Keiser University Day; Recognizing February 26, 2026, as “Keiser University Day” in Florida and celebrating the university’s nearly 50 years of providing quality education, serving a diverse student population, and positively impacting both this state and the global economy, etc.
HR 8075 is a ceremonial resolution designating January 21, 2026, as "Kappa Alpha Psi Day" in Florida. It recognizes the contributions of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., including its Florida chapters (20 undergraduate and 26 alumni), to community service, education, and civic leadership over its 115-year history. The resolution has no legal effect beyond this official designation and does not create new programs or policies. It was adopted by the Florida House of Representatives on February 26, 2026, as part of ceremonial recognition.
PSP Awareness Month; Designates month of May 2026 as "PSP Awareness Month" in Florida; recognizes commitment of patients, their families, & health care professions to increasing awareness & research regarding progressive supranuclear palsy & other neurodegenerative diseases.
Estates; Revising the issues a court may resolve for a personal representative; requiring the court to award taxable costs and attorney fees in certain proceedings; authorizing the court to direct such payment from certain persons; revising when summary administration proceedings may commence for either a resident or nonresident decedent’s estate; revising the sum for funds certain financial institutions may make payable to a decedent’s family member, etc.
Deductions for Certain Losses of Alcoholic Beverages; Authorizing a distributor of vinous, spirituous, or malt beverages to make an excise tax deduction in its monthly tax report for alcoholic beverages that have become unsellable through warehouse breakage, spoliation, evaporation, or expiration or that have become unfit for human consumption; requiring distributors that distribute more than one type of alcoholic beverage to deduct their gross taxes for products according to those specified in a specified manner; requiring a distributor to immediately notify the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco when an extraordinary loss occurs, etc.
Violations of Pretrial Release Conditions for Violent Crimes; Citing this act as the “Victim Safety in Pretrial Release Act”; providing that a person who is on pretrial release for a specified violent crime commits a separate criminal offense if such person willfully violates certain conditions of pretrial release; providing criminal penalties; providing that a law enforcement officer is not liable in a civil action for an arrest of a person based on probable cause to believe that the person has violated a condition of pretrial release in specified circumstances; authorizing a law enforcement officer to arrest a person without a warrant if there is probable cause to believe that the person has willfully violated certain conditions of pretrial release, etc.
Trusts; Authorizing a trustee to obtain a settlement of his or her accounts and be discharged under certain circumstances; requiring a trustee seeking settlement and discharge to send a trust disclosure document to specified persons; providing that a trustee is discharged upon completion of distributions or transfers if no timely written objections are received and is discharged from all liability and claims arising out of any matter disclosed in the trust disclosure document, etc.
Concurrent Legislative Jurisdiction over United States Military Installations; Accepting concurrent legislative jurisdiction with the United States over delinquency matters on United States military installations if such matters meet certain criteria; establishing circuit court jurisdiction over such matters, etc.
Veterans Affairs; Revising the admissions process for veterans treatment court programs; authorizing the multidisciplinary team to determine eligibility for veterans treatment court programs; authorizing sentencing courts to divert defendants to veterans treatment court programs under certain circumstances; requiring that a defendant’s satisfactory completion of the program be a condition of the defendant’s probation or community control, etc.
Student Volunteers at Polling Locations; Providing that specified high school students who volunteer to assist poll workers are not subject to provisions prohibiting certain agencies and state and local officials from soliciting, accepting, or otherwise using private funds or certain personal services for election-related expenses, etc.
Candidate Qualification; Specifying that a person seeking to qualify for office as a candidate must be a registered member of a political party, or registered without any party affiliation, for 365 consecutive days preceding the beginning of qualifying for an election; authorizing qualified candidates or certain political parties to challenge compliance with specified provisions by filing suit in a specified circuit court; prohibiting a person from being qualified as a candidate for nomination or election and appearing on the ballot under specified circumstances, etc.
Conservation Lands; Requiring the Division of State Lands to publish certain information on its website before the Acquisition and Restoration Council or the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund meets to review the proposed sale of conservation lands; requiring that certain parcels proposed for exchange be appraised in accordance with certain criteria; requiring the governing board of a water management district to publish certain information on its website before meeting to review the proposed sale or exchange of certain lands, etc.
