Below, a list of some of the bills that were approved or failed in the 2013 legislative session. Unless noted, the bills that passed still must be signed by Gov. Rick Scott before they become the law of the land.

Business

• WINE KEGS (PASSED): Allows wine to be sold in five-gallon containers, repealing current limit of one gallon. (SB 658/HB 623)

• CAR DEALERS (PASSED): Requires consumers to submit demand letter prior to filing lawsuit against car dealer. (SB 292/HB 55)

Criminal, civil justice

• MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENTS (PASSED): Adds regulations to curb businesses that could be a front for human trafficking. (SB 500/HB 7005)

• FOREIGN LAW (FAILED): Bans use of foreign law in family court cases; critics said it was rooted in legislation against Sharia or Islamic law. (SB 58/HB 351)

• LANDLORDS, TENANTS (PASSED): Allows landlords to evict tenants after accepting partial rent payments and makes other changes to landlord-tenant law. (SB 490/HB 77)

• WAGE THEFT (FAILED): Prohibits local governments from setting up wage theft prevention programs. Requires unpaid workers to sue their bosses in civil court. (SB 1216/HB 1125)

• ANIMAL CRUELTY (PASSED): Prohibits dyeing or artificial coloring of animals, the sale of certain animals and boosts animal cruelty penalties. (HB 851)

• NURSING HOME LITIGATION (FAILED): Makes it tougher to sue a nursing home for punitive damages. (SB 1384/HB 869)

• ALIMONY (VETOED): Ends permanent alimony; places caps on alimony payments based on payer’s income. Requires judges to give equal custody to newly divorced parents, unless one parent can make a convincing case otherwise. (SB 718)

• PERSONAL RECORDS (PASSED): Makes it illegal to possess other people’s personal information such as Social Security numbers and credit cards. (HB 691)

• DEATH PENALTY (FAILED): Repeals Florida’s death penalty for capital cases. (HB 4005)

• EXPERT WITNESS (PASSED): Requires courts to adhere to a modified Daubert standard to determine the admissibility of expert witness testimony, patterned after standard used in most other states and the federal government. (HB 7015)

• SEXUAL BATTERY (PASSED): Severs paternal rights of a rapist when a child is conceived during the assault. (SB 964 /HB 887)

• DRONES (SIGNED INTO LAW): Limits law enforcement use of unmanned drones for surveillance; bans local law enforcement officials from using drones without a warrant or threat of a terrorist attack; and prohibits information collected by drones to be used as evidence in court. (SB 92)

• JUVENILE INMATES (FAILED): Makes juvenile inmates sentenced to life imprisonment for non-homicides eligible for resentencing after 25 years. (SB 1350/HB 963)

• DEATH PENALTY (PASSED): Limits the legal arguments used by inmates sentenced to death and awaiting execution, in an effort to accelerate the death penalty process. (HB 7083)

• SEX OFFENSES (FAILED): Increases the age when out-of-court tape can be used in child abuse cases; adds more restrictions on sex offenders. (HB 7031) Part of bill passed in HB 1325.

• MEDICAL LIABILITY (PASSED): Makes it more difficult to sue doctors in medical malpractice lawsuits by allowing their lawyers to consult with the doctors of plaintiffs without another lawyer present; limits which expert witnesses can testify. (SB 1792)