The Florida Senate, Commerce and Tourism — Committee Meeting Expanded Agenda, March 31, 2025
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Expanded agenda of the Florida Senate Commerce and Tourism committee meeting on Monday, March 31, 2025, 1:30-3:30 p.m., in the 2025 Regular Session, with Senator Leek as Chair and Senator Arrington as Vice Chair. It lists bills with committee actions, including CS/SB 656 on health care billing and collection activities (Yeas 9 Nays 0), SB 1238 on fraud in the Reemployment Assistance Program (Yeas 6 Nays 3), SB 1322 creating the Florida Rural Jobs Act, and SB 324 on construction disruption assistance. It also lists a Senate confirmation hearing for Alexis M. Yarbrough and John Gilbert, each marked Recommend Confirm, Yeas 9 Nays 0.
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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 31, 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 CS/SB 656 Health Care Billing and Collection Activities; Revising Favorable
Health Policy / Rodriguez the definition of the term “extraordinary collection Yeas 9 Nays 0
(Similar CS/H 547) action”; authorizing facilities to engage in an
extraordinary collection action under certain
circumstances, etc.
HP 03/25/2025 Fav/CS
CM 03/31/2025 Favorable
RC
2 SB 1238 Fraud in the Reemployment Assistance Program; Fav/CS
Rodriguez Citing this act as the “Protecting the Reemployment Yeas 6 Nays 3
(Compare CS/H 1157) Assistance Program from Fraud Act of 2025”;
requiring the Department of Commerce to verify the
identity of claimants who apply for reemployment
assistance benefits before paying any benefits to
them; requiring the department to scrutinize claims
filed from foreign Internet protocol addresses before
paying benefits on such claims; requiring that any
suspected fraudulent claim be referred to the
Department of Legal Affairs or the state attorney of
the judicial circuit in which the suspected fraudulent
claim originated from for further investigation and
prosecution, etc.
CM 03/31/2025 Fav/CS
ATD
FP
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COMMITTEE MEETING EXPANDED AGENDA
Commerce and Tourism
Monday, March 31, 2025, 1:30—3:30 p.m.
BILL DESCRIPTION and
TAB BILL NO. and INTRODUCER SENATE COMMITTEE ACTIONS COMMITTEE ACTION
3 CS/SB 910 Veterans’ Benefits Assistance; Prohibiting a person Favorable
Military and Veterans Affairs, from receiving compensation for referring an Yeas 9 Nays 0
Space, and Domestic Security / individual to another person for advising, assisting, or
Collins consulting on veterans’ benefits matters; requiring
(Similar CS/H 277) that persons who advise, assist, or consult on
veterans’ benefits matters for compensation provide a
specified oral and written disclosure before entering
into a business relationship with a client; prohibiting a
provider who advises, assists, or consults on
veterans’ benefits matters from charging certain fees;
requiring a provider to successfully complete a
specified background screening before entering into
an agreement with a veteran for veterans’ benefits
matters, etc.
MS 03/18/2025 Fav/CS
CM 03/31/2025 Favorable
RC
4 SB 1264 Rural and Urban Business Enterprises; Revising the Fav/CS
Collins purpose of the Department of Commerce; requiring Yeas 7 Nays 2
(Similar H 1125, Compare H 753, that the statewide emergency shelter plan identify the
H 1185, S 896, S 1532, S 1694) general location and square footage of special needs
shelters by regional planning council regions, as such
regions existed on a specified date, during the next 5
years; revising the purpose of the Targeted Marketing
Assistance Program to include businesses in rural or
urban areas; establishing the Research, Innovation,
Science, and Engineering (RISE) Investment Tax
Credit Program within the Department of Commerce,
etc.
CM 03/31/2025 Fav/CS
FT
ATD
RC
5 SB 1322 Tax Credits for Investment in Rural Communities; Fav/CS
Simon Creating the “Florida Rural Jobs Act”; requiring the Yeas 9 Nays 0
(Similar H 837, Linked S 1324) Department of Commerce to accept applications for
approval as rural funds in a specified manner;
requiring the department to distribute revoked
investment authority among certain rural funds;
granting a credit against state tax liability for specified
investors; providing restrictions on the credit, etc.
