FL S0152

Establishes the Red Tape Reduction Advisory Council within the Executive Office of the Governor, consisting of 9 members appointed by the Governor (5), Senate President (2), and House Speaker (2), serving 4-year terms with a maximum of 8 consecutive years

Requires the council to annually review the Florida Administrative Code to identify rules that are duplicative, obsolete, especially burdensome to businesses, or disproportionately affect businesses with fewer than 100 employees or less than $5 million in annual revenue

Directs the Administrative Procedures Committee to establish a "regulatory baseline" — the total number of agency rules in effect as of January 1, 2022 — and prohibits any new rule from causing the total number of rules to exceed that baseline

Requires agencies proposing a new rule to submit a "rule replacement request" identifying at least one existing rule for repeal to maintain the baseline, and bars the committee from approving exemptions or requests offering fewer than two rules for repeal until the total rule count drops 35 percent below the baseline

Mandates annual reports from both the council (with recommendations to the Governor and legislative leaders) and the committee (reporting the percentage reduction in total rules compared to the baseline), with findings published in the Florida Administrative Code