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IntroducedNov 06, 2025
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Passed SenateFeb 19, 2026
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Passed HouseMar 10, 2026
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Became Law
Florida Senate Bill
Law Enforcement Officer Interactions with Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder; Requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to establish a program to improve communication between individuals with autism spectrum disorder and law enforcement officers under certain circumstances; requiring the department to develop and make available to individuals with autism spectrum disorder a certain envelope and card by a specified date; defining the terms “agency” and “autism spectrum disorder”; requiring the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission within the Department of Law Enforcement to establish an employment training component relating to individuals with autism spectrum disorder, etc.
Last Action See all actions
Senate • Mar 11, 2026: Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on SB 418
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
Votes
YES: 111
- Abbott
- Eskamani
- Oliver
- Albert
- Esposito
- Overdorf
- Alvarez, D.
- Fabricio
- Owen
- Alvarez, J.
- Franklin
- Partington
- Anderson
- Gantt
- Perez
- Andrade
- Garrison
- Persons-Mulicka
- Antone
- Gentry
- Plakon
- Aristide
- Gerwig
- Baker
- Giallombardo
- Porras
- Bankson
- Gonzalez Pittman
- Rayner
- Barnaby
- Gossett-Seidman
- Redondo
- Bartleman
- Gottlieb
- Rizo
- Basabe
- Greco
- Robinson, F.
- Benarroch
- Robinson, W.
- Berfield
- Grow
- Rosenwald
- Black
- Harris
- Salzman
- Blanco
- Hart-Lowman
- Sapp
- Booth
- Hinson
- Shoaf
- Borrero
- Hodgers
- Sirois
- Botana
- Holcomb
- Skidmore
- Boyles
- Hunschofsky
- Smith
- Brackett
- Jacques
- Snyder
- Brannan
- Johnson
- Spencer
- Buchanan
- Stark
- Busatta
- Kendall
- Steele
- Kincart Jonsson
- Tant
- Canady
- Koster
- Tendrich
- Cassel
- LaMarca
- Tomkow
- Chamberlin
- Long
- Trabulsy
- Chambliss
- López, J.
- Tramont
- Chaney
- Maggard
- Tuck
- Cobb
- Maney
- Valdés
- Conerly
- McClure
- Weinberger
- McFarland
- Woodson
- Daley
- Melo
- Yarkosky
- Daniels
- Michael
- Yeager
- Driskell
- Miller
- Young
- Duggan
- Mooney
- Nix
- Edmonds
- Nixon
NO: 0
Actions
- Mar 11, 2026 | Senate
- Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (376741)
- Passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0
- Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- Mar 10, 2026 | Senate
- In returning messages
- Mar 10, 2026 | House
- Read 2nd time
- Amendment 376741 adopted
- Added to Third Reading Calendar
- Read 3rd time
- Passed as amended; YEAS 111, NAYS 0
- Mar 09, 2026 | House
- Bill referred to House Calendar
- Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/10/2026)
- 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- Feb 19, 2026 | House
- In Messages
- Feb 19, 2026 | Senate
- Read 2nd time
- Read 3rd time
- Passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0
- Immediately certified
- Feb 17, 2026 | Senate
- Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/26
- Feb 12, 2026 | Senate
- Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
- Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- Feb 09, 2026 | Senate
- On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/12/26, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- Feb 04, 2026 | Senate
- Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- Now in Fiscal Policy
- Jan 30, 2026 | Senate
- On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 02/04/26, 3:45 pm, 37 Senate Building
- Jan 27, 2026 | Senate
- Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- Jan 26, 2026 | Senate
- Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- Jan 21, 2026 | Senate
- On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/26/26, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- Jan 13, 2026 | Senate
- Introduced
- Nov 17, 2025 | Senate
- Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
- Nov 06, 2025 | Senate
- Filed
Documents
- Bill Analysis -- Criminal Justice (Pre-Meeting) (1/23/2026 3:16 PM)
- Bill Analysis -- Criminal Justice (Post-Meeting) (1/26/2026 6:38 PM)
- Bill Analysis -- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice (Pre-Meeting) (2/3/2026 9:41 AM)
- Bill Analysis -- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice (Post-Meeting) (2/4/2026 5:14 PM)
- Bill Analysis -- Fiscal Policy (Pre-Meeting) (2/11/2026 8:34 AM)
- Bill Analysis -- Fiscal Policy (Post-Meeting) (2/12/2026 1:26 PM)
- House Message Summary -- Criminal Justice (3/10/2026 5:27 PM)


