FL SB 554
died on adjournmentNonprofit Corporations
Florida · 2026 Regular Session · upper
Subscribe in a feed reader. The feed covers recorded actions from the last 30 days; Bill Commons may record an action after it happened at the legislature.
Quick answers
Did FL SB 554 pass?
No. FL SB 554 died when the 2026 Regular Session adjourned without final action on it. Bills that die this way are sometimes reintroduced in a later session. Latest recorded action (2026-03-04): Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 797 (Ch. 2026-168)
What is FL SB 554 about?
Nonprofit Corporations; Renaming the “Florida Not For Profit Corporation Act” as the “Florida Nonprofit Corporation Act”; revising the circumstances in which a domestic or foreign corporation may correct a document filed with the department; requiring all courts, public offices, and official bodies to receive all certificates issued by the department as prima facie evidence of certain facts; authorizing a corporation to register under a name that is not otherwise distinguishable on the records of the department under certain circumstances; prohibiting a corporation from paying any dividend and making distributions of any part of its net income or net earnings to its members, directors, or officers, etc.
Who sponsors FL SB 554?
Bernard, Fiscal Policy are the primary sponsors of FL SB 554.
Description
Nonprofit Corporations; Renaming the “Florida Not For Profit Corporation Act” as the “Florida Nonprofit Corporation Act”; revising the circumstances in which a domestic or foreign corporation may correct a document filed with the department; requiring all courts, public offices, and official bodies to receive all certificates issued by the department as prima facie evidence of certain facts; authorizing a corporation to register under a name that is not otherwise distinguishable on the records of the department under certain circumstances; prohibiting a corporation from paying any dividend and making distributions of any part of its net income or net earnings to its members, directors, or officers, etc.
- Introduced
- 2026-01-13
- Latest action
- 2026-03-04 — Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 797 (Ch. 2026-168)
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
- —
Subjects
Sponsors
- Bernardprimary
- Fiscal Policyprimary
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
Newest first
2026-03-04
Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 797 (Ch. 2026-168)
deferral
2026-03-04
Substituted CS/CS/HB 797
2026-03-04
Read 2nd time
reading-2
2026-03-02
Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/26
2026-02-19
CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
2026-02-19
Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
2026-02-18
Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
2026-02-18
CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
2026-02-13
On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/18/26, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
2026-02-11
Now in Fiscal Policy
2026-02-10
Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
committee-passage-favorable
2026-02-05
On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 02/10/26, 12:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
2026-01-21
Now in Judiciary
2026-01-21
Favorable by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
committee-passage-favorable
2026-01-16
On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 01/21/26, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building
2026-01-13
Introduced
introduction
2025-12-09
Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Judiciary; Fiscal Policy
referral-committee
2025-11-18
Filed
filing
Versions
Documents
Votes
Favorable
2026-01-21 · pass · 10-0
Member-level votes (10)
- Bracy Davis: yes
- Davis: yes
- DiCeglie: yes
- Mayfield: yes
- McClain: yes
- Smith: yes
- Wright: yes
- Yarborough: yes
- Arrington: yes
- Leek: yes
Favorable
2026-02-10 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (11)
- Berman: yes
- DiCeglie: yes
- Gaetz: yes
- Hooper: yes
- Leek: yes
- Osgood: yes
- Passidomo: yes
- Polsky: yes
- Trumbull: yes
- Burton: yes
- Yarborough: yes
Favorable with Committee Substitute
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
Related bills
No related bills recorded for this bill.
Official source
Attribution
Data from openstates_api_sync, retrieved 2026-08-21T20:48:03.558590Z
Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:
Session-wide evidence can include changes to other bills:
Use this data
Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=FL&identifier=SB 554. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.
Known limitations
- Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
- Committee referrals are not yet captured.
See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.