State legislature

Florida

Official Florida bill text, status, plain English summaries, and amendment notes pulled from the Legislature's bill tracker.

Last scanned Aug 24, 2026, 10:35 AM

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1,719
Active
1,691
Passed
0
Did not pass
28

2026

60 bills shown

Florida2026Jul 1, 2026
HB0033Active

Honorary Names for Roads in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties

This law gives special honorary names to specific sections of two roads in Florida and directs the Department of Transportation to place markers with those new names.

Florida2026Jul 1, 2026
HB0755Active

Changes to Land Protection and Construction Rules in Florida

This law exempts Habitat for Humanity from certain bond requirements on long-term state land leases, extends funding deadlines for buying land in the Florida Keys, and expands bans on oil drilling near protected water areas.

EnergyLabor
Florida2026Jul 1, 2026
SB0014Active

Payment for Jose Correa's Injuries from Miami-Dade County

This law requires Miami-Dade County to pay $4.1 million to Jose Correa as the remaining part of a settlement for injuries he suffered in a bus accident.

Florida2026Jul 1, 2026
SB0628Active

Transportation Facility Designations

This law gives honorary names to specific roads and an airport in Florida counties and directs the Department of Transportation to place markers with these new names.

Florida2026Jun 30, 2026
HB0145Vetoed

HB0145: Changes to Laws About Suing the Government

This bill increases the maximum money the state must pay for tort claims, updates rules on when lawsuits can be filed against government entities, and changes how long officials have before a claim is considered denied.

Labor
Florida2026Jun 30, 2026
HB0893Vetoed

Rules for Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts

This law allows banks to hold special trust accounts for lawyers if they pay interest calculated by a specific formula and send that money to an entity chosen by the Supreme Court.

Florida2026Jun 30, 2026
HB1245Vetoed

Rules for Using Biosolids as Fertilizer

This law limits how much bulk Class AA biosolid fertilizer can be put on land to the amount plants need, requires site owners to keep records of applications, and asks the University of Florida to publish recommended usage rates.

Water
Florida2026Jun 30, 2026
SB7040Active

Recreating the Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund

This law re-establishes a special fund for the Governor to use during emergencies when regular budget money is not enough.

Budget
Florida2026Jun 29, 2026
HB0175Active

Florida Payment Stablecoin Law

This law updates Florida rules to include payment stablecoins and requires issuers to get a license or follow specific reporting steps.

Florida2026Jun 29, 2026
HB0359Active

Search Warrants: New Rules for Bodies, Devices, Remote Judges, and Drones

This law updates Florida rules to allow search warrants for deceased bodies, set specific return deadlines for digital devices, permit remote appearances before judges, and authorize drone use with a warrant.

Technology
Florida2026Jun 29, 2026
HB0505Active

Rules for Virtual Currency Kiosks in Florida

This law requires businesses operating virtual currency kiosks to register with state officials, follow specific safety steps during transactions like getting customer confirmations and showing warnings, and provide receipts.

Florida2026Jun 29, 2026
HB1389Active

Affordable Housing Law Changes

This law requires counties to allow apartment and mixed-use buildings in specific areas while limiting rules on building heights.

AgricultureHousingLand
Florida2026Jun 29, 2026
SB0594Active

Local Housing Assistance Plans for Mobile Home Owners

This law allows Florida counties and eligible cities to use housing funds to help mobile home owners pay lot rent or fix their homes, while requiring local plans to include strategies addressing park closures.

Housing
Florida2026Jun 29, 2026
SB1452Active

Changes to Financial Services and Insurance Rules

This law updates how Florida handles government payments, changes rules for hurricane home repair grants, sets new standards for insurance licenses, clarifies when business property is considered abandoned, and adjusts dispute timelines for health care providers.

Florida2026Jun 29, 2026
SB1568Active

Florida Stablecoin Pilot Program

This law creates a voluntary program allowing Florida's Department of Financial Services to accept, hold, and issue specific types of digital currency for government fees.

Technology
Florida2026Jun 26, 2026
HB0047Active

Rules for Medical Diagnoses in Child Safety Investigations

This law allows Florida to delay sending some child abuse reports to police if a parent claims the child has certain medical conditions or requests an exam, while requiring doctors' input and specific reporting duties.

ChildrenHealthcare
Florida2026Jun 26, 2026
HB0253Active

Veterans Dental Care Grant Program

This law updates the purpose of a Florida program to provide oral health care for veterans living in the state who earn up to four times the federal poverty level.

Florida2026Jun 26, 2026
HB0273Active

Special District Funding and Payment Rules

This law requires state agencies to include rules in their agreements that allow direct invoice payments to eligible rural counties, municipalities, and special districts when they show financial hardship.

Florida2026Jun 26, 2026
HB0325Vetoed

Education and Workforce Development for Inmates

This law allows the Department of Transportation to fund job training programs, including commercial driver's license courses, for eligible nonviolent inmates in Florida prisons.

Education
Florida2026Jun 26, 2026
HB0797Active

Florida Nonprofit Corporation Act Updates

This law updates Florida rules for nonprofit corporations to match national standards and clarifies how these groups manage their boards, members, meetings, and official filings.

