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FL S1110

Bill

Status

Failed

6/16/2025

Primary Sponsor

Carlos Smith

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Origin

Senate

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Creates a new category called "large-scale county destination marketing organization," defined as a county destination marketing organization with an annual operating budget of $5 million or more
  • Requires large-scale county destination marketing organizations to register with the Florida Department of State, which must maintain a public directory of all such organizations on its website
  • Mandates a one-to-one match of private contributions to public contributions (state and local appropriations) for funding these organizations
  • Private matching contributions must fall into one of four categories: direct cash contributions, fees for services, cooperative advertising, or in-kind contributions; contributions from governmental entities or entities receiving more than 50% of revenue from public sources do not count as private contributions
  • Organizations that fail to meet the matching requirement must revert all unmatched public contributions to the treasuries of their contracting counties or municipalities by June 30 of each fiscal year; the act takes effect July 1, 2025

Legislative Description

Large-scale County Destination Marketing Organizations

Last Action

Died in Commerce and Tourism

6/16/2025

Full Bill Text

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