Florida SB 1394: Department of Business and Professional Regulation

Bill Text

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Department of Business and Professional Regulation 
2026-01-08T03:19:41Z 
Revising the primary investigative, enforcement, and prosecutorial responsibilities of law enforcement officers appointed by the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco within the Department of Business and Professional Regulation; revising the lists of persons or entities that may request copies of certain documentation relied on by an employer to verify a new employee’s employment eligibility to include the department; revising a provision prohibiting talent agencies from sending or causing to be sent any employee or minor to certain locations for certain purposes; providing that a public lodging establishment or public food service establishment that distributes or sells hemp extract in violation of the state hemp program is subject to specified penalties, etc. 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 1394 

 By Senator Martin 

 33-01655-26 20261394__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to the Department of Business and 
 3 Professional Regulation; amending s. 20.165, F.S.; 
 4 revising the primary investigative, enforcement, and 
 5 prosecutorial responsibilities of law enforcement 
 6 officers appointed by the Division of Alcoholic 
 7 Beverages and Tobacco within the Department of 
 8 Business and Professional Regulation; amending s. 
 9 448.095, F.S.; revising the lists of persons or 
 10 entities that may request copies of certain 
 11 documentation relied on by an employer to verify a new 
 12 employee’s employment eligibility to include the 
 13 department; requiring the department to notify the 
 14 Department of Commerce and the Department of Law 
 15 Enforcement within a specified timeframe if it 
 16 believes an employer failed to properly verify an 
 17 employee’s employment eligibility; amending s. 
 18 468.412, F.S.; revising a provision prohibiting talent 
 19 agencies from sending or causing to be sent any 
 20 employee or minor to certain locations for certain 
 21 purposes; providing an exception; providing criminal 
 22 penalties; amending s. 509.261, F.S.; providing that a 
 23 public lodging establishment or public food service 
 24 establishment that distributes or sells hemp extract 
 25 in violation of the state hemp program is subject to 
 26 specified penalties; amending s. 559.79, F.S.; 
 27 authorizing the Department of Business and 
 28 Professional Regulation to request certain personal 
 29 identification information from an applicant or 
 30 licensee to evaluate and validate the applicant’s or 
 31 licensee’s work authorization status; authorizing the 
 32 department to request specified information; 
 33 authorizing the department to submit an applicant’s or 
 34 licensee’s personal identification information to the 
 35 appropriate federal agencies to validate the 
 36 applicant’s or licensee’s identity or work 
 37 authorization status; requiring the department to 
 38 suspend the license of any licensee found not to have 
 39 work authorization status; requiring the department to 
 40 reinstate a license without additional charge to the 
 41 licensee upon verification that the licensee is 
 42 authorized to work in the United States; providing 
 43 that the department is not liable for any licensure 
 44 delay, denial, or suspension; authorizing the 
 45 department to enter into memoranda of understanding; 
 46 authorizing the department to adopt rules; amending s. 
 47 569.006, F.S.; revising the circumstances in which the 
 48 division may suspend or revoke the permit of a retail 
 49 tobacco products dealer; creating s. 569.24, F.S.; 
 50 prohibiting a dealer, or a dealer’s agents or 
 51 employees, from possessing, selling, or possessing 
 52 with the intent to sell, deliver, or give, directly or 
 53 indirectly, nitrous oxide; providing applicability; 
 54 providing criminal penalties; amending s. 569.35, 
 55 F.S.; revising the circumstances in which the division 
 56 may suspend or revoke the permit of a retail nicotine 
 57 product dealer; amending s. 877.111, F.S.; deleting 
 58 nitrous oxide as a prohibited substance to be inhaled 
 59 or ingested for specified purposes; deleting criminal 
 60 penalties related to the inhalation or ingestion of 
 61 nitrous oxide; deleting applicability; making 
 62 technical changes; creating s. 877.113, F.S.; 
 63 prohibiting a person from inhaling, ingesting, or 
 64 possessing with the intent to inhale or ingest for 
 65 specified purposes any compound, liquid, or chemical 
 66 containing nitrous oxide; providing criminal 
 67 penalties; providing that the possession or presence 
 68 of any drug paraphernalia constitutes prima facie 
 69 evidence that the person possessed, distributed, sold, 
 70 transferred, or possessed with the intent to sell, 
 71 inhale, or ingest nitrous oxide for specified 
 72 purposes; authorizing a court to require a person to 
 73 partici