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FL SB 616

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Florida Highway Patrol Body Camera Use

Florida · 2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

Florida Highway Patrol Body Camera Use; Requiring members of the Florida Highway Patrol to wear a functioning body camera under certain circumstances; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to adopt certain policies and procedures, ensure compliance with certain public records and retention requirements, and provide certain training; providing that an officer who does not comply with certain requirements, policies, and procedures may be subject to disciplinary action, etc. APPROPRIATION: $2,000,000

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

Sponsors

  • Smithprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-11-20

    Filed

    filing

  2. 2025-12-09

    Referred to Transportation; Criminal Justice; Appropriations

    referral-committee

  3. 2026-01-13

    Introduced

    introduction

  4. 2026-03-13

    Died in Transportation

    failure

Versions

Documents

Votes

Not provided by source.

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/616/ByCategory

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:19:20.677932Z

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