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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 Judicial Sales Procedures García 02/03/25
Judicial Sales Procedures; Specifying that courts must follow certain provisions when ordering the sale of real or personal property unless the use of other specified procedures is ordered; designating the “Transparency in Judicial Sales and Foreclosure Sales Act”; prohibiting a court from allowing the use of bidding credits or certain other offsets in specified judicial sales or foreclosure sales; authorizing courts to order an alternate judicial sales procedure 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

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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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HB 0097 Service of Process in Proceedings for Protection of Vulnerable Adults Steele 01/15/25
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

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SB 0106Exploitation of Vulnerable Adults by Martin


SB 0106 Exploitation of Vulnerable Adults Martin 01/15/25
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

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


HB 0157 Service of Process Redondo 01/22/25
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

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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 0262 Trusts Berman 01/29/25
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 community property 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

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HB 0385Trusts by Oliver


SB 0268 Public Records/Public Officers Jones 01/29/25
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, 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 the future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; 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

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SB 0300 Public Records/Appellate Court Clerks and their Spouses and Children Rouson 01/29/25
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

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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 02/03/25
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

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HB 0403Limited Liability Companies by Persons-Mulicka


SB 0322 Property Rights Rodriguez 02/03/25
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, under certain conditions; authorizing the sheriff to arrest an unauthorized person for legal cause; authorizing the owner or agent to request that the sheriff stand by while the owner or agent takes possession of the commercial real property; prohibiting unlawfully detaining, or occupying or trespassing upon, commercial real property intentionally and 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

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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 0403 Limited Liability Companies Persons-Mulicka 02/05/25
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

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SB 0316Limited Liability Companies by Berman


SB 0496 Timeshare Management Firms McClain 02/05/25
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

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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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