2014 Bill Summaries
The 2014 Bill Summaries are reports created by committee staff that give brief explanations of legislation that passed this session in both the House and Senate. These summaries are created by committee staff and do not represent the opinion of any Senator, Senate Officer, or Senate Office.
PDF of all 2014 Bill Summaries
- Agriculture (AG)
- Appropriations (AP)
- Banking and Insurance (BI)
- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (CF)
- Commerce and Tourism (CM)
- Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities (CU)
- Community Affairs (CA)
- Criminal Justice (CJ)
- Education (ED)
Agriculture (AG)
- All 2014 Summaries for Agriculture (PDF)
- CS/HB 47 — Spiny Lobster
- CS/CS/SB 450 — Telephone Solicitation
- CS/CS/SB 536 — Reclaimed Water
- CS/HB 7091 — Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Appropriations (AP)
- All 2014 Summaries for Appropriations (PDF)
- SB 676 — Welfare Transition Trust Fund/Department of Education
- SB 678 — Trust Funds within Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
- SB 680 — Federal Grants Trust Fund/Department of Business and Professional Regulation
- SB 682 — Federal Grants Trust Fund/Department of Financial Services
- SB 684 — State Economic Enhancement and Development Trust Fund/ Department of Economic Opportunity
- SB 686 — Termination of Trust Funds within Department of Economic Opportunity
- SB 688 — Federal Grants Trust Fund / Executive Office of the Governor
- SB 1676 — Internal Revenue Code
- SB 2510 — Court-appointed Counsel
- SB 2514 — Bicycle and Pedestrian Ways
- HB 5001 — General Appropriations Act
- HB 5003 — Implementing 2014-2015 General Appropriations Act
- HB 5007 — Collective Bargaining
- HB 5101 — Education Funding
- HB 5201 — Medicaid
- HB 5203 — Cancer Centers
- HB 5301 — Additional Judgeships
- HB 5303 — Counsel in Proceedings for Executive Clemency
- HB 5403 — Surplus Lines Tax Revenue
- HB 5501 — Documentary Stamp Tax Distributions
- HB 5601 — Economic Development
- CS/HB 7081 — Tax Administration
Banking and Insurance (BI)
- All 2014 Summaries for Banking and Insurance (PDF)
- CS/CS/HB 271 — Workers’ Compensation
- HB 291 — Warranty Associations
- CS/CS/HB 321 — Title Insurance
- CS/CS/HB 413 — Consumer Collection Practices
- CS/CS/HB 415 — Public Records/Investigations and Examinations by Office of Financial Regulation
- CS/CS/SB 424 — Discriminatory Insurance Practices
- SB 490 — Motor Vehicle Liability Policy Requirements
- SB 506 — OGSR/Florida Insurance Guaranty Association
- CS/CS/CS/SB 542 — Flood Insurance
- CS/CS/SB 590 — Money Services Businesses
- CS/CS/HB 633 — Division of Insurance Agents and Agency Services
- CS/CS/SB 708 — Insurance Claims
- CS/CS/SB 754 — Certificates of Title
- CS/CS/HB 783 — Motor Vehicle Sales
- CS/HB 785 — Workers’ Compensation
- CS/CS/HB 805 — Title Insurer Reserves
- CS/CS/SB 1012 — Financial Services
- CS/CS/HB 1089— Citizens Property Insurance Corporation
- CS/SB 1238 — Family Trust Companies
- SB 1262 — Public Records and Meetings/Insurance Flood Loss Model
- CS/CS/SB 1278 — Public Records/Office of Financial Regulation
- CS/CS/SB 1300 — Public Records/Office of Insurance Regulation
- SB 1308 — Insurer Solvency
- CS/CS/SB 1320 — Public Records/Office of Financial Regulation
- CS/CS/SB 1344 — Insurance
- CS/CS/SB 1672 — Property Insurance
