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2025 Legislative Update

THE

LaMarca LETTER

By State Representative A listing of our 2025 legislative
accomplishments are below:
Chip LaMarca HB-797: Allows for certain licensed skilled nursing facilities

to request to designate or alter designation of certain beds
The 2025 Legislative session has concluded, and I am pleased as veteran & spouse nursing home beds if specific criteria
to say that we successfully secured many of my legislative are met. It authorizes executive director of DVA to approve
priorities and helped pass legislation that will make Florida a such requests if specific criteria are met and authorizes DVA
more affordable and better place to live. This year’s Legislative to adopt rules specifies conditions under which certain state
session was a very busy one for District 100. veterans’ nursing homes or certain licensed skilled nursing

We adjourned the 2025 Legislative Session Sine Die, on facilities are exempt from having to receive certificate of need
Monday June 16th at 11:25 p.m. on the 102nd day of from AHCA.
Regular session. Sine Die is a ceremonial tradition that marks HB-999: Revising the sales and use tax exemption for certain
the official adjournment of the Legislative Session. In this coin or currency; specifying that a person who claims the sales
ceremony, both House and Senate leaders, through Sergeants tax exemption bears the burden for determining whether the
at Arms, drop a handkerchief to signify that Session has gold coin or silver coin meets a specified definition; providing
officially ended. The dropping of the handkerchief began in a presumption regarding the purity requirements of gold coin
the 1920’s in the Old Capitol, when the chambers were not and silver coin, etc.
in line of sight, so the House and Senate could be gaveled
‘sine die’ simultaneously. With the Legislative Session ending HB-4037: I was happy to carry the local bill for the Fort
so late, we quickly refocused on the appropriations projects Lauderdale Downtown Development Authority (DDA). HB-
that we worked so hard to get to the finish line through the 4037 removes the expiration date of the Fort Lauderdale
legislative process. I immediately shared these priorities with Downton Development Authority; provides for transfer of
the Executive Office of Governor DeSantis, and we worked assets upon dissolution pursuant to law. This legislation allows
through this process over the next two weeks until the budget the DDA to continue investing and developing important
was signed. public spaces in Downtown Fort Lauderdale, such as the
Riverwalk and the thoughtfully reimagined Huizenga Park.

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