Florida SB 1172: Hope Scholarship Program

Bill Text

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Administrative Procedures 
2026-01-06T04:25:12Z 
Specifying that hyperlinks to material incorporated by reference are provided by the Department of State; requiring agencies to include a summary of their intended action on each rule identified for review within a specified timeframe; providing that the director of the Division of Administrative Hearings is appointed for a specified term from a certain list submitted by the statewide nominating commission; requiring that an agency’s regulatory plan include a list of existing rules scheduled for review during the next 12 months, a 5-year schedule for review of all rules, and a summary of the agency’s intended action for each rule identified for review in the next 12 months, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 1172 

 By Senator Grall 

 29-00822B-26 20261172__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to administrative procedures; amending 
 3 s. 120.54, F.S.; specifying that hyperlinks to 
 4 material incorporated by reference are provided by the 
 5 Department of State; revising the timeframe during 
 6 which an agency is required to publish a certain 
 7 notice of correction in the Florida Administrative 
 8 Register; requiring the Department of State to approve 
 9 such notice of correction before publication of the 
 10 notice; amending s. 120.5435, F.S.; requiring agencies 
 11 to include a summary of their intended action on each 
 12 rule identified for review within a specified 
 13 timeframe; requiring that existing rules amended or 
 14 reviewed after a certain date be reviewed in 
 15 accordance with a specified schedule; deleting a 
 16 provision requiring agencies to submit a certain 
 17 report to the Legislature and the Joint Administrative 
 18 Procedures Committee; amending s. 120.55, F.S.; 
 19 revising a cross-reference; amending s. 120.65, F.S.; 
 20 providing that the director of the Division of 
 21 Administrative Hearings is appointed for a specified 
 22 term from a certain list submitted by the statewide 
 23 nominating commission; requiring the Administration 
 24 Commission to appoint full-time administrative law 
 25 judges to conduct proceedings; specifying requirements 
 26 for such judges; requiring the Administration 
 27 Commission to appoint administrative law judges from a 
 28 certain list of nominations by the statewide 
 29 nominating commission; providing for the membership 
 30 and filling of vacancies of the statewide nominating 
 31 commission; requiring that meetings and determinations 
 32 of the statewide nominating commission be open to the 
 33 public; requiring that administrative law judges serve 
 34 for a certain term; authorizing the Administration 
 35 Commission to remove judges for cause; requiring the 
 36 statewide nominating commission to review judge 
 37 conduct and make a certain determination; providing 
 38 considerations for such determination; providing for 
 39 the reappointment of an administrative law judge under 
 40 specified circumstances; requiring certain judges to 
 41 remain in office until the appointment of their 
 42 successors; requiring the Administration Commission to 
 43 appoint a new administrative law judge under specified 
 44 circumstances; authorizing the commission to appoint 
 45 specified attorneys as administrative law judges pro 
 46 hac vice under a certain condition; prohibiting such 
 47 person from serving for more than a specified number 
 48 of successive days; authorizing the director of the 
 49 Division of Administrative Hearings to receive or 
 50 initiate complaints, conduct investigations, and 
 51 dismiss complaints against administrative law judges; 
 52 authorizing the director to make certain 
 53 recommendations to the Administration Commission; 
 54 defining the term “discipline”; requiring the director 
 55 to submit preliminary findings to an administrative 
 56 law judge who is the subject of a complaint; providing 
 57 that an administrative law judge has a specified 
 58 amount of time to provide a certain response; 
 59 requiring that such response and the rebuttal by the 
 60 director be included in the final report to the 
 61 Administration Commission; requiring administrative 
 62 law judges to be bound by stare decisis and precedent; 
 63 requiring that inconsistencies between decisions be 
 64 distinguished; requiring the director to establish 
 65 training for new and sitting administrative law 
 66 judges; revising the information included in a certain 
 67 written report to include an accounting, by agency and 
 68 entity, of payments or reimbursement received for 
 69 administrative law judge services; requiring the 
 70 division to adopt certain rules; amending s. 120.74, 
 71 F.S.; requiring that an agency’s regulatory plan 
 72 include a list of existing rules scheduled for review 
 73 during the next 12 months, a 5-year schedule for 
 74 review of