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FL SB 1396

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Litigation Financing Consumer Protection

Florida · 2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

Litigation Financing Consumer Protection; Citing this act as the “Litigation Investment Safeguards and Transparency Act”; authorizing courts to consider the existence of a litigation financing agreement under certain circumstances; prohibiting specified acts by litigation financiers; requiring certain parties to a legal proceeding, or their counsels of record, which have entered into a litigation financing agreement with a foreign person, a foreign principal, or a sovereign wealth fund to file and serve a notice identifying specified information with the court, agency, or tribunal and all other parties to the legal proceeding within a specified timeframe, etc.

Introduced
2026-01-22
Status date
—
Latest action
2026-03-13 — Died on Calendar
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Rulesprimary
  • Burtonprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2026-01-08

    Filed

    filing

  2. 2026-01-16

    Referred to Judiciary; Rules

    referral-committee

  3. 2026-01-22

    On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/27/26, 1:00 pm, 110 Senate Building

  4. 2026-01-22

    Introduced

    introduction

  5. 2026-01-27

    Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 8 NAYS 2

    committee-passage-favorable

  6. 2026-01-27

    Now in Rules

  7. 2026-01-29

    On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/03/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building

  8. 2026-02-03

    CS by- Rules; YEAS 13 NAYS 10

  9. 2026-02-04

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

  10. 2026-02-04

    CS by Rules read 1st time

  11. 2026-02-04

    Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading

  12. 2026-03-13

    Died on Calendar

    failure

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Favorable

    2026-01-27 · pass · 8-2

    Member-level votes (11)
    • DiCeglie: yes
    • Gaetz: yes
    • Hooper: yes
    • Leek: yes
    • Passidomo: yes
    • Trumbull: yes
    • Burton: yes
    • Yarborough: yes
    • Osgood: no
    • Polsky: no
    • Berman: other

  • Favorable with Committee Substitute

    2026-02-03 · pass · 13-10

    Member-level votes (24)
    • Avila: yes
    • Boyd: yes
    • Brodeur: yes
    • Burgess: yes
    • Burton: yes
    • DiCeglie: yes
    • Harrell: yes
    • Hooper: yes
    • Rodriguez: yes
    • Simon: yes
    • Trumbull: yes
    • Wright: yes
    • Passidomo: yes
    • Berman: no
    • Bradley: no
    • Davis: no
    • Gaetz: no
    • Garcia: no
    • Grall: no
    • Martin: no
    • Osgood: no
    • Rouson: no
    • Jones: no
    • Pizzo: other

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1396/ByCategory

Attribution

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