US state regulation
Florida
Every state-level regulation PlainRegWatch tracks for Florida - across data privacy, AI, food chemical bans, right to repair and worker protection, with status, effective dates and official sources.
- Tracker score
- 48/100 Above median
- Regulations tracked
- 3 Above median
- Enacted into law
- 3
- Categories regulated
- 2/5
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QUIET pending desk. 0 pending · 3 enacted · 2/5 policy areas with rows.
The verdict
Florida sits in the mid tracker-score band - 3 enacted regulations across 2 of 5 tracked policy areas, with a portal tracker score of 48/100, led by Employment & Worker Protection.
- 48/100
- tracker (mid tercile)
- 3
- tracked rows (mid tercile)
- 3
- enacted into law
- Employment & Worker Protection
- WORKER-LED lead area
Tracker score is a 0–100 portal-derived measure: weighted counts of records marked enacted across five covered categories, normalized to the top result, not enforcement strength, legal burden, or an official state rating.
State archive posture brief
Florida legislative archive posture
Entity-varying stamps from Florida's rows in the five-category PlainRegWatch archive, volume band, enactment share, tracker score, and corpus rank, not a clone nationwide scaffold.
- 3 Tracked rows in archive
- 3 Enacted into law 100% share
- 0 Pending bills tracked
- 48/100 Portal tracker score
- #18 Of 51 by volume
- #13 Of 51 by tracker score
- Maryland Nearest volume peer 3 rows
- 2 Of 5 policy areas Employment & Worker Protection
Enacted-volume neighbourhood
Enacted statute count among nearest archive-volume peers (snapshot 2026-07-16).
State context
Florida's pending heat vs the tracked state corpus
QUIET pending desk: Florida is below the peer average for tracked volume and above the peer average for tracker score. Highlighted point = this state.
PlainRegWatch methodology: tracker score is a normalized enacted-count index, not legal burden. Placement method.
Florida enactments by year
Enacted regulations tracked in PlainRegWatch since 2015 · peak 1 in 1996
Policy coverage
Florida enacted mix · WORKER-LED
Worker-protection-led shelf: each card is live from Florida's rows (enacted counts only), with links into the national category hubs.
Florida regulatory footprint index
A single 0-100 index combining Florida's standing on 3 of 3 tracked measures: enacted-law volume, portal tracker strictness, and tracked-category breadth. This describes how extensive Florida's tracked regulatory footprint is, not a judgment of good or bad governance. A missing measure would drop out and redistribute its weight rather than deflating the index.
73/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Enacted volume
- C 3 tracked
69th percentile nationwide
- Tracker strictness
- B 48/100
76th percentile nationwide
- Category breadth
- B 2 categories
76th percentile nationwide
Benchmarked live against every state reporting each measure in the current portal tracker. Not a legal, compliance, or governance-quality score; PlainRegWatch's own weighting (enacted volume 40%, tracker strictness 35%, category breadth 25%).
💼 Employment & Worker Protection
Florida Minimum Wage (Amendment 2)
Art. X, Sec. 24, FL Const. Effective: 2025-09-30Florida minimum wage $14.00/hr (Sept 2025). Voter-approved schedule to $15/hr by Sept 2026, then annual CPI adjustment.
Florida Non-Compete Law
F.S. 542.335 Effective: 1996-01-01Florida enforces non-competes strictly. Courts must enforce "reasonable" agreements. Rebuttable presumption: 6 months or less = reasonable.
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Read with Florida
Nearest archive-volume peers and tracker-score poles for Florida (LIGHT · MID · QUIET), replacing the old fixed Related strip.
LIGHT MID QUIET WORKER-LED
Maryland · LIGHT
Maryland tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than Florida); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Rhode Island · LIGHT
Rhode Island tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than Florida); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Hawaii · LIGHT
Hawaii tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than Florida); tracker stamp LOWER vs MID.
District of Columbia · LIGHT
District of Columbia tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than Florida); tracker stamp LOWER vs MID.
Alaska (FLOOR score pole)
Alaska sits near Florida on archive volume yet stamps FLOOR while this page stamps MID.
Employment & Worker Protection hub · WORKER-LED
Florida's lead category is Employment & Worker Protection (2 enacted) under the WORKER-LED archive stamp.
Regulations by category in Florida
Source: State regulatory filings (IAPP / MultiState aggregation) Florida state-rule registry · 2023 Florida: 3 tracked · 3 enacted · tracker 48/100 (LIGHT/MID). Status reflects the latest legislative tracker snapshot.
Counts and tracker score are Florida's rows in the curated five-category archive · as of July 2026.