Affidavit_Regarding_Coercion_for_Labor_and_Services_09.23.2025.pdf

Affidavit Regarding the Use of Coercion for Labor and Services

State of Florida County of __________________

Name of Vendor: _____________________________________________________________________

Address: ____________________________________________________________________________

Phone Number: ______________________________________________________________________

Authorized Representative’s Name: _____________________________________________________

Authorized Representative’s Title: _______________________________________________________

Effective July 1, 2024, Section 787.06(13), Florida Statutes, requires all nongovernmental entities executing, renewing, or extending a contract with a governmental entity to provide an affidavit signed by an officer or representative under penalty of perjury attesting that the nongovernmental entity does not use coercion for labor or services.

As the person authorized to sign on behalf of the vendor, I certify that the vendor identified above does not:

• Use or threaten to use physical force against any person;

• Restrain, isolate, or confine or threaten to restrain, isolate, or confine any person without lawful authority and against her or his will;

• Use lending or other credit methods to establish a debt by any person when labor or services are pledged as a security for the debt, if the value of the labor or services as reasonably assessed is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt, the length and nature of the labor or services are not respectively limited and defined;

• Destroy, conceal, remove, confiscate, withhold, or possess any actual or purported passport, visa, or other immigration document, or any other actual or purported government identification document, of any person;

• Cause or threaten to cause financial harm to any person;

• Entice or lure any person by fraud or deceit; or

• Provide a controlled substance as outlined in Schedule I or Schedule II of Florida Statute 893.03 to any person for the purpose of exploitation of that person.

Under penalty of perjury, I declare that I have read the foregoing document and that the facts stated in it are true.

Signature of Authorized Representative: ______________________________________________

The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this _____ day of _____, 20____, by ________________________, as Authorized Representative of the above-named Vendor who is (___) personally known to me or (____) produced a _______ driver’s license as identification.

Notary Public, State of _____________________ Commission no.: __________________________ My commission expires:____________________