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IntroducedOct 16, 2025
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Passed HouseJan 15, 2026
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Passed Senate
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Became Law
Florida House Bill
Employment Eligibility ; Requires that all private employers, rather than only those employing more than specified number of employees, use E-Verify system to verify new employee's employment eligibility beginning on specified date.
Summary
Comments on HB 197
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- Millercosponsor
Votes
YES: 80
- Abbott
- Oliver
- Albert
- Esposito
- Overdorf
- Alvarez, D.
- Fabricio
- Owen
- Alvarez, J.
- Partington
- Anderson
- Perez
- Andrade
- Garrison
- Persons-Mulicka
- Gentry
- Plakon
- Gerwig
- Baker
- Giallombardo
- Porras
- Bankson
- Gonzalez Pittman
- Gossett-Seidman
- Redondo
- Rizo
- Basabe
- Greco
- Griffitts
- Robinson, W.
- Berfield
- Rosenwald
- Black
- Salzman
- Blanco
- Sapp
- Booth
- Shoaf
- Hodgers
- Sirois
- Holcomb
- Boyles
- Smith
- Brackett
- Jacques
- Brannan
- Johnson
- Buchanan
- Stark
- Busatta
- Kendall
- Steele
- Kincart Jonsson
- Canady
- Koster
- Tendrich
- Cassel
- LaMarca
- Tomkow
- Chamberlin
- Trabulsy
- Tramont
- Chaney
- Maggard
- Tuck
- Cobb
- Maney
- Valdés
- Conerly
- McClure
- Weinberger
- McFarland
- Melo
- Yarkosky
- Daniels
- Michael
- Yeager
- Miller
- Mooney
- Nix
NO: 30
Actions
- Jan 22, 2026 | Senate
- Received
- Jan 16, 2026 | Senate
- Referred to Rules
- Jan 15, 2026 | Senate
- In Messages
- Jan 15, 2026 | House
- Read 2nd time
- Added to Third Reading Calendar
- Read 3rd time
- Passed; YEAS 80, NAYS 30
- Jan 13, 2026 | House
- 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- Jan 12, 2026 | House
- Bill added to Special Order Calendar (1/15/2026)
- Dec 11, 2025 | House
- Favorable by Commerce Committee
- Reported out of Commerce Committee
- Bill released to House Calendar
- Dec 04, 2025 | House
- Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- Nov 05, 2025 | House
- Favorable by Industries & Professional Activities Subcommittee
- Reported out of Industries & Professional Activities Subcommittee
- Now in Commerce Committee
- Oct 28, 2025 | House
- Added to Industries & Professional Activities Subcommittee agenda
- Oct 21, 2025 | House
- Referred to Industries & Professional Activities Subcommittee
- Referred to Commerce Committee
- Now in Industries & Professional Activities Subcommittee
- Oct 16, 2025 | House
- Filed
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