26 total bills, 10 anti-gun bills,
4 pro-gun bills for this session
Proposed Florida Firearm Legislation
26 total bills, 10 anti-gun bills,
4 pro-gun bills for this session
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Title: Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Description: Prohibits counties & municipalities from enacting or enforcing any law that restricts or prohibits use of gasoline-powered farm equipment or gasoline-powered landscape equipment or that distinguishes such equipment from any other equipment; requires Acquisition & Restoration Council to determine whether certain surplused lands are suitable for bona fide agricultural purposes; prohibits local governmental entity from transferring future development rights for surplused lands determined to be suitable for bona fide agricultural purposes; requires DEP, in coordination with DACS, to determine whether state-owned conservation lands are suitable for bona fide agricultural purposes; authorizes DEP to surplus specified state-owned lands determined to be suitable for bona fide agricultural purposes; prohibits person from wearing or displaying item that displays words "concealed weapon permit" or "concealed weapon permit holder" with intent to mislead another to believe that person is authorized to wear or display such item; prohibits possession, manufacture, sale, importation, distribution, or use of signal jamming device.
Last Action: 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
Last Action Date: January 13, 2026
Title: Protective Injunctions and Protection Orders
Description: Requires respondent to surrender to local law enforcement agency all firearms, ammunition, & licenses to carry concealed weapon or firearm after issuance of final judgment on injunction for protection against domestic violence; provides for surrender & storage of firearms, ammunition, & licenses to carry concealed weapon or firearm after issuance of protective injunction; requires law enforcement agencies to develop certain policies & procedures; provides for return of firearms, ammunition, & licenses to carry concealed weapon or firearm when protective injunction is vacated, terminated, or otherwise rendered no longer affective; authorizes respondent to elect to transfer all firearms & ammunition surrendered or seized by law enforcement agency to another person; revises criminal penalty for second or subsequent violation of injunction for protection against domestic violence or foreign protection order.
Last Action: 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
Last Action Date: January 13, 2026
Title: Reporting Lost or Stolen Firearms
Description: Requires individuals to report lost or stolen firearms to local law enforcement agency in jurisdiction in which loss or theft occurred within specified timeframe; requires such individuals to provide specified information to local law enforcement agency; requires local law enforcement agency to create incident report upon receiving report of lost or stolen firearm; requires individual who reported firearm lost or stolen to notify local law enforcement agency to which loss or theft was reported within specified timeframe if firearm is subsequently recovered.
Last Action: 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
Last Action Date: January 13, 2026
Title: Reorganization of Florida Government
Description: Proposes State Constitutional Amendment to move the seat of state government; revise the size and procedures of the Legislature; create new procedures for redistricting, vacancies and appointments are; revise the amendment process, create new cabinet positions, reorganize duties of the cabinet, allow recall elections, allow counties to become charter counties; and create a number of elected boards to provide oversight of the Governor, taxation, public utilities, and state universities.
Last Action: 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
Last Action Date: January 13, 2026
Title: Firearm Hold Agreements
Description: Provides immunity from civil liability for federal firearms licensees operating lawfully in this state for acts or omissions relating to firearm hold agreements; provides exception.
Last Action: 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
Last Action Date: January 13, 2026
Title: Juvenile Justice
Description: Authorizes Governor to award Medal of Heroism to juvenile detention & juvenile probation officers; authorizes certain entities to establish award program to award Medal of Valor to juvenile detention officer or probation officer in certain circumstances; clarifies that certain reference to department is reference to DJJ; provides that child subject to proceedings under chapter 984 may only be placed in shelter in certain circumstances.
Last Action: 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
Last Action Date: January 13, 2026
Title: Ambulatory Surgical Centers
Description: Specifies requirements for issuance, denial, suspension, & revocation of ambulatory surgical center licenses; requires AHCA to make or cause to be made specified inspections of licensed facilities; requires each licensed facility to maintain & provide upon request records of all inspection reports pertaining to that facility; requires that specified provisions govern the design, construction, erection, alteration, modification, repair, & demolition of licensed facilities; prohibits any person from paying or receiving commission, bonus, kickback, or rebate or engaging in any split-fee arrangement for referring patient to licensed facility; prohibits licensed facility from denying, for specified reason, applications of certain licensed health care practitioners for staff membership & clinical privileges; requires licensed facilities to provide for peer review of certain physicians & develop procedures to conduct such reviews; requires licensed facilities to establish internal risk management program; requires specified reporting; requires agency to adopt specified rules relating to minimum standards for licensed facilities; requires licensed facility to provide timely & accurate financial information & quality of service measures to certain individuals; requires licensed facilities to make certain health-related data available on its website; prohibits certain collection actions by licensed facility; requires licensed facility to furnish, in timely manner, true & correct copy of all patient records to certain persons.
