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| Bill | Securities | Securities; Revises circumstances under which securities transactions are exempt from registration requirements; revises filing requirements for securities issuers under Florida Invest Local Exemption law; revises circumstances under which securities offers & sales are not subject to integration with other offerings; revises list of persons who must submit fingerprints for live-scan processing for registration applications; provides fees for fingerprint processing; revises written assurances requirements that merger & acquisition brokers must receive from certain control persons; revises circumstances under which person is eligible for payment from Securities Guaranty Fund; revises requirements for applications for payment from fund; specifies prohibition against certain misrepresentations in issuing & selling securities; increases maximum number of days that dealers & investment advisers may extend delay on certain disbursements & transactions of funds & securities for protection of specified adults. | us/states/fl | Florida Legislature | 2025 | HB 379 | Florida HB 379 (2025) |
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enacted | 2025-28 |
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4 | 41 | 2 | 2025-02-04 | 2025-05-20 | openstates | ocd-bill/f8325f0e-cae6-4346-9a41-bb0af0b1642f | https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/379/ByCategory | 0c2a353f94ad862207950cbd0efce2188ca651e650ba13ba1f9bb23b4061ca0d | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Florida HB 379 (2025) — Securities
Securities; Revises circumstances under which securities transactions are exempt from registration requirements; revises filing requirements for securities issuers under Florida Invest Local Exemption law; revises circumstances under which securities offers & sales are not subject to integration with other offerings; revises list of persons who must submit fingerprints for live-scan processing for registration applications; provides fees for fingerprint processing; revises written assurances requirements that merger & acquisition brokers must receive from certain control persons; revises circumstances under which person is eligible for payment from Securities Guaranty Fund; revises requirements for applications for payment from fund; specifies prohibition against certain misrepresentations in issuing & selling securities; increases maximum number of days that dealers & investment advisers may extend delay on certain disbursements & transactions of funds & securities for protection of specified adults.
Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-28.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- H 379 Filed (filed) — source
- H 379 c1 (committee substitute) — source
- H 379 c2 (committee substitute) — source
- H 379 er (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Third Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — 114–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Barnaby — primary (person)
- Commerce Committee — primary (organization)
- Insurance & Banking Subcommittee — primary (organization)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-02-04 Filed
filing - 2025-02-12 Referred to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2025-02-12 Referred to Commerce Committee
referral-committee - 2025-02-12 Now in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- 2025-03-03 Added to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee agenda
- 2025-03-04 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
filing, reading-1 - 2025-03-05 Favorable with CS by Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
committee-passage-favorable - 2025-03-10 Reported out of Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- 2025-03-10 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
deferral - 2025-03-10 CS Filed
filing - 2025-03-10 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
reading-1 - 2025-03-11 Referred to Commerce Committee
referral-committee - 2025-03-11 Now in Commerce Committee
- 2025-04-03 Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- 2025-04-07 Favorable with CS by Commerce Committee
committee-passage-favorable - 2025-04-08 Reported out of Commerce Committee
- 2025-04-08 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
deferral - 2025-04-08 CS Filed
filing - 2025-04-08 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
reading-1 - 2025-04-09 Bill referred to House Calendar
- 2025-04-09 Added to Second Reading Calendar
- 2025-04-10 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/16/2025)
- 2025-04-16 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2025-04-16 Placed on 3rd reading
reading-3 - 2025-04-16 Added to Third Reading Calendar
- 2025-04-16 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2025-04-16 CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0
passage - 2025-04-16 In Messages
- 2025-04-16 Referred to Fiscal Policy
referral-committee - 2025-04-22 Received
enrolled - 2025-04-24 Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy
withdrawal - 2025-04-24 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- 2025-04-24 Substituted for CS/CS/SB 988
- 2025-04-24 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2025-04-24 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2025-04-24 CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0
passage - 2025-04-24 In Messages
- 2025-04-24 Ordered enrolled
enrolled - 2025-05-16 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
executive-receipt - 2025-05-16 Approved by Governor
executive-signature - 2025-05-20 Chapter No. 2025-28
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f8325f0e-cae6-4346-9a41-bb0af0b1642f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).