Florida Senate - 2017                                     SB 500
       
       
        
       By Senator Benacquisto
       
       27-00506-17                                            2017500__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the Florida Statutes; amending ss.
    3         11.2421, 11.2422, 11.2424, and 11.2425, F.S.; adopting
    4         the Florida Statutes 2017 and designating the portions
    5         thereof that are to constitute the official law of the
    6         state; providing that the Florida Statutes 2017 shall
    7         be effective immediately upon publication; providing
    8         that general laws enacted during the 2016 regular
    9         session and prior thereto and not included in the
   10         Florida Statutes 2017 are repealed; providing that
   11         general laws enacted after the 2016 regular session
   12         are not repealed by this adoption act; providing an
   13         effective date.
   14          
   15  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   16  
   17         Section 1. Section 11.2421, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   18  read:
   19         11.2421 Florida Statutes 2017 2016 adopted.—The
   20  accompanying revision, consolidation, and compilation of the
   21  public statutes of 2016 2015 of a general and permanent nature,
   22  excepting tables, rules, indexes, and other related matter
   23  contained therein, prepared by the Office of Legislative
   24  Services under the provisions of s. 11.242, together with
   25  corrections, changes, and amendments to and repeals of
   26  provisions of Florida Statutes 2016 2015 enacted in additional
   27  reviser’s bill or bills by the 2017 2016 Legislature, is adopted
   28  and enacted as the official statute law of the state under the
   29  title of “Florida Statutes 2017 2016” and shall take effect
   30  immediately upon publication. Said statutes may be cited as
   31  “Florida Statutes 2017 2016,” “Florida Statutes,” or “F.S. 2017
   32  2016.”
   33         Section 2. Section 11.2422, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   34  read:
   35         11.2422 Statutes repealed.—Every statute of a general and
   36  permanent nature enacted by the State or by the Territory of
   37  Florida at or prior to the 2016 regular October 19-November 6,
   38  2015, special legislative session, and every part of such
   39  statute, not included in Florida Statutes 2017 2016, as adopted
   40  by s. 11.2421, as amended, or recognized and continued in force
   41  by reference therein or in ss. 11.2423 and 11.2424, as amended,
   42  is repealed.
   43         Section 3. Section 11.2424, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   44  read:
   45         11.2424 Laws not repealed.—Laws enacted after the 2016
   46  regular October 19-November 6, 2015, special session are not
   47  repealed by the adoption and enactment of the Florida Statutes
   48  2017 2016 by s. 11.2421, as amended, but shall have full effect
   49  as if enacted after its said adoption and enactment.
   50         Section 4. Section 11.2425, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   51  read:
   52         11.2425 Rights reserved under repealed statutes.—The repeal
   53  of any statute by the adoption and enactment of Florida Statutes
   54  2017 2016, by s. 11.2421, as amended, shall not affect any right
   55  accrued before such repeal or any civil remedy where a suit is
   56  pending.
   57         Section 5. This act shall take effect on the 60th day after
   58  adjournment sine die of the session of the Legislature in which
   59  enacted.