Last Action: 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
Last Action Date: January 13, 2026
Title: Department of Financial Services
Description: Revises provisions related to DFS including CFO rulemaking, My Safe Florida Home Program, coordinating council, purchase of insurance, licensing & examination, public adjusters, bail bonds, & abandoned & unclaimed property.
Last Action: 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
Last Action Date: January 13, 2026
Title: Pawn Data Statewide System
Description: Requires FDLE to establish, operate, & maintain statewide system for collection of pawn data; provides procurement authority to FDLE to contract with single vendor to provide pawn data collection as service; provides mandatory participation in statewide system; prohibits law enforcement agencies from being charged fee for accessing pawn data through system; provides all pawn data collected is exclusive property of state; provides exception; prohibits specified acts; provides enforcement & penalties for violations; authorizes rulemaking.
Last Action: 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
Last Action Date: January 13, 2026
Title: Elections
Description: Requires that Secretary of State be elected, rather than appointed, & serve specified term; requires Florida Commission on Offender Review to develop & maintain database for specified purpose; provides that driver license or ID card applications, driver license or ID card renewal applications, & applications for changes of address for existing driver licenses or ID cards submitted to DHSMV serve as voter registration applications; requires DHSMV to transmit voter registration information electronically to DOS within specified timeframe; removes provision prohibiting persons providing voter registration services for driver license office from making changes to applicant's party affiliation without applicant's consent & separate signature; revises certain penalties; provides circumstances used to determine whether elections in local government exhibit racially polarized voting; authorizes party that sent notification letter to submit claim for reimbursement from local government; authorizes specified entities to file certain enforcement actions; creates Florida Voting Rights Act Commission within DOS; requires DOS instead of Office of Election Crimes & Security to conduct certain preliminary investigation; establishes General Election Day as paid holiday.
Last Action: 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
Last Action Date: January 13, 2026
Title: Blood Testing Required Following Civilian-involved Shootings
Description: Requires civilian to submit to test of his or her blood within certain timeframe after incident if he or she discharges firearm within this state resulting in injury or death; specifies procedure for testing; specifies consequences for refusing to submit to testing; provides for confidentiality & disclosure of test results; provides reporting requirements.
Last Action: 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
Last Action Date: January 13, 2026
Title: Products Liability for Firearms
Description: Provides that firearm manufacturer is not liable for certain torts based on absence or presence of certain features, mechanisms, or standards not required under federal law.
Last Action: 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
Last Action Date: January 13, 2026
Title: Preemption of Firearms and Ammunition
Description: Repeals provisions preempting the field of regulation of firearms & ammunition to Legislature, to exclusion of local jurisdictions.
Last Action: Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 5, 2026
Title: Risk Protection Orders
Description: Repeals provisions relating to surrender of firearms pursuant to risk protection order.
Last Action: 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
Last Action Date: January 13, 2026
Title: Florida Statutes
Description: Deleting provisions that have expired, have become obsolete, have had their effect, have served their purpose, or have been impliedly repealed or superseded; replacing incorrect cross-references and citations; correcting grammatical, typographical, and like errors; removing inconsistencies, redundancies, and unnecessary repetition in the statutes; and improving the clarity of the statutes and facilitating their correct interpretation, etc.
Last Action: Introduced
Last Action Date: January 13, 2026
Title: Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Description: Prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from enacting or enforcing any law that restricts or prohibits the use of gasoline-powered farm equipment or gasoline-powered landscape equipment or that distinguishes such equipment from any other equipment under certain circumstances; requiring the Acquisition and Restoration Council to determine whether certain surplused lands are suitable for bona fide agricultural purposes; establishing the Food Animal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program; revising the Florida Forest Service powers, authority, and duties; authorizing the Forest Service to manage the Welaka Training Center; establishing the Farmers Feeding Florida Program for specified purposes; limiting the number of incorporated state fair associations per county; prohibiting the possession, manufacture, sale, importation, distribution, or use of a signal jamming device, etc.
