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died · Florida · Senate Jun 16, 2025

SB 460: Student Elopement

Student Elopement; Requiring public schools to create a school staff assistance for emergencies (SAFE) team and a school elopement plan; requiring the SAFE team to create student-specific elopement quick reference guides for certain students; requiring public schools to annually provide their plans to the district school board, etc.
Kristen Arrington (D)
died · Florida · Senate Jun 16, 2025

SB 980: Hunger-Free Campus Pilot Program

Hunger-Free Campus Pilot Program; Citing this act as the "Hunger-Free Campus Act"; establishing the pilot program within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for a specified period; requiring the Commissioner of Agriculture to identify the three state universities or Florida College System institutions with the highest percentage of Pell Grant-eligible students for participation in the pilot program; requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to conduct a study to evaluate food insecurity on the campuses of state universities and Florida College System institutions, etc.
Topics ✓ EducationSupports EducationAddresses food insecurity at colleges with high Pell Grant students, improving educational access and student success through targeted support programs.85% confidence
Mack Bernard (D) · 1 co-sponsor
died · Florida · Senate Jun 16, 2025

SB 456: Bail Bonds

Bail Bonds; Requiring that, upon a court’s entry of an order to revoke pretrial release and order pretrial detention, the clerk of the court discharge any bond previously posted as a condition of pretrial release without further order of the court; deleting the requirement that a surety own certain real estate as a qualification for the release of a person on bail; requiring sureties, other than bail bond agents, to justify their suretyship by attaching to the bond United States currency, a United States postal money order, or a cashier’s check in the amount of the bond; providing that such currency, money order, or cashier’s check may not be used to secure more than one bond; reducing the number of days within which the clerk must furnish specified information to the Department of Financial Services and the Office of Insurance Regulation of the Financial Services Commission and the surety company at its home office, etc.
Topics ✓ Criminal JusticeSupports Criminal JusticeRemoves real estate requirement for bail sureties and mandates automatic bond refunds, reducing pretrial detention barriers and protecting defendant rights per criminal justice reform principles.90% confidence
Keith Truenow (R)
died · Florida · Senate Jun 16, 2025

SB 1116: Tourist Development Tax

Tourist Development Tax; Authorizing proceeds of the tourist development tax to be used to fund public safety improvements, affordable housing, and workforce housing, etc.
Topics ✓ Budget & TaxesSupports Budget & TaxesRedirects existing tourist tax revenue to fund public safety and housing programs, strengthening budget allocation for essential services.90% confidence ✓ HousingSupports HousingBill explicitly allocates tourist tax proceeds to fund affordable and workforce housing, directly advancing housing access through dedicated funding.95% confidence ✓ Labor & EmploymentSupports Labor & EmploymentFunds workforce housing, supporting worker housing affordability and stability, aligning with employment standards and worker needs.85% confidence
Carlos Smith (D)
died · Florida · Senate Jun 16, 2025

SB 288: Exceptions to the Limitation on Termination of Pregnancies

Exceptions to the Limitation on Termination of Pregnancies; Revising the definition of the term “fatal fetal abnormality”; providing that one physician, rather than two physicians, must make specified medical determinations for purposes of specified medical exceptions to the limitation on termination of pregnancies; revising the criteria of a specified medical exception, etc.
Tina Polsky (D) · 2 co-sponsors
died · Florida · Senate Jun 16, 2025

SB 938: Student Absences

Student Absences; Requiring a student’s primary teacher to report to the principal, or his or her designee, if a student is chronically absent; requiring the State Board of Education to create guidelines relating to student absences, etc.
Topics ✓ EducationSupports EducationRequires reporting of chronic absences and mandates guidelines to improve student attendance and school accountability, directly advancing K-12 educational outcomes.85% confidence
Stan McClain (R)
died · Florida · Senate Jun 16, 2025

SB 152: Protection from Surgical Smoke

Protection from Surgical Smoke; Requiring hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to, by a specified date, adopt and implement policies requiring the use of smoke evacuation systems during certain surgical procedures, etc.
Topics ✓ HealthcareSupports HealthcareRequiring smoke evacuation systems protects patients/staff from harmful surgical smoke, enhancing safety standards in healthcare facilities.95% confidence
Tracie Davis (D) · 2 co-sponsors
died · Florida · House Jun 16, 2025

HB 509: Licensure by Endorsement to Practice Dentistry and Dental Hygiene

Licensure by Endorsement to Practice Dentistry and Dental Hygiene; Prohibits specified persons from being licensed through Mobile Opportunity by Interstate Licensure Endorsement Act.
Topics ✗ HealthcareOpposes HealthcareBill restricts licensure pathway for dentists, limiting access to dental services which is a healthcare access component.85% confidence
Bill Conerly (R)
died · Florida · House Jun 16, 2025

HB 439: K-12 Instructional Personnel Salary Compression

K-12 Instructional Personnel Salary Compression; Requires school district & charter school salary distribution plans to address salary compression; & requires such plans to address salary compression for specified instructional personnel.
Topics ✓ EducationSupports EducationRequires school districts to address salary compression for instructional personnel, supporting fair compensation and retention of K-12 teachers.90% confidence ✓ Labor & EmploymentSupports Labor & EmploymentRequires school districts to address salary compression for instructional personnel, protecting against pay inequities and supporting fair compensation structures for educators.85% confidence
Karen Gonzalez Pittman (R) · 1 co-sponsor
died · Florida · Senate Jun 16, 2025

SB 914: Public Records and Meetings/Reports on Adversarial Threats

Public Records and Meetings/Reports on Adversarial Threats; Providing an exemption from public record requirements for a certain report on adversarial threats produced by the Chief of Domestic Security; providing an exemption from public record requirements for notifications provided to owners and operators of critical infrastructure and other assets; providing an exemption from public meeting requirements for meetings of the Council on Pacific Conflict in which such reports or notifications are provided or discussed; providing for future legislative review and repeal; providing statements of public necessity, etc.
Jay Collins (R)
died · Florida · House Jun 16, 2025

HB 511: Specific Medical Diagnoses in Child Protective Investigations

Specific Medical Diagnoses in Child Protective Investigations; Provides exception to requirement that DCF immediately forward certain allegations to law enforcement agency; requires child protective investigator to inform subject of investigation of certain duty; requires Child Protection Teams to consult with licensed physician or APRN when evaluating certain reports; authorizes, under certain circumstance, parent or legal custodian from whom child was removed to request specified examinations of child; requires that certain examinations be paid for by parent or legal custodian making request or as otherwise covered by insurance or Medicaid.
Robin Bartleman (D) Patt Maney (R) · 7 co-sponsors
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