Florida Senate - 2025 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 940 Ì307066/Î307066 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House Comm: RCS . 03/19/2025 . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Committee on Regulated Industries (McClain) recommended the following: 1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 2 3 Delete everything after the enacting clause 4 and insert: 5 Section 1. This act may be cited to as the “Restaurant 6 Reservation Anti-Piracy Act.” 7 Section 2. Section 509.105, Florida Statutes, is created to 8 read: 9 509.105 Third-party reservation platforms prohibited.— 10 (1) As used in this section, the term “third-party 11 reservation platform” means a website, mobile application, or 12 other Internet service that satisfies all of the following: 13 (a) Offers or arranges for a reservation at a public food 14 service establishment for on-premises service. 15 (b) Is owned and operated by a person other than the owner 16 of the public food service establishment. 17 (c) Does not have a contractual relationship or agreement 18 with the public food service establishment, or its contractual 19 designee, to offer or arrange for a reservation at the public 20 food service establishment for on-premises service. 21 (2) A third-party reservation platform does not include a 22 contractual designee of an individual customer which arranges 23 for a personal and nontransferable reservation at a food service 24 establishment at the request of the customer and at no cost to 25 the customer, provided that the designee shares the individual 26 customer’s contact information with the food service 27 establishment, allows the food service establishment to confirm 28 the reservation with the individual customer, and honors 29 requests from the food service establishment to opt out of 30 future reservations created by the designee. 31 (3) A third-party reservation platform may not list, 32 advertise, promote, facilitate, sell, or otherwise enable a 33 reservation at a public food service establishment. 34 (4) The division may impose a civil penalty on a third 35 party reservation platform in an amount not to exceed $1,000 for 36 each violation of this section or of a division rule. Violations 37 under this subsection shall accrue on a daily basis for each day 38 and each reservation for each food service establishment in 39 which there has been a violation of this section or rules of the 40 division. 41 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025. 42 43 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 44 And the title is amended as follows: 45 Delete everything before the enacting clause 46 and insert: 47 A bill to be entitled 48 An act relating to third-party reservation platforms; 49 providing a short title; creating s. 509.105, F.S.; 50 defining the term “third-party reservation platform”; 51 specifying that a third-party reservation platform 52 does not include certain contractual designees; 53 prohibiting a third-party reservation platform from 54 listing, advertising, promoting, selling, or otherwise 55 enabling a reservation at a public food service 56 establishment; authorizing the Division of Hotels and 57 Restaurants of the Department of Business and 58 Professional Regulation to impose a civil penalty not 59 to exceed a specified amount for a violation of the 60 act or of a division rule; providing a schedule and 61 requirements for the accrual of such violations; 62 providing an effective date.