Last Action: Now in Fiscal Policy
Last Action Date: December 5, 2025
Title: Reporting Lost or Stolen Firearms
Description: Requiring individuals to report lost or stolen firearms to the local law enforcement agency in the jurisdiction in which the loss or theft occurred within a specified timeframe; requiring such individuals to provide specified information to the local law enforcement agency; requiring the local law enforcement agency to create an incident report upon receiving a report of a lost or stolen firearm, etc.
Last Action: Introduced
Last Action Date: January 13, 2026
Title: Protective Injunctions and Protection Orders
Description: Requiring a respondent to surrender to the local law enforcement agency all firearms, ammunition, and licenses to carry a concealed weapon or firearm after the issuance of a final judgment on an injunction for protection against domestic violence; providing for return of firearms, ammunition, and licenses to carry a concealed weapon or firearm when a protective injunction is vacated, terminated, or otherwise rendered no longer effective; revising the criminal penalty for a second or subsequent violation of an injunction for protection against domestic violence or a foreign protection order, etc.
Last Action: Introduced
Last Action Date: January 13, 2026
Title: School Safety
Description: Authorizing public postsecondary educational institutions to participate in the school guardian program; authorizing certain college or university employees, faculty members, and students to openly carry a handgun or carry a concealed weapon or concealed firearm into a college or university facility; creating the offense of discharging a weapon or firearm within 1,000 feet of a school, etc.
Last Action: Introduced
Last Action Date: January 13, 2026
Title: Preemption of Firearms and Ammunition
Description: Repealing a provision relating to the preemption of the field of regulation of firearms and ammunition to the Legislature, to the exclusion of local jurisdictions, etc.
Last Action: Referred to Judiciary; Community Affairs; Rules
Last Action Date: January 5, 2026
Title: Ambulatory Surgical Centers
Description: Specifying requirements for issuance, denial, suspension, and revocation of ambulatory surgical center licenses; requiring each licensed facility to maintain and provide upon request records of all inspection reports pertaining to that facility; prohibiting any person from paying or receiving a commission, bonus, kickback, or rebate or engaging in any split-fee arrangement for referring a patient to a licensed facility; prohibiting a licensed facility from denying, for a specified reason, the applications of certain licensed health care practitioners for staff membership and clinical privileges; requiring licensed facilities to provide for peer review of certain physicians and develop procedures to conduct such reviews, etc.
Last Action: Introduced
Last Action Date: January 13, 2026
Title: Victims of Violence
Description: Citing this act as the "Survivor Safety Act"; creating a rebuttable presumption that persons who use force in accordance with specified provisions against a known abuser act with a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily harm; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement, in consultation with specified persons, to develop, implement, and mandate an evidence-based, trauma-informed training program for specified persons; requiring the Florida Commission on Offender Review to establish the Survivor Self-Defense Case Review Panel, etc.
Last Action: Introduced
Last Action Date: January 13, 2026
Title: Firearm Hold Agreements
Description: Providing immunity from civil liability for federal firearms licensees operating lawfully in this state for acts or omissions relating to firearm hold agreements under specified circumstances, etc.
Last Action: Filed
Last Action Date: January 7, 2026
Title: Elections
Description: Requiring that the Secretary of State be elected, rather than appointed, and serve a specified term; requiring the Florida Commission on Offender Review to develop and maintain a database for a specified purpose; authorizing a person who meets certain requirements to register to vote for the early voting period or election day at an early voting site or his or her polling place and cast a ballot immediately thereafter; authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to preregister certain individuals to vote; revising the information a third-party voter registration organization is required to provide to the Division of Elections of the Department of State, etc.
Last Action: Filed
Last Action Date: January 9, 2026
Title: Juvenile Justice
Description: Authorizing the Governor to award a Medal of Heroism to juvenile detention and juvenile probation officers; authorizing certain entities to establish an award program to award a Medal of Valor to a juvenile detention officer or probation officer in certain circumstances; revising the definition of the term "officer" to include juvenile detention and juvenile probation officers; providing that a child subject to proceedings under ch. 984, F.S., may only be placed in a shelter in certain circumstances, etc.
Last Action: Filed
Last Action Date: January 9, 2026
Title: Evidence in Civil Actions Relating to Firearms
Description: Providing that the absence of certain mechanisms or features may not be used as evidence of a defective product design, negligence, a duty to warn, strict liability, or evidence to support similar claims, etc.
Last Action: Filed
Last Action Date: January 9, 2026
