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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 1298: Building Construction

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 1298 is a bill introduced in the Florida Senate on February 26, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Building Construction. Primary sponsor: Corey Simon (Republican). Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Corey SimonPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate3

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Died in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. Now in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
  4. Favorable by Regulated Industries; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
  5. On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 03/19/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
  6. Introduced
  7. Referred to Regulated Industries; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Rules
  8. Filed

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source