Bill Summary

SB 1298 Building Construction (2025 Session)
Building Construction; Requiring the Florida Building Code Administrators and Inspectors Board to establish by rule certain internship programs, certain eligibility criteria for one- and two-family dwelling inspector certifications, and a certain application process; authorizing an owner or, in certain circumstances, an owner’s agent to sign certain documents personally or virtually; requiring a newly designated qualifying agent to apply to the Department of Business and Professional Regulation for a change of contractor within a certain timeframe in certain jurisdictions; revising the threshold contract value amount at which a building permit issuing authority must require an applicant to file a copy of a notice of commencement, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2025
02/26/25
SENATE
Filed
03/06/25
SENATE
Referred to Regulated Industries; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Rules
03/14/25
SENATE
On Committee agenda - Regulated Industries, 03/19/25, 9:00 am, 412 K
03/19/25
SENATE
Favorable by Regulated Industries; 8 Yeas, 0 Nays
03/19/25
SENATE
Now in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
05/03/25
SENATE
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
1298
Filed on 02/26/25
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