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Below is a listing of current and previous legislative bills that have been introduced in the Florida Legislature
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Florida Bills to watch for the 2025 Legislative Session |
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Proposed bill |
Summary of Proposed Bill or Regulation |
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| HB 57 | Offenses involving Xylazine
Provides criminal penalties & requires mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for specified offenses involving xylazine. |
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| HB 205 | Abandoning Restrained Dogs during Natural Disasters
Providing increased criminal penalties for animal cruelty offenses committed during a declared state of emergency, etc. |
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| HB 103 | Protection from Surgical Smoke
Requires hospitals & ambulatory surgical centers to adopt & implement policies requiring use of smoke evacuation systems during certain surgical procedures. |
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| HB 115 | Clinical Laboratory Personnel
Removes requirements that DOH conduct examinations for clinical laboratory personnel licensure & register clinical laboratory trainees; removes requirement that Board of Clinical Laboratory Personnel approve training curricula for licensure of clinical laboratory personnel; repeals provisions relating to approval of laboratory personnel training programs; requires applicants for licensure as technologist or technician who meet specified criteria be deemed to have satisfied minimum qualifications for licensure |
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| SB 210 | Animal Cremation
Creating “Sevilla’s Law”; requiring a provider of companion animal cremation services to provide certain individuals and entities with a written description of the services the provider offers; providing that the written description may not contain false or misleading information; providing that certain acts are unlawful; providing civil penalties for initial and subsequent offenses, etc. |
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| HB 211 | Farm Products
Provides that collection, storage, processing, & distribution of farm product is activity of bona fide farm operation which governmental entity may not prohibit, restrict, regulate, or otherwise limit. |
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| HB 255 | Animal Cruelty toward Domestic Animals
Provides criminal punishment scoring for offenses. |
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| HB 263.. | Animal Cruelty
Prohibits person from confining an animal in an unattended motor vehicle in certain circumstances. |
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| HB 455 | Animal Cruelty
Requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to post on its website the names of certain individuals who have violated specified animal cruelty provisions, etc. |
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| SB 572 | Dangerous Dogs
Citing this act as the “Pam Rock Act”; requiring certain dog owners to securely confine their dogs in a proper enclosure; requiring, rather than authorizing, that dogs subject to certain dangerous dog investigations be confiscated, impounded, and held; requiring animal control authorities to provide certain information to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and to destroy certain dogs; requiring the department to create and maintain a statewide Dangerous Dog Registry, etc. |
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