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IntroducedOct 16, 2025
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Passed HouseFeb 19, 2026
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Passed Senate
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Became Law
Florida House Bill
Elimination of Non-school Property for Homesteads; Proposes amendment to State Constitution to make homestead property exempt from all ad valorem taxation other than school district levies beginning in a specified year, to prohibit local governments from reducing total funding for services provided by law enforcement, firefighters, and other first responders, and provide an effective date.
Summary
Comments on HJR 203
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
Votes
YES: 31
- Eskamani
- Alvarez, J.
- Franklin
- Gantt
- Antone
- Aristide
- Rayner
- Bartleman
- Gottlieb
- Robinson, F.
- Rosenwald
- Harris
- Hart-Lowman
- Hinson
- Skidmore
- Hunschofsky
- Spencer
- Stark
- Campbell
- Tant
- Tendrich
- Long
- Chambliss
- López, J.
- Cross
- Woodson
- Daley
- Driskell
- Young
- Dunkley
- Nixon
NO: 76
- Abbott
- Oliver
- Albert
- Esposito
- Overdorf
- Alvarez, D.
- Owen
- Partington
- Anderson
- Perez
- Andrade
- Garrison
- Persons-Mulicka
- Gentry
- Plakon
- Gerwig
- Plasencia
- Baker
- Giallombardo
- Porras
- Bankson
- Gonzalez Pittman
- Barnaby
- Gossett-Seidman
- Redondo
- Rizo
- Greco
- Benarroch
- Griffitts
- Robinson, W.
- Berfield
- Grow
- Black
- Salzman
- Blanco
- Sapp
- Booth
- Shoaf
- Borrero
- Hodgers
- Sirois
- Botana
- Smith
- Jacques
- Snyder
- Brannan
- Johnson
- Buchanan
- Busatta
- Kendall
- Kincart Jonsson
- Canady
- Koster
- Cassel
- LaMarca
- Tomkow
- Chamberlin
- Trabulsy
- Tramont
- Chaney
- Maggard
- Tuck
- Cobb
- Maney
- Valdés
- Conerly
- McClure
- Weinberger
- McFarland
- Melo
- Yarkosky
- Yeager
- Miller
- Duggan
- Mooney
- Nix
YES: 80
- Abbott
- Oliver
- Albert
- Esposito
- Overdorf
- Alvarez, D.
- Owen
- Partington
- Anderson
- Perez
- Andrade
- Garrison
- Persons-Mulicka
- Gentry
- Plakon
- Gerwig
- Plasencia
- Baker
- Giallombardo
- Porras
- Bankson
- Gonzalez Pittman
- Barnaby
- Gossett-Seidman
- Redondo
- Rizo
- Greco
- Benarroch
- Griffitts
- Robinson, W.
- Berfield
- Grow
- Black
- Salzman
- Blanco
- Sapp
- Booth
- Shoaf
- Borrero
- Hodgers
- Sirois
- Botana
- Boyles
- Smith
- Jacques
- Snyder
- Brannan
- Johnson
- Spencer
- Buchanan
- Stark
- Busatta
- Kendall
- Kincart Jonsson
- Canady
- Koster
- Cassel
- LaMarca
- Tomkow
- Chamberlin
- Trabulsy
- Tramont
- Chaney
- Maggard
- Tuck
- Cobb
- Maney
- Valdés
- Conerly
- McClure
- Weinberger
- McFarland
- Melo
- Yarkosky
- Michael
- Yeager
- Miller
- Duggan
- Mooney
- Nix
NO: 30
Actions
- Feb 19, 2026 | Senate
- In Messages
- Referred to Appropriations
- Received
- Feb 19, 2026 | House
- Read 2nd time
- Amendment 357969 adopted
- Amendment 553395 Failed
- Amendment 913429 Failed
- Amendment 831221 Failed
- Added to Third Reading Calendar
- Read 3rd time
- CS passed as amended; YEAS 80, NAYS 30
- Feb 16, 2026 | House
- Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/19/2026)
- Jan 26, 2026 | House
- Bill referred to House Calendar
- Added to Second Reading Calendar
- Jan 23, 2026 | House
- Reported out of Ways & Means Committee
- Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- CS Filed
- 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- Jan 22, 2026 | House
- Favorable with CS by Ways & Means Committee
- Jan 20, 2026 | House
- Added to Ways & Means Committee agenda
- Jan 19, 2026 | House
- Referred to Ways & Means Committee
- Now in Ways & Means Committee
- Jan 15, 2026 | House
- Favorable with CS by State Affairs Committee
- Reported out of State Affairs Committee
- Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- CS Filed
- 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- Jan 13, 2026 | House
- Added to State Affairs Committee agenda
- 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- Nov 20, 2025 | House
- Favorable by Select Committee on Property Taxes
- Reported out of Select Committee on Property Taxes
- Now in State Affairs Committee
- Nov 13, 2025 | House
- Added to Select Committee on Property Taxes agenda
- Oct 16, 2025 | House
- Filed
- Referred to Select Committee on Property Taxes
- Referred to State Affairs Committee
- Referred to Ways & Means Committee
- Now in Select Committee on Property Taxes
Bill Texts
- H 203 FiledPDF
- H 203 c1PDF
- H 203 c2PDF
- H 203 e1PDF
- Committee Amendment 036949 (Adopted 1/15/2026) -- MillerPDF
- Committee Strike All Amendment 414023 (Failed to Adopt 1/15/2026) -- GanttPDF
- Committee Amendment 969119 (Adopted without Objection 1/23/2026) -- MillerPDF
- Floor Amendment 357969 (House: Adopted 2/19/2026) -- MillerPDF
- Floor Amendment 637829 (House: Withdrawn 2/19/2026) -- OverdorfPDF
- Floor Amendment 314689 (House: Withdrawn 2/19/2026) -- OverdorfPDF
- Floor Amendment 303559 (House: Withdrawn 2/19/2026) -- OverdorfPDF
- Floor Amendment 900763 (House: Withdrawn 2/19/2026) -- OverdorfPDF
- Floor Amendment 715527 (House: Withdrawn 2/19/2026) -- OverdorfPDF
- Floor Amendment 076881 (House: Withdrawn 2/19/2026) -- OverdorfPDF
- Floor Amendment 691355 (House: Withdrawn 2/19/2026) -- OverdorfPDF
- Floor Amendment 539091 (House: Withdrawn 2/19/2026) -- OverdorfPDF
- Floor Amendment 202013 (House: Withdrawn 2/19/2026) -- OverdorfPDF
- Floor Amendment 553395 (House: Failed 2/19/2026) -- BartlemanPDF
- Floor Amendment 913429 (House: Failed 2/19/2026) -- WoodsonPDF
- Floor Strike All Amendment 831221 (House: Failed 2/19/2026) -- WoodsonPDF