- HB 7009 — Security for Public Deposits
- HB 7097 — Ratification of Rules/Office of Insurance Regulation
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (CF)
- All 2014 Summaries for Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (PDF)
- CS/SB 260 — Unaccompanied Homeless Youths
- SB 308 — Public Assistance Fraud
- CS/SB 358 — Athletic Coaches for Youth Athletic Teams
- CS/CS/HB 409 — Offenses Against Vulnerable Persons
- CS/CS/SB 522 — Involuntary Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators
- CS/SB 524 — Sexually Violent Predators
- CS/CS/HB 561 — Attorneys for Dependent Children with Special Needs
- CS/HB 635 — Guardianship
- CS/SB 762 — Family Care Councils
- CS/HB 977 — Motor Vehicle Insurance and Driver Education for Children in Foster Care
- CS/CS/HB 979 — Homelessness
- CS/SB 1666 — Child Welfare
- CS/CS/HB 7141 — Human Trafficking
Commerce and Tourism (CM)
- All 2014 Summaries for Commerce and Tourism (PDF)
- HB 231 — Admissions Tax
- CS/CS/CS/SB 242 — Security of a Protected Consumer’s Information
- CS/CS/HB 343 — Rental Car Surcharge
- CS/SB 398 — Florida Tourism Hall of Fame
- CS/CS/HB 629 — Charities
- CS/CS/HB 685 — Business Organizations
- SB 996 — OGSR/Scripps Florida Funding Corporation
- CS/SB 1142 — Ticket Sales
- CS/CS/SB 1524 — Security of Confidential Personal Information
- CS/HB 7023 — Economic Development
- CS/CS/HB 7051 — Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
- CS/HB 7095 — Professional Sports Facilities Incentive Application Process
Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities (CU)
- All 2014 Summaries for Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities (PDF)
- CS/CS/HB 175 — Emergency Communication System
- CS/HB 177 — Public Records/Prepaid Wireless E911 Fee
- CS/CS/CS/SB 272 — Water Utilities
- CS/SB 366 — Public Records/Trade Secrets/Computers
- CS/CS/CS/HB 641 — Computer Crimes
- CS/HB 803 — Communications Service Tax
- SB 1010 — Cable and Video Services
- CS/HB 7147 — Building Construction Policies
Community Affairs (CA)
- All 2014 Summaries for Community Affairs (PDF)
- CS/SB 106 — County Employees
- CS/CS/SB 286 — Concrete Masonry Education
- SB 374 — Growth Management
- CS/CS/SB 730 — Municipal Governing Body Meetings
- CS/CS/SB 1070 — Fuel Terminals
- SB 1108 — OGSR/Children of Agency Officers and Employees/Identifying Information
Criminal Justice (CJ)
- All 2014 Summaries for Criminal Justice (PDF)
- CS/CS/CS/HB 41 — Florida Law Enforcement Officers’ Hall of Fame
- CS/CS/HB 53 — Inmate Reentry
- CS/HB 59 — Offenses Against Unborn Children
- CS/CS/HB 89 — Threatened Use of Force
- CS/CS/SB 238 — Public Records/Names of Spouses and Children of Public Defenders and Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel
- CS/SB 256 — Public Records/Forensic Behavioral Health Evaluation
- CS/SB 360 — Sentencing for Controlled Substance Violations
- HB 427 — Traveling Across County Lines to Commit Felony Offenses
- CS/HB 485 — Sexual Offenses Against Students by Authority Figures
- CS/CS/CS/HB 489 — Subsurface Rights
- CS/HB 515 — Public Assistance Fraud
- CS/HB 517 — Fraudulent Controlled Substance Prescriptions
- CS/CS/HB 523 — Licensure to Carry a Concealed Weapon or Firearm
- CS/HB 525 — Public Records/Personal Identifying Information/Licensure to Carry Concealed Weapon or Firearm
- CS/CS/CS/SB 526 — Sexual Offenses