Elections
Florida2026Jun 26, 2026
HB0967Active

Law Requiring Local Governments to Accept Online Payments

This law requires local government agencies in Florida to accept payments online and allows them to charge fees equal to processing costs for credit or debit card transactions.

ElectionsTaxes
Florida2026Jun 26, 2026
HB1081Active

Cybersecurity Experiential Learning Program

This law requires the Florida Center for Cybersecurity to create a program that helps students gain hands-on experience in cybersecurity, if lawmakers approve funding.

BudgetEducationLaborTechnology
Florida2026Jun 26, 2026
HB1285Active

Biosolids Management Permit Restrictions

This law stops the Department of Environmental Protection from issuing or renewing permits to apply Class B biosolids on land if a nearby government-owned facility can treat septage at higher levels.

Florida2026Jun 26, 2026
HB1405Active

Project Leo: Devices for Missing Persons with Special Needs

This law restarts a statewide program that provides personal tracking devices to help find people at risk of wandering away, funded by $1 million in state money.

Florida2026Jun 26, 2026
SB0110Active

Clarifications to Homestead Exemption Rules for Property Owners

This law updates Florida Statute section 196.041 to clarify that certain people, such as those buying homes under recorded contracts or holding very long-term leases, are treated as owners for property tax exemptions.

HousingTaxes
Florida2026Jun 26, 2026
SB0688Vetoed

SB0688: New Rules for Naturopathic Medicine

This bill creates a new board to license naturopathic doctors, sets rules for their practice and education, includes them as telehealth providers, and bans unlicensed people from using protected titles.

EducationLabor
Florida2026Jun 26, 2026
SB0962Active

Affordable Housing: Excluding Farms from Land Use Definitions

This Florida law updates the definitions of commercial, industrial, and mixed-use land to ensure that farms and farm operations are not included in these categories for affordable housing rules.

AgricultureHousing
Florida2026Jun 26, 2026
SB1180Active

Rules for Community Development Districts

This law exempts community development districts from state bans on restricting artificial grass, updates definitions for certain urban districts, and creates a process to remove elected board members through recall.

CrimeElections
Florida2026Jun 25, 2026
HB0461Vetoed

High School Students Volunteering at Polling Locations

This law allows registered or preregistered high school students in Florida to volunteer as poll workers without breaking rules that stop election officials from accepting private help.

EducationElectionsLabor
Florida2026Jun 25, 2026
HB1329Active

Local Government Financial Transparency and Accountability Act

This law requires Florida counties and cities to post budget details online for longer periods, hold workshops on cutting budgets by 10 percent without losing essential services, publish budget calendars, and follow new rules when charging impact fees.

BudgetEducation
Florida2026Jun 25, 2026
SB0382Vetoed

Micromobility Devices Safety and Reporting Act

This bill sets new rules for electric bicycles near pedestrians, creates a task force to study safety laws, and requires police agencies to track crashes involving these devices.

Florida2026Jun 17, 2026
HB0177Active

Rules for Appointing Lawyers in Death Penalty and Incapacity Cases

This law sets new steps for courts to follow when a regional public defender cannot represent a defendant due to a conflict of interest, specifically in death penalty cases or incapacity proceedings.

BudgetCrime
Florida2026Jun 17, 2026
HB0397Active

Violations of Pretrial Release Conditions for Violent Crimes

This law creates a new crime for people who break court rules while on pretrial release for specific violent offenses and sets stricter arrest, detention, and penalty rules.

Crime
Florida2026Jun 17, 2026
HB0429Active

New Rules for Identifying Criminal Gang Members

This law updates the list of signs used to decide if someone is a criminal gang member and creates a new definition for 'gang-related language' on online platforms.

CrimeParental Rights
Florida2026Jun 17, 2026
HB0477Active

Drug Paraphernalia Law Change

This law changes the definition of drug paraphernalia to exclude certain test strips that check for fentanyl and other specific dangerous substances.

Florida2026Jun 17, 2026
HB1019Active

The Joe Casello Act: Rules for Firefighting Foam and Water Testing

This law creates a timeline to stop the sale and use of certain firefighting foams containing harmful chemicals while requiring large wastewater facilities to test their water.

Florida2026Jun 17, 2026
HB1525Active

New Law Against Lewd Acts While Observing Children

This law creates a new crime for people who expose their sexual organs or perform specific sexual acts while observing children under age 16, and it removes an older similar law.

ChildrenCrime
Florida2026Jun 17, 2026
SB0156Active

The Officer Jason Raynor Act: Changes to Crimes Against Officers

This law makes it illegal to use force against officers acting in good faith and increases prison sentences for crimes committed against police, correctional staff, and other specified workers.

CrimeHealthcareLabor
Florida2026Jun 17, 2026
SB0168Active

Public Nuisances: Adding Gambling Houses and Removing Fine Limits

This law adds gambling houses to the list of places that can be declared public nuisances and removes a $15,000 limit on total fines for these violations.

