2026 Legislative Session Bill Tracker

OVERVIEW: Establishes a publicly accessible, statewide database that allows Floridians with a felony conviction to easily determine their eligibility to vote. The bill addresses long-standing confusion created by Florida’s complex rights restoration system by providing clear, accurate, and centralized information. By increasing transparency and reducing uncertainty, the legislation helps ensure eligible voters are not unlawfully disenfranchised and promotes confidence and participation in the democratic process.

OVERVIEW: Imposes new and unnecessary barriers to voter registration and in-person voting, making it more difficult for eligible Floridians to participate in elections. The bill creates heightened requirements for first-time voters, including mandating presentation of documents such as a U.S. passport or birth certificate before voting. These requirements disproportionately impact low-income voters, students, elderly voters, voters with disabilities, and communities of color, while offering no evidence-based improvements to election security.

OVERVIEW: Expands voter protections and access to elections during and after natural disasters, such as hurricanes, floods, and other declared emergencies. The bill ensures that voters displaced by disasters are not disenfranchised due to polling place closures, relocation, or disrupted election administration. It provides flexibility in voting procedures and strengthens election continuity planning to protect the right to vote during emergency conditions.

OVERVIEW: This landmark legislation establishes comprehensive statewide voting rights protections modeled after the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, restoring safeguards weakened by recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions. The bill expands access to the ballot by allowing same-day voter registration, implementing automatic voter registration through the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles unless voters opt out, and strengthening protections against discriminatory voting practices. It also repeals restrictive voting laws enacted in recent years that intentionally create barriers to voter participation.

OVERVIEW: Creates additional barriers to voting and voter registration while increasing the risk that eligible voters are improperly removed from voter rolls. The bill eliminates student identification as an acceptable form of voter ID at polling locations, disproportionately impacting young voters and college students. It further expands roll maintenance practices that can result in erroneous purges, undermining voter confidence and threatening the fundamental right to vote.

OVERVIEW: Prohibits local governments, public schools, and public universities from displaying flags deemed disapproved of by state lawmakers, including Pride flags. The bill creates carve-outs for “historically or officially recognized flags,” explicitly allowing displays such as the Confederate flag. This selective restriction on expression amounts to viewpoint discrimination, suppresses LGBTQ+ visibility, and undermines local control while privileging symbols associated with exclusion and racial oppression.

OVERVIEW: Protects academic freedom by safeguarding the ability of educators and students to engage in honest discussions about race, gender, history, and identity. The bill repeals harmful provisions of the Stop W.O.K.E. Act and “Don’t Say LGBTQ” laws that restrict classroom instruction. It also limits book banning by requiring that objections be raised only by parents of students currently enrolled in the school, preventing ideological censorship driven by outside political actors.

OVERVIEW: Eliminates and prohibits local government ordinances, policies, programs, funding, or initiatives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The bill authorizes residents to sue local governments for engaging in DEI efforts and requires contractors and grant recipients to certify that they do not participate in diversity-related activities. This measure undermines local governance, chills efforts to address discrimination, and weaponizes litigation to dismantle inclusion initiatives across the state.

OVERVIEW: Reinforces academic freedom in Florida’s public colleges and universities by protecting institutions, faculty, and students from political interference in curriculum and academic decision-making. The bill affirms the right to intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity, ensuring higher education remains a space for open inquiry, research, and debate free from ideological control or retaliation.

OVERVIEW: Imposes unnecessary and unconstitutional restrictions on protected speech at public colleges and universities. The bill requires prior institutional approval before engaging in expressive activities, creating barriers to free speech, protest, and assembly. These requirements invite censorship, chill student and faculty expression, and conflict with long-standing First Amendment protections.

OVERVIEW: Strengthens transparency and accountability in law enforcement operations by prohibiting officers from intentionally concealing their identities during enforcement actions, including immigration-related raids. The bill seeks to prevent dangerous and deceptive practices that put civilians at risk, increase the potential for abuse, and undermine public trust. By requiring clear identification, the legislation promotes community safety, accountability, and constitutional policing standards.

OVERVIEW: Repeals harmful laws that have disproportionately harmed Florida’s immigrant communities and limited access to essential services. The bill ensures that all Florida residents, regardless of immigration status, can access healthcare, employment opportunities, education, and state-issued driver’s licenses. By removing exclusionary barriers, the legislation promotes public safety, economic stability, and the well-being of families and communities across the state.

OVERVIEW: Bars Floridians who cannot prove lawful presence in the United States from enrolling in public colleges and universities, GED programs, and English as a Second Language (ESL) courses. The bill also removes statutory requirements for gender equity plans in college athletics and imposes burdensome documentation requirements for tuition exemptions based on homelessness. This legislation restricts educational access, worsens inequality, and undermines workforce development and economic mobility statewide.

