Senate Bill 1836 (2025) - The Florida Senate

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SB 1836: Gaming Control

GENERAL BILL by Martin

Gaming Control; Providing that the Florida Gaming Control Commission is exempt from specified state contracting provisions; authorizing the commission to acquire land, property, interests, buildings, or other improvements for a specified purpose; deleting specified premises as being prohibited from allowing minors to place bets; prohibiting a person from advertising illegal gambling; deleting a rebuttable presumption that a device, system, or network is a prohibited slot machine or device under certain circumstances, etc.

Effective Date: 7/1/2025
Last Action: 6/16/2025 Senate - Died in Regulated Industries
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF

Senate Committee References:

Regulated Industries (RI)
Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government (AEG)
Rules (RC)

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Bill History

Date	Chamber	Action
2/28/2025	Senate	• Filed
3/7/2025	Senate	• Referred to Regulated Industries; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Rules
3/10/2025	Senate	• Introduced
5/3/2025	Senate	• Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
6/16/2025	Senate	• Died in Regulated Industries

Related Bills

Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location
H 953	Gambling	Barnaby	Compare	Last Action: 5/3/2025 H Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
H 1017	Gambling	Lopez	Compare	Last Action: 5/3/2025 H Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
H 1467 (e1)	Gambling	Commerce Committee	Compare	Last Action: 6/16/2025 S Died in Rules
S 1404 (c2)	Gambling	Simon	Compare	Last Action: 6/16/2025 S Died pending review of CS

Version	Posted	Format
S 1836 Filed	2/28/2025 4:51 PM	Web Page \| PDF

Citations - Statutes (32)

Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
16.7165		Page 4 (pdf)
338.234	Granting concessions or selling along the turnpike system; immunity from taxation.	Page 37 (pdf)
402.82	Electronic benefits transfer program.	Page 30 (pdf)
718.114	Association powers.	Page 31 (pdf)
723.079	Powers and duties of homeowners’ association.	Page 32 (pdf)
772.102	Definitions.	Page 33 (pdf)
777.04	Attempts, solicitation, and conspiracy.	Page 33 (pdf), Page 38 (pdf)
843.08	False personation.	Page 4 (pdf)
849.01	Keeping gambling houses, etc.	Page 5 (pdf)
849.02	Agents or employees of keeper of gambling house.	Page 28 (pdf)
849.03	Renting house for gambling purposes.	Page 8 (pdf)
849.04	Permitting minors and persons under guardianship to gamble.	Page 8 (pdf)
849.07	Permitting gambling on billiard or pool table by holder of license.	Page 9 (pdf)
849.09	Lottery prohibited; exceptions.	Page 9 (pdf)
849.092	Motor fuel retail business; certain activities permitted.	Page 29 (pdf)
849.0931	Bingo authorized; conditions for conduct; permitted uses of proceeds; limitations.	Page 12 (pdf)
849.0935	Charitable, nonprofit organizations; drawings by chance; required disclosures; unlawful acts and practices; penalties.	Page 30 (pdf)
849.094	Game promotion in connection with sale of consumer products or services.	Page 32 (pdf)
849.10	Printing lottery tickets, etc., prohibited.	Page 13 (pdf)
849.105		Page 14 (pdf)
849.13	Punishment on second conviction.	Page 15 (pdf)
849.142	Exempted activities.	Page 33 (pdf)
849.15	Manufacture, sale, possession, etc., of slot machines or devices prohibited.	Page 16 (pdf)
849.16	Machines or devices which come within provisions of law defined.	Page 19 (pdf)
849.19	Property rights in confiscated machine.	Page 38 (pdf)
849.23	Penalty for violations of ss. 849.15-849.22.	Page 20 (pdf)
849.25	“Bookmaking” defined; penalties; exceptions.	Page 21 (pdf)
895.02	Definitions.	Page 36 (pdf)
903.011	Pretrial release; general terms; statewide uniform bond schedule.	Page 39 (pdf)
903.046	Purpose of and criteria for bail determination.	Page 22 (pdf)
903.047	Conditions of pretrial release.	Page 42 (pdf)
921.0022	Criminal Punishment Code; offense severity ranking chart.	Page 23 (pdf)

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