Florida SB 988: Medicaid Coverage of Continuous Glucose Monitors

Bill Text

988 
Taking and Exporting Aquatic Animal Species 
2025-12-19T06:36:32Z 
Citing this act as the “Marine and Aquatic Native Threatened Animal Protection Act”; prohibiting the taking, possession, transportation, or exportation of endangered, threatened, or vulnerable aquatic animal species from state waters for certain purposes; prohibiting the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission from issuing, renewing, or approving certain licenses; providing penalties, etc. 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 988 

 By Senator Garcia 

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 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to taking and exporting aquatic animal 
 3 species; providing a short title; creating s. 
 4 379.24312, F.S.; defining terms; prohibiting the 
 5 taking, possession, transportation, or exportation of 
 6 endangered, threatened, or vulnerable aquatic animal 
 7 species from state waters for certain purposes; 
 8 prohibiting the Fish and Wildlife Conservation 
 9 Commission from issuing, renewing, or approving 
 10 certain licenses; providing penalties; providing 
 11 construction; amending s. 379.401, F.S.; conforming a 
 12 provision to changes made by the act; providing an 
 13 effective date. 
 14 
 15 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 16 
 17 Section 1. This act may be cited as the “Marine and Aquatic 
 18 Native Threatened Animal Protection Act.” 
 19 Section 2. Section 379.24312, Florida Statutes, is created 
 20 to read: 
 21 379.24312 Marine and aquatic native threatened animal 
 22 protections.— 
 23 (1) As used in this section, the term: 
 24 (a) “Aquatic animal” means any vertebrate or invertebrate 
 25 animal species, subspecies, or distinct population segment that 
 26 inhabits state waters. 
 27 (b) “Endangered, threatened, or vulnerable species” means 
 28 any species included on the official Florida list of endangered 
 29 and threatened species maintained by the commission or 
 30 classified as endangered or vulnerable in the International 
 31 Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened 
 32 Species. 
 33 (c) “Exhibition or educational purposes” means the holding, 
 34 displaying, transporting, or maintaining of specimens for public 
 35 display, exhibition, research, or education, including 
 36 activities authorized under a special activity license issued by 
 37 the commission. 
 38 (2) A person may not take, attempt to take, possess, 
 39 transport, or export any endangered, threatened, or vulnerable 
 40 aquatic animal species from state waters for exhibition or 
 41 educational purposes. 
 42 (3) The commission may not issue, renew, or approve a 
 43 special activity license or other authorization that would allow 
 44 the taking of any endangered, threatened, or vulnerable aquatic 
 45 animal species from state waters for purposes prohibited in 
 46 subsection (2). 
 47 (4) A person who violates this section commits a Level Four 
 48 violation under s. 379.401. Each individual animal taken or 
 49 exported in violation of this section constitutes a separate 
 50 offense. 
 51 (5)(a) This section does not prohibit or restrict the 
 52 rescue, rehabilitation, or scientific study of aquatic animal 
 53 species when such activities are conducted under state or 
 54 federal authorization consistent with the Endangered Species Act 
 55 and applicable commission rules. 
 56 (b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit 
 57 federal authority under the Endangered Species Act, the 
 58 Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, or the 
 59 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild 
 60 Fauna and Flora. 
 61 Section 3. Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section 
 62 379.401, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 
 63 379.401 Penalties and violations; civil penalties for 
 64 noncriminal infractions; criminal penalties; suspension and 
 65 forfeiture of licenses and permits.— 
 66 (4) LEVEL FOUR VIOLATIONS.— 
 67 (a) A person commits a Level Four violation if he or she 
 68 violates any of the following provisions: 
 69 1. Section 379.24312, prohibiting the taking, attempted 
 70 taking, possession, transport, or export of certain aquatic 
 71 animals for exhibition or educational purposes. 
 72 2.1. Section 379.354(16), prohibiting the making, forging, 
 73 counterfeiting, or reproduction of a recreational license or the 
 74 possession of same without authorization from the commission. 
 75 3.2. Section 379.365(2)(c), prohibiting criminal activities 
 76 relating to the taking of stone crabs. 
 77 4.3. Section 379.366(4)(c), prohibiting criminal activities 
 78 relating to the taking and harvesting of blue crabs. 
 79 5.4. Section 379.367(4), prohibiting the willful 
 80 molestation of spiny lobster gear. 
 81 6.5. Section 379.3671(2)(c)5., prohibiting the unlawful 
 82 reproduction, possession, sale, trade, or barter of spiny 
 83 lobster trap tags or