Florida SB 1236: School Safety

Bill Text

1236 
Employers Receiving Economic Development Incentives from State Agencies 
2026-01-06T10:30:56Z 
Requiring an employer to sign an agreement with a state agency that is awarding an economic development incentive before becoming eligible for the economic development incentive; authorizing persons and entities to report a suspected violation to the Attorney General within a specified timeframe; requiring the Attorney General to determine whether a violation has occurred; requiring a state agency to execute a separate written agreement with the recipient of the economic development incentive before the state agency awards the economic development incentive, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 1236 

 By Senator Massullo 

 11-01266-26 20261236__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to employers receiving economic 
 3 development incentives from state agencies; creating 
 4 s. 447.18, F.S.; defining terms; requiring an employer 
 5 to sign an agreement with a state agency that is 
 6 awarding an economic development incentive before 
 7 becoming eligible for the economic development 
 8 incentive; specifying the provisions of the agreement; 
 9 providing applicability; authorizing persons and 
 10 entities to report a suspected violation to the 
 11 Attorney General within a specified timeframe; 
 12 requiring the Attorney General to determine whether a 
 13 violation has occurred; requiring the Attorney General 
 14 to request certain information from the employer 
 15 alleged to be in violation; providing that refusal of 
 16 such employer to provide such information is in 
 17 violation of the agreement; requiring the Attorney 
 18 General to deliver his or her findings to such 
 19 employer within a specified timeframe; requiring the 
 20 Attorney General to initiate proceedings to recover 
 21 funds awarded to the employer if the employer is found 
 22 to have violated the agreement; providing that the 
 23 Attorney General’s findings are final; requiring a 
 24 state agency to execute a separate written agreement 
 25 with the recipient of the economic development 
 26 incentive before the state agency awards the economic 
 27 development incentive; specifying the contents of the 
 28 separate agreement; providing the effective periods of 
 29 the separate agreement; providing applicability; 
 30 defining the term “agreement”; providing an effective 
 31 date. 
 32 
 33 WHEREAS, the state, as part of its economic development 
 34 policy, has the right to set terms and conditions in connection 
 35 with the awarding of economic development incentives, and 
 36 WHEREAS, the state, as part of its economic development 
 37 policy, seeks to play an integral role in the formation of 
 38 economic opportunities, conditions of grants, and general 
 39 management of compliance with such awards for moneys, and 
 40 WHEREAS, the state will frequent, as part of awarding 
 41 economic development incentives, require a private business to 
 42 hire a certain number of new full-time employees, require a 
 43 specific amount of company investment, and ensure workers obtain 
 44 certain skills and knowledge, and 
 45 WHEREAS, the state, as part of its economic development 
 46 policy, has a vested interest in seeking to advance and preserve 
 47 its own interest in projects receiving economic development 
 48 incentives as a financer of projects contributing to this 
 49 state’s overall economic health, and 
 50 WHEREAS, it is the intent of the Legislature, as part of 
 51 its economic development policy, that whenever state funds or 
 52 benefits are sought by a private business, such benefits are 
 53 conditioned on the private business ensuring its employees’ 
 54 right to a secret ballot election when recognizing a labor 
 55 organization as a bargaining unit, or requiring subcontractors 
 56 to waive their employees’ right to a secret ballot election, and 
 57 WHEREAS, it is the intent of the Legislature that whenever 
 58 state funds or benefits are provided or awarded to a private 
 59 business, the private business working on a project receiving 
 60 state funds or benefits may not voluntarily disclose an 
 61 employee’s personal contact information to a labor organization 
 62 without the employee’s consent, waive its right to speak to its 
 63 employees or require subcontractors to voluntarily disclose an 
 64 employee’s personal contact information to a labor organization 
 65 without the employee’s consent, or waive the subcontractor’s 
 66 right to speak to the subcontractor’s employees, NOW, THEREFORE, 
 67 
 68 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 69 
 70 Section 1. Section 447.18, Florida Statutes, is created and 
 71 incorporated into part I of chapter 447, Florida Statutes, to 
 72 read: 
 73 447.18 Employers receiving state-awarded economic 
 74 development incentives; prohibited acts related to