SB 1570 Florida Senate · 2022 Regular Session

Economic Assistance to New Businesses

Summary
Economic Assistance to New Businesses; Requiring the Department of Management Services to encourage agencies to allocate a certain percentage of specified funds to purchase commodities and contractual services from certain businesses; requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to award a specified minimum amount of funds to certain businesses; creating the "Florida Right to Start Act"; prohibiting agencies from requiring eligible new businesses or persons establishing an eligible new business from paying fees relating to licenses or registrations for the business for a specified amount of time; creating the Self-Employment Assistance Program within the Department of Economic Opportunity; requiring that a specified percentage of workforce development funding go to certain individuals and businesses, etc.
Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 18, 2022 Last action Mar 14, 2022
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Jan 18, 2022
Introduced
Introduced
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Jan 12, 2022
Committee
Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Finance and Tax; Appropriations
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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Shev Jones
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