Enhances workforce development within Florida’s education system to bridge Florida’s talent gap by improving access to work-based learning, strengthening career fairs, and establishing a framework for awarding postsecondary credit for apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship training. 

Creates a structured and performance-based funding framework for Florida's apprenticeship ecosystem by tying funding to participation, performance, and high-demand occupations.

Increases access to childcare by expanding eligibility for the School Readiness Program, which provides early learning scholarships to working families, by shifting eligibility to state median income levels to ensure a more accurate measure of economic need.

Expands access to educational opportunities for those that are incarcerated to promote second chances, reduce recidivism and create a pathway toward long-term economic self-sufficiency.

Reduces unnecessary bureaucratic regulatory burdens and costs that limit access to quality, affordable child care options for Florida families.

Establishes earlier reporting requirements for chronic absenteeism, thereby reinforcing the importance of early interventions in addressing student nonattendance that could impact students performing on grade level in key subjects, especially in rural and underserved areas.

Seeks to improve Florida math proficiency by strengthening Florida’s teacher preparation and certification programs to ensure future educators master essential elementary mathematics concepts, fostering better student outcomes and a stronger workforce pipeline.

Seeks to improve Florida’s reading proficiency by enhancing teachers' reading interventions and instructions with an emphasis on students in grades 4-12. 

Makes progress towards the 2030 Blueprint goal of being a top 3 state for research and development funding by increasing the R&D tax credit cap to attract and incentivize companies to perform R&D in Florida.

Enhances Florida’s competitiveness in manufacturing by creating the Statewide Office of Manufacturing within the Department of Commerce, led by a Chief Manufacturing Officer, as recommended by the Florida Trade & Logistics 2030 Study, who is responsible for state manufacturing activities and strategy.

Seeks to advance the 2030 Blueprint goal of doubling the rural share of state GDP by establishing programs aimed at addressing the challenges rural communities face, such as economic development, transportation and broadband connectivity, healthcare access, education, workforce development, and more. The bill also creates the Office of Rural Prosperity with the purpose of supporting rural communities by helping rural stakeholders navigate available programs and resources and representing rural interests across state government.

Establishes the International Aerospace Innovation Fund to accelerate global aerospace innovation and investment by funding collaborative research and development projects, workforce development initiatives, and commercialization efforts in critical technology areas.

Strengthens the Live Local Act to create more affordable workforce housing options by limiting local government's ability to impose and enforce regulations that would restrict the development of affordable housing and incentivizes developers to build affordable housing for healthcare workers.

Addresses attainable workforce housing challenges by requiring local governments to adopt ordinances that allow accessory dwelling units in single-family residential areas to create more options.

Clarifies the roles of local authorities and streamlines the bureaucratic process associated with zoning and development applications by setting clear requirements and deadlines. 

Promotes rehabilitation of brownfield sites and growth opportunities by making it easier for persons owning a portion of a brownfield site to receive tax credits under the brownfield program for the portion of a brownfield site that they own.

Prevents local governments from abusing the calculation of impact fees by better tying the calculation to the area’s growth.

Ensures resiliency in communication infrastructure in underserved areas and during natural disasters by exempting providers from certain taxes on communications and internet equipment. 

Strengthens critical infrastructure by protecting companies and third-party providers from liability in a cyber-attack when the entity has adopted a qualified cybersecurity program.

Promotes the development of renewable energy sources in Florida, which will increase energy independence, and incentivizes the development of additional energy sources to support economic growth and sustainability.

Encourages progress toward the Autonomous Florida goal of becoming the mobility innovation capital of the world and growth in the Advanced Air Mobility industry by exempting electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft transactons from state sales tax when transferred from a manufacturer to an operator.

Encourages economic development and smart growth by creating a process to put safe former phosphate mine sites into their highest and most productive economic use. 

Worsens Florida’s improving lawsuit abuse climate by reinstituting an incentive billboard trial lawyers to file frivolous lawsuits against property insurers to receive attorneys’ fees, driving up costs and inflating Floridians’ insurance premiums.

The bill weakens the bad faith reforms in Florida Chamber-backed HB 837 (2023) and worsens Florida’s lawsuit abuse climate by reducing the safe harbor from 90 days to 10 days. 

Increases the probability of assessments or “hurricane taxes” on Floridians by increasing the eligibility for Citizens’ Insurance policies and further capping rate increases in specified counties, ensuring premiums are not actuarially sound and anti-competitive with the private market. 

Supports Florida's agriculture industry—essential to state and national food security—by advancing the Florida 2030 Blueprint goals of fostering the nation’s top business tax climate and doubling rural Florida’s share of GDP through the elimination of tangible personal property tax for equipment on agricultural land.

Protects Florida’s agriculture industry as a lawful user or vendor of certain agricultural products from product liability lawsuits unless the business did not follow governmental use and application guidelines. 

Enhances the stability competitiveness of Florida’s property insurance market by furthering the Florida Chamber’s lawsuit abuse reform efforts on insurance, closing a loophole exploited by billboard trial attorneys to file meritless lawsuits that drive up costs for homeowners and local businesses.

