SB 500 Florida Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Spectrum Alert

Summary

Spectrum Alert; Requiring the Department of Law Enforcement, in cooperation with the Department of Transportation, the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, the Department of the Lottery, and local law enforcement agencies, to establish and implement the Spectrum Alert by a specified date; requiring the department, in cooperation with specified entities, to develop a training program and alert system for missing children with autism spectrum disorder which is compatible with existing alert systems by a certain date, etc. APPROPRIATION: $190,000

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Mar 4, 2025 Last action Apr 29, 2025

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What changed between versions

S 500 c1 → S 500 c2 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was amended to add a specific implementation deadline of July 1, 2026, for establishing and implementing the Spectrum Alert system and training program. The bill also changed the committee sponsorship from the Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice to include the Committee on Fiscal Policy and added Senator Arrington as a co-sponsor. The substantive policy requirements remain largely the same, but the new timeline adds accountability for when the system must be operational.

Scope change

The bill's scope regarding which agencies must participate and what they must do remains unchanged, but the implementation timeline was added to create a specific deadline for system deployment.

TIMELINE

Added a specific deadline of July 1, 2026, for the Department of Law Enforcement to establish and implement the Spectrum Alert system and training program, replacing the previous language that did not specify a completion date.

TECHNICAL

Changed the bill's committee sponsorship from the Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice to include the Committee on Fiscal Policy and added Senator Arrington as a co-sponsor.

Updated the bill number designation from c1 to c2 to reflect it is the second committee substitute version.

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Committee

Apr 23, 2025

Upper · Passed

Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)

upper

Apr 17, 2025

Upper · Passed

On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/22/25, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building

upper

Apr 14, 2025

Upper · Passed

Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)

upper

Apr 10, 2025

Upper · Passed

CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0

upper

Apr 7, 2025

Upper · Passed

On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 04/10/25, 11:00 am, 37 Senate Building

upper

Mar 25, 2025

Upper · Passed

Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice

upper

Mar 25, 2025

Upper · Passed

Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 9 NAYS 0

upper

Mar 20, 2025

Upper · Passed

On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/25/25, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building

upper

Mar 4, 2025

Introduced

upper

Feb 20, 2025

Committee

Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy

upper

1 primary · 1 co-sponsor