FL H7129

HB 7129 is a 2014 reviser's bill making exclusively technical, non-substantive corrections across the Florida Statutes, taking effect on the 60th day after adjournment sine die of the 2014 legislative session.

Dozens of obsolete date references and expired reporting deadlines are removed, including requirements tied to dates ranging from 1992 to 2013, such as enterprise zone application deadlines for six counties/cities (expired 2005–2012), a home health agency licensing moratorium (expired July 1, 2010), unemployment contribution installment payment provisions for 2010–2011, and completed one-time studies on electric vehicle charging, spring training facilities, and electronic court filing.

Several entire sections are repealed as obsolete, including ss. 408.914–408.916 (health care eligibility pilot program whose steering committee authorization ended June 30, 2004), s. 420.151 (Housing Development Corporation first meeting procedures from 1972, never amended), and s. 400.471(11) (expired home health agency moratorium).

Numerous cross-references are corrected to conform to prior legislative changes, including updates to reflect the repeal of s. 1003.429 (ch. 2013-27), s. 122.13 (ch. 2004-234), s. 366.85 (ch. 2012-67), s. 634.289 (ch. 2013-18), s. 658.29 (ch. 96-168), and s. 1009.539 (ch. 2003-89), as well as redesignations in criminal history record disclosure provisions (ss. 943.0585 and 943.059) and juvenile justice funding calculations (s. 1011.62(1)(t)).

Terminology is updated throughout to replace "state community college" and "Florida Community College System" with "Florida College System institution" per chs. 2008-52 and 2009-228, and agency names are corrected to reflect the abolishment of the Department of Community Affairs (replaced by Department of Economic Opportunity) and the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development (replaced by the state land planning agency).

Key provisions are reenacted to correct prior drafting errors, including s. 718.301(1) (condominium association control transfer provisions erroneously placed by ch. 2013-122), s. 1009.22(3) (workforce education fee structure with rates of $2.22/contact hour for residents and $6.66 for out-of-state students, inadvertently unpublished by ch. 2013-27), and s. 323.002(2) (wrecker operator system provisions omitted by ch. 2013-160).

Obsolete transitional provisions are deleted, including the special state firesafety inspector classification (abolished July 1, 2013, with all certifications expired June 30, 2013), phase-in schedules for marina fuel tax transfers ($2.5M–$13.4M over fiscal years 2003–2008, retaining only the current $13.4M annual amount), and Water Management Lands Trust Fund allocation formulas that applied only through fiscal year 2008–2009.

Editorial and grammatical corrections are confirmed throughout, including fixing "internment" to "interment" in funeral definitions (s. 871.015), correcting "part II of chapter 376" to "part II of chapter 373" (s. 403.804), changing a typographical "s. 945.045" to "s. 943.045" (s. 285.18), correcting subject-verb agreement, removing extraneous words, and substituting precise statutory terms for ambiguous pronouns.

Duplicated statutory text is removed, including flush-left language erroneously repeated at the end of s. 1011.61(1) after being properly redesignated as subparagraph (1)(c)3. by ch. 2013-45, and redundant provisions are cleaned up across banking, insurance, environmental, and education statutes.