This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.
Sponsor
Burgess
Last action
2026-03-13
Official status
House - Died in Messages
Effective date
2026-07-01
Plain English Breakdown
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Patriotic Displays at Public Schools
Patriotic Displays at Public Schools; Requiring, subject to legislative appropriation, each district school board to adopt rules to require the display of portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln at each public school in the district; requiring the Department of Education to select the portraits and make them available to each school district, etc.
What This Bill Does
Patriotic Displays at Public Schools; Requiring, subject to legislative appropriation, each district school board to adopt rules to require the display of portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln at each public school in the district; requiring the Department of Education to select the portraits and make them available to each school district, etc.
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Amendments
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• On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K - 12, 01/13/26, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
2025-11-17Senate
• Referred to Education Pre-K - 12; Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education; Rules
2025-11-06Senate
• Filed
Official Summary Text
Patriotic Displays at Public Schools; Requiring, subject to legislative appropriation, each district school board to adopt rules to require the display of portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln at each public school in the district; requiring the Department of Education to select the portraits and make them available to each school district, etc.
Current Bill Text
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Florida Senate
-
2026
CS for SB 420
By
the Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education; and
Senators Burgess, Yarborough, and Gaetz
602-02300-26 2026420c1
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to patriotic displays at public
3 schools; amending s. 1003.44, F.S.; requiring, subject
4 to legislative appropriation, each district school
5 board to adopt rules to require the display of
6 portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln at
7 each public school in the district; requiring the
8 Department of Education to select the portraits and
9 make them available to each school district; providing
10 an effective date.
11
12 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
13
14 Section 1. Subsection (4) of section 1003.44, Florida
15 Statutes, is amended to read:
16 1003.44 Patriotic programs; rules.—
17 (4) Each district school board shall adopt rules to
18 require
,
in all of the schools of the district and in each
19
building used by the district school board
:
,
20
(a)
The display of the state motto, “In God We Trust,”
21 designated under s. 15.0301, in a conspicuous place
at each
22
public school in the district
and in each building used by the
23
district school board
.
24
(b
)
Subject to legislative appropriation, the display of
25
p
ortraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in a
26
conspicuous
place
at
each public
school
in
the district
.
The
27
Department of Education shall select the portraits and make them
28
available to each school district.
29 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.