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IntroducedNov 06, 2025
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Passed SenateFeb 19, 2026
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Passed House
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Became Law
Florida Senate Bill
Patriotic Displays at Public Schools; Requiring, subject to legislative appropriation, each district school board to adopt rules to require the display of portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln at each public school in the district; requiring the Department of Education to select the portraits and make them available to each school district, etc.
Summary
Comments on SB 420
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Educationprimary


- Gaetzcosponsor
Votes
NO: 1
- Davis
NOT VOTING: 1
NO: 1
OTHER: 0
Actions
- Feb 19, 2026 | House
- In Messages
- Feb 19, 2026 | Senate
- Read 2nd time
- Read 3rd time
- CS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 2
- Immediately certified
- Feb 17, 2026 | Senate
- Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/26
- Feb 10, 2026 | Senate
- Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 21 NAYS 2
- Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- Feb 05, 2026 | Senate
- On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/10/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- Feb 04, 2026 | Senate
- CS by Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education read 1st time
- Jan 30, 2026 | Senate
- Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- Now in Rules
- Jan 28, 2026 | Senate
- CS by Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education; YEAS 9 NAYS 1
- Jan 23, 2026 | Senate
- On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education, 01/28/26, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- Jan 14, 2026 | Senate
- Now in Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education
- Jan 13, 2026 | Senate
- Favorable by Education Pre-K - 12; YEAS 6 NAYS 1
- Introduced
- Jan 08, 2026 | Senate
- On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K - 12, 01/13/26, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- Nov 17, 2025 | Senate
- Referred to Education Pre-K - 12; Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education; Rules
- Nov 06, 2025 | Senate
- Filed
Documents
- Bill Analysis -- Education Pre-K - 12 (Pre-Meeting) (1/12/2026 1:30 PM)
- Bill Analysis -- Education Pre-K - 12 (Post-Meeting) (1/13/2026 4:31 PM)
- Bill Analysis -- Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education (Pre-Meeting) (1/27/2026 3:14 PM)
- Bill Analysis -- Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education (Post-Meeting) (1/30/2026 3:59 PM)
- Bill Analysis -- Rules (Pre-Meeting) (2/9/2026 7:43 AM)
- Bill Analysis -- Rules (Post-Meeting) (2/10/2026 2:43 PM)