Florida2026Jun 17, 2026
SB0394Active

Changes to Rules for Reinsurance Intermediary Managers

This law updates the definition of a reinsurance intermediary manager and clarifies who counts as having control over these managers.

Labor
Florida2026Jun 17, 2026
SB0418Active

Law Enforcement Interactions with Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder

This law creates a blue envelope and card program to help people with autism communicate with police and requires Florida officers to complete specific training on interacting safely with them.

Taxes
Florida2026Jun 17, 2026
SB0432Active

Meg's Law: Rules on Nitrous Oxide and Xylazine

This law creates 'Meg's Law,' bans tobacco dealers from selling or giving nitrous oxide, removes certain FDA-approved animal drugs containing xylazine from the list of illegal Schedule I substances, and adds new crimes with mandatory jail time for trafficking in xylazine.

CrimeEnergyHealthcareLabor
Florida2026Jun 17, 2026
SB0436Active

Changes to Felony Battery and Prison Releasee Reoffender Rules

This law adds battery on a police officer that causes injury to the list of crimes for prison releasee reoffenders and makes it a third-degree felony for people with one prior conviction for specific offenses who commit another battery.

Crime
Florida2026Jun 17, 2026
SB1028Active

Rules for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation Commercial Coverage

This law stops the state-run insurance company from selling new commercial property policies if a private insurer offers similar coverage at a cost no more than 15% higher.

Taxes
Florida2026Jun 17, 2026
SB1332Active

Career Offender Registration and Driver License Marking

This law requires career offenders to register with local sheriffs, report changes in their address or vehicles within specific time limits, obtain a marked driver license or ID card from the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, and undergo annual reregistration.

Crime
Florida2026Jun 17, 2026
SB7004Active

Keeping Conviction Integrity Unit Reinvestigation Files Private

This law keeps information created during new innocence investigations private for as long as the investigation is active and ongoing.

Privacy
Florida2026Jun 17, 2026
SB7014Active

Extending Privacy Rules for Social Media Investigations

This law keeps certain information from social media platform investigations private and extends the date when these privacy rules will expire.

Privacy
Florida2026Jun 12, 2026
HB0565Active

Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities Updates

This law adds Tatton-Brown-Rahman syndrome to the list of developmental disabilities and sets new background check rules for staff in care facilities.

HealthcareLaborParental Rights
Florida2026Jun 12, 2026
HB0625Active

Changes to the Justice Administrative Commission Membership

This law changes how many state attorneys serve on the Justice Administrative Commission by reducing their number from three to two.

Labor
Florida2026Jun 12, 2026
HB0655Active

Private Property Rights Claims: Closed Meetings with Lawyers

This law allows government agencies to hold private meetings with their lawyers during the first 90 days of a property rights claim notice, provided these sessions are fully recorded and made public only after the claim is settled or expires.

Florida2026Jun 12, 2026
HB1087Active

Expanding Public Records Exemptions for Financial Investigations

This law keeps certain documents private during government investigations involving virtual currency businesses, stablecoin issuers, and money transmitters holding gold or silver coins.

Florida2026Jun 12, 2026
HB1115Active

Grants for Genetic Counseling Education

This law creates a grant program to help Florida state universities start new genetic counseling programs or improve existing ones by funding faculty, student scholarships, and clinical training.

Education
Florida2026Jun 12, 2026
HB1293Active

New Law Against Fraudulent Entry of Homes

This law creates a new crime for people who use lies or fake documents to move into an apartment and allows landlords to end leases immediately if this happens.

CrimeHousing
Florida2026Jun 12, 2026
HB1311Active

Legal Tender Rules Ratification and Repeal

This bill officially approves specific state rules about gold and silver coins to meet legal requirements from an earlier law, while removing a section that would have canceled those same rules.

Florida2026Jun 12, 2026
HB1343Active

New Rules for Insurance Customer Representative Licenses

This law updates the ways people can qualify to become licensed insurance customer representatives in Florida by adding new education options.

Education
Florida2026Jun 12, 2026
HB1347Active

Rules for Clinical Laboratory Worker Licenses

This law requires lab workers to prove their qualifications and pay fees before getting a license.

Labor
Florida2026Jun 12, 2026
HB1451Active

Utility Services: Public Meetings and Rate Rules

This law requires cities to hold public meetings before sharing utility services with other areas, sets rules for charging customers outside city limits, creates a new reporting system, and gives the state control over regional utilities.

EnergyLabor
Florida2026Jun 12, 2026
HB1515Active

Privacy Protection for Uterine Fibroid Research Data

This law keeps medical records and personal information about women with uterine fibroids private so the Department of Health can study them without breaking federal privacy rules.

HealthcarePrivacy
Florida2026Jun 12, 2026
HB7031Active

Update to Florida's Definition of Federal Tax Rules

This law updates how Florida defines federal tax rules used in state taxes and makes those changes apply retroactively starting January 1, 2026.

Taxes
Florida2026Jun 12, 2026
SB0298Active

Protecting Private Records for Victims of Dating Violence

This law keeps certain personal contact information secret from public view for victims of dating violence who join the state's Address Confidentiality Program.

EducationElectionsPrivacy