Farm Equipment; Authorizing a consumer to report farm equipment that is defective and does not conform to specified warranties to the manufacturer or its authorized service agent during a specified timeframe to allow the manufacturer or its authorized agent to conform such farm equipment to such warranty; requiring the manufacturer or its authorized agent to make such repairs to conform the farm equipment to the warranty upon receipt of such report, etc.
Drug Prices and Coverage ; Revises definition of term "pharmacy benefits plan or program" to exclude plan or program that exclusively serves PACE organization; requires contracts between pharmacy benefit managers & participating pharmacies to allow specified option in administrative appeal procedure; provides pharmacy benefit manager prohibited practices relating to pharmacies & pharmacists. APPROPRIATION: $30,901,933
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Prohibiting counties from enacting or enforcing any law that restricts or prohibits the use of gasoline-powered farm equipment or gasoline-powered landscape equipment or that distinguishes such equipment from any other equipment under certain circumstances; prohibiting an application for a development on an ecologically significant parcel in a low-density municipality from being administratively approved without an attestation provided by the developer; establishing the Florida Food Animal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program; revising the Florida Forest Service’s powers, authority, and duties, etc.
Department of Environmental Protection; Removes provisions creating the Environmental Regulation Commission; requires certain solar facility permit applicants to incorporate certain protections in the development and implementation of erosion and sediment control plans for the construction of such facilities; specifies requirements for such plans; revises the date by which certain major permitted sources of air pollution must pay an annual operation license fee; ratifies specified rules relating to the Lower Santa Fe and Ichetucknee Rivers and Priority Springs minimum flows and recovery strategy for the sole and exclusive purpose of satisfying any condition on effectiveness pursuant to provisions which require ratification of any rule exceeding the specified thresholds for likely adverse impact or increase in regulatory costs, etc.
Coastal Resiliency; Prohibiting the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund from approving the dredging or filling of the submerged lands of the Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve unless such dredging and filling occurs for certain reasons; authorizing certain dredging and filling of submerged lands and placement of certain shorelines and seawalls within the Biscayne Bay Aquatic Preserve; authorizing the erection of certain structures within aquatic preserves; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection, by a specified date, to develop guidelines and standards for nature-based methods to address coastal resiliency and to adopt rules, subject to legislative ratification, for a statewide permitting process for such coastal resiliency, etc.
This resolution designates May 18, 2026, as "Haitian Flag Day" in Florida to recognize Haitian and Haitian-American communities. It directly affects Florida's estimated 231,000 Haitian American residents, particularly in southern Florida. The resolution serves as a symbolic acknowledgment of Haitian heritage and cultural contributions, without creating new laws or policies. It follows historical observances of Haitian Flag Day, which began in Haiti during U.S. occupation and later spread globally.
Condominium Lending Guidelines; Urging the alignment of condominium lending guidelines among all states and eliminating the disproportionate down payment requirements that uniquely burden Florida homeowners, etc.
Pre-K-12 Education; Revising conditions under which a specified scholarship account’s funds revert to the state; providing a supplement for districts that have a decline in enrollment; requiring that fiscally constrained districts receive a higher calculation than non-fiscally constrained districts, etc.
State Agency Law Enforcement Radio System; Abrogating the scheduled expiration of provisions relating to the remission of surcharges for specified criminal offenses and noncriminal moving traffic violations to the Department of Revenue to fund the state agency law enforcement radio system and to provide technical assistance with respect to statewide systems of regional law enforcement communications, etc.
Collective Bargaining; Provides for resolution pursuant to specified instructions of collective bargaining issues at impasse between state & certified representatives of bargaining units for state employees.
HB 5205 revises the required contribution rates that state and local government employers must pay into the Florida Retirement System (FRS) for different employee groups (membership classes and subclasses). It establishes new contribution rate schedules in Sections 4 and 5 of the law to address funding shortfalls in the retirement system. The bill directly affects public employers, including state agencies, schools, and municipalities, by changing their mandatory retirement contribution percentages. It takes effect on July 1, 2026, as part of the state's effort to maintain actuarially sound retirement funding.
Fuel Taxes; Revising the distribution of the proceeds of the fuel sales tax; revising the transfer of funds received and collected into the Fuel Tax Collection Trust Fund, etc.