Creates a new governmental mandate on employers relating to heat safety, interfering in the employer-employee relationship, and ignoring employer safety programs already in place to protect their employees.

Negatively impacts Florida’s business-friendly climate by creating the Division of Labor Standards, which establishes new layers of government bureaucracy that interfere in the employer-employee relationship.

Furthers the goal of a competitive and stable private insurance market by providing for actuarially sound rates for Citizens Insurance policies, thereby reducing the likelihood of assessments or “hurricane taxes” on Floridians ad taking additional steps to return Citizens to its intended role as the insurer of last resort. 

Reduces the Florida-only Business Rent Tax from 2 to 1.25 percent, providing approximately $377 million in tax savings to local businesses to hire new employees, reinvest in their business, and invest in their communities.

Eliminates the Florida-only Business Rent Tax, an effort the Florida Chamber has led for nearly a decade to continue working towards the Florida 2030 Blueprint goal of Florida having the top business tax climate in the nation.

Eliminates key provisions of the Florida Chamber-led insurance and lawsuit abuse reforms which eliminated one-way attorneys' fees and required juries to be informed of the actual costs of medical treatment, returning to a system that incentivized billboard trial lawyers to game the system for their benefit at the expense of local businesses and consumers. The bill also includes provisions that promotes the redevelopment of former phosphate mining sites to a higher and better use.

Caps the amount of future insurance rate increases, discouraging new and existent insurance companies from doing business in Florida by disregarding free market principles. 

Repeals Florida’s No-Fault Motor Vehicle Law and increases insurance requirements, which will result in higher premiums, an increased uninsured motorist rate, and a rise in litigation under a pure liability system.

Worsens Florida’s lawsuit abuse climate by reinstituting attorney fees that were eliminated in 2022 for insurance cases– reopening a legal mechanism that led to fraud and abuse and drove up insurance costs on all Floridians in the form of higher insurance rates. 

Worsens the state’s lawsuit abuse climate by reinstituting attorney fee awards in Florida’s Personal Injury Protection system, which will increase frivolous litigation and auto insurance rates for consumers. 

In order to further improve Florida’s bottom-five legal climate, requires transparency around and accountability for third-party financiers who invest in Florida lawsuits for economic gain. 

Unnecessarily interferes in the employer-employee relationship by mandating certain hiring practices regarding wages and salary on employers. 

Clarifies current employment law and reduces the need for litigation by providing clear guidelines to both employees and employers on alleged violations of Florida’s whistleblower law. 

Increases the risk of hurricane taxes on all Florida policyholders by shifting storm risk away from the private market to the public via the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund.

Removes a Florida Chamber-backed preemption on local ordinances relating to auxiliary containers and plastic bags meant to provide certainty to local businesses.

Removes the state preemption of commonly used construction equipment, such as cranes and other hoisting devices., This equipment is already regulated by OSHA, precluding state and local governments from imposing additional regulations when OSHA issued standards already apply. 

Ensures transparency and accountability in the collective bargaining process while also ensuring proper stewardship of taxpayer dollars by limiting the ability of public sector workers to use government-paid time for union or political activities. 

Further exposes Florida voters to out-of-state and special interests attempting to thwart the legislative process through amending Florida’s foundational document by lowering the threshold to pass a constitutional amendment or revision from 60% to 50%.

Improves Florida’s regulatory climate by strengthening a Chamber-backed preemption preventing a patchwork of local ordinances on packaging materials used by food service or retail establishments.  

Furthers the Florida Chamber’s goal of protecting the Florida Constitution by providing for accountability in the paid petition gathering process for ballot initiatives to ensure Florida voters are in charge of the Florida Constitution. 

Protects Florida’s Constitution by instituting necessary guardrails around third-party petition gatherers in the citizens’ initiative process to ensure that in attempting to circumvent the legislative process that proposed changes are truly the will of Florida voters. 

Weakens previously passed legislative efforts by the Florida Chamber to improve Florida’s business climate by expanding the role of government in collecting public union dues and creating a new government mandate on employers related to heat safety, ignoring business-led, site-specific safety programs.

Ensures transparency and accountability in the collective bargaining process while also promoting the fiscal health of our state by limiting the ability of public sector workers to use government-paid time for union and political activities.

Allows licensed social workers to practice across member states under the Social Work Licensure Compact, improving access to behavioral health services, as recommended in the Florida Chamber Leadership Cabinet’s Mental Health report. 

Drives up medical malpractice insurance rates by broadening the scope of who is allowed to recover damages in medical negligence claims.  Florida's highest in the nation medical malpractice insurance costs place an undue burden on physicians wanting to practice in Florida and ultimately limits the availability of quality and affordable care.

Drives up medical malpractice insurance rates by broadening the scope of who is allowed to recover damages in medical negligence claims. Florida's highest in the nation medical malpractice insurance costs place an undue burden on physicians wanting to practice in Florida and ultimately limits the availability of quality and affordable care.

Expands access to behavioral health services by authorizing psychiatric mental health APRNs to provide mental health services through telehealth at the level they are already licensed and trained to serve.