The Florida Senate, Commerce and Tourism — Committee Meeting Expanded Agenda, March 17, 2025
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The expanded agenda of the Florida Senate Commerce and Tourism committee meeting of Monday, March 17, 2025, 2025 Regular Session, with Senator Leek as Chair and Senator Arrington as Vice Chair. It lists SB 1172 on business development incentives for veterans and military spouses and SB 1666 on controllable electronic records under the Uniform Commercial Code, each marked Fav/CS with Yeas 9 Nays 0. SM 1488 on a United States sovereign wealth fund is marked Favorable with Yeas 6 Nays 3, and SB 1438 is marked Temporarily Postponed.
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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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