Florida Senate - 2025 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 196 Ì841778WÎ841778 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House Comm: RCS . 03/19/2025 . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Committee on Regulated Industries (Gruters) recommended the following: 1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 2 3 Between lines 65 and 66 4 insert: 5 Section 3. Present paragraphs (t) through (z) of subsection 6 (1) of section 500.03, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as 7 paragraphs (u) through (aa), respectively, and a new paragraph 8 (t) is added to that subsection, to read: 9 500.03 Definitions; construction; applicability.— 10 (1) For the purpose of this chapter, the term: 11 (t) “Messenger ribonucleic acid vaccine” or “mRNA vaccine” 12 means a vaccine that uses laboratory-produced messenger 13 ribonucleic acid to trigger the human body’s immune system to 14 generate an immune response. 15 Section 4. Subsection (12) is added to section 500.04, 16 Florida Statutes, to read: 17 500.04 Prohibited acts.—The following acts and the causing 18 thereof within the state are prohibited: 19 (12) The use of a fruit or vegetable as a delivery 20 mechanism for an mRNA vaccine as defined in s. 500.03. 21 22 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 23 And the title is amended as follows: 24 Delete line 8 25 and insert: 26 label does not include specified information; amending 27 s. 500.03, F.S.; defining the term “messenger 28 ribonucleic acid vaccine” or “mRNA vaccine”; amending 29 s. 500.04, F.S.; prohibiting fruits and vegetables 30 from being used to deliver an mRNA vaccine; amending