Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 196
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/19/2025           .                                
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       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.
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   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