Florida Senate - 2025 CS for SB 940 By the Committee on Regulated Industries; and Senator McClain 580-02617-25 2025940c1 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to third-party reservation platforms; 3 providing a short title; creating s. 509.105, F.S.; 4 defining the term “third-party reservation platform”; 5 specifying that a third-party reservation platform 6 does not include certain contractual designees; 7 prohibiting a third-party reservation platform from 8 listing, advertising, promoting, selling, or otherwise 9 enabling a reservation at a public food service 10 establishment; authorizing the Division of Hotels and 11 Restaurants of the Department of Business and 12 Professional Regulation to impose a civil penalty not 13 to exceed a specified amount for a violation of the 14 act or of a division rule; providing a schedule and 15 requirements for the accrual of such violations; 16 providing an effective date. 17 18 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 19 20 Section 1. This act may be cited to as the “Restaurant 21 Reservation Anti-Piracy Act.” 22 Section 2. Section 509.105, Florida Statutes, is created to 23 read: 24 509.105 Third-party reservation platforms prohibited.— 25 (1) As used in this section, the term “third-party 26 reservation platform” means a website, mobile application, or 27 other Internet service that satisfies all of the following: 28 (a) Offers or arranges for a reservation at a public food 29 service establishment for on-premises service. 30 (b) Is owned and operated by a person other than the owner 31 of the public food service establishment. 32 (c) Does not have a contractual relationship or agreement 33 with the public food service establishment, or its contractual 34 designee, to offer or arrange for a reservation at the public 35 food service establishment for on-premises service. 36 (2) A third-party reservation platform does not include a 37 contractual designee of an individual customer which arranges 38 for a personal and nontransferable reservation at a food service 39 establishment at the request of the customer and at no cost to 40 the customer, provided that the designee shares the individual 41 customer’s contact information with the food service 42 establishment, allows the food service establishment to confirm 43 the reservation with the individual customer, and honors 44 requests from the food service establishment to opt out of 45 future reservations created by the designee. 46 (3) A third-party reservation platform may not list, 47 advertise, promote, facilitate, sell, or otherwise enable a 48 reservation at a public food service establishment. 49 (4) The division may impose a civil penalty on a third 50 party reservation platform in an amount not to exceed $1,000 for 51 each violation of this section or of a division rule. Violations 52 under this subsection shall accrue on a daily basis for each day 53 and each reservation for each food service establishment in 54 which there has been a violation of this section or rules of the 55 division. 56 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.