Use of Digital Currency by the Department of Financial Services
In plain English Allows the Department of Financial Services to accept payment stablecoins and oversee issuers through a pilot program.
Official synopsis: Establishing the Florida Stablecoin Pilot Program within the Department of Financial Services; authorizing the department to accept payment stablecoins; authorizing the department to conduct examinations, audits, and investigations of permitted payment stablecoin issuers; requiring the department to monitor and evaluate the pilot program and collect…
Became lawChapter No. 2026-175 · 2026-06-29
Firefighter Cancer Benefits
Requiring a former employer to provide death benefits to certain beneficiaries for a specified time period under certain circumstances, etc.
Became lawChapter No. 2026-99 · 2026-05-26
Suicide and Drug Overdose Prevention
Creating the Drug Overdose Death Review Committee and the Suicide Death Review Committee, respectively, within the Department of Health for specified purposes; providing for membership of the committees and duties of the Drug Overdose Death Review Committee and the Suicide Death Review Committee, respectively; authorizing…
FailedDied in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs · 2026-03-13
Public Records and Meetings/Drug Overdose Death Review Committee/Suicide Death Review Committee
Creating an exemption from public records requirements for certain records and information held by the Drug Overdose Death Review Committee and the Suicide Death Review Committee, respectively, or a local review committee established thereunder; creating an exemption from public meetings requirements for portions of meetings…
FailedDied in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs · 2026-03-13
Thoroughbred Permitholders
Providing that a thoroughbred permitholder may elect not to, rather than be required to, conduct live racing or games; providing that a thoroughbred permitholder that does not conduct live racing or games retains its permit, remains a pari-mutuel facility, remains an eligible facility if issued…
FailedDied in Regulated Industries · 2026-03-13
Public Safety
Requiring each county, and every public agency within such county, to provide specified 911, emergency call, and dispatch services from a centralized 911 call center operated by the county or a regional entity as decided by specified boards; requiring the board of county commissioners of…
FailedDied in Community Affairs · 2026-03-13
Department of Financial Services
Establishing the Florida Agency for Fiscal Oversight within the Department of Financial Services; requiring local governments to notify the agency after authorizing specified referenda; deleting a requirement that a specified hotline be operated for a certain amount of time each day; requiring specified employees to…
FailedDied in Banking and Insurance · 2026-03-13
Aggravated Stalking
Creating the offense of aggravated stalking if a person willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows, harasses, or cyberstalks another person and in the course of such conduct commits specified acts, etc.
FailedDied in Criminal Justice · 2026-03-13
Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund
Revising the definition of the term "retention"; requiring reimbursement contracts to contain a promise by the State Board of Administration to reimburse the insurer for applicable loss adjustment expenses; requiring that, for contracts and rates effective on or after a specified date, the loss adjustment…
FailedDied in Banking and Insurance · 2026-03-13
Local Utility Revenues
Prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from transferring for specified purposes revenues collected from providing utility services; requiring revenue surpluses to be returned to the ratepayers; requiring county and municipal utilities, respectively, to develop budget forecasts and strategies that meet certain requirements; prohibiting counties and municipalities,…
FailedDied in Regulated Industries · 2026-03-13
Transportation
Requiring the Department of Transportation to increase the minimum perception-reaction time of certain steady yellow signals by a specified amount of time; requiring certain seaports to submit an annual report describing measures taken to support the commercial space launch industry to the chair of the…
FailedDied in Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development · 2026-03-13
Physical Therapy Treatment Plans
Exempting specified services from the requirement that a physical therapist have a practitioner of record review and sign a plan of treatment, etc.
FailedDied in Health Policy · 2026-03-13
Services During a State of Emergency
Requiring the Department of Management Services to enter into and maintain state term contracts for building code inspection services, etc.
Not out of committeeDied on Calendar · 2026-03-13
Victims of Violence
Citing this act as the "Survivor Safety Act"; creating a rebuttable presumption that persons who use force in accordance with specified provisions against a known abuser act with a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily harm; requiring the Department of Law…
FailedDied in Criminal Justice · 2026-03-13
Public Records/State Attorney's Office and Office of Statewide Prosecution Nonlegal Support Staff
Defining the term "state attorney's office or Office of Statewide Prosecution nonlegal support staff"; providing an exemption from public records requirements for the personal identifying and location information of current state attorney's office and Office of Statewide Prosecution nonlegal support staff and the spouses and…
FailedDied in Governmental Oversight and Accountability · 2026-03-13
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