the pregnancy to term are exempt from paying specified postsecondary tuition and fees; establishing the Academic Success of Pregnant Stu...
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2024-03-08
Died in Health Policy
FLS1390FailRevising provisions related to the requirements for the safe storage of firearms; increasing the criminal penalties related to such safe storage provisions; providing criminal penalties for the failure to store or leave firearms in the required manne...
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2024-03-08
Died in Criminal Justice
FLS1250FailDefining the terms "motor vehicle," "trunk," and "vessel"; requiring persons who store or leave firearms or ammunition in motor vehicles or vessels under their control to keep the firearms or ammunition locked within specified locations within the mo...
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2024-03-08
Died in Criminal Justice
FLS1594FailAuthorizing that tax revenue from the tourist development tax be used to fund a county destination marketing organization; prohibiting a county that funds a county destination marketing organization with a certain percentage of tourist development ta...
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2024-03-08
Died in Commerce and Tourism
FLS1650FailRepealing provisions which established the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District; reviving, reenacting, and readopting chapter 67-764, Laws of Florida, and the decree in chancery No. 66-1061 entered by the Circuit Court in and for the Ninth Judi...
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2024-03-08
Died in Community Affairs
FLS1546FailRevising the policy of the state regarding safe drinking water; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to adopt and implement rules for a statewide maximum contaminant level for 1,4-dioxane; requiring the department to provide public wa...
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2024-03-08
Died in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
FLS0298FailAuthorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to provide coastal counties, beginning on a specified date, with Resilient Florida Grant Program grants to fund saltwater intrusion vulnerability assessments; requiring the department to update t...
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2024-03-08
Died in Messages
FLS0248FailRevising the limits on noneconomic damages for personal injury or wrongful death arising from medical negligence; deleting a provision that prohibits adult children and parents of adult children from recovering certain damages in medical negligence s...
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2024-03-08
Died in Fiscal Policy
FLS0242FailRevising how the cost-of-living adjustment of benefits for certain retirees and beneficiaries is calculated; providing a declaration of important state interest, etc.
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2024-03-08
Died in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
FLS0716FailCiting this act as the "Florida Women's Historical Marker Initiative"; establishing the Florida Women's Historical Marker Initiative within the Division of Historical Resources of the Department of State; requiring the Florida Historical Marker Progr...
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2024-03-08
Died in Fiscal Policy
FLS1522FailRequiring that the Secretary of State be elected rather than appointed and serve a specified term; requiring the Florida Commission on Offender Review to develop and maintain a database for a specified purpose; repealing provisions relating to the Of...
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2024-03-08
Died in Ethics and Elections
FLS1692FailEstablishing the PFAS and 1,4-dioxane pretreatment initiative within the Department of Environmental Protection for a specified purpose; requiring the department to coordinate with wastewater facilities in implementing the pretreatment of contaminant...
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2024-03-08
Died in Fiscal Policy
FLS0932FailProhibiting the state group insurance program from imposing on an enrollee any cost-sharing requirement with respect to coverage for diagnostic breast examinations and supplemental breast examinations, etc.
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2024-03-08
Died in Messages
FLS0186Enroll
75%
Citing this act as the "Justo R. Cortes Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Act"; requiring the State Surgeon General to establish a progressive supranuclear palsy and other neurodegenerative diseases policy committee; requiring the Department of Health t...
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2024-03-06
Ordered enrolled
FLS0084Intro
25%
Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in specified counties; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers by a specified date, etc.
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2024-03-05
Laid on Table, refer to HB 91
FLS0764Enroll
75%
Requiring that specified sexual offense evidence be retained by specified entities for a minimum number of years after the collection date; requiring that such evidence be stored anonymously in a secure, environmentally safe manner, and with a docume...
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2024-03-05
Ordered enrolled
FLS0808Enroll
75%
Authorizing firefighters, law enforcement officers, correctional officers, and correctional probation officers to receive medical treatment by a medical specialist for certain conditions under certain circumstances; requiring firefighters, law enforc...
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2024-03-05
Ordered enrolled
FLS0768Intro
25%
Authorizing that a report regarding specified deaths and circumstances be made to a certain law enforcement agency in addition to the district medical examiner; increasing the criminal penalty for persons who fail or refuse to report a death or who r...
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2024-03-04
Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 1653
FLS0514Intro
25%
Authorizing the Financial Services Commission to adopt rules prescribing criteria and processes for determining whether an organization is a bona fide nonprofit organization for a specified purpose; providing exemptions from regulation under ch. 494,...
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2024-03-04
Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 1569
FLS0024Intro
25%
Establishing the Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program within the Department of Legal Affairs; requiring the department to accept and process applications for the payment of compensation claims under the program; re...
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2024-03-04
Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 21
FLS0050Intro
25%
Requiring an association to provide copies of the association's rules and covenants to every member before a specified date, and every new member thereafter; authorizing an association to post a complete copy of the association's rules and covenants,...
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2024-03-01
Laid on Table, refer to HB 59
FLS0042Intro
25%
Providing a period of time when a conviction, or any other adjudication, for a crime may not be grounds for denial of licensure as a barber or cosmetologist; providing an exception; requiring the applicable board to approve certain educational progra...
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2024-03-01
Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 133
FLS0328Enroll
75%
Prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from restricting the floor area ratio of certain proposed developments under certain circumstances; authorizing counties and municipalities, respectively, to restrict the height of proposed devel...
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2024-02-28
Ordered enrolled
FLS0694Intro
25%
Establishing the program within the Department of Education; providing the purpose of the program; specifying eligibility requirements for the awarding of the Seal of Fine Arts; defining the term "work of art"; requiring the Commissioner of Education...
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2024-02-14
Laid on Table, refer to HB 523
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