HB 69 proposes to reduce the maximum annual increase in assessed value for Florida homestead properties from 3% to 1.5% of the prior year's value. This change would directly affect homeowners who qualify for the homestead exemption by limiting how much their property taxes could rise each year. The bill amends Section 193.155 of Florida Statutes to establish this lower cap, replacing the current 3% limit with a 1.5% threshold. The bill's effective date depends on voter approval of a related constitutional amendment regarding property taxes. (Note: The bill was withdrawn before introduction on October 31, 2025.)
Reduction of Annual Assessment Increases for Homestead Property; Proposes State Constitutional amendment reducing maximum amount that homestead property’s assessed value may increase annually.
Nonparticipating and Out-of-network Nurse Registries and Home Health Agencies; Prohibiting state group health insurance plans and state-contracted health maintenance organizations, the Agency for Health Care Administration, Medicaid managed care plans, individual health insurers, and health maintenance organizations, respectively, and any persons responsible for administering claims on behalf of such plans, organizations, agency, or insurers, from restricting participants, recipients, enrollees, policyholders, and subscribers from obtaining care from nonparticipating or out-of-network licensed nurse registries or home health agencies; revising applicability for group health insurance, blanket health insurance, and franchise health insurance, etc.
HB 257, a withdrawn Florida bill (filed but not introduced), proposed increasing penalties for prostitution-related offenses. It would have reclassified repeat violations as higher-level misdemeanors or felonies (e.g., third offense as a third-degree felony) and added provisions for vehicle impoundment when vehicles are used in violations. The bill also aimed to tie license suspensions for massage therapists to arrests for violating prostitution laws, particularly affecting licensed massage establishments. It did not become law, as it was withdrawn before introduction on October 24, 2025. The bill’s key focus was strengthening criminal penalties and professional licensing consequences for prostitution-related activities.
Sale and Purchase of Ivermectin; Authorizes sale & purchase of specified ivermectin as over-the-counter medication without prescription or consultation with health care provider.
Educational Dollars for Duty Program; Requires Educational Dollars for Duty program to set aside certain amount of funds to provide tuition assistance to spouses & children of active members of Florida National Guard; authorizes Legislature to increase amount of such funds; requires DMA to oversee implementation & enforcement of program; requiring DMA to establish certain procedures.
Political Activities on School Grounds; Provides that certain activities are allowed on school grounds; authorizes candidates to be invited to speak as candidates on school grounds if certain conditions are met; prohibits certain political activities on school grounds; prohibits certain employees from using e-mail, offices, or time during working hours for political advocacy; provides criminal penalties for persons who violate specified provisions; provides that each such violation is separate offense.
Self-storage Spaces; Revising the notice requirements of owners of self-storage units in order to satisfy a lien on a tenant’s property; requiring that rental agreements for renters of self-storage units which are entered into on or after a specified date provide certain information in compliance with the Self-storage Facility Act; authorizing owners of a self-storage unit to send notice to certain tenants’ last known address to apprise such tenants of a specified right, etc.
Health Care During a Declared Emergency; Defining the term “life sustaining medical services”; requiring certain health insurance entities to enact specified policies; authorizing the Office of Insurance Regulation and the Agency for Health Care Administration to issue emergency orders extending the time periods of such policies for specified timeframes, etc.
Nicotine Products; Citing this act as the "Florida Age Gate Act"; providing that applicants for retail tobacco products dealer permits consent to inspection and search without a warrant; authorizing the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to assess specified fines and certain penalties for each violation involving the sale of a single-use nicotine dispensing device that has not received a marketing granted order under 21 U.S.C. s. 387j or advertising, promoting, or displaying for sale such devices; restricting advertising, promoting, and displaying for sale certain single-use nicotine dispensing devices by retail nicotine products dealers in certain instances, etc.
Warehouse Distribution Centers; Requiring certain employers to establish and administer a safety committee; requiring an employer to provide a specified written description to each employee within a specified time period; requiring an employer to establish, maintain, and preserve specified records on each employee; authorizing certain persons to request specified information from an employer, etc.
First in Your Family Florida Medical School Scholarship and Grant Program; Establishing the First in Your Family Florida Medical School Scholarship and Grant Program within the Department of Education for specified purposes; requiring the department to award scholarships to certain students enrolled in specified schools or programs; authorizing the department to provide grants to certain postsecondary educational institutions or nonprofit organizations to create and implement nontraditional mentoring services or support programs for specified purposes, etc. APPROPRIATION: $10,000,000
