FL H0433

Political subdivisions are prohibited from requiring employers to meet workplace heat exposure requirements beyond those mandated by state or federal law, including standards on water consumption, cooling measures, acclimation periods, and heat exposure training; subdivisions may still set such requirements for their own direct employees.

Local governments are barred from adopting or enforcing any ordinance, resolution, rule, policy, or contract requirement regulating employee scheduling, including predictive scheduling, by private employers unless expressly authorized by state or federal law.

Effective September 30, 2026, political subdivisions are prohibited from maintaining a local minimum wage other than the state or federal minimum wage, and from using purchasing, contracting, or bidding procedures to control, affect, or award preferences based on the wages or employment benefits of vendors, contractors, or service providers.

The prohibition on local minimum wage and employment benefit requirements does not apply to a political subdivision's own employees or to employees of employers receiving a direct tax abatement or subsidy from the subdivision; contracts entered before September 30, 2026, are not impaired.

The act takes effect July 1, 2024, except for the wage and employment benefits preemption amendments to s. 218.077, which take effect September 30, 2026.