OVERVIEW: Mandates that all private employers use the federal E-Verify system by July 1, 2026, despite well-documented inaccuracies and error rates within the system. The bill places significant administrative and legal burdens on businesses, increases the risk of wrongful job loss for authorized workers, and disproportionately harms immigrant workers and mixed-status families. It further exacerbates labor shortages across key industries in Florida.

OVERVIEW: Enacts sweeping and punitive measures targeting employers by imposing excessive fines, criminal penalties, and personal liability for medical and treatment costs when an employee is injured. The bill allows civil lawsuits against employers for alleged E-Verify violations, restricts financial institutions’ lending practices, and further entrenches reliance on an unreliable federal database. These provisions threaten Florida’s economy, destabilize the workforce, discourage business growth, and disproportionately harm immigrant workers and employers alike.

OVERVIEW: Allows health care providers who withhold medically appropriate care from patients to bring lawsuits for damages while shielding those providers from accountability for discriminatory conduct. The bill effectively rewards discrimination by protecting providers who deny care based on personal beliefs, including refusals that disproportionately impact LGBTQ+ patients, women, and people seeking reproductive or gender-affirming health care. This legislation undermines patient rights, erodes medical ethics, and creates dangerous barriers to timely, necessary medical treatment.

OVERVIEW: Restores bodily autonomy and patient-centered health care by repealing Florida’s dangerous near-total abortion ban and eliminating laws that allow medical providers to discriminate against patients or refuse care. The bill requires transparency regarding services providers decline to offer, removes unnecessary and burdensome restrictions on medically necessary care, and affirms the right of all Floridians, including LGBTQ+ individuals, to access comprehensive, respectful, and evidence-based health care without government interference or discrimination.

OVERVIEW: Creates hostile and exclusionary work environments for LGBTQ+ individuals employed by state and local governments or organizations receiving state funding. The bill prohibits employers from requiring training related to gender identity and sexual orientation, emboldens harassment and discrimination in the workplace, and shields employees who engage in hostile conduct from accountability. These provisions weaken workplace protections, undermine inclusive employment practices, and make it more difficult for LGBTQ+ Floridians to thrive in public service and nonprofit roles.

OVERVIEW: Creates an overly broad private right of action allowing anyone who impregnates another person to sue health care providers, as well as friends and family members who assist a loved one in accessing abortion care, for unlimited damages. The bill attempts to confer legal personhood on fertilized eggs and embryos, treating them as equivalent to living people. These provisions would have devastating consequences for pregnant people seeking medical care, expose survivors of abuse to further harm, and chill lawful health care by weaponizing civil lawsuits.

OVERVIEW: Creates significant barriers for minors to access contraception and medically necessary health care, including treatment for sexually transmitted infections. The bill also bans crisis look mental health interventions for young people, putting vulnerable youth at serious risk. By restricting confidential access to care, this legislation undermines public health, delays critical treatment, and endangers the physical and mental well-being of minors across Florida.

OVERVIEW: Repeals state statutes that funnel millions of taxpayer dollars to anti-abortion establishments that lack medical oversight, provide misleading or inaccurate information, and discourage patients from accessing comprehensive reproductive health care. The bill ends public funding for organizations that do not deliver legitimate medical services, ensuring taxpayer resources are directed toward evidence-based, ethical, and patient-centered care.

OVERVIEW: Restores reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy by repealing Florida’s dangerous near-total abortion ban and eliminating laws that allow medical providers to discriminate against patients or refuse care. The bill requires transparency regarding services providers decline to offer and removes unnecessary and burdensome restrictions on medically necessary health care. It affirms the right of all Floridians to access respectful, comprehensive, and evidence-based health care without government interference.

OVERVIEW: Imposes unnecessary mandatory disclosures and contractual requirements on patients seeking in-vitro fertilization (IVF), creating new obstacles to fertility care. By inserting government mandates into deeply personal medical decisions, the bill threatens access to IVF, increases costs and delays, and injects legal uncertainty into reproductive health care for individuals and families seeking to build their futures.

OVERVIEW: Repeals Florida’s extreme near-total abortion ban and guarantees that Floridians have the fundamental right to make decisions about their reproductive health without government interference. The bill affirms that every individual who becomes pregnant has the right to decide whether to continue or end a pregnancy, prohibits the state from denying or interfering with access to reproductive health care, and protects health care providers and support networks from criminal or civil penalties. It also clarifies that fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses do not have independent legal rights under Florida law.

OVERVIEW: Establishes a dangerous bounty system that incentivizes surveillance and harassment of pregnant people by allowing family members, including brothers and fathers — even those responsible for the pregnancy — to sue for $100,000 in damages if abortion medication is accessed by mail or through telehealth. The bill authorizes lawsuits against friends, family members, support networks, and out-of-state health care providers offering lawful telehealth services. This legislation erodes privacy, endangers survivors, and weaponizes the legal system to punish reproductive health decisions.