- CS/CS/SB 528 — Sex Offenses
- CS/HB 697 — Controlled Substances
- CS/CS/CS/HB 989 — Human Trafficking
- SB 1636 — Renaming the Parole Commission
- HB 7029 — Code of Student Conduct
- CS/HB 7035 — Juvenile Sentencing
- CS/CS/HB 7055 — Juvenile Justice
Education (ED)
- All 2014 Summaries for Education (PDF)
- HB 23 — Canned or Perishable Food Distributed Free of Charge
- CS/HB 115 — Public Meetings/University Direct-Support Organization
- CS/CS/SB 188 — Education Data Privacy
- CS/SB 236 — Renaming of Florida College System Institutions
- CS/HB 313 — Single-Gender Public School Programs
- CS/HB 337 — Florida Teachers Classroom Supply Assistance Program
- CS/CS/HB 433 — Educator Certification
- CS/CS/CS/HB 487 — Agricultural Industry Certifications
- CS/SB 646 — OGSR/Postsecondary Education Records and Applicant Records
- CS/SB 648 — OGSR/K-12 Education Records
- CS/SB 656 — OGSR/Active Investigations of Allegations of Testing Impropriety
- CS/CS/SB 850 — Education
- CS/CS/CS/HB 851 — Postsecondary Education Tuition and Fees
- CS/SB 864 — Instructional Materials For K-12 Public Education
- CS/SR 894 — Universities and Institutions of Higher Learning
- CS/HB 993 — Pub. Rec./Animal Researchers at Public Research Facilities
- CS/SB 1642 — Education Accountability
- HB 7031 — Education
Environmental Preservation and Conservation (EP)
- All 2014 Summaries for Environmental Preservation and Conservation (PDF)
- CS/CS/CS/HB 325 — Brownfields
- CS/CS/HB 955 — Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
- HB 1049 — Divers
- CS/CS/HB 1363 — Vessel Safety
- HB 7089 — Ratification of Rules of the Department of Environmental Protection
- CS/HB 7093 — Department of Environmental Protection
- HB 7171 — Establishing Minimum Water Flows and Levels for Water Bodies
Ethics and Elections (EE)
- All 2014 Summaries for Ethics and Elections (PDF)
- CS/HB 9 — Legislative Session Dates
- CS/CS/CS/SB 846 — Governmental Ethics
- CS/CS/CS/SB 1632 — Special Districts
Governmental Oversight and Accountability (GO)
- All 2014 Summaries for Governmental Oversight and Accountability (PDF)
- HB 117 — Public Retirement Plans
- HB 513 — State Poet Laureate
- CS/HB 781 — Legal Notices
- CS/CS/HB 811 — Foreign Investments
- HB 953 — State Contracting
- CS/SB 1194 — Citizen Support and Direct-support Organizations
- CS/CS/HB 1385 — Inspectors General
- SB 1678 — OGSR/Agency Personnel Information
- HB 5005 — Florida Retirement System
- HB 7073 — Information Technology Governance
Health Policy (HP)
- All 2014 Summaries for Health Policy (PDF)
- CS/SB 86 — Dentists
- HB 97 — Access to Health Care for the Underserved
- CS/CS/HB 287 — Certificates of Need
- CS/HB 323 — Pharmacy
- CS/SB 390 — Public Records/Identifying Information of Personnel of Department of Health
- CS/CS/HB 511 — Cancer Control and Research
- SB 520 — Public Records/Dental Workforce Surveys
- HB 531 — Public Health Trusts
- CS/HB 591 — Newborn Health Screening
- CS/CS/SB 670 — Nursing Home Litigation
- CS/CS/SB 674 — Background Screening
- CS/CS/CS/SB 702 — Pharmacy Audits
- CS/CS/HB 709 — Alzheimer’s Disease
- CS/CS/HB 711 — Public Meetings and Public Records/Alzheimer’s Disease Research Grant Advisory Board
- CS/CS/SB 1030 — Cannabis
- CS/CS/SB 1036 — Nursing Education Programs
- CS/HB 1047 — Termination of Pregnancies
- CS/HB 1065 — Licensed Massage Therapists
