José R. Oliva

Oliva was term-limited from the House in 2020, after serving a partial term and four full terms.

In 2020, the Oliva led House passed SB 7030 implementing the recommendations of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Commission. Oliva and others took attacks from the right and the left on this issue. The original legislation has been modified in subsequent legislative sessions as can be seen here.

The bill repeals CON review for general hospitals, tertiary hospital services and complex medical rehabilitation beds effective July 1, 2019. The bill repeals CON review for specialty hospitals effective July 1, 2021. The bill requires the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGH) to study and make recommendations for licensure standards for tertiary hospital services to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by November 1, 2019.

In February 2019, Oliva referred to pregnant women as a "host body" a total of five times during an interview with CBS4's Jim DeFede in Miami. Oliva apologized for the term, stating, "It was an attempt to use terminology found in medical ethics writings with the purpose of keeping the discussion dispassionate. The reaction undoubtedly shows it had the exact opposite effect. I apologize for having caused offense, my aim was the contrary."

Following his re-election, Oliva received enough votes from his colleagues in the legislature to assume the position of Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives for the 2018–20 legislative session.

Oliva served as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives for 2 years (2018-2020) before being term limited out of office in 2020.

In 2012, following the reconfiguration of the legislative districts, Oliva remained in the 110th District, which retained most of the territory that he had previously represented. He was challenged in the Republican primary by Ileana Abay, but he dispatched her easily, winning renomination with 86% of the vote. In the general election, he once again only faced write-in opposition, and he won his second term with nearly 100% of the vote.

When incumbent state representative Esteban Bovo resigned from the legislature to successfully run for the Miami-Dade County Commission in 2011, a special election was called to replace him. Oliva ran in the Republican primary against Frank Lago and Rafael Luiz Perez, emphasizing his support for "lower taxes, small and accountable government, [and] conservative family values." He ended up winning the primary, receiving 42% of the vote to Lago's 35% and Perez's 23%, and advanced to the general election, where he only faced write-in opposition. Oliva won the general election handily, winning 93% of the vote.

Oliva was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and moved to the state of Florida in 1974. He graduated from Hialeah-Miami Lakes High School, and later attended St. Thomas University, but did not graduate. Oliva founded a cigar manufacturing business with his brothers, and eventually served as its chief executive officer. From 2001 to 2005, he served as a Hialeah housing commissioner.

José R. Oliva (born January 6, 1973) is an American Republican politician from Florida. He served in the Florida House of Representatives, representing the Hialeah and Miami Lakes area in northern Miami-Dade County from 2011 to 2020. He was speaker of the House during his last term in office from 2018 to 2020.