Department of Financial Services
DFS omnibus overhauls unclaimed property law, workers' comp billing disputes, and payday collection rules
Florida Statutes affected
| s. 2.004 | |
| s. 2.005 | |
| s. 2.016 | |
| s. 2.022 | |
| s. 2.026 | |
| s. 2.034 | |
| s. 2.035 | |
| s. 17.11 | To report disbursements made. |
| s. 17.13 | To duplicate warrants lost or destroyed. |
| s. 100.097 | |
| s. 110.113 | Pay periods for state officers and employees; salary payments by direct deposit. |
| s. 112.3135 | Restriction on employment of relatives. |
| s. 197.582 | Disbursement of proceeds of sale. |
| s. 215.5586 | My Safe Florida Home Program. |
| s. 215.89 | Charts of account. |
| s. 215.93 | Florida Financial Management Information System. |
| s. 215.94 | Designation, duties, and responsibilities of functional owners. |
| s. 215.96 | Coordinating council and design and coordination staff. |
| s. 215.985 | Transparency in government spending. |
| s. 216.102 | Filing of financial information; handling by Chief Financial Officer; penalty for noncompliance. |
| s. 216.141 | Budget system procedures; planning and programming by state agencies. |
| s. 440.13 | Medical services and supplies; penalty for violations; limitations. |
| s. 497.1411 | |
| s. 497.142 | Licensing; fingerprinting and criminal background checks. |
| s. 553.80 | Enforcement. |
| s. 560.1000 | |
| s. 560.1012 | |
| s. 560.102 | |
| s. 560.309 | Conduct of business. |
| s. 560.405 | Deposit; redemption. |
| s. 560.406 | Worthless checks. |
| s. 560.7032 | |
| s. 560.7033 | |
| s. 560.7034 | |
| s. 560.7035 | |
| s. 560.7036 | |
| s. 626.0428 | Agency personnel powers, duties, and limitations. |
| s. 626.171 | Application for license as an agent, customer representative, adjuster, service representative, or reinsurance intermediary. |
| s. 626.292 | Transfer of license from another state. |
| s. 626.611 | Grounds for compulsory refusal, suspension, or revocation of agent’s, title agency’s, adjuster’s, customer representative’s, service representative’s, or managing general agent’s license or appointment. |
| s. 626.621 | Grounds for discretionary refusal, suspension, or revocation of agent’s, adjuster’s, customer representative’s, service representative’s, or managing general agent’s license or appointment. |
| s. 626.731 | Qualifications for general lines agent’s license. |
| s. 626.785 | Qualifications for license. |
| s. 626.831 | Qualifications for license. |
| s. 626.8417 | Title insurance agent licensure; exemptions. |
| s. 626.854 | “Public adjuster” defined; prohibitions. |
| s. 626.9541 | Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices defined. |
| s. 627.797 | Exempt agent list. |
| s. 633.208 | Minimum firesafety standards. |
| s. 648.34 | Bail bond agents; qualifications. |
| s. 648.382 | Appointment of bail bond agents and bail bond agencies; effective date of appointment. |
| s. 717.001 | Short title. |
| s. 717.101 | Definitions. |
| s. 717.102 | Property presumed unclaimed; general rule. |
| s. 717.103 | General rules for taking custody of intangible unclaimed property. |
| s. 717.1035 | Property originated or issued by this state, any political subdivision of this state, or any entity incorporated, organized, created, or otherwise located in the state. |
| s. 717.104 | Traveler’s checks and money orders. |
| s. 717.1045 | Gift certificates and similar credit items. |
| s. 717.105 | Checks, drafts, and similar instruments issued or certified by banking and financial organizations. |
| s. 717.106 | Bank deposits and funds in financial organizations. |
| s. 717.1065 | Virtual currency. |
| s. 717.107 | Funds owing under life insurance policies, annuity contracts, and retained asset accounts; fines, penalties, and interest; United States Social Security Administration Death Master File. |
| s. 717.1071 | Lost owners of unclaimed demutualization, rehabilitation, or related reorganization proceeds. |
| s. 717.108 | Deposits held by utilities. |
| s. 717.109 | Refunds held by business associations. |
| s. 717.1101 | Unclaimed equity and debt of business associations. |
| s. 717.111 | Property of business associations held in course of dissolution. |
| s. 717.112 | Property held by agents and fiduciaries. |
| s. 717.1125 | Property held by fiduciaries under trust instruments. |
| s. 717.113 | Property held by courts and public agencies. |
| s. 717.115 | Wages. |
| s. 717.116 | Contents of safe-deposit box or other safekeeping repository. |
| s. 717.117 | Report of unclaimed property. |
| s. 717.118 | Notification of apparent owners of unclaimed property. |
| s. 717.119 | Payment or delivery of unclaimed property. |
| s. 717.1201 | Custody by state; holder liability; reimbursement of holder paying claim; reclaiming for owner; payment of safe-deposit box or repository charges. |
| s. 717.122 | Public sale of unclaimed property. |
| s. 717.123 | Deposit of funds. |
| s. 717.1235 | Dormant campaign accounts; report of unclaimed property. |
| s. 717.124 | Unclaimed property claims. |
| s. 717.12403 | Unclaimed demand, savings, or checking account in a financial institution held in the name of more than one person. |
| s. 717.12404 | Claims on behalf of a business entity or trust. |
| s. 717.12405 | Claims by estates. |
| s. 717.12406 | Joint ownership of unclaimed securities or dividends. |
| s. 717.1241 | Conflicting claims. |
| s. 717.1242 | Restatement of jurisdiction of the circuit court sitting in probate and the department. |
| s. 717.1243 | Small estate accounts. |
| s. 717.1244 | Determinations of unclaimed property claims. |
| s. 717.1245 | Garnishment of unclaimed property. |
| s. 717.125 | Claim of another state to recover property; procedure. |
| s. 717.126 | Administrative hearing; burden of proof; proof of entitlement; venue. |
| s. 717.1261 | Death certificates. |
| s. 717.1262 | Court documents. |
| s. 717.129 | Periods of limitation. |
| s. 717.1301 | Investigations; examinations; subpoenas. |
| s. 717.1315 | Retention of records by claimant’s representatives and buyers of unclaimed property. |
| s. 717.132 | Enforcement; cease and desist orders; fines. |
| s. 717.1322 | Administrative and civil enforcement. |
| s. 717.133 | Interstate agreements and cooperation; joint and reciprocal actions with other states. |
| s. 717.1333 | Evidence; estimations; audit reports and worksheets, investigator reports and worksheets, other related documents. |
| s. 717.1341 | Invalid claims, recovery of property, interest and penalties. |
| s. 717.135 | Recovery agreements and purchase agreements for claims filed by a claimant’s representative; fees and costs or total net gain. |
| s. 717.1356 | |
| s. 717.138 | Rulemaking authority. |
| s. 717.1382 | United States savings bond; unclaimed property; escheatment; procedure. |
| s. 717.139 | Uniformity of application and construction. |
| s. 717.1400 | Registration. |
| s. 772.13 | Civil remedy for terrorism or facilitating or furthering terrorism. |
| s. 1001.281 | Operating Trust Fund. |
| s. 1001.282 | Administrative Trust Fund. |
Side-by-side: current law vs. the bill
s. 17.11, F.S.
