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IntroducedNov 07, 2025
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Passed SenateFeb 26, 2026
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Passed HouseMar 10, 2026
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Became Law
Florida Senate Bill
Felony Battery; Revising the definition of “prison releasee reoffender” to include a defendant who commits or attempts to commit battery on a law enforcement officer which results in bodily injury; providing enhanced criminal penalties for persons who commit a second or subsequent battery after having a prior conviction for resisting an officer with violence, etc.
Last Action See all actions
Senate • Mar 17, 2026: Ordered enrolled
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on SB 436
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justiceprimary
- Criminal Justiceprimary

Votes
YES: 110
- Abbott
- Eskamani
- Oliver
- Albert
- Esposito
- Overdorf
- Alvarez, D.
- Fabricio
- Owen
- Alvarez, J.
- Franklin
- Partington
- Anderson
- Gantt
- Perez
- Andrade
- Garrison
- Persons-Mulicka
- Antone
- Plakon
- Aristide
- Gerwig
- Baker
- Giallombardo
- Porras
- Bankson
- Gonzalez Pittman
- Barnaby
- Gossett-Seidman
- Redondo
- Bartleman
- Gottlieb
- Rizo
- Basabe
- Greco
- Robinson, F.
- Benarroch
- Robinson, W.
- Berfield
- Grow
- Rosenwald
- Black
- Harris
- Salzman
- Blanco
- Sapp
- Booth
- Hinson
- Shoaf
- Borrero
- Hodgers
- Sirois
- Botana
- Holcomb
- Skidmore
- Boyles
- Hunschofsky
- Smith
- Brackett
- Jacques
- Snyder
- Brannan
- Johnson
- Spencer
- Buchanan
- Stark
- Busatta
- Kendall
- Steele
- Campbell
- 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
- Cross
- McFarland
- Woodson
- Daley
- Melo
- Yarkosky
- Daniels
- Michael
- Yeager
- Driskell
- Miller
- Young
- Duggan
- Mooney
- Dunkley
- Nix
- Edmonds
NO: 1
Actions
- Mar 17, 2026 | Senate
- Ordered enrolled
- Mar 10, 2026 | House
- Read 2nd time
- Added to Third Reading Calendar
- Read 3rd time
- CS passed; YEAS 110, NAYS 1
- Mar 09, 2026 | House
- Bill referred to House Calendar
- Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/10/2026)
- 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- Feb 26, 2026 | House
- In Messages
- Feb 26, 2026 | Senate
- Read 2nd time
- Read 3rd time
- CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0
- Immediately certified
- Feb 25, 2026 | Senate
- Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/26
- Feb 24, 2026 | Senate
- Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 23 NAYS 0
- Feb 19, 2026 | Senate
- Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- Now in Rules
- On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/24/26, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time
- Feb 18, 2026 | Senate
- CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- Feb 13, 2026 | Senate
- On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 02/18/26, 10:30 am, 37 Senate Building
- Jan 14, 2026 | Senate
- Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- Jan 13, 2026 | Senate
- Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- Introduced
- CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
- Jan 12, 2026 | Senate
- CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- Jan 05, 2026 | Senate
- On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/12/26, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- Dec 01, 2025 | Senate
- Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Rules
- Nov 07, 2025 | Senate
- Filed
Bill Texts
Documents
- Bill Analysis -- Criminal Justice (Pre-Meeting) (1/9/2026 1:28 PM)
- Bill Analysis -- Criminal Justice (Post-Meeting) (1/13/2026 9:58 AM)
- Bill Analysis -- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice (Pre-Meeting) (2/16/2026 3:16 PM)
- Bill Analysis -- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice (Post-Meeting) (2/20/2026 5:05 PM)
- Bill Analysis -- Rules (Pre-Meeting) (2/23/2026 10:21 AM)
- Bill Analysis -- Rules (Post-Meeting) (2/24/2026 10:16 PM)