- CS/CS/HB 1131 — Emergency Allergy Treatment
- CS/CS/HB 1179 — Home Health Care
- SB 1700 — Public Records/Personal Identifying Information/Compassionate Use Registry
- HB 7077 — Nonresident Sterile Compounding Permits
- HB 7177 — OGSR/Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
Judiciary (JU)
- All 2014 Summaries for Judiciary (PDF)
- CS/HB 227 — Victims of Wrongful Incarceration
- CS/CS/SB 280 — Public Records/Participants in Treatment-based Drug Court Programs
- SB 386 — Application of Foreign Law in Courts
- CS/CS/HB 405 — Trusts
- CS/HB 609 — Article V Constitutional Conventions
- HB 627 — Service of Process
- CS/SB 650 — OGSR/Inventories of an Estate or Elective Estate
- CS/CS/HB 755 — Courts
- CS/CS/HB 757 — Estates
- CS/CS/HB 797 — Clerks of Court
- CS/SB 828 – Court System
- CS/SJR 1188 — Prospective Appointment of Judicial Vacancies
- CS/CS/SB 1526 — Public Records/Department of Legal Affairs
- SB 1664 — Arbitration
Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security (MS)
- All 2014 Summaries for Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security (PDF)
- HB 559 — Military Veterans
- CS/HB 731 — Monuments on the Capitol Complex
- CS/SB 858 — OGSR/Florida Defense Support Task Force
- CS/SB 1140 — Public Records/Division of Emergency Management/ Emergency Planning
- CS/CS/HB 7015 — Military and Veteran Support
Regulated Industries (RI)
- All 2014 Summaries for Regulated Industries (PDF)
- CS/CS/SB 224 — Nicotine Dispensing Devices
- SB 320 — Commercial and Recreational Water Activities
- SB 356 — Regulation of Public Lodging Establishments and Public Food Service Establishments
- CS/CS/SB 404 — Professional Geology
- CS/CS/SB 440 — Condominiums
- CS/CS/HB 713 — Engineers
- CS/CS/HB 773 — Pugilistic Exhibitions
- CS/CS/CS/HB 775 — Public Records
- SB 796 — Public Accountancy
- CS/CS/CS/HB 807 — Residential Properties
- CS/CS/SB 836 — Medical Gas
- CS/CS/HB 7037 — Residential Communities
Rules (RC)
- All 2014 Summaries for Rules (PDF)
- SM 118 — National Retail Sales Tax
- CS/HM 261 — Constitutional Convention/Single-Subject Requirement for Federal Legislation
- HM 281 — Keystone XL Pipeline
- SM 476 — Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
- SM 658 — Balanced Federal Budget
- CS/SM 1174 — Power Plant Carbon Dioxide Emissions
- HB 7145 — Ratification of Rules/Department of Health
- HB 7163 — Ratification of Rules/Department of Juvenile Justice
Transportation (TR)
- All 2014 Summaries for Transportation (PDF)
- SB 102 — Drivers Leaving the Scene of a Crash
- CS/CS/SB 132 — Specialty License Plates
- CS/SB 156 — Motor Vehicle License Taxes, Fees and Surcharges
- CS/CS/CS/SB 218 — Transportation, Utilities, and Outdoor Advertising
- CS/HB 225 — Child Safety Devices in Motor Vehicles
- CS/CS/SB 226 — Public Records/Automated License Plate Recognition Systems Exemption
- CS/CS/SB 230 — Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority
- SB 392 — State Speed Zones
- CS/CS/SB 820 — Transportation Facility Designations
- CS/HB 863 — Motor Vehicle Crash Reports
- CS/CS/CS/HB 865 — Public Records/Motor Vehicle Crash Reports
- CS/SB 1024 — Off-Highway Vehicles
- CS/CS/HB 1161 — Department of Transportation
- CS/CS/HB 7005 — Transportation
- CS/HB 7007 — Public Records/Payment of Toll and Associated Charges
- HB 7175 — Department of Transportation