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2025 Regular Session The Florida Senate
COMMITTEE MEETING EXPANDED AGENDA
COMMERCE AND TOURISM
Senator Leek, Chair
Senator Arrington, Vice Chair
MEETING DATE: Monday, March 17, 2025
TIME: 1:30—3:30 p.m.
PLACE: Toni Jennings Committee Room, 110 Senate Building
MEMBERS: Senator Leek, Chair; Senator Arrington, Vice Chair; Senators Davis, DiCeglie, Gruters, McClain,
Smith, Wright, and Yarborough
BILL DESCRIPTION and
TAB BILL NO. and INTRODUCER SENATE COMMITTEE ACTIONS COMMITTEE ACTION
1 SB 1172 Business Development Incentives for Veterans and Fav/CS
Jones Military Spouses; Citing this act as the “Florida Yeas 9 Nays 0
(Similar H 821) Veterans and Military Spouse Business Development
Act”; requiring the Department of State to waive
specified fees for certain businesses; providing
specified tax exemptions for certain businesses;
establishing the Veteran and Military Spouse
Entrepreneurship Program in consultation with the
Department of Commerce, etc.
CM 03/17/2025 Fav/CS
FT
AP
2 SB 1400 Removal of Altered Sexual Depictions Posted Without Fav/CS
Calatayud Consent; Citing this act as “Brooke’s Law”; requiring Yeas 9 Nays 0
(Identical H 1161) covered platforms to establish a process by a
specified date for removal of altered sexual depictions
posted without the consent of the identifiable person;
providing immunity for good faith compliance, etc.
CM 03/17/2025 Fav/CS
CJ
RC
3 SB 1438 Online Access to Materials Harmful to Minors; Temporarily Postponed
Grall Requiring a developer to, beginning on a specified
(Identical H 931, Compare H date, make specific determinations about covered
1503, S 1718) applications, provide notice to application stores
about such applications, and provide certain features
for parents to protect a user that is a child; requiring a
covered manufacturer to, beginning on a specified
date, take certain steps to determine specified
information about the user, provide certain notices,
and provide developers of covered applications with a
specified means to verify the age of a user; providing
requirements for devices sold before a specified date;
providing construction, etc.
CM 03/17/2025 Temporarily Postponed
JU
RC
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COMMITTEE MEETING EXPANDED AGENDA
Commerce and Tourism
Monday, March 17, 2025, 1:30—3:30 p.m.
BILL DESCRIPTION and
TAB BILL NO. and INTRODUCER SENATE COMMITTEE ACTIONS COMMITTEE ACTION
4 SB 1666 Uniform Commercial Code; Creating the “Uniform Fav/CS
Grall Commercial Code—Controllable Electronic Records”; Yeas 9 Nays 0
(Similar CS/H 515) specifying when a purchaser of a controllable account
or controllable payment intangible is a qualifying
purchaser; specifying when a person has control of a
controllable electronic record; authorizing account
debtors on a controllable account or controllable
payment intangible to discharge obligations under
certain circumstances; specifying requirements for
perfecting security interests that are enforceable and
perfected before a specified date, etc.
CM 03/17/2025 Fav/CS
JU
RC
5 SM 1488 United States Sovereign Wealth Fund; Urging Favorable
Avila Congress to establish a framework for a sovereign Yeas 6 Nays 3
(Identical HM 4063) wealth fund for the United States, etc.
CM 03/17/2025 Favorable
RC
6 CS/SB 480 Nonprofit Agricultural Organization Medical Benefit Favorable
Banking and Insurance / DiCeglie Plans; Defining the term “nonprofit agricultural Yeas 6 Nays 3
(Similar CS/H 497) organization”; authorizing nonprofit agricultural
organizations to provide medical benefit plans;
specifying that such plans are not insurance for
purposes of the Florida Insurance Code; prohibiting
the nonprofit agricultural organization from marketing
or selling a medical benefit plan through specified
agents, etc.
BI 03/03/2025 Temporarily Postponed
BI 03/10/2025 Fav/CS
CM 03/17/2025 Favorable
RC
7 SB 922 Employment Agreements; Creating “The Florida Fav/CS
Leek Trade Secret Protection Act”; providing that certain Yeas 6 Nays 3
(Identical H 1219) covered garden leave agreements are not a restraint
of trade or an attempt to monopolize trade or
commerce; requiring a court to enter a preliminary
injunction to stop covered employees, businesses,
entities, or individuals if a breach of a covered garden
leave agreement is alleged; providing that certain
covered noncompete agreements are not a restraint
of trade or an attempt to monopolize trade or
commerce; authorizing a covered employer to reduce
the salary or benefits of a covered employee if he or
she engages in gross misconduct, etc.
CM 03/17/2025 Fav/CS
JU
RC
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COMMITTEE MEETING EXPANDED AGENDA
Commerce and Tourism
Monday, March 17, 2025, 1:30—3:30 p.m.
BILL DESCRIPTION and
TAB BILL NO. and INTRODUCER SENATE COMMITTEE ACTIONS COMMITTEE ACTION
8 SB 1252 Statewide Pawn Data Database; Providing definitions; Favorable
Yarborough requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to Yeas 9 Nays 0
(Identical H 1359) create a statewide database of transaction data
electronically reported by specified businesses;
prohibiting certain data transfers by third-party
vendors; providing restrictions on use; providing
requirements for data storage; providing penalties for
violations; authorizing rulemaking, etc.
CM 03/17/2025 Favorable
ACJ
FP
9 SB 1776 Employment Rights; Revising the definition of the Fav/CS
McClain term “independent contractor”; revising the Yeas 6 Nays 3
(Similar H 1601) prohibitions against retaliatory personnel action
against an employee by his or her employer;
providing that an employee may not recover in an
action against an employer for a retaliatory personnel
action unless the employee can prove certain claims
by clear and convincing evidence; requiring, rather
than authorizing, a court to award reasonable
attorney fees and costs to the prevailing party for
retaliatory personnel actions, etc.
CM 03/17/2025 Fav/CS
JU
RC
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