SB 162 - Protection From Surgical Smoke

• Require hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to use smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures that generate surgical smoke.

HB 901 - Diabetes Research

• Establishes the University of Florida Diabetes Institute as a centralized resource for diabetes research, screening, prevention, treatment, and education.

SB 382 - Electric Bicycles & HB 243 - Electric Bicycles

• Mandate safer operation of electric bicycles, create a task force to recommend improvements, and require law enforcement agencies to track related crashes.
• Creates the Electric Bicycle Safety Task Force to examine and recommend improvements to state laws and regulations governing electric bicycles, with monthly meetings and a final report due before October 1, 2026.

SB 408 - Advertisement of a Harmful Vaccine

• Define 'advertise' for vaccine promotions and impose liability on manufacturers for harm caused by advertised vaccines.

SB 560 - Child Welfare

• Improve child welfare conditions by streamlining psychotropic medication reporting, extending educational support eligibility, revising reporting requirements, and updating child welfare definitions.
• Require physicians to provide a copy of documented consent, rather than a signed attestation, to pharmacies when prescribing psychotropic medication for children.

HB 743 - Prohibited Sex-reassignment Prescriptions & Procedures

• Prohibit health care practitioners from aiding or abetting in prohibited sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures for minors and authorize the state to pursue civil actions and penalties.

HB 867 - Dry Needling by Occupational Therapists

• Defines dry needling and myofascial trigger points for occupational therapists and establishes new education, supervision, and reporting requirements for performing dry needling.

HB 635 - Cybersecurity Standards and Liability

• Prohibits local governments from imposing cybersecurity standards exceeding the state's framework and provides liability protections for compliant entities in the event of cybersecurity incidents.

HB 13 - Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact

• Enacts the Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact to streamline multistate social work practice and adjusts licensure, investigative, and disciplinary processes accordingly.

HB 813 - Firefighter Cancer Benefits and Prevention

• Changes starting point for when $25,000 cancer-related cash payout for firefighters is available after their employment and eliminates the State Fire Marshal’s rulemaking requirement for cancer prevention measures.