Overview

• - Florida’s decades-old commercial rental tax is repealed as of Oct. 1, a change projected to save businesses about $1.15 billion this fiscal year and more than $1.5 billion next year.
• - The Tristin Murphy Act (SB 168) launches new pathways to divert people with mental illness from jail to treatment, expands training for 911 and EMS personnel, supports veterans’ courts, and broadens a hospital diversion pilot.
• - Technology measures now criminalize nonconsensual AI-generated sexual imagery with third-degree felony penalties and allow civil suits starting at $10,000, while also tightening rules on drone misuse and limited police deployment.
• - Housing protections under SB 948 require landlords to disclose prior flood damage and related claims or aid, giving tenants the right to terminate leases and recoup prepaid rent after undisclosed, significant flood losses.
• - Criminal-justice changes expand death-penalty eligibility by adding aggravating factors and making certain trafficking of children under 12 or people with mental disabilities a capital offense, alongside other penalty increases.