HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES STAFF FINAL BILL ANALYSIS
BILL #: HB 7019 PCB RUC 23-05 Florida Statutes
SPONSOR(S): Rules Committee, Chaney
TIED BILLS: IDEN./SIM. BILLS: SB 40
FINAL HOUSE FLOOR ACTION: 111 Y’s 0 N’s GOVERNOR’S ACTION: Approved
SUMMARY ANALYSIS
HB 7019 passed the House on March 17, 2023, as SB 40.
The bill prospectively adopts all statutes of a general and permanent nature passed through the May 23-27,
2022, Special Session and printed in the 2022 edition, together with corrections, changes, and amendments to
and repeals of the provisions of the 2022 Florida Statutes enacted in additional Reviser’s bill(s) by the 2023
Legislature. The bill adopts as official statutory law of the state those portions of the statutes that are carried
forward from the regular edition published in 2022, which thus serve as the best evidence of the law.
Legislation passed between the December 12-16, 2022, Special Session and the 2023 Regular Session, which
will have occurred since the publication of the 2022 edition, is not adopted as the official statutory law of the
state and serves as prima facie evidence of the law until it is adopted in 2024.
This bill has no fiscal impact.
The bill was approved by the Governor on March 24, 2023, ch. 2023-12, L.O.F., and will become effective on
the 60th day after adjournment sine die.
This document does not reflect the intent or official position of the bill sponsor or House of Representatives .
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 I. SUBSTANTIVE INFORMATION
A. EFFECT OF CHANGES:
The 2023 adoption act is drafted by the Division of Law Revision and Information of the Office of
Legislative Services to prospectively adopt the Florida Statutes 2023 and designate the portions thereof
that are to constitute the official statutory law of the state. The adoption act amends ss. 11.2421,
11.2422, 11.2424, and 11.2425, F.S., and has the effect of curing any title or single subject defects that
may have existed in an act as originally passed.1 The adoption act is usually enacted annually during
each regular session.
The adoption act provides a 1-year curing period for title or single subject defects before statutory
material becomes the best evidence of the law. This is consistent with the decision by the Legislature,
beginning in 2000, to publish the Florida Statutes on an annual basis and to have the Division of Law
Revision submit an adoption act annually, rather than every 2 years. Therefore, statutory material
passed since the publication of the 2022 edition (which includes materials passed between the
December 12-16, 2022, Special Session through the 2023 Regular Session) must wait one year before
being adopted as the official statutory law of the state.
The 2023 adoption act prospectively adopts all statutes of a general and permanent nature passed
through the May 23-27, 2022, Special Session and printed in the 2022 edition, together with
corrections, changes, and amendments to and repeals of provisions of 2022 Florida Statutes enacted in
additional Reviser’s bill(s) by the 2023 Legislature. The bill adopts as the official statutory law of the
state those portions of the statutes that are carried forward unchanged from the previous year’s
published edition (2022), which constitute the best evidence of the law.
Portions of Florida Statutes that have been enacted, amended, or repealed in a session occurring after
the publication of the 2022 edition are prima facie evidence of the law in all courts of the state. For
these portions, the session law of the statutory materials serves as the best evidence of the law.
Any “statute of a general and permanent nature” enacted before publication of the last adopted regular
edition of the Florida Statutes that does not appear in the current edition stands repealed, both by logic
of the system and by the operation of s. 11.2422, F.S.2
II. FISCAL ANALYSIS & ECONOMIC IMPACT STATEMENT
A. FISCAL IMPACT ON STATE GOVERNMENT:
1. Revenues:
None.
2. Expenditures:
None.
1 The adoption of the Florida Statutes cures title defects that existed in an act as originally passed. See State ex rel. Badgett v. Lee, 156
Fla. 291, 22 So.2d 804 (1945). Thus, general legislation must be attacked on this ground only during the period between its o riginal
enactment and its subsequent adoption as the official law of the state. An act with a title defect is considered valid only from adoption
and not from the date of original enactment. See Thompson v. Intercounty Tel. & Tel. Co., 62 So.2d 16 (Fla. 1952). Analogously, once
reenacted as a portion of the Florida Statutes, a statute is no longer subject to challenge on the ground that it violates the single subject
requirement of s. 6, Art. III of the State Constitution. See State v. Combs, 388 So.2d 1029 (Fla. 1980); Loxahatchee River
Environmental Control District v. School Board of Palm Beach County , 515 So.2d 217 (Fla. 1987); State v. Johnson, 616 So.2d 1
(Fla. 1993).
2 See National Bank v. Williams, 38 Fla. 305, 20 So 931 (1896). Section 11.2423, F.S., provides that no special or local statute, or
statute, local, limited or special in its nature, shall be repealed via reviser’s bill.
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 B. FISCAL IMPACT ON LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
1. Revenues:
None.
2. Expenditures:
None.
C. DIRECT ECONOMIC IMPACT ON PRIVATE SECTOR:
None.
D. FISCAL COMMENTS:
The adoption act prospectively adopts the Florida Statutes 2023 as an official document. It has no fiscal
impact on state or local government or on the private sector.
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Statutes affected:
H 7019 Filed: 11.2421, 11.2422, 11.2424, 11.2425