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FL SB 1594

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Veteran Benefit Payments to Minor Clients

Florida · 2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

Veteran Benefit Payments to Minor Clients; Authorizing the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Health, or the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to access certain benefit payments for specified purposes; prohibiting the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Health, or the Agency for Persons with Disabilities from supplanting certain financial assistance, etc.

Introduced
2026-01-22
Status date
—
Latest action
2026-03-13 — Died in returning Messages
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Gaetzprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2026-01-09

    Filed

    filing

  2. 2026-01-16

    Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; Fiscal Policy

    referral-committee

  3. 2026-01-22

    On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 01/27/26, 1:00 pm, 301 Senate Building

  4. 2026-01-22

    Introduced

    introduction

  5. 2026-01-27

    Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 5 NAYS 0

    committee-passage-favorable

  6. 2026-01-27

    Now in Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security

  7. 2026-02-06

    On Committee agenda-- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security, 02/11/26, 3:00 pm, 301 Senate Building

  8. 2026-02-11

    Favorable by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; YEAS 5 NAYS 0

    committee-passage-favorable

  9. 2026-02-11

    Now in Fiscal Policy

  10. 2026-02-13

    On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/18/26, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building

  11. 2026-02-18

    Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0

    committee-passage-favorable

  12. 2026-02-18

    Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading

  13. 2026-02-23

    Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/25/26

  14. 2026-02-25

    Read 2nd time

    reading-2

  15. 2026-02-25

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

  16. 2026-02-25

    Passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0

    passage

  17. 2026-02-25

    Immediately certified

  18. 2026-02-25

    In Messages

  19. 2026-03-05

    Bill referred to House Calendar

  20. 2026-03-05

    Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/9/2026)

  21. 2026-03-05

    1st Reading (Original Filed Version)

    filing,reading-1

  22. 2026-03-09

    Read 2nd time

    reading-2

  23. 2026-03-09

    Amendment 769955 adopted

  24. 2026-03-09

    Added to Third Reading Calendar

  25. 2026-03-09

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

  26. 2026-03-09

    Passed as amended; YEAS 112, NAYS 0

    passage

  27. 2026-03-09

    In returning messages

  28. 2026-03-12

    Refused to concur, requested House to recede

  29. 2026-03-12

    In Messages

  30. 2026-03-13

    Died in returning Messages

    failure

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Favorable

    2026-01-27 · pass · 5-0

    Member-level votes (6)
    • Harrell: yes
    • Rouson: yes
    • Sharief: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Grall: yes
    • Simon: other

  • Favorable

    2026-02-11 · pass · 5-0

    Member-level votes (5)
    • Burgess: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Sharief: yes
    • Truenow: yes
    • Wright: yes

  • Favorable

    2026-02-18 · pass · 19-0

    Member-level votes (20)
    • Arrington: yes
    • Avila: yes
    • Bernard: yes
    • Boyd: yes
    • Bracy Davis: yes
    • Bradley: yes
    • Burton: yes
    • Calatayud: yes
    • Davis: yes
    • Gaetz: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Leek: yes
    • Mayfield: yes
    • Passidomo: yes
    • Rodriguez: yes
    • Truenow: yes
    • Yarborough: yes
    • Osgood: yes
    • Gruters: yes
    • Simon: other

  • Third Reading

    2026-02-25 · pass · 36-0

    Member-level votes (39)
    • Arrington: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Polsky: yes
    • Avila: yes
    • Grall: yes
    • Rodriguez: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Rouson: yes
    • Bernard: yes
    • Harrell: yes
    • Sharief: excused
    • Boyd: yes
    • Hooper: yes
    • Simon: yes
    • Bracy Davis: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Smith: yes
    • Bradley: yes
    • Leek: yes
    • Truenow: yes
    • Brodeur: yes
    • Martin: yes
    • Trumbull: yes
    • Burgess: yes
    • Massullo: yes
    • Wright: yes
    • Burton: yes
    • Mayfield: yes
    • Yarborough: yes
    • Calatayud: yes
    • McClain: yes
    • Albritton: yes
    • Davis: yes
    • Osgood: yes
    • DiCeglie: yes
    • Passidomo: yes
    • Gaetz: yes
    • Pizzo: excused
    • Gruters: not voting

  • Passage, Third Reading

    2026-03-09 · pass · 112-0

    Member-level votes (117)
    • Abbott: yes
    • Eskamani: yes
    • Oliver: yes
    • Albert: yes
    • Esposito: yes
    • Overdorf: yes
    • Alvarez, D.: yes
    • Fabricio: yes
    • Owen: yes
    • Alvarez, J.: yes
    • Franklin: yes
    • Partington: yes
    • Anderson: yes
    • Gantt: yes
    • Perez: yes
    • Andrade: yes
    • Garrison: yes
    • Persons-Mulicka: yes
    • Gentry: yes
    • Plakon: yes
    • Aristide: yes
    • Gerwig: yes
    • Baker: yes
    • Giallombardo: yes
    • Porras: yes
    • Bankson: yes
    • Gonzalez Pittman: yes
    • Rayner: yes
    • Barnaby: yes
    • Gossett-Seidman: yes
    • Redondo: yes
    • Bartleman: yes
    • Gottlieb: yes
    • Rizo: yes
    • Basabe: yes
    • Greco: yes
    • Robinson, F.: yes
    • Benarroch: yes
    • Griffitts: yes
    • Robinson, W.: yes
    • Berfield: yes
    • Grow: yes
    • Rosenwald: yes
    • Black: yes
    • Harris: yes
    • Salzman: yes
    • Blanco: yes
    • Hart-Lowman: yes
    • Sapp: yes
    • Booth: yes
    • Hinson: yes
    • Shoaf: yes
    • Borrero: yes
    • Hodgers: yes
    • Sirois: yes
    • Botana: yes
    • Holcomb: yes
    • Skidmore: yes
    • Boyles: yes
    • Hunschofsky: yes
    • Smith: yes
    • Brackett: yes
    • Jacques: yes
    • Snyder: yes
    • Brannan: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Spencer: yes
    • Buchanan: yes
    • Stark: yes
    • Busatta: yes
    • Kendall: yes
    • Steele: yes
    • Campbell: yes
    • Kincart Jonsson: yes
    • Tant: yes
    • Canady: yes
    • Koster: yes
    • Tendrich: yes
    • Cassel: yes
    • LaMarca: yes
    • Tomkow: yes
    • Chamberlin: yes
    • Long: yes
    • Chambliss: yes
    • López, J.: yes
    • Tramont: yes
    • Chaney: yes
    • Maggard: yes
    • Tuck: yes
    • Cobb: yes
    • Maney: yes
    • Valdés: yes
    • Conerly: yes
    • McClure: yes
    • Weinberger: yes
    • Cross: yes
    • McFarland: yes
    • Woodson: yes
    • Daley: yes
    • Melo: yes
    • Yarkosky: yes
    • Daniels: yes
    • Michael: yes
    • Yeager: yes
    • Driskell: yes
    • Miller: yes
    • Young: yes
    • Duggan: yes
    • Mooney: yes
    • Nix: yes
    • Edmonds: yes
    • Nixon: yes
    • Antone: not voting
    • Plasencia: not voting
    • Joseph: not voting
    • Trabulsy: not voting
    • Dunkley: not voting

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https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1594/ByCategory

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