CM 03/31/2025 Fav/CS
FT
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COMMITTEE MEETING EXPANDED AGENDA
Commerce and Tourism
Monday, March 31, 2025, 1:30—3:30 p.m.
BILL DESCRIPTION and
TAB BILL NO. and INTRODUCER SENATE COMMITTEE ACTIONS COMMITTEE ACTION
6 SB 1672 Labor Pool Act; Repealing provisions relating to short Favorable
Truenow title; legislative intent; definitions; exclusions; duties Yeas 9 Nays 0
(Identical H 6033) and rights; remedies, damages, and costs; and
application, respectively, etc.
CM 03/31/2025 Favorable
FP
RC
7 CS/SB 940 Third-party Reservation Platforms; Citing this act as Favorable
Regulated Industries / McClain the “Restaurant Reservation Anti-Piracy Act”; Yeas 9 Nays 0
(Similar CS/H 543) specifying that a third-party reservation platform does
not include certain contractual designees; prohibiting
a third-party reservation platform from listing,
advertising, promoting, selling, or otherwise enabling
a reservation at a public food service establishment;
authorizing the Division of Hotels and Restaurants of
the Department of Business and Professional
Regulation to impose a civil penalty not to exceed a
specified amount for a violation of the act or of a
division rule, etc.
RI 03/19/2025 Fav/CS
CM 03/31/2025 Favorable
RC
8 CS/SB 1820 Motor Vehicle Manufacturers and Franchised Motor Favorable
Transportation / Leek Vehicle Dealers; Prohibiting an applicant or a Yeas 9 Nays 0
(Similar CS/H 429) licensee, or a common entity thereof, from
establishing, implementing, or enforcing certain
criteria for measuring the sales or service
performance of its franchised motor vehicle dealers
unless certain conditions are met; revising the
circumstances in which a discontinuation,
cancellation, nonrenewal, modification, or
replacement of a franchise agreement is deemed
unfair, etc.
TR 03/25/2025 Fav/CS
CM 03/31/2025 Favorable
RC
9 SB 324 Construction Disruption Assistance; Citing this act as Fav/CS
Smith the “Construction Disruption Assistance Act”; Yeas 9 Nays 0
(Similar H 215) establishing the Construction Impact Relief Program
within the Department of Commerce pursuant to the
Florida Job Growth Grant Fund; requiring the
department to provide specified financial assistance
to eligible small businesses within construction zones;
requiring the department to develop a public
awareness and marketing campaign to promote the
program in partnership with specified entities, etc.
CM 03/31/2025 Fav/CS
ATD
FP
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COMMITTEE MEETING EXPANDED AGENDA
Commerce and Tourism
Monday, March 31, 2025, 1:30—3:30 p.m.
BILL DESCRIPTION and
TAB BILL NO. and INTRODUCER SENATE COMMITTEE ACTIONS COMMITTEE ACTION
10 SB 936 Statewide Study on Automation and Workforce Favorable
Davis Impact; Requiring the Bureau of Workforce Statistics Yeas 9 Nays 0
(Identical H 827) and Economic Research of the Department of
Commerce to study the economic impact of
automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics on
employment in the state; authorizing the bureau to
consult with specified entities to complete the study;
requiring the bureau to submit to the Governor and
Legislature a report by a specified date, etc.
CM 03/31/2025 Favorable
ATD
FP
TAB OFFICE and APPOINTMENT (HOME CITY) FOR TERM ENDING COMMITTEE ACTION
Senate Confirmation Hearing: A public hearing will be held for consideration of the below-
named executive appointments to the offices indicated.
Chair, Board of Supervisors of the Central Florida Tourism
Oversight District
11 Yarbrough, Alexis M. (Fort Lauderdale) 02/26/2029 Recommend Confirm
Yeas 9 Nays 0
Board of Supervisors of the Central Florida Tourism
Oversight District
12 Gilbert, John (Orlando) 02/26/2027 Recommend Confirm
Yeas 9 Nays 0
BILL DESCRIPTION and
TAB BILL NO. and INTRODUCER SENATE COMMITTEE ACTIONS COMMITTEE ACTION
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