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FL HB 533

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Communication Rights of Individuals with Disabilities

Florida · 2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Communication Rights of Individuals with Disabilities; Provides that individuals with disability have right to communicate in their preferred manner; prohibits state agencies, schools, & health care providers from restricting or denying such individuals access to their preferred alternative communication method; specifies alternative communication methods recognized under act; specifies rights that individuals with disabilities have with respect to their communication needs; requires APD to adopt rules & develop certain training; provides requirements for training; establishes Communication Rights Advisory Board within agency for specified purpose; provides for membership & duties of board; provides for future repeal of board; requires agency to adopt procedures for reporting violations of specified provisions; provides for administrative penalties.

Introduced
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Status date
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Latest action
2026-03-13 — Died in Human Services Subcommittee
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Woodsonprimary
  • Salzmancosponsor
  • Driskellcosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-11-24

    Filed

    filing

  2. 2025-12-03

    Referred to Human Services Subcommittee

    referral-committee

  3. 2025-12-03

    Referred to Education Administration Subcommittee

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-12-03

    Referred to Government Operations Subcommittee

    referral-committee

  5. 2025-12-03

    Referred to Health & Human Services Committee

    referral-committee

  6. 2025-12-03

    Now in Human Services Subcommittee

  7. 2026-01-13

    1st Reading (Original Filed Version)

    filing,reading-1

  8. 2026-03-13

    Died in Human Services Subcommittee

    failure

Versions

Documents

Votes

Not provided by source.

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/533/ByCategory

Attribution

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