The Florida Senate

HB 2117: Responsibility & Liability

GENERAL BILL by Financial Services ; Safley ; Bitner ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Bainter

Responsibility & Liability; creates "Florida Accountability & Individual Responsibility (FAIR) Liability Act"; revises limitations re commencement of actions for product liability or fraud; revises provisions re comparative fault re applicability of doctrine of joint & several liability; creates "Drug Dealer Liability Act"; provides that persons injured by drug dealer may recover treble damages & reasonable attorney's fees & court costs, etc. Amends Chs. 95, 768, 772.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  4/24/1997	House	• Filed
  4/29/1997	House	• Introduced -HJ 00876
  5/2/1997	House	• Carried over to 1998 Session pursuant to House Rule 96, Introduced, not referred
  9/22/1997	House	• Referred to Civil Justice & Claims (JC)
  3/3/1998	House	• CARRIED OVER; Referred to Civil Justice & Claims (JC) -HJ 00067
  5/1/1998	House	• Died in Committee on Civil Justice & Claims (JC), Iden./Sim./Compare Bill(s) passed, refer to CS/SB 764 (Ch. 97-80)

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• HB 2117, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 8/28/2000 at 11:08 AM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	Financial Services (Post-Meeting) 4/24/1997 (pdf) Financial Services (Post-Meeting) 6/29/1998 (pdf)

  Related Bills (2)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location
  H 3871 (e1)	Product Liability	Warner	Compare	Last Action: 5/1/1998 S Died in Committee on Rules and Calendar Location:
  S 874 (e2)		McKay	Compare	Last Action: 4/30/1999 S Veto Message transmitted to Secretary of State Location:

  Citations - Statutes (8)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  95.031	Computation of time.
  768.291
  768.36
  768.37
  768.72	Pleading in civil actions; claim for punitive damages.
  768.73	Punitive damages; limitation.
  768.81	Comparative fault.
  772.12	Drug Dealer Liability Act.

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