FL S0340

Adds sexual orientation and gender identity or expression as protected classes to Florida's civil rights laws, alongside existing protections for race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, and marital status.

Replaces the term "handicap" with "disability" throughout Florida statutes and defines disability to include physical or mental impairments substantially limiting major life activities, records of such impairments, being regarded as having such impairments, or having developmental disabilities.

Extends non-discrimination protections to employment, housing, public accommodations, lodging establishments, food service establishments, real estate transactions, and club memberships.

Creates new statutory sections (760.025 and 760.225) specifying that transitory or minor impairments (6 months or less) do not constitute disabilities, and that determinations of disability must disregard ameliorative effects of mitigating measures like medication or assistive devices.

Effective date: July 1, 2012; referred to as the "Competitive Workforce Act."