17.11 To report disbursements made.—
(2) The Chief Financial Officer shall also cause to have reported from the Florida Accounting Information Resource Subsystem no less than quarterly the disbursements which agencies made to small businesses, as defined in the Florida Small and Minority Business Assistance Act; to certified minority business enterprises in the aggregate; and to certified minority business enterprises broken down into categories of minority persons, as well as gender and nationality subgroups. This information shall be made available to the agencies, the Office of Supplier Diversity, the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Each agency shall be responsible for the accuracy of information entered into the Florida Accounting Information Resource Subsystem for use in this reporting.
17.11 To report disbursements made.—
(2) The Chief Financial Officer shall also cause to have reported from the Financial Management Subsystem no less than quarterly the disbursements which agencies made to small businesses, as defined in the Florida Small and Minority Business Assistance Act; to certified minority business enterprises in the aggregate; and to certified minority business enterprises broken down into categories of minority persons, as well as gender and nationality subgroups. This information shall be made available to the agencies, the Office of Supplier Diversity, the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Each agency shall be responsible for the accuracy of information entered into the Financial Management Subsystem for use in this reporting.
s. 17.13, F.S.
17.13 To duplicate warrants lost or destroyed.—
(1) The Chief Financial Officer is required to duplicate any Chief Financial Officer’s warrants that may have been lost or destroyed, or may hereafter be lost or destroyed, upon the owner thereof or the owner’s agent or attorney presenting the Chief Financial Officer the statement, under oath, reciting the number, date, and amount of any warrant or the best and most definite description in his or her knowledge and the circumstances of its loss; if the Chief Financial Officer deems it necessary, the owner or the owner’s agent or attorney shall file in the office of the Chief Financial Officer a surety bond, or a bond with securities, to be approved by one of the judges of the circuit court or one of the justices of the Supreme Court, in a penalty of not less than twice the amount of any warrants so duplicated, conditioned to indemnify the state and any innocent holders thereof from any damages that may accrue from such duplication.
(2) The Chief Financial Officer is required to duplicate any Chief Financial Officer’s warrant that may have been lost or destroyed, or may hereafter be lost or destroyed, when sent to any payee via any state agency when such warrant is lost or destroyed prior to being received by the payee and provided the director of the state agency to whom the warrant was sent presents to the Chief Financial Officer a statement, under oath, reciting the number, date, and amount of the warrant lost or destroyed, the circumstances surrounding the loss or destruction of such warrant, and any additional information that the Chief Financial Officer shall request in regard to such warrant.
(3) Any duplicate Chief Financial Officer’s warrant issued in pursuance of the above provisions shall be of the same validity as the original was before its loss.
17.13 To replace warrants lost or destroyed.—
(1) The Chief Financial Officer is required to replace any Chief Financial Officer’s warrants that may have been lost or destroyed, or may hereafter be lost or destroyed, upon the owner thereof or the owner’s agent or attorney presenting the Chief Financial Officer the statement, under oath, reciting the number, date, and amount of any warrant or the best and most definite description in his or her knowledge and the circumstances of its loss; if the Chief Financial Officer deems it necessary, the owner or the owner’s agent or attorney shall file in the office of the Chief Financial Officer a surety bond, or a bond with securities, to be approved by one of the judges of the circuit court or one of the justices of the Supreme Court, in a penalty of not less than twice the amount of any warrants so replaced , conditioned to indemnify the state and any innocent holders thereof from any damages that may accrue from such replacement .
(2) The Chief Financial Officer is required to replace any Chief Financial Officer’s warrant that may have been lost or destroyed, or may hereafter be lost or destroyed, when sent to any payee via any state agency when such warrant is lost or destroyed prior to being received by the payee and provided the director of the state agency to whom the warrant was sent presents to the Chief Financial Officer a statement, under oath, reciting the number, date, and amount of the warrant lost or destroyed, the circumstances surrounding the loss or destruction of such warrant, and any additional information that the Chief Financial Officer shall request in regard to such warrant.
(3) Any replacement Chief Financial Officer’s warrant issued in pursuance of the above provisions shall be of the same validity as the original was before its loss.
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