Florida Senate - 2025                                     SB 118
       
       
        
       By Senator Brodeur
       
       
       
       
       
       10-00328-25                                            2025118__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to regulation of presidential
    3         libraries; creating s. 257.51, F.S.; providing
    4         legislative findings; preempting to the state all
    5         regulatory authority over the establishment,
    6         maintenance, activities, and operations of
    7         presidential libraries; deferring such regulatory
    8         authority to the Federal Government; defining the term
    9         “presidential library”; prohibiting counties,
   10         municipalities, or other political subdivisions from
   11         enacting or enforcing any ordinance, resolution, rule,
   12         or other measure regarding presidential libraries
   13         unless authorized by federal law; providing an
   14         effective date.
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   16  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   18         Section 1. Section 257.51, Florida Statutes, is created to
   19  read:
   20         257.51 Preemption of regulation of presidential libraries.—
   21         (1) The Legislature finds that presidential libraries are
   22  unique national institutions designated to house, preserve, and
   23  make accessible the records of former presidents. This section
   24  preempts to the state all regulation of the establishment,
   25  maintenance, activities, and operations of any presidential
   26  library within its jurisdiction and defers regulation of such
   27  institutions to the Federal Government.
   28         (2) As used in this section, the term “presidential
   29  library” means an institution administered or designated under
   30  the Presidential Libraries Act, as amended, Pub. L. No. 99-323,
   31  established for the preservation and accessibility of
   32  presidential records and related historical materials.
   33         (3) A county, a municipality, or another political
   34  subdivision of this state may not enact or enforce any
   35  ordinance, resolution, rule, or other measure governing the
   36  establishment, maintenance, or operation of a presidential
   37  library or impose any requirement or restriction thereon, except
   38  as otherwise authorized by federal law.
   39         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.