FL H7011

HB 7011 is a technical reviser's bill making non-substantive corrections across approximately 200+ sections of the Florida Statutes, primarily to improve clarity, fix errors, and remove outdated language without changing the law's substance.

Alphabetically reorders definitions in dozens of statutes, including major reorganizations of s. 440.02 (workers' compensation, 38 definitions renumbered), s. 216.011(1) (approximately 50 state fiscal definitions), s. 1003.01 (17 K-12 education definitions), s. 1000.21 (systemwide education definitions), and s. 83.43 (residential landlord-tenant, 17 definitions), among many others.

Updates hundreds of internal cross-references throughout the Florida Statutes to conform to the definition reordering performed by the bill, affecting provisions in areas such as retirement benefits, charter school administrative fees, workers' compensation employment protections, wrongful incarceration tuition waivers, family empowerment scholarships, and building code inspections.

Deletes obsolete provisions with expired deadlines, including: a January 1, 2022 clerk electronic assessment submission requirement (s. 28.2457); a July 1, 2022 rulemaking deadline for onsite sewage treatment systems (s. 381.0065); 1992 hospital emergency services implementation dates (s. 395.1041); a December 31, 2017 insurer anti-fraud unit establishment deadline (s. 626.9891); and various initial reporting dates for commercial service airports, red tide initiatives, cybersecurity advisory council reports, and behavioral health assessments.

Removes time-bound transitional language that has become unnecessary, such as "Beginning in 2021, and" from the First Responders Suicide Deterrence Task Force reporting requirement, "Beginning in the 2019-2020 fiscal year" from death benefits appropriations, and "Beginning in 2017" from behavioral health system assessments, while retaining the ongoing substantive requirements.

Corrects terminology errors, including changing "Federal Information Processing System" to "Federal Information Processing Standards" (FIPS), "polices" to "policies" in newborn hearing screening provisions, "mean" to "means" in the sovereign immunity teaching hospital definition, and "historic" to "historical" in Medicaid step-therapy provisions.

Adds the U.S. Space Force to statutes governing Armed Forces instrument acknowledgments (s. 695.031) and homeowner association military flag display rights (s. 720.304), and removes obsolete references to "female auxiliary" forces.

Makes editorial insertions and grammatical corrections throughout, including adding missing words ("to," "or," "and," "shall," "by," "of"), correcting "which" to "who" when referring to persons, improving sentence structure in patient rights provisions, and conforming defined terms such as replacing "has special needs" with "is difficult to place" in adoption benefit statutes (s. 409.1664).

Confirms conforming changes necessitated by prior legislative enactments, including updates to electric utility definition references per ch. 2022-4 (Laws of Florida), vessel anchoring cross-references per ch. 2021-192, and COVID-19 vaccination mandate parent definition references reflecting reordered education definitions.