Title: Expedited Service Fees

Summary: Authorizes person to request expedited services from DOS in specified manner.

Full Text:
An act relating to expedited service fees; amending s. 607.0122, F.S.; authorizing a person to request expedited services from the Department of State in a specified manner; amending s. 610.104, F.S.; conforming a cross-reference; providing a contingent effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Section 607.0122, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 607.0122 Fees for filing documents and issuing certificates.-(1) The department shall collect the following fees when the documents described in this section are delivered to the department for filing: (a)(1) Articles of incorporation: $35. (b)(2) Application for registered name: $87.50. (c)(3) Application for renewal of registered name: $87.50. (d)(4) Corporation's statement of change of registered agent or registered office or both if not included on the annual report: $35. (e)(5) Designation of a nd acceptance by registered agent: $35. HB 1363 2025 (f)(6) Agent's statement of resignation from a corporation that has not been dissolved: $87.50. (g)(7) Agent's statement of resignation from a dissolved corporation or a composite statement of resignation from tw oor more dissolved corporations pursuant to s. 607.0502(6): $35. (h)(8) Amendment of articles of incorporation: $35. (i)(9) Restatement of articles of incorporation with amendment of articles: $35. (j)(10) Articles of merger or share exchange for ea ch party thereto: $35. (k)(11) Articles of dissolution: $35. (l)(12) Articles of revocation of dissolution: $35. (m)(13) Application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution: $600. (n)(14) Application for certificate of authority to transact business in this state by a foreign corporation: $35. (o)(15) Application for amended certificate of authority: $35. (p)(16) Application for certificate of withdrawal by a foreign corporation: $35. (q)(17) Annual report: $61.25. (r)(18) Articles of correction: $35. (s)(19) Application for certificate of status: $8.75. (t)(20) Certificate of domestication of a foreign corporation: $50. HB 1363 2025 (u)(21) Certified copy of document: $52.50. (v)(22) Serving as agent for substitute service of process: $87.50. (w)(23) Supplemental corporate fee: $88.75. (x)(24) Any other document required or permitted to be filed by this chapter: $35. (2) A person may request expedited services by submitting to the department an expedited service request form. A request for expedited services must be made in person or through an electronic transmission. A request for expedited services may not be requested through mail. Section 2. Subsection (12) of section 610. 104, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 610.104 State authorization to provide cable or video service.-(12) Beginning years after approval of the certificateholder's initial certificate of franchise issued by the department, and every years the reafter, the certificateholder shall update the information contained in the original application for a certificate of franchise. At the time of filing the information update, the certificateholder shall pay a processing fee of $1,000. Any certificateholde rthat fails to file the updated information and pay the processing fee on the 5-year anniversary dates shall be subject to cancellation of its state-issued certificate of franchise authority if, upon HB 1363 2025 notice given to the certificateholder at its last addre ss on file with the department, the certificateholder fails to file the updated information and pay the processing fee within 78 days after the date notice was mailed. The application and processing fees imposed in this section shall be paid to the Department of State for deposit into the Clearing Funds Trust Fund for immediate transfer by the Chief Financial Officer to the General Inspection Trust Fund of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The Department of Agriculture and Consumer Servic es shall maintain a separate account within the General Inspection Trust Fund to distinguish cable franchise revenues from all other funds. The application, any amendments to the certificate, or information updates must be accompanied by a fee to the Depar tment of State equal to that for filing articles of incorporation pursuant to s. 607.0122(1)(a) s. 607.0122(1).Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law if HB 1365 or similar legislation is adopted in the same legislative session or an extension thereof and becomes law.