FL SB 500
deadSecurity for Statewide Constitutional Office Candidates
Florida · 2026 Regular Session · upper
Description
Security for Statewide Constitutional Office Candidates; Requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to provide certain candidates with a protective security detail for a specified time period, etc.
- Introduced
- 2026-01-13
- Status date
- —
- Latest action
- 2026-03-13 — Died on Calendar
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Avilaprimary
- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justiceprimary
- Wrightcosponsor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
2025-11-14
Filed
filing
2025-12-01
Referred to Ethics and Elections; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
referral-committee
2026-01-08
On Committee agenda-- Ethics and Elections, 01/13/26, 4:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
2026-01-13
Favorable by Ethics and Elections; YEAS 6 NAYS 2
committee-passage-favorable
2026-01-13
Introduced
introduction
2026-01-14
Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
2026-02-20
On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 02/25/26, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
2026-02-25
CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 5 NAYS 2
2026-02-27
Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
2026-03-03
CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time
2026-03-06
Original reference(s) removed: Fiscal Policy
2026-03-06
Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
2026-03-13
Died on Calendar
failure
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Votes
Favorable
2026-01-13 · pass · 6-2
Member-level votes (8)
- Avila: yes
- Bradley: yes
- Grall: yes
- Rouson: yes
- Bernard: yes
- Gaetz: yes
- Garcia: no
- Polsky: no
Favorable with Committee Substitute
2026-02-25 · pass · 5-2
Member-level votes (8)
- Simon: yes
- Smith: yes
- Wright: yes
- Yarborough: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Osgood: no
- Polsky: no
- Martin: other
Related bills
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