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CS/CS/HB 3: Online Protections for Minors

GENERAL BILL by Judiciary Committee; Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee; Tramont; Overdorf; Sirois; McFarland; Rayner; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Anderson; Bankson; Barnaby; Beltran; Black; Botana; Brackett; Buchanan; Canady; Caruso; Chamberlin; Chambliss; Chaney; Fabricio; Garcia; Gonzalez Pittman; Gossett-Seidman; Gregory; Jacques; Leek; Lopez, V.; Massullo; McClain; Melo; Michael; Mooney; Payne; Persons-Mulicka; Plakon; Plasencia; Roth; Salzman; Snyder; Steele; Temple; Trabulsy; Truenow; Tuck; Waldron; Yarkosky; Yeager

Online Protections for Minors; Requiring social media platforms to prohibit certain minors from creating new accounts; requiring social media platforms to terminate certain accounts and provide additional options for termination of such accounts; providing conditions under which social media platforms are required to prohibit certain minors from entering into contracts to become account holders; authorizing the Department of Legal Affairs to bring actions under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act for knowing or reckless violations; authorizing the department to issue and enforce civil investigative demands under certain circumstances, etc.

Effective Date: 1/1/2025
Last Action: 3/25/2024 - Chapter No. 2024-42; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 1491 (Ch. 2024-54)
Bill Text: PDF
Senate Committee References:

1. Fiscal Policy (FP)

 

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Florida House Bill 1069 is a 2023 law that reshaped public education across the state, expanding restrictions on classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity, tightening control over library books and instructional materials, and establishing new rules about pronoun use in schools. The law amended several sections of the Florida Education Code, building on the 2022 Parental Rights in Education Act (HB 1557) that originally restricted such instruction in kindergarten through third grade. Parts of HB 1069’s book-removal provisions were struck down by a federal court in August 2025, and that ruling is currently on appeal.

Instruction Restrictions on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

HB 1069 expanded the ban on classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity from kindergarten through third grade to cover all students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. Under the current statute, no school employee or outside presenter can teach on these topics in those grades unless the instruction is specifically required by state academic standards, such as certain health education lessons on abstinence or HIV/AIDS prevention in grades six through eight.¹

 

 

For students in grades nine through twelve, instruction on these topics is not banned outright, but it must be “age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate” under state standards. The restriction applies equally to charter schools.¹

Definition of Sex and Human Sexuality Requirements

The law added a statutory definition of “sex” to the Florida Education Code. Under Section 1000.21(7), sex means the classification of a person as female or male based on how their body is organized for reproduction, as indicated by sex chromosomes, naturally occurring hormones, and internal and external genitalia present at birth.²

Whenever a school provides instruction on human sexuality as part of health education, AIDS prevention, or sexually transmitted disease courses, the instruction must classify males and females according to that statutory definition and teach that reproductive roles are binary, stable, and unchangeable. Schools must also teach abstinence outside of marriage as the expected standard and emphasize that abstinence prevents pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. The Florida Department of Education must approve all materials used in these courses.³

 

 

Personal Titles and Pronouns

HB 1069 created an entirely new statute, Section 1000.071, governing how personal titles and pronouns work in public K-12 schools. The law declares it the policy of every public K-12 institution that sex is an immutable biological trait and that it is “false” to use a pronoun for someone that does not match their sex.⁴

In practice, this means three things for daily school operations:

• Employees and contractors cannot use preferred pronouns: A school employee or contractor cannot provide a student with a personal title or pronoun that does not correspond to that student’s sex.
• No one can be compelled to use preferred pronouns: No employee, contractor, or student can be required to refer to another person using pronouns that don’t match that person’s sex as a condition of employment, enrollment, or program participation.
• Students cannot be asked for preferred pronouns: School employees and contractors cannot ask students to share their preferred personal title or pronouns, and no student can be penalized for declining to do so.

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CS/HB 543: Public Safety

GENERAL BILL by Judiciary Committee; Brannan; Payne; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Anderson; Andrade; Bankson; Barnaby; Black; Botana; Brackett; Buchanan; Duggan; Fine; Giallombardo; Gregory; Holcomb; Leek; Maggard; Massullo; McClain; Melo; Overdorf; Plakon; Rommel; Roth; Salzman; Sirois; Temple; Tramont; Tuck; Yeager

Public Safety; Authorizes person to carry concealed weapon or firearm if he or she is licensed to do so or meets specified requirements; requires person who is carrying concealed weapon or firearm without license to carry identification & display upon demand by law enforcement; prohibits person who is carrying concealed weapon or firearm without license from carrying such weapon or firearm in specified locations; authorizes nonresident to carry concealed weapon or firearm in this state if he or she meets same requirements as resident; requires Office of Safe Schools to develop behavioral threat management operational process. APPROPRIATION: $60,177,846

Effective Date: 7/1/2023
Last Action: 4/3/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-18; companion bill(s) passed, see HB 7025 (Ch. 2023-19)
Bill